Hulk SMASH
Nov. 12th, 2007 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2ARGH EBAY!!
I have finally received my first negative feedback after selling for over two years.
For those of you not regularly involved with eBay, I'll explain. You can rate a seller or buyer either positively, neutrally, or negatively. Generally, rating someone negatively is seen as an "attack" by most people involved; it's your last option in the scale. Most people will contact you and try to work it out first before they consider posting negative feedback. Example of negative feedback: never receiving the item, receiving the item in poor condition (broken, for example), misrepresented items, etc. Negative feedback is a bitch. Most prospective buyers will ignore pages and pages of positive feedback, and only click on the negative.
So color me astonished when I receive a negative simply because the buyer "thought the description was somewhat inaccurate when compared to other sellers." I'm still puzzling this one out--there's a photo, plus a description including country of origin and sizing. I've looked at other listings--some people don't even include that information. But wait--it said inaccurate. Which can only mean that they think I'm lying when compared to other sellers--I have no idea. I'm completely confused by this phrase.
What doesn't astonish me is that, just like the single neutral feedback I've received, it comes from a brand new eBayer. Maybe I should block new buyers.
Fortunately, I'm in a pretty good mood right now, because otherwise this sort of thing would cause a meltdown.
I have finally received my first negative feedback after selling for over two years.
For those of you not regularly involved with eBay, I'll explain. You can rate a seller or buyer either positively, neutrally, or negatively. Generally, rating someone negatively is seen as an "attack" by most people involved; it's your last option in the scale. Most people will contact you and try to work it out first before they consider posting negative feedback. Example of negative feedback: never receiving the item, receiving the item in poor condition (broken, for example), misrepresented items, etc. Negative feedback is a bitch. Most prospective buyers will ignore pages and pages of positive feedback, and only click on the negative.
So color me astonished when I receive a negative simply because the buyer "thought the description was somewhat inaccurate when compared to other sellers." I'm still puzzling this one out--there's a photo, plus a description including country of origin and sizing. I've looked at other listings--some people don't even include that information. But wait--it said inaccurate. Which can only mean that they think I'm lying when compared to other sellers--I have no idea. I'm completely confused by this phrase.
What doesn't astonish me is that, just like the single neutral feedback I've received, it comes from a brand new eBayer. Maybe I should block new buyers.
Fortunately, I'm in a pretty good mood right now, because otherwise this sort of thing would cause a meltdown.
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Date: 2007-11-13 08:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-13 11:52 am (UTC)They don't realize that negs are very undesirable and how much weight they carry. I've had people leave me positives before even though they weren't 100% satisfied because the issue was subjective and they weren't dissatisfied with the service. That's only happened twice, but it does show that some people are very reluctant to leave anything but a positive.