Trigger Happy Negative Feedback

Hi, If the transaction did not go through, the person cannot post a feedback for you.

Audiogon rules states that feedback can only be on a COMPLETED TRANSACTION. Let Audiogon know the details of the transaction and they'll be the judge.

Somehow I clearly see that all adds have to have features to close the transaction on-line and only after transaction is closed on-line there can be feedback left for audiogon menber.

If it's non-auction add and the buyer agrees onto the price he/she must imediately choose "BUY AT OFFERED PRICE" and the ad becomes automatically closed. This action will mean a commitment to complete purchase/sale from... to... participating members. Buyer has to have also a possibility to offer a different price wich later-on can be reviewed by seller and if seller accepts offered price he can choose "ACCEPT OFFERED PRICE" and the ad becomes automatically closed for completing a transaction between members. Certainly in any case after the ad had be closed it can only be displayed for a couple of days and than go to the completed ad section that is separated from the active ads.

There should be some re-listing guidelines specified(for no extra-charge) especially if something went wong: i.e. seller specified that he/she will not ship outside US and had an overseas customer that accepted offered price and certainly made the classified(or dealer-demo)ad non-active; or simply if buyer refused to complete a transaction.

If the seller refuses to complete a transaction for no reson the price for a new listing must be charged even if the same item is being re-listed.

This way the classified ads will be more as a contract and someway first-come-first-serve bases giving less possibility to refuse to complete the transaction and also bind feedbacks to ads as it's been done on ebay.

The auction ad can be simply identical to ebay in terms of leaving a feedback.

The above propositions can realy be done within short period of time and will be convenient for all of us.

Marakanetz I completly agree. Check out my recent post Suggestion for buying and selling on the site in Misc Audio. Audiogon talks about a new system that will do just as you mentioned. Give it a read and tell them what you think of their proposed new system.

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Somehow it does't seem right.I was always under the impression goods and money had to change hands for feedback. At that rate--well I won't go there. I've never left a negative for anybody;even tho I've had a few"not-as-described" transactions.--Nothing major. This guy takes "trigger-happy negative feedback" to a SAD-LEVEL. He needs to focus on more important things!