Re: Private feedback

Mark S. Holden wrote: 
Jim Hackett wrote:

Just curious why someone who has 100% positive feedback (on eBay) would make
their feedback PRIVATE. Anyone know?



Some folks are serious about protecting their privacy.

On the other hand, if it's a low number, I'd be careful - it could be they don't want you to see half the people who have given them feedback bid on every auction they run.






And there are some vendors who have learned that by making the names of their clients public, as would open feedback, they're opening up their client list to raiding, and in worst cases, attack by those who would libel them.

There have been a couple of members here, who have scoured the eBay listings, and contacted bidders and buyers of certain vendors to share horror stories, allegations or rumors against the vendors. Considering that there are many who make their living on eBay, protecting their customers' identities makes some sense.


This, of course, measured against the activities of vendors who may have good feedback ratings (feedback is as much a political insurance racket as it is honest reportage, these days) but who misrepresent their goods for sale. Ironically, it's rarely the less scrupulous vendors who hide their feedback, or conduct their auctions privately.

There may be many reasons for keeping the details of one's affairs to one's self. Just because you don't stand naked on a street corner means you have something untoward concealed.


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