The eBay feedback system

I've never been badly scammed on eBay though I have been in the situation of leaving a positive feedback comment when a negative was due simply because I didn't want a revenge negative.

When dealing with high volume sellers, one negative for them makes little difference whereas one negative for you can have a major impact on your feedback rating. If a high volume seller gets too many negatives they will simply drop that account and start a new one, quickly building up positive feedback selling very low cost items like eBooks.

A quick search of the net for users views of eBay's feedback system produces a near unanimous opinion that it is virtually useless except in the most extreme cases. Users are very unlikely to leave a negative and in fact will not even leave a neutral as that will usually trigger a revenge negative.

There is now a solution to this problem, http://www.ohrep.com has been created to provide an anonymous feedback system for eBay and other online auction sites.

Users who wish to make a negative or neutral remark about an eBay seller but prefer not to do so through eBay's own feedback system can now do this without the risk of a negative in revenge.

Phil