Hard Sell

Let's see here ... crummy out-of-focus photos, poor description, and outrageous shipping price. I'd pass just for those reasons.

Now the "good" points: Seller has 100% positive feedback, and a decent return policy. These would not outweigh the negatives, in my humble opinion.

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Originally posted by ageka

It is my experience as a quality auditor....

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Ya know, I just had one of my not so bad, half baked ideas....but see what you think.

We augment the feedback system on ebay with a "Listing Quality Rating"

What this amounts to, is a grade of your listing....self policed by other ebay buyers. I'd make it so that anyone who rates the listing cannot bid on it, and cannot rate more than one auction for each seller ( so you can't put negatives on all of a seller's auctions. ) The form should have ratings for picture quality, return policy, grade quality (near the grade listed), etc. Ideally, no post rating would show until say 5 people had rated the listing.

I don't know if this could actually work, but wouldn't it be nice if it did? Picture quality would go up, shipping charges would go down, and garbage such as this would be much less....well that's the dream anyway!