Been using bonanza a couple months now. Although the sales have been slow, they’ve been much faster than expected, given the nature of the items I started with. I have 4 sales so far, but no fb received. I am reluctant to import fb, because to me, it just seemed tacky at first. Does ebay care about what fb u got on ecrater or allow u to use that in anyway to your advantage? NO. So why should what happens on another site matter here?
Now I’m starting to think in addition to being tacky, it could also be detrimental to sales. The fact that ebay eliminated a lot of the little guys is not just known by ebay users, it was national news. So when a customer sees that you have 500 fb imported from ebay and 1 from Bonanza with a rating of 501, why would they trust your “1” here? They know that a lot of people who were substandard on ebay, even though many of us know that it might not be a bad thing, are now selling here. So if there “500” wasn’t good enough for ebay, why would it carry any weight here?
To me, it looks like they are a “1” who is hiding behind a “501” with a bad 500 from ebay. Not all that reassuring to me.
So is importing feedback tacky? Detrimental? Neither? Both?
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Weblotz Reputation: 28 See Weblotz's booth |
If you have any bad feedback from eBay, then Bonanza will show the number. Like if you have any negative or neutral feedback on eBay, Bonanza will show that you have so many of each. This means that if you don’t have any negative or neutral feedback, then Bonanza will show that you have none. I see that as good.
I’m certain that my imported feedback never hurt me here, because I have close to 2000 transactions on Bonanza.
I have never made the assumption that substandard sellers sell on other sites. I had 100% positive feedback on eBay when I started here and still do. I believe that most people who sell on the alternative sites are actually the better sellers. They are capable of seeing what’s outside eBay and go after it. I find that the poor eBay sellers just find a way around eBay’s rules and create new eBay IDs to keep going on eBay.
What I look at is when a user last logged into Bonanza. If I want to buy something and see that the seller has logged in within the last week, I feel confident that the seller will notice the sale and will ship promptly. I am not so confident when the seller hasn’t logged in for months.
Many people do choose not to import feedback because they don’t want their record tied to eBay. This is understandable.
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thebgs Reputation: 108 See thebgs' booth |
Your inquiry of ‘’So is importing feedback tacky? detrimental? neither? both?’’ will get you more than one type of answer, because it’s not up to the seller to determine this inquiry as much as it’s up to the person/persons visiting your booth/Bonanza booths…THEY determine such, individually, as perception is an individual thing, some might perceive it as tacky, others might perceive it as a good thing to show up front what’s what, and still others might perceive such as inconsequential, and just trust their ’’gut’’ as to whether or not to Trustfully buy from this seller or that one in Bonanza…anyway that’s my humble opinion of how I see this possible issue of ’’trust’’ IOW, I don’t think there’s only one answer to such! Hope you have a GREAT week! Dee
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divinefabricsnmore Reputation: 388 See divinefabricsnmore's booth |
My preference is to build my own feedback on a given site through buying as well as selling, not importing from another site. My thinking is that potential buyers see that you have a vested interest in the site and not just landing items in a store front and moving on.
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irishonebac Reputation: 238 See irishonebac's booth |
I don’t think it is bad to import. It doesn’t say ‘from ebay’ so anyone looking just knows that it came ‘from other sites’.
I imported mine, but deleted it after I had built up some feedback here on Bonanza. Someone looking at your 501 shouldn’t see you as hiding behind a 500, but that, while you are new here, you DO have experience in online sales, which may make them trust you more to know what you’re doing / how to treat customers, etc.
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BookbinEtc Reputation: 1322 See BookbinEtc's booth |
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