# eBay history

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-history/220277>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 21, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-history/220277 "2003-12-21T05:28:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![KP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@KP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-history/220277/21 "2003-12-22T08:56:44Z")

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I’ve long lobbied for a “show negatives only” display option. I rarely deal with sellers who don’t have a high positive rating percentage, so the few negatives are of special interest. Some otherwise good sellers only have problems with a particular item or category. If they bought a bum lot of refurbished DVD players, don’t ship heavy items promptly, or consistently blame the shipper for frequent breakage of a specific item that needs careful packing, five negatives on the Item I’m researching far outweighs a thousand positives on unrelated items. This especially applies to eBay businesses whose huge positives on baseball cards or e-mailed recipes can be irrelevant to larger, more delicate items.

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