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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2013405, member: 112&quot;]Trusting that feedback has any meaning at all - that&#039;s something I will never understand. </p><p><br /></p><p>If a complete stranger walked up to you on the street and said - hey that guy down there, he&#039;s selling really great stuff at good prices - would you place much credence in what that stranger told you ? Let alone go down and buy something yourself ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, that&#039;s what feedback is. A complete stranger, or a group of complete strangers, giving a recommendation about another complete stranger. And then other people, like you, thinking they can trust the guy because of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sorry, but that just doesn&#039;t make sense to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an example. This guy, aboncom&nbsp; - <a href="http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/local/2014/07/23/secret-service-raids-abon-coin-shop/13054083/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/local/2014/07/23/secret-service-raids-abon-coin-shop/13054083/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/local/2014/07/23/secret-service-raids-abon-coin-shop/13054083/</a>&nbsp; - probably had more positive feedbacks than any other seller on ebay. Tens of thousands of people threw their money away buying coins from this guy on ebay. And many did so numerous times, for years they bought coins from this guy, and got ripped off every time. And they didn&#039;t even know they were getting ripped off.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s how much feedback means. And he&#039;s just 1 of the many others on ebay just like him - all with great feedback.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m not saying anything at all about the guy you bought this coin from. He may be a great guy and worthy of trust and respect. I&#039;m just point out the fallacy of feedback, and just how useless, and often even harmful, it actually is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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