@garmenttherapy wrote:
Why do people have private feedback and does it make yo ncomfortable as a seller?
At the risk of being highly unpopular, I am going to say yes. At certain times private feedback makes me not so much uncomfortable, but a little wary.
To clarify that, I don't give two hoots what buyers who purchase from me have purchased from other sellers, but that's not what feedback is, or reflects. That is, the last remaining thing that a buyer's feedback profile at least has the potential to reflect is how they conduct themselves on ebay, and making that private doesn't mean I automatically mistrust someone, or even think much of it at all, it means in the (rare) case something happens where I am prompted to look at a profile a little more in depth (which generally I don't do unless I am trying to gauge the most appropriate response to an issue), private feedback gives me nothin'.... which I mildly lament.
By and large, I do take how a buyer conducts themselves with me to be a better gauge, but even still... I have been very grateful, at times, to have been able to see certain types of practices displayed quite clearly on a buyer's profile - and just to be clear, I'm talking about the feedback a buyer has left for others.
Other times I have actually been very relieved to see that certain suspicions appear to be unfounded, by being able to look at a buyer's FB left for others and seeing nothing that would indicate frequent claims, negs over non-issues etc.
In the grand scheme of things, it makes little to no difference to how I handle a situation (in a practical sense, anyway, how I respond might be affected), but it does affect my overall impression.
I've never blocked or ignored a buyer purely on the basis of FB being private, though. Despite all the abvove, at the end of the day I trust everyone until they give me a reason not to, and private FB isn't close to a reason for me.
