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Kronjoe

Kronjoe

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St. John's, NL
I just recently joined the EE and am looking to make my first purchase. The person I'm making a deal with is a long time member, but I'm unable to see their "trader rating."

I hear people saying it's important to check when buying, I'm unsure of where to find it on their profile.

Thanks
 
If you look at their profile...it defaults to their activity page....and the tab to the left of that is their feedback page

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Your looking for the feedback score my friend. If you click on their profile one of the tabs at the top will say feedback score and it will show you the info you are looking for. Cheers
 
Kronjoe said:
I just recently joined the EE and am looking to make my first purchase. The person I'm making a deal with is a long time member, but I'm unable to see their "trader rating."

I hear people saying it's important to check when buying, I'm unsure of where to find it on their profile.

Thanks
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On their ad, their profile on the left, under the posts, there is a feedback score. There should be a number if they got feedback. Click that, for a break down of their feedback.
 
Feedback scores are not what they should be.

Ive got a bad score before because I got ripped off and gave the seller an honest negative score. In turn he gave me a negative score....what a joke.
Moderators are basically no help on this issue.

Buyer beware.
I only buy face to face now
 
Streamin said:
Feedback scores are not what they should be.

Ive got a bad score before because I got ripped off and gave the seller an honest negative score. In turn he gave me a negative score....what a joke.
Moderators are basically no help on this issue.

Buyer beware.
I only buy face to face now
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You don’t have a negative posted on your trader rating. After you gave the seller a negative he replied to you with a neutral as that’s all that he can do. You’re trader rating still shows 100% as it should.
 
If it is a lot of money or you don't feel comfortable, get their phone number and call them. That's what CGN admin (the owner of this site) recommends and I do it. I don't care if people are making a fuzz. I don't trust trader rating enough. Had one guy try to scam me out of $2,900 (it came to light after he tried to scam a moderator here but I was a sitting duck with a very bad negative rating for 6 months) and another long time member with 40K posts backed out on me. Follow CGN admin recommendation and if the person don't like it, move on. A deal can always go bad in some way. Even me, I sold a gun once which was unknowingly to me was restricted instead of non as I thought, so I had to take it back. Be a man when you trade here.
 
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Streamin said:
Feedback scores are not what they should be.

Ive got a bad score before because I got ripped off and gave the seller an honest negative score. In turn he gave me a negative score....what a joke.
Moderators are basically no help on this issue.

Buyer beware.
I only buy face to face now
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Unfortunately, this dynamic happens everywhere. That's why eBay over a decade ago scrapped the ability for sellers to leave negative for buyers. Unfortunately, retaliatory feedback is a reality. It is too bad that people are not able to humbly accept a legitimate negative feedback. I know one person who has been able to do this and it was my old boss in the 2000s who was an eBay fanatic. He received a negative and he replied with a positive on the buyer's account saying he agrees that he (seller) messed up. That takes stones to man up and admit that and most people just won't, so that, for many places, including eBay, has turned feedback into something irrelevant, particularly for buyers who rip off sellers. No seller wants their feedback record tarnished with retaliatory feedback.

I think the feedback system here is still valuable in showing a trend. Just like google reviews or whatever - if you see 100 people saying positive things and one person saying something negative, you have to take it with a grain of salt and look further. I have been going to my mechanic for 17 years now, found him then on the internet with high ratings. Since then he continues to have high ratings with the occasional really bad rating. I ask him about those and there are always two sides of the story and once I got the full context, I better understood what happened. Unfortunately while doing transactions online there is less of an opportunity to be able to get the full context as easily so what we are left with is to look at the overall trend. I also realize everyone has to start somewhere, so a new account isn't necessarily an instant red flag. Understandably, caution should be exercised, but there are certainly ways to mitigate risk - ie. meeting face to face, or if not, zoom meeting online beforehand, etc. I have had people request zoom meetings or facetime meetings and I am always happy to oblige.

Such is the nature of online shopping nowadays.
 
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