Klarinet Archive - Posting 000065.txt from 2003/10

From: "Sue Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Almost bought a Stolen German System Clarinet
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:40:53 -0400

> (3) "This man claims 32,000+ feedbacks in 5 years, or more than 15 per
> calendar day. Do I believe this? If I were to discount the bulk of
> the positive feedbacks as being contrived, then 357 negatives would look
> much worse."
>
> We have no way of knowing the truth in this case, but this strikes me as
> a clear-cut warning signal.

I see your point. I didn't realize that anyone would go to the trouble to
list that many items, "buy" them from themselves, and contrive the
positive feedbacks, over and over again, but it certainly is possible; and
a person could get away with it, too. A potential buyer could just
go by the "98.4%" positive statistic, and without going to the seller's
feedback
page and actually reading the comments (which does take some time!)
and they would never see how many negatives there are.....

Sue

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