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THEORY: Ebay is why everything sucks now
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Date: December 12th, 2025 10:58 AM Author: umber diverse giraffe people quickly realized that negative reviews don't mean shit and consequently dropped the quality levels on everything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504177) |
Date: December 12th, 2025 10:59 AM Author: Mustard indian lodge pocket flask amazon is more fake review prone than ebay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504178) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:11 AM Author: umber diverse giraffe amazon was a book store when all of the ebay review shit started. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504208) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:20 AM Author: ungodly rambunctious psychic wut? negative feedback on ebay matters a ton and it's a clear sign that a seller is full of shit if they have even a small handful of negatives.
Amazon reviews are next to useless by comparison except the ones by the losers who bother to poast pics of the items. |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:20 AM Author: cordovan gaming laptop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504239) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:27 AM Author: exhilarant pea-brained feces home it used to. now they have negative reviews fade quickly or something. back in the day one negative review could really fuck up your profile.
i do agree that ebay was late to the game on review score inflation and certainly not the cause of things slipping. |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:33 AM Author: umber diverse giraffe The entire idea of reviews started with ebay, though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504270) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:40 AM Author: ungodly rambunctious psychic ebay the feedback is of the seller as a way to vet if they are legit or not. amazon and just about everywhere else you're reviewing the product. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504287) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:46 AM Author: umber diverse giraffe this is a great point. shifting to reviewing the product absolves the seller of responsibility when you get to blame the manufacturer for Everything. it also invites a ton of jeet fraud. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504309) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:42 AM Author: exhilarant pea-brained feces home because ebay was the first major person to person ecommerce site. having some centralized metric to gauge whether someone was a scammer is obviously important and every site since ebay has done it. especially back in the 90s when the internet was new and scary.
i remember buying stuff on ebay in high school and having to pay via mailing a money order. |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:43 AM Author: ungodly rambunctious psychic lol same with the money orders. it would take like nearly a month from the time you won an auction before you'd actually get the item. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504296) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:57 AM Author: exhilarant pea-brained feces home i remember getting like a mid-90s nokia brick phone off ebay with a slider form factor that had one of their first iterations of snake and feeling like an absolute badass. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504349) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:44 AM Author: umber diverse giraffe having some centralized metric makes sense and I agree that reviews still seem like the best way to measure it. however, we all should've seen review inflation/fraud coming down the pipeline and I guess that's my entire gripe with the process. we were always Doomed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504299) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:53 AM Author: exhilarant pea-brained feces home back in the early days of the libertarian anti-GC internet it was harder to see this coming. back then there was an incentive to keep reviews honest because the only way it would work was some sort of centralized trust rating.
ever since google removed "don't be evil" from its code of conduct the internet has become outright, unmitigated grift with no attempt to even hide it. review inflation is the same as social media being tuned to maximize screentime rather than giving you want off the bat. google doesn't care whether their reviews are accurate, now that there's few other options they care about maximizing google ads revenue and of course they're going to tee-hee forgive negative reviews for companies that pay them. |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:54 AM Author: umber diverse giraffe they realized the "don't" in "don't be evil" wasn't increasing shareholder value & cut it entirely (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504341) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:58 AM Author: exhilarant pea-brained feces home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504351) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 12:00 PM Author: cordovan gaming laptop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504357) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:36 AM Author: ungodly rambunctious psychic they show the last 12 months detail, total feedback score and the year they joined. That's enough to size up the seller as not a scammer and that they aren't selling shit in worse condition than they advertise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504279) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:43 AM Author: Kink-friendly native elastic band ironically even if that is true, ebay is still one of the best places to buy shit on the internet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504294) |
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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:44 AM Author: umber diverse giraffe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49504300) |
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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:44 AM Author: Iridescent temple I have a 500+ review perfect 5.0 star eBay account. How much could I sell this for? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2:#49506303) |