Author: Martin Slowik
Date: 05:54:10 08/20/04
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Hi Steve, your reasoning seems very plausible. On August 20, 2004 at 07:56:17, Steve B wrote: >it amazes me how many people bid and then for whatever reason simply do not pony >up. Yep, if you can't or don't want to pony up, don't bid in the first place otherwise it'll fire back. Sometimes it looks as if in the heat of the bid process people would suffer from short-circuits in their biological cpus... >the problem i think is the worthless "feedback" system Ebay employs >many sellers are hesitant to leave a negative feedback against a clearly >deserving dead beat buyer for fear of receiving a negetive feedback in return >hence the seller simply forgets it and moves on Last month I purchased by an auction a cheap computer for the brother of my wife. Alas, I got it without the original pieces you could see on the pic on eBay. Since the price was only 9 Euros, I shyed away from giving a negative feedback. Only left a neutral one with the description of the situation. It wasn't simply worth getting a bad assessment in return. However, in fact it's a difference between that behavior or if someone doesn't pay at all or if someone pays and the seller doesn't deliver disappearing with the money in the night. In all three cases people deserve a negative assessment but in different shades, imho. I think there's simply no perfect solution to that problem. Best, Martin
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