Hey cointalk, just found this comoc strip on the internet, pretty much explains what sellers want the buyers to do.
LOL Thankfully the rest of the world economy doesn't work off such shallow, meaningless concepts where people cried if customers were honest about their no-frills, cheesy, impersonal services.
LOL Thankfully the rest of the world economy doesn't work off such shallow, meaningless concepts where people cried if customers were honest about their no-frills, cheesy, impersonal services.
As a longtime buyer and seller on ebay, there is much truth on both sides for that cartoon. I believe ebay understands or anticipates that a number of buyers who are quite happy with all aspects of a transaction will leave four stars instead of five stars for the transaction. This is because a certain percentage of folks will reserve the five star rating for those transaction that somehow transcend the typical buying experience. Given this built-in four star limit for the vast majority of transactions within this pool of buyers, ebay can institute a system where sellers have to maintain a near-five star rating with only the slimmest margin for error if they want to receive lower ebay fees. Most buyers don't care if they ding a seller and cause the seller to have to pay higher ebay fees but, in the aggregate, higher seller fees are passed along to buyers who then pay more for the product while the seller receives no more for this product and the extra money goes into ebay pockets.
I always leave 5 because I'm lazy. And generally happy with what I received. The whole concept just seems so pre-schoolish.
I stopped leaving feedback altogether a few years ago. Ebay's feedback system used to be meaningful, but it is no longer.
My understanding is that 3 or 4 star ratings don't hurt the seller at all. It's the number of 1's and 2's that can take away our 20% final value fee discount...
I wonder if this has something to do with the 250,000 sellers ebay booted 1/10/2010. Feedback was why.
