Rich, I find myself continually impressed with you, eBay probably is older. You are correct, if eBay would police the bad sellers of it feedback would not be necessary, but from what I have seen they only care about the money. Thanks for your information, Steve > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:04:11 -0600> From: rich-mail at octoxol.com> To: phono-l at oldcrank.org> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] eBay vs Amazon.com> > I do not know which is the older venue. I thought eBay was older. If > eBay is really interested in integrating PayPal into the site then > require immediate payment at the end of the auction, no exceptions. > Then there is no point in FB for buyers, or sellers. Let the official > dispute process police the bad sellers off of the site. All shipping > cost to be stated in every auction. For the $$$ that eBay will be > charging they can afford it.> > Steven Medved wrote:> > The feedback system on Amazon.com is one where only the seller gets rated and it works good. I have bought mostly books and ink for my inkjet printer, and I have never had problems buying from sellers in the 90% range. This seems to work well, perhaps that is where eBay got the idea. I think if they had used that idea from the beginning it would have worked much better.> > > > Steve_______________________________________________> > Phono-L mailing list> > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org> > > > > _______________________________________________> Phono-L mailing list> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org