This seemed too frivolous for GQ, isn’t really a poll for IMHO, and isn’t really a rant for BBQP, so here is ends up.
I’ve bought and sold some things on eBay. The feedback people leaves always makes me laugh. Is there really a need to put as many A+A+A+A+'s as you can in the one line you get? Why do people do this?
Is A+A+ better than just A+? Should I not buy from/sell to somebody who doesn’t have a bunch of A+'s in their feedback? The whole thing seems retarded. I try to leave good, honest, appropriate feedback, which is why I don’t understand all the A+ business.
Can somebody explain it to me? (I suspect there isn’t really a good explanation, though.)
I’m pretty sure it is just another way to say “This person is great to deal with”, I mean, you only get 80 characters to write your feedback out in, might as well use them all.
I don’t feel like writing 80 characters about why someone is good to feal with, but leaving a short “It was good” seems so…sparse.
I guess people feel a need to fill the whole line. I usually go with something like, “No Problem, Good Buyer, A+ 100% Perfect!” A little less redundant, anyway.
By the way, today I saw a guy who had 1 positive and 4 negatives. The 4th negative said, “What are you, trying for some kind of record?”
It’s easier to scan down a page with fifty lines of feedback and see the A++++++ at the end of each remark. If the feedback said “Great to deal with, A+,” the bit at the end would get visually obscured, I think. The feedback readers don’t need to know the particulars of the transaction, so the A++++ is good shorthand for “excellend eBayer,” and it’s visually recognizable very quickly.
It does seem sort of psychotic until you get used to it, though it’s not as bad as “lololololololololol.”
