Comments on: Unintended Side Effects http://www.simpleandloveable.com/unintended-side-effects How to make Simple and Loveable businesses Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Nat http://www.simpleandloveable.com/unintended-side-effects/comment-page-1#comment-2937 Nat Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:43:49 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/unintended-side-effects#comment-2937 I think they probably do... I have only just started using it :) Feedback wars are interesting because if someone leaves feedback for you last and it's a blatant lie, you do feel the urge to reply! Potentially there is room to 'rank' feedbacks, and 'control' the system a little bit. I think sometimes, as an idealist, I find it frustrating when we're left the tools to manage ourselves and end up abusing the system so need to bring in more control. I think they probably do… I have only just started using it :) Feedback wars are interesting because if someone leaves feedback for you last and it’s a blatant lie, you do feel the urge to reply!

Potentially there is room to ‘rank’ feedbacks, and ‘control’ the system a little bit. I think sometimes, as an idealist, I find it frustrating when we’re left the tools to manage ourselves and end up abusing the system so need to bring in more control.

]]> By: John http://www.simpleandloveable.com/unintended-side-effects/comment-page-1#comment-2932 John Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:56:45 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/unintended-side-effects#comment-2932 I don't understand, doesn't Trade Me have a "Sale not Complete" process to cover when a sale (for whatever reason) ??? Ebay and other foreign auction sites (like the Baazee.com & Bidorbuy.com that I helped build) have a strict process to manage the end of sale process so that lax sellers or buyers don't get away with crappy service. To be honest, I'm surprised sometime how Trade Me has made it to the top. I don’t understand, doesn’t Trade Me have a “Sale not Complete” process to cover when a sale (for whatever reason) ??? Ebay and other foreign auction sites (like the Baazee.com & Bidorbuy.com that I helped build) have a strict process to manage the end of sale process so that lax sellers or buyers don’t get away with crappy service.

To be honest, I’m surprised sometime how Trade Me has made it to the top.

]]> By: Bwooce http://www.simpleandloveable.com/unintended-side-effects/comment-page-1#comment-2930 Bwooce Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/unintended-side-effects#comment-2930 This mirrors my experience, but wait until you do have a bad trade that stops short of outright theft/fraud. Placing bad feedback begets bad feedback, and either both sides mutually retract it (leaving noone the wiser) or you're left with a permanent bad record. Feedback wars used to eventuate before they limited the number of changes; I much prefer the eBay write-one approach. It isn't until you get a hundred or so trades under your belt that you start looking more kindly on those people with *only* 96% good feedback after a thousand trades. There are screwballs everywhere. Also there is no way of rating feedback against one another; I'd imagine that 2 good feedbacks for buying/selling cars rate higher than 10 books by quite a measure. The removal of $ value and deletion of old auctions leaves buyers ignorant and I think that is a big error. This mirrors my experience, but wait until you do have a bad trade that stops short of outright theft/fraud. Placing bad feedback begets bad feedback, and either both sides mutually retract it (leaving noone the wiser) or you’re left with a permanent bad record. Feedback wars used to eventuate before they limited the number of changes; I much prefer the eBay write-one approach.

It isn’t until you get a hundred or so trades under your belt that you start looking more kindly on those people with *only* 96% good feedback after a thousand trades. There are screwballs everywhere.

Also there is no way of rating feedback against one another; I’d imagine that 2 good feedbacks for buying/selling cars rate higher than 10 books by quite a measure. The removal of $ value and deletion of old auctions leaves buyers ignorant and I think that is a big error.

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