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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 334861, member: 4626&quot;]You know I&#039;ve thought about that, and after someone else pointed it out, I started to wonder... why do buyers even <i>have</i> feedback?&nbsp; I mean sellers can already make complaints about non-paying bidders and if eBay gets enough of those, the buyer can get NARU&#039;d.&nbsp; Sellers can also block individual buyers if they so choose.</p><p><br /></p><p>The way one person put it, have you ever heard of Wal-Mart filling out comment cards evaluationg their customers?</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, a seller would be taking a chance on a buyer actually paying, but they already do anyway.&nbsp; Just as Wal-Mart takes the chance that people who walk into their store might shoplift.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve come to the conclusion that buyers&#039; feedback is pretty much meaningless anyway, and they may as well just get rid of it entirely if they&#039;re going to make this change.&nbsp; I&#039;m a lot less concerned with it than I used to be, after thinking about it carefully.&nbsp; There&#039;s not really a point in buyers having feedback anyway... it is the sellers who need to maintain a reputation, not the buyers, so logically only they should have feedback anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reminds me how Scott Adams (Dilbert cartoonist) always thought there was something weird about having to prove to a bank that <i>you&#039;re</i> trustworthy, when it&#039;s <i>you</i> that&#039;s giving the <i>bank</i> money.&nbsp; I think same thing applies here... it&#039;s the buyers who are giving the sellers money, why do the buyers need to prove that they can be trusted?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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