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I just bought a new car part from a seller (specializes in car headlamp assemblies) with barely over 96% feedback.

I actually went back through the negatives, and discovered that 100% of the dissatisfied customers were imbeciles - people who either had nonsense complaints, or people who received stuff that the chosen shipper broke, actually got replacement stuff, but were still - you know... - "mad".

The price matched rockauto...I can check out considerably faster on eBay, and (ok...other than this 1-minute post) needed to "get on with my day".

I've gotten more selective about taking online feedback into account on purchasing decisions. Too often the opinions shared are less than informed or accurate, esp. for things that are subject to the vagaries of personal taste. "The food was much too spicy!" given as the primary issue in a negative review of a Thai restaurant, or "The part they sent me wasn't the part I needed!" given as the basis for a negative review of an on-line auto parts supplier.

OFTEN - when people were just fine with whatever, they do NOT bother to review, and - MORE OFTEN - triggered/angry kooks (with illegitimate gripes) get online and review...Sadly, some of those same people also vote.

hrender wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:39 pm I've gotten more selective about taking online feedback into account on purchasing decisions. Too often the opinions shared are less than informed or accurate, esp. for things that are subject to the vagaries of personal taste. "The food was much too spicy!" given as the primary issue in a negative review of a Thai restaurant, or "The part they sent me wasn't the part I needed!" given as the basis for a negative review of an on-line auto parts supplier.

There are also false negatives... e.g., people who give a rating of "1" thinking it means "the best", whereas a rating of "5" actually means "the best". You can see this in action when there are low ratings and positive comments.

As if we need more evidence to see how stupid and dumbed-down the population is, but eBay provides.

There's a tidal wave of nonsense out there, and "standing on the beach and screaming at it, as it approaches" it probably not advisable.
Sellers/businesses/service people - particularly, these days - are at the mercy of that tidal wave.

bloke wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:10 pm There's a tidal wave of nonsense out there, and "standing on the beach and screaming at it, as it approaches" it probably not advisable.
Sellers/businesses/service people - particularly, these days - are at the mercy of that tidal wave.

I don't want to be anywhere near or have anything to do with that tidal wive. My tolerance for nonsense and stupidity is zero. I'm firmly in "Get off my lawn" mode. If you could write tickets for being stupid, there would be a shortage of pens and paper for all the morons who would be cited.

An eBay member since 1998, I've bought lots of stuff from sellers with negative feedback and haven't been burned yet.

The transactions that have gone sideways for me on eBay have always involved shipping issues--the seller put the wrong address on my package, or there were damaged items due to inadequate packaging. When reviewing feedback on eBay, multiple complaints about slow shipping, misaddressed parcels, or poor packaging result in a no-buy decision from me.

Just in receipt of a mid-90’s feedback very nice replacement passenger headlight unit.
It was the cheapest of the new ones, with used ones seemingly only about 10 or 20 bucks less, and you know what used headlight assemblies look like…fogged up due to ultraviolet light and road sand

Doc wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:21 am

bloke wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:10 pm There's a tidal wave of nonsense out there, and "standing on the beach and screaming at it, as it approaches" it probably not advisable.
Sellers/businesses/service people - particularly, these days - are at the mercy of that tidal wave.

I don't want to be anywhere near or have anything to do with that tidal wive. My tolerance for nonsense and stupidity is zero. I'm firmly in "Get off my lawn" mode. If you could write tickets for being stupid, there would be a shortage of pens and paper for all the morons who would be cited.

Believe it or not, I found a case law citation for "felony stupid" from an appeals court in the state of Washington. I used that citation in a brief I prepared in a paralegal studies class. It's too bad there's not a stiff penalty associated with a conviction for "felony stupid".

There are people who won't try/buy my stuff because I speak plainly, don't use words such as "perhaps" - when something - undoubtedly - "is", don't accept narratives simply because they are purveyed with authority, and don't automatically assume that group-think/certification/licensing/oligarchy/holding-of-degrees (knowing very well the story of Galileo) = truth.

Does that bother me...??
yeah...It hurts right here...right under my pack of cigarettes...



People buy from me who [1] happen to like my stuff (and I've never expected that to be even a significant minority of tuba players) , and [2] are clever enough to separate "stuff" from "opinions/hearsay", as - the instant they buy my stuff - it's no longer mine. In the same way, I separate "idiotic online reviews" from "the people who are victims of those idiotic reviews who have stuff for sale which I'm interested in purchasing".

bloke "and am quite old enough to be familiar with and immediately recognize psychological manipulation techniques such as projection, gaslighting, fear, moving goalposts, changing the subject, etc., etc..."