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negative feedback could be me,” and “Recent negative ratings are more detrimental than<br />

older negative ratings.” The first statement might suggest that consumers place a higher<br />

<strong>value</strong> on sellers that are consistently involved in the eBay community over time.<br />

Some attention was devoted to other aspects of the ID card. One person indicated that<br />

“geography” influences a bidding decision in that “It’s a pain to buy from people who are<br />

outside the United States.” None of the consumers had actively viewed the “feedback left for<br />

others” when evaluating feedback. However, one person commented “One good turn<br />

deserves another. If people in general give a seller positive feedback, then that seller should<br />

be giving praise too,” when asked what would be expected in the “feedback left for others”<br />

from a seller that had all positive feedbacks. Interestingly, Resnick et al. (2000) suggests that<br />

reciprocity might decrease the effectiveness of eBay’s Feedback Forum.<br />

Auction Feedback Reviews<br />

Auction feedback review information is available at the individual-auction level for a<br />

member (again, see Figures 2a-c for examples), and reports, most importantly, the feedback<br />

comment (and follow-up) provided by the “other” exchange party from that auction, and any<br />

replies by the member to the feedback comment. Up to twenty five feedback reviews are<br />

presented on a webpage unless one indicates the other possible viewing-alternatives of 50,<br />

100, or 200 reviews per webpage. Until recently, an option for viewing up to 500 feedback<br />

reviews per webpage was offered by eBay. (One main effect of the viewing-alternatives<br />

option is the number of webpages over which feedback reviews are presented, of course. For<br />

example, the auction feedback review information for a person who has received 400<br />

reviews, could be viewed over two pages containing 200 reviews each, or sixteen pages<br />

containing 25 reviews each. This appears to matter as consumers searching for negative<br />

comments rarely looked through more than 2 pages of feedback reviews.)<br />

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