Ebay Reform: How About 'Sticky Omissions'?

"N buyers have opted to permanently omit this seller from their search results."

Sticky omissions would make an interesting resource, whether internally (for ebay to use when evaluating SNAD claims, et al) or as a public resource (alongside '% positive').

Why? Leaving a 'neg' costs the buyer nothing; s/he can come back & buy again.

But a sticky omission means that the buyer would never again even see what's on offer, which imposes a cost on the buyer.

If there were to be a monthly pop-up window - "You have opted to never see results from these sellers" - the resource gets even more useful.

'Sic tranist gloria' would be re-purposed to 'some anger is fleeting'.

An alternate formulation would be to automatically create a sticky omission whenever a buyer leaves a 'neg'. Period.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Ikey I like that idea a lot, could the buyer remove the sticky if he changed his mind?

I've been wanting to ask you, in your avatar what are you looking at? I'm betting aqueduct?

ebay will never make any change that could reduce sales velocity.

The only way to do this would be for a third party service to make the data visible, if it can be compiled via calls to the API, which I doubt.

Not necessarily... sellers whom receive a neg from a particular
buyer have the option of blocking said buyer from further purchases...

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Why? Leaving a 'neg' costs the buyer nothing; s/he can come back & buy again.

Every seller I know blocks buyers who leave negatives, especially since most of the time the buyer got their money back and goods for free. So they loose the ability to buy from that seller again.

disi123, duncanvr: Yes, you are both correct. Sellers can, and do, block buyers who leave negs.

But, if whatever the seller did (or did not do) rises to the level of public rebuke, it should necessarily be at a level where the buyer should never want to do business with that seller again.

I am relying on a tradition, developed from a certain Bronze Age Morality, that cautions against public rebukes.

KRelyea: It was my thought that, were the buyer to opt to see search results from that seller again, the neg would be voided; forgiven should be forgotten.

In the avatar photo, I am looking for a certain result from a field test; I will not describe it further, lest anyone get the impression that I led a much more interesting life than I did; that having been said, it was an interesting test, and it made for an interesting day. Bite Me, Bad Guys.

cjpalermo1964: ebay will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but I was hoping that some of the energy being directed at excoriating the faults & shortcomings of ebay's feedback system might be directed - as a strictly academic exercise, mind you - towards fashioning something better.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I would like to block one particular seller from my search lists. He or she lists items that should be worth only a few dollars but lists them for several hundred dollars. The problem is that this seller clogs up the search lists and all you want to do is look at other items for sale rather than labour through lots of ridiculously priced items from this one seller.
Stephen

StevieG
You can do block specific seller from your ebay search. Use the 'Advanced Search' button (top right of screen next to blue 'Search' button). Scroll to bottom of search screen to the 'Sellers' section. Select the check box "Only show items from" and then change the drop down to 'Exclude'. Type in seller name you want to exclude from your searches. You can then save the search for future use.
Don

Thanks for that Don. I will do it. Cheers,
Stephen

Ikey I think you actually have 2 ideas. The 1st would be easy for ebay to do, anytime a buyer leaves a neg ebay could block the buyer from using that seller anymore and that would be that!

I realize buyers can exclude sellers by adding their name to a list but I think your 2nd idea would make it easier for a buyer to exclude a seller from future searches. Perhaps they could add a link similar to "Follow this seller" that says "exclude this seller from searches" a buyer could just click it. I don't think this would slow down buying velocity because it would just make it easier for buyers to find what they want. Perhaps this one should be reversible.

KRelyea: Perhaps omitting, from the buyer's search results, any seller for whom they have left a neg would have both effects: the deceleration that cjpalermo1964 foresees (fewer results appear) and the acceleration that you foresee (results only appear from sellers of whom you have not yet formed a negative opinion).

I hereby go all Magisterial, and call it a wash ;)

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey