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"EBay has told all bad sellers to shape up," said Jordan Insley, an electronics merchant who lives near Seattle.
Whether online or off, she said, "fraud is rampant in any venue where you are looking for a steal". EBay's feedback system that allows buyers to post negative reviews of bad sellers is supposed to protect customers like Ms. Pollack.
After all, so this line of argument goes, all the bad sellers are simply weeded out.
Maybe the "bad" sellers are counting on the fact that they will get to keep the money from all the people who don't notice.
It is not clear to me why these "bad" sellers go to the trouble, but there may be a clue in something Amazon's customer service rep told me.
While this ostensibly weeds out the bad sellers, eBay is also looking to move towards an instant pay model, thereby using its PayPal service to its fullest and gaining minute profits along the way.
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The community polices itself, the founder says, with anyone breaching the face-value requirement being reported as a bad seller.
This is not to say this is a bad seller — I've been known to wad up old newspaper or whatever — but at what point in a terrible bout of depression do your pants become packing material?
The listing may not be as appealing, but a buyer who gets unwanted surprises is almost sure to leave you a bad seller feedback.
Of course, what's good for buyers is bad for sellers.
The argument goes that in the absence of a way for issuers to vouch for their disclosures, the market will have a "lemons problem" where buyers cannot distinguish the good from the bad, but sellers can.
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