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D. BerginEbay continues to pit buyers against sellers. As has been discussed endlessly on forums everywhere since the DSR's came out.
If you go to a movie and are asked to rate it out of 5 stars, if you give it 4 stars it's a damn good movie................if you give it 5 stars, it's a freakin' all time classic.
On Ebay if you give somebody 5 stars, the seller just did what he was supposed to do. If you give somebody a 4 star rating, they may as well have kicked you in the groin while they were in the process of packaging up your item for you.
Why even have 1's, 2's and 3's as options? Hell, somebody hits a 1 by mistake and they can screw up most sellers DSR's for an entire month.
It hasn't been a problem for me, but it makes you wonder if it inevitably will be.
If I was new to Ebay and just started buying............yeah, I would think a 4 is a damn good rating.