Brian Goldsmith wrote:
"Bill M" wrote

How do you figure that? I've been screwed by many more grinning vendors
at hamfests than from ebay sellers and nobody seems to be screaming
about trying to clean them up.


**** I cannot get over you admitting you have been screwed how many
times????
I thought it was "once bitten,twice shy"
Or are you just too stupid to learn?

Learn not to go to hamfests? Might as well learn to be a monk!

I doubt that very many folks would return to buy from a vendor that cheated
them, but there are so many vendors. Some honest, and some not.

Ebay is the same thing, but better, because there is a feedback mechanism,
and with a few small changes to the feedback mechanism, it could be
extraordinary!

But that is where I entered this thread; advocating changing the feeback
mechanism so that *nobody* could see the feedback for a given transaction
until both parties had contributed their feedback, and adding a transaction
counter, so you could detect bad vendors that purposefully tried to game the
system by not giving feedback.

-Chuck Harris


Brian Goldsmith.