[CR]Re: ebay Etiquette

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From: "Grant McLean" <Grant.McLean@SportingLife.ca>
To: "Classic Rendezvous Mail List (E-mail)" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Re: ebay Etiquette
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:30:08 -0400

>I don't think you provide any feedback under these circumstances. No harm was done, but no deal was done either. You aren't required to post a feedback. Lou Deeter

I agree with Lou, and probably wouldn't leave any feedback. For sure, I wouldn't leave positive feedback.

Isn't feedback is supposed to be used by potential buyers to judge, among other things, the accuracy of the sellers ability to describe the item being sold? If you look at the tens of thousands of items with positive feedback, one starts to wonder if anything ever goes wrong!! Every transaction mush be perfect? Hardly. I would want to leave negative feed back in the case described, but would move that to a refrain in this case, because the seller was able to take the item back, and give a refund.

We on this list are constantly critiquing sellers horrible misuse of descriptions, outright mistakes, laughable abuse of "NOS". If you really want to do a seller a service, you have to be prepared to give negative feedback when it all goes wrong. Why are there so many sellers that know nothing of what they are listing? Because they have nothing at risk by being wrong. Adding more positive feedback after another mistake only adds to the problem.

Grant McLean

toronto, canada