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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Anyone here know how to check someone's Ebay feedback rating without waiting for them to post an auction?
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Go to Community/FeedbackForum and enter their username. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Yep, the important thing is you gotta know their username. If you don't know that, you can't find out the feedback number. Dave's right about how to do it after you know the username.
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Location: Evansville,IN | Here's another guideline I use. If they have more than 1% negative feedback I shop elsewhere. ;) I would rather be safe than sorry. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I think you need to consider more than just the feedback rating. If someone has a negative or two, I look at the items to see why and also go to the person who left the negative feedback and check them out.
Sometimes retalitory feedback can reflect poorly on a good seller. |
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Location: NJ | feedback
what a joke.
I have 1168 positive, I have probably 3K transactions over e bay not everyone cares about leaving feedback.
no offense ken but 1% is a joke. ask any major retailer what their negative rating is and I would be that they consider 20% an acceptable range.
feedback is only a guide. the woman that tried to rip me off had PERFECT feedback until the day I never heard from her again and they pulled her account. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Really, Al?
That's 1 in 5 "unsatisfactory" transactions!! (Even, if feedback doesn't represent all transactions)
Legitimate feedback or not...as a buyer, that's what I see and I'm not going near any one that has 20% negative feedback as the odds are good I'll be one of those 5 |
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| A frequent ebay buyer told me that ebay will only let their sellers rating get so low then ebay excludes them, of course then they just come back under another name....and the ebay rules are 'seller friendly' as it is...
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | That is sooooo true. But they are getting more "buyer-friendly", too. Used to be "three strikes and you're out" for buyers, three seller complaints of non-payment and a buyer was excluded. It was changed last year such that it is impossible now to tell how many non-paying auctions a buyer can rack up now before eBay excludes the I.D.
But.....eBay is still much friendlier to sellers....I sell on eBay myself. I would never argue otherwise.
Al is right about feedback. My feedback number is in the high 500s, but if everyone had given me feedback, I'd easily be over 700.
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Location: Evansville,IN | Originally posted by alpep:
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what a joke.
I have 1168 positive, I have probably 3K transactions over e bay not everyone cares about leaving feedback.
no offense ken but 1% is a joke. ask any major retailer what their negative rating is and I would be that they consider 20% an acceptable range.
feedback is only a guide. the woman that tried to rip me off had PERFECT feedback until the day I never heard from her again and they pulled her account. 1% is my guideline, not everyones. I'm not saying I haven't bought from sellers that had more than 1%, but I do read their feedback to see why they received it. If it was from people who are just plain whiny or picky, I take it with a grain of salt.
You're right Al, it is a joke, but it's all they have. Like they say, "You pays your money, you gets what you gets." There are people who will rip you off if you let them. I've had it happen twice. I guess that's why I'm cautious.
Like it says on eBay, "Caveat Emptor" :rolleyes: |
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| I think ebay will do whatever they believe to be in their best interests, which is to keep business flowing, so they are on the spot as to where they draw the line...small ticket itmes are just as much a concern to sellers as big ticket items are to buyers...personally, I might risk a few bucks on a music CD, but from now on I will be inclined to wait and buy a quality O' from a collector friend in Arizona...excellant prices, low shipping, no headaches..
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How do you check someone's Ebay feedback rating?