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PRIVATE FEEDBACK
Private Feedback
This is becoming more common and if you come across it, it should certainly worry you.
This is where you can't even see somebody's feedback comments. There's more below about feedback in general, but I will say here that a seller who has his feedback hidden, is not trying to stop you seeing the comments, but trying to stop anyone contacting his past buyers to warn them about the forgeries they have bought.
Feedback
Many people seem to believe that a high feedback rating means that they are dealing with a genuine seller. Please bear in mind that feedback says nothing at all about the authenticity of the items the dealer has sold.
People who buy forgeries don't know that they are forgeries, otherwise they wouldn't have bought them. They may own the forgery for many years, innocently believing it to be genuine.
Their feedback comments are about the standard of service, speed of delivery, quality of packaging and possibly about what a nice photo it was. And the forgery dealers give superb service. When you bear in mind that over half of eBay bidders never leave feedback and that a bidder's feedback only counts once for the overall rating, it means that a fake seller with a feedback rating of 1,500 has probably sold well over 3,500 fakes.
Feedback is an important tool on internet auctions for helping you know if the other party is likely to deal with the transaction efficiently, but it says nothing whatever about the authenticity of items.
Try to read the positive feedback as well as the negative. Read the way your seller responds to negative feedback, as this will often give you an idea of how the seller will react if something goes badly wrong.
If the seller is offering high value goods, be wary if their feedback has been built up quickly from low value purchases. Also, if the overall rating is good, but there are a disproportionate number of negatives in recent days/weeks, this might indicate the account has been taken over.
Finally, be aware that feedback is not the guarantee it once was. Feedback can easily be manufactured. Also, if the user ID has been hijacked, you’ll be reading the feedback of the original account owner, not the person with whom you’re currently dealing!
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