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THEORY: Ebay is why everything sucks now

people quickly realized that negative reviews don't mean shi...
buff national regret
  12/12/25
amazon is more fake review prone than ebay
mahogany supple state doctorate
  12/12/25
amazon was a book store when all of the ebay review shit sta...
buff national regret
  12/12/25
wut? negative feedback on ebay matters a ton and it's a cle...
Confused Cuckoldry Address
  12/12/25
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Fluffy roast beef home
  12/12/25
it used to. now they have negative reviews fade quickly or s...
Lavender Theater Stage People Who Are Hurt
  12/12/25
The entire idea of reviews started with ebay, though.
buff national regret
  12/12/25
ebay the feedback is of the seller as a way to vet if they a...
Confused Cuckoldry Address
  12/12/25
this is a great point. shifting to reviewing the product abs...
buff national regret
  12/12/25
because ebay was the first major person to person ecommerce ...
Lavender Theater Stage People Who Are Hurt
  12/12/25
lol same with the money orders. it would take like nearly a...
Confused Cuckoldry Address
  12/12/25
i remember getting like a mid-90s nokia brick phone off ebay...
Lavender Theater Stage People Who Are Hurt
  12/12/25
having some centralized metric makes sense and I agree that ...
buff national regret
  12/12/25
back in the early days of the libertarian anti-GC internet i...
Lavender Theater Stage People Who Are Hurt
  12/12/25
they realized the "don't" in "don't be evil&q...
buff national regret
  12/12/25
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Lavender Theater Stage People Who Are Hurt
  12/12/25
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Fluffy roast beef home
  12/12/25
they show the last 12 months detail, total feedback score an...
Confused Cuckoldry Address
  12/12/25
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Stimulating alpha
  12/12/25
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Concupiscible duck-like trailer park
  12/13/25
A++++++
Anal wild elastic band
  12/12/25
Jews actually
orchid office chad
  12/12/25
ironically even if that is true, ebay is still one of the be...
Aromatic headpube principal's office
  12/12/25
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buff national regret
  12/12/25
I have a 500+ review perfect 5.0 star eBay account. How much...
orange locale queen of the night
  12/13/25


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Date: December 12th, 2025 10:58 AM
Author: buff national regret

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504177)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 10:59 AM
Author: mahogany supple state doctorate

amazon is more fake review prone than ebay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504178)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:11 AM
Author: buff national regret

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504208)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:20 AM
Author: Confused Cuckoldry Address

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504236)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:20 AM
Author: Fluffy roast beef home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504239)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:27 AM
Author: Lavender Theater Stage People Who Are Hurt

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504251)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:33 AM
Author: buff national regret

The entire idea of reviews started with ebay, though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504270)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:40 AM
Author: Confused Cuckoldry Address

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504287)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:46 AM
Author: buff national regret

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504309)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:42 AM
Author: Lavender Theater Stage People Who Are Hurt

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504292)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:43 AM
Author: Confused Cuckoldry Address

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504296)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:57 AM
Author: Lavender Theater Stage People Who Are Hurt

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504349)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: buff national regret

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504299)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:53 AM
Author: Lavender Theater Stage People Who Are Hurt

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504333)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: buff national regret

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504341)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:58 AM
Author: Lavender Theater Stage People Who Are Hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504351)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 12:00 PM
Author: Fluffy roast beef home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504357)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:36 AM
Author: Confused Cuckoldry Address

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504279)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Stimulating alpha



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504268)



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:42 AM
Author: Concupiscible duck-like trailer park



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49506301)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: Anal wild elastic band

A++++++

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504242)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: orchid office chad

Jews actually

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504288)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:43 AM
Author: Aromatic headpube principal's office

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504294)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: buff national regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5809462&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310752#49504300)



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:44 AM
Author: orange locale queen of the night

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\u0026mark_id=5310752#49506303)