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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
newsmike replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
It is bad for sellers that cancel a lot.- 305 replies
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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
newsmike replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
I'm sure that the vast majority of cancels happen because of seller deficiencies as opposed to bad buyers. Think about the traffic on the forum every day. Some days that's all we seems to see.- 305 replies
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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
newsmike replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
I understand. Let me ask a question, what percentage of your buyers are such "bad buyers?" I ask because as I think about what we see on an average day in the forum indicates to me that there are astronomically more unskilled scammy sellers with fake credentials than there are bad buyers. Like 90/10%- 305 replies
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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
newsmike replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
Absolutely agree. I was thinking about the a scenario where a buyer is deciding between 2 sellers, both offering the same type of logo design and at the same price. Seller A: 100 reviews, all positive except for 2 that ended in cancellation, for whatever reason. 2% failure rate. Seller B: 100 reviews, 100 positive. Except that this seller refunds 10% of orders as cancellations to avoid negative reviews. 10% failure rate. If buyer selects seller B, thinking that he is getting a better seller with no complaints, the buyer has been defrauded by a seller who sanitizes complaints, and a system that allows the seller to do so by concealing vital information. Buyer B is 5 times more likely to disappoint. When you come down to this, there is no ethical argument in favor of concealing such data from buyers.- 305 replies
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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
newsmike replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
That is the false "sanitizing of reviews" that this is designed to eliminate. People giving refunds to avoid the bad review, which leads to fraudulent representations of perfect sellers with 0 complaints because they buy off buyers with refunds. This is a positive move for honest reviews.- 305 replies
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You are correct that long before we discuss how to implement fairness, we must all first agree on what that means, or the rest is pointless. Of course, this is impossible. The most fair application of speech is that anyone on the platform is allowed to say whatever they wish, even with the resulting consequences. But as you can see, the mob hates that. Politics.
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I know I said I'd shut up, but, there's the F word again. Life is not fair. It never will be fair. Stop expecting it to be fair. You really don't want it to be fair. If it were truly fair, every time you made a sale, you would be placed in inactive status until every other seller also got a sale. Fairness and Santa Claus. Most people outgrow the concepts at around 7 or 8.
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Important Update: Some canceled orders now qualify for buyer reviews
newsmike replied to Shiran.M's topic in General News
Nonsense.- 305 replies
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Bottom like is that none of this matters. It only effects sellers who do not please their buyers, and Fiverr cares not what we think. I've just had my usual fun poking the mob. Meanwhile 3,000 new SEO Exparts from PBIN have arrived while we arrange deck chairs on the Titanic. There are much bigger problems facing us.