mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@zterx13 wrote:I understand the purpose of including some price information with feedback so that other buyers can see how a seller handled a transaction that was a certain dollar value but I don't think it is useful or good to include the exact price of a sale for fixed prices listings with feedback comments.
Due to changing supply and demand conditions a seller should be free to raise or lower his price as needed to acheive his sales goals. But if someone buys a widget for $10 and then the seller raises the price to $11 what good does it really do later buyers to see, when they go to leave feedback, that earlier buyers purchased the same product slightly cheaper? It can only lead to disapointment. Same for earlier buyers if the price is lowered. When you go to a brick and mortar store there is no price history (or feedback for that matter available).
Rather than the exact price, I think feedback should display a price range so that buyers can grasp the approximate value of the transaction without getting bogged down in the dollars and cents...
For example: Price: Less than $10, Price $10-100, Price $100-500, Price 500-5000 etc.
What do people think?
eBay does in fact provide you with a very useful and easy to use tool that eleveates the problem that you are describing all together. Its called a "Private Listing"
By checking the box marked "Private Listing"; when you create the actual listing, when one of those items that are private listings are sold the price of that item is hidden from other potential buyers when they view your feedback.
It works very well and as designed.
Sometimes I use it and sometimes I don't.
I just depends on what I ate for breakfast that day.
Sometimes I use it and sometimes I don't.
I just depends on what I ate for breakfast that day.
@castlemagicmemories wrote:
@dougsue123b wrote:Nobody looks at the price in feedback, I never have and I dont care what someone else got it for. Its just like gasoline, prices change all the time.
Thank you, @dougsue123b, very valid point. Most people don't care, therefore it's not really used or useful.
I think in light of the Summer Seller Update being released we have much larger fish to fry than this issue or non issue, depending on how you view it.
