Officialy pre-announced: eBay is splitting feedback up into 4 sub categories:
– Item description
– Communication
– Shipping time
– S+H terms
They will also expire (archive) old feedback, and you’ll only be able to see the last two years of results.
First to test this will be (at least) three international sites – Australia, UK and Italy – from late February.
This is interesting – at least three of these feedback categories (excluding communication) appear to be one way – for the buyer to comment on the seller. I would guess that the four sub-categories are for the buyer only, while the seller retains the same system as now. The seller will still need to monitor these new categories and respond where necessary, which will be painful for larger sellers.
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Auctionbytes has better coverage
Lance Wiggs 