as a gardener that buys his seeds online and all these sellers that claim to have whatever variety of this and that in seed form, that kinda bothers me. coz by the time the window of opportunity to give feedback, your plants have only just begun to grow. specially being from overseas, i buy and trade seeds from all over the world (i've traded seeds with practically every continent on earth, 'cept for the obvious ones), they don't arrive til long after that window is long gone. i've had to wait for seeds for half a year before they arrive!
that also include knives and stones i've started to purchase over the past couple of years that i've become a knife knut.
longest time i've had to wait for a knife was 3 months. sometimes they don't even arrive at all (seeds, knives, stones, whatever), sure many factors here can be blamed but there has to be some reassurance here that you'll actually get your what you got, not some fake or something else altogether.
only thing that i do like about ebay is that since ebay does have a feedback system in effect, they care enough to resend whatever i bought from them or refund me the money. the wait is terrible though, you're not sure if it does arrive if at all. i know these are the costs of having to live in another country, a third world one no less. but, some buyers in the states would already go ballistic if their stuff doesn't arrive on time, like in a day or two. imagine what i have to go through waiting for a package!
in the forums that i do participate in, local or otherwise, yes i do leave feedback to those who have transacted with me. i'm a sales kind of person, i can pretty much "sell ice to eskimos" if i had to. so feedbacks are my bread and butter. i value it as much as i value the people i transact with. i have a 100% positive feedback in the local forum that i participated in transactions the most.
http://www.tipidpc.com/ratings.php?username=franzb69&sd=1368449304
and those feedbacks got a lot less since that site's database crapped out and lost around 80+ of my positive feedbacks. there should be 400+ positive feedbacks just from that site alone.
pardon me if i got a bit off topic.
i go down into the detailed written feedbacks into every seller i buy from on ebay and amazon. i read them and i read a lot of them. sure that gives me an idea of who i'm dealing with, but it isn't enough. there are a few folks on ebay that sell stuff with copy - pasted information off of someone else. you see these guys selling their wares and not really getting in depth and not knowing what they sell enough to help us as the consumer to decide if they should buy from them or not. sure you can go and message them and ask, but they never bother editing their post and adding whatever details they give that's not written on there so they don't get asked all over again. you know what i mean?
it's great though that ebay has this sort of system in place, it would be better if they tried to improve on it a little more. just slight tweaks is all i would want. like more details on the feedback description, not this incredibly short "twitter length" that they enforce. then if the item the buyer actually bought was the real thing or not, coz it doesn't really say that. then there's after sales service feedbacks, i've owned businesses before and i know the value of good after sales service.
i get it, i'm just asking too much. lol.
it wouldn't hurt though, right? to get those details in....
after having owned a couple businesses, i've handled pretty much every part of the business as i am a hands on type of person. sales, promotions, production, design, web design, after sales, blah blah blah.... it just irks me coz i did the best i can with my businesses and some folks get away with half assed business ethics.
blabbing now. sorry.
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