dr_st wrote on 2022-03-20, 07:22:
Ideally you would be able to respond with a on an sale that looks fraudulent/bad - not as a feedback to an item you bought, but as a general "buyer beware" warning. Probably the main concern against enabling something like this is that it would be abused.
More precisely, we should expect Ebay to do some moderation - once there are complaints. They can be expected to be qualified and busy enough to notice when
- item clearly marked as "orange" in the photo gets sold as "apple" in the title or
- (unrelated) BIN item spamming the wrong category with a dozen times the same offer or just plainly misplaced
- seller (at least professional one) makes - time and again - the effort to fill out the "filter relevant" description like "PCI" on a VGA card but never learnt that "PCIe" isn't the same thing.
(Why have the bloody category in the first place? Almost half of "PCI" cards on there are PCIe, then some are AGP, some ISA and some are gardening tools.)
dr_st wrote on 2022-03-20, 07:22:
I know some eBay items have "reviews" that you can leave on the item itself, but probably not specific and esoteric like the thing you described.
afaik, that's only if there has been established a dedicated sub-category for the specific item, like "sound blaster ct2990". And about the product per se, not the offer at hand.
There is a "report" button with an extensive menu to report things, that, basically.... Ebay is required to weed out by law or would really have trouble with, like contraband or real fraud.
Yep, that should go without saying. But not enough or too clumsy for minor problems.
TrashPanda wrote on 2022-03-20, 08:16:
I would love a Block Seller button, I have a list of known dickhole sellers that I manually ignore their sales if they hit my search, would be nice if I could make it so their sales never show up.
Yep, at least give us that. I'm a paying "plus" member since 10 years, ffs.
"I understand you can't quite kick that obnoxious fuckup out right away over forgetting to ship a one Euro CD-ROM drive, but his way of handling it, attitude, language - I'd just like to delete him from my cyberspace, thank you very much."
Weeding out 76 % false positives and BS in search alarms is annoying enough...