Why I don't leave reviews anymore | Suggestions and Feedback on the eBay Platform

mankeatv · 2025-05-06T08:39:43.116000Z

For quite a while now, it’s no longer possible to leave reviews for the (commercial?) seller without also reviewing the item with a free-form text at the same time.For the items I usually buy, I can’t (at least for the time being) rate the items at all, or not yet — at least not in any reasonably meaningful way.Since I don’t feel like writing some irrelevant nonsense, I practically don’t review anything anymore. Too bad. That doesn’t help anyone. Why can’t the additional text for the purchased item be optional?Examples: dietary supplements (do they help?), car wear parts or tools (how long will they last?), screws, motor oil ....On the other hand, I’d like to review many items — but only after some time has passed — once they’ve proven themselves or not. But I can’t know that right after buying them.By combining the seller rating with the item rating, many customers who are unhappy with the respective seller are surely also tempted to write their frustration into the item review field. That also makes good items get bad reviews. In most cases, the item manufacturer is not the seller.In short: I’d like separate ratings for seller and item and, above all, the option to rate only the item or only the seller.

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