Oct 21 2008
What’s Happened to eBay?
My darling husband was in need of a typewriter to fill out an application. So he went to the Goodwill across the street (kinda says something about the neighborhood we live in, huh?) and picked one up for $20. Only thing was, it needed a new ribbon. But where the heck do you find typewriter ribbons in the 21st century?
eBay of course. I logged in there and spent just about as much on the ribbon as he did on the typewriter. It shipped, like, space shuttle fast and we got it yesterday. When I went to leave feedback for it this morning a pop-up appeared and said:
Buyers, you can no longer receive negative or neutral Feedback from sellers.
You should leave honest and accurate Feedback without the fear of receiving negative or neutral ratings.
What the heck is that all about? If I’m a crappy buyer, the world deserves to know about it. I don’t like this at all. Why even bother having buyer feedback if it is required to be good feedback? It’s like not keeping score at the little league game or something.
I do agree that they should keep the negative ratings, but a trend had appeared that was undermining the whole rating process. The automatic you rated me negative so I’m going to do it to you apparently made some fearful of leaving poor ratings.
Honestly, all that will happen now is that neutral will be viewed as negative.
I wish they’d let me sort by negative. Often I can look at negative comments and decide from there if it was retaliation or true.