Ebay suspicion (suspicions allayed)

banja

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I just sold an item to a buyer with 44 feedback (100%), member for over 5 years. Seems ok. What strikes me as suspicious is the exact same wording has been used for quite a few of his feedback comments, but from different users / sellers.

I thought at first I was looking at HIS selling feedback to buyers, but it isn't. The comments include exact wording, capitalisation, exclamition marks - not coincedentally the same, but exact. At least three different buyers have used the same words. Is that odd?

Or maybe sellers are lazy and are cut / pasting other sellers comments? Which seems unlikely to me, but possible.

EDIT - I've discovered that sellers have stock responses, the ones I'm seeing are very common. No drama. Nothing to see here, move along...
 
banja said:
I just sold an item to a buyer with 44 feedback (100%), member for over 5 years. Seems ok. What strikes me as suspicious is the exact same wording has been used for quite a few of his feedback comments, but from different users / sellers.

I thought at first I was looking at HIS selling feedback to buyers, but it isn't. The comments include exact wording, capitalisation, exclamition marks - not coincedentally the same, but exact. At least three different buyers have used the same words. Is that odd?

Or maybe sellers are lazy and are cut / pasting other sellers comments? Which seems unlikely to me, but possible.

EDIT - I've discovered that sellers have stock responses, the ones I'm seeing are very common. No drama. Nothing to see here, move along...
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Sometimes I find that eBay users DO copy and paste the previous comments. It doesn't happen often but has happened a couple of times to me over the years..
 
I've never done that when selling. I copy my own of course, but I also wasn't aware stock responses were available. The two I'm seeing here from multiple sellers appear to be common ones that sellers use.
 
Do you need to copy and paste? I’ve found having bought something, then something else from a different seller it simply keeps what you wrote previously in the comments box.
 
Remember the issue here was that different sellers have left the exact same wording for the same buyer, which I initially found odd, until I discovered the stock response options.
 
I once sold something on ebay and got "A+++++++++" on my feedback. The person after only gave me "A++++++++" and I've always wondered why.
 
They just copy 'n' paste responses which you do if you've had no problems etc. Volume sellers even have an ebay tool that automatically leaves f/b on their behalf which is why they'll typically leave feedback as soon as you've paid - its a bot.
 
I’m one of these annoying types that likes to put complete rubbish for feedback.

My last one reads....


“Item arrived as described but frankly my coco pops were getting weary so I had to pacify the lawnmower.”

:o :D
 
Scania said:
I’m one of these annoying types that likes to put complete rubbish for feedback.

My last one reads....


“Item arrived as described but frankly my coco pops were getting weary so I had to pacify the lawnmower.”

:o :D
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That still makes more sense than the average YouTube comment... never mind Amazon reviews.
 
Scania said:
I’m one of these annoying types that likes to put complete rubbish for feedback.

My last one reads....


“Item arrived as described but frankly my coco pops were getting weary so I had to pacify the lawnmower.”

:o :D
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You sound really wacky!
 
I copy and paste feedback pretty often. I'm normally happy with what I've bought, delivery is normally good, so on the whole my feedback is the same!
 
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