Saturday, August 11, 2007

Feedback - The Reason For Extortion

Wow, is it just me, or does every person on eBay try to extort positive feedback despite their obvious lack of any redeeming qualities? About 40% of the people I've bought from are very poor sellers, they post late, in bad condition and overprice on shipping, and don't provide any insurance.
About 50% of the people refuse to post feedback until I have. See the colloration? For those of you who haven't picked up, somehow, these people are desperate for positive feedback, and rather than, oh I don't know, earning it, they threaten to give you negative feedback no matter how good you are, simply because you dare to question their omnipotent selling skillz.

Well you know what? Fuck you. The only way I can see to fight this is to become one of them: to wait, and wait, and when they give in and rate, I will pounce! pounce and rate them fairly. But I won't rate unfairly; I will rate on their product and service, as is the point of the system. But I will use my unposted feedback as a weapon, and frankly, I don't need the feedback. I don't feel the need to make it apparent that I am better than whoever. Really, I can do that in the mighty stone tower of my own mind, looking down on these feeble-minded fools, laughing as I boil my oil for the imminent owning.

In other words, you will be rated on the criteria the rating system is designed for. If you fuck me over, you will feel the wrath of my mighty negative feedback hammer!

Rant ends here. If you are one of the people I'm ranting about, then the above applies to you: you don't deserve a good reputation if you demand positive feedback no matter what.

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