Private feedback

[monantony]

" Feedback is each member’s reputation on eBay and is the foundation of trust on eBay. eBay understands that there may be times when a comment so undermines a member’s reputation that they believe they must hide it. Although eBay understand this, eBay also believes that transparency is one of the pillars of eBay. Members who hide feedback have the feedback score next to their User ID replaced with the term “private”. This tends to encourage potential buyers and sellers to more closely review the member’s feedback profile "

<VENT> I cant for the life of me see why this is allowed...Seems hypocritical "foundation of trust" and "so undermines, they must hide it" ?!?!?! Still the seller I saw has 230 with only 3 negs....But I so want to know the negs and read the feedbacks so I MYSELF can judge....I dunno, I cant see any real reason to go private...
Tony

[Vroomfunkel]

Well, having open feedback enables everybody to browse through what you have been buying and selling also - I can imagine that some people might not be too keen on that.

Vroomfunkel

[monantony]

Ah good point Vroom.... Like that guy who had a couple used panties to use name.........Still you could accomplish the same privacy thing by having the 'item numbers' "privatized" leaving only comments from each party visible...As long as you dont go " great seller, loved the used panites " or whatever , then all is well ;)

T

[Vectorman0]

Don't sellers have the option to make the bidding anonymous for items?

[jajaja]

Don't sellers have the option to make the bidding anonymous for items?

Yep, its possible. Then you can see the feedback (if you dont have private feedback of course), but not what item that was bought/sold.

Personally I dont like it when ppl use private feedback. I like to see what comment they have recived. But it doesnt matter that much tho, if they have high positive rating.

[felix]

" Feedback is each member’s reputation on eBay and is the foundation of trust on eBay. eBay understands that there may be times when a comment so undermines a member’s reputation that they believe they must hide it. Although eBay understand this, eBay also believes that transparency is one of the pillars of eBay. Members who hide feedback have the feedback score next to their User ID replaced with the term “private”. This tends to encourage potential buyers and sellers to more closely review the member’s feedback profile "

<VENT> I cant for the life of me see why this is allowed...Seems hypocritical "foundation of trust" and "so undermines, they must hide it" ?!?!?! Still the seller I saw has 230 with only 3 negs....But I so want to know the negs and read the feedbacks so I MYSELF can judge....I dunno, I cant see any real reason to go private...
Tony


Some people buy questionable items or want to keep their item history private (example, if they spend hundreds of dollars on porn on ebay weekly and dont want family to see it or if they resell items that they get off of ebay at better prices).. There are a lot of reasons for making your feedback private. REALLY, the feedback system is messed up anyways, I mean who has had poor service but left a positive anyways because of fear of them leaving your neg feedback? I dont pay any attention to fb anyways unless its below 98% or if he has under 100 feedback total.

[tylerwillis]

Don't sellers have the option to make the bidding anonymous for items?

Yep, its possible. Then you can see the feedback (if you dont have private feedback of course), but not what item that was bought/sold.

Personally I dont like it when ppl use private feedback. I like to see what comment they have recived. But it doesnt matter that much tho, if they have high positive rating.

Yes, although it's usually adult type items, so it's sometimes a dead give-away. The only private item in my 3000 transactions was for a gag gift at my best friend's wedding - and it was adult.

Personally, I won't buy from a seller that has private fb. Period. Although I do think it's odd when a buying only account has private fb.

[jajaja]

Don't sellers have the option to make the bidding anonymous for items?

Yep, its possible. Then you can see the feedback (if you dont have private feedback of course), but not what item that was bought/sold.

Personally I dont like it when ppl use private feedback. I like to see what comment they have recived. But it doesnt matter that much tho, if they have high positive rating.

Yes, although it's usually adult type items, so it's sometimes a dead give-away. The only private item in my 3000 transactions was for a gag gift at my best friend's wedding - and it was adult.

Personally, I won't buy from a seller that has private fb. Period. Although I do think it's odd when a buying only account has private fb.

I've won maybe 4-5 auctions where you couldnt see who bid or won, all ways computer games related. Dont know why the seller chose this option tho, but I got the items and thats what matters :)

[TEXASGAMEPLAYER]

I have thought about going "private" because people who see that you spend alot on someone else's auction tend to drive up your bid if they think they can get more out of you!!!

[video_game_addict]

One of my accounts has private feedback. It's a buying account. I've done it one better & also changed my region to Germany. It you are active on ebay, even with private feedback users can still search your bidding history. But due to some German privacy laws, ebay has searches disabled on all German ebayers accounts. So private feedback + German location, makes for the best combo. 8-) My account is all positive btw, this is just a preference.