Feedback - Verified purchase

[chicka8618]

Today under the feedback I am now seeing "Verified purchase" after every transaction. In both the Received as Buyer and Received as Seller sections. Is this a new feature? What is the purpose of putting it in the feedback? I suppose its a good thing for fraudulent concerns, but it doesnt seem like the right place to put it. Does anybody else have this and what do you think of it ?

[bay-trading-1-outlet]

I saw it too, which is why I searched for 'ebay feedback verified purchase' 

I find it strange, because as far as I know, you can only leave feedback on ebay if you have made the purchase of the item you are leaving feedback for

[dhbookds]

just saw it also..........I have seen a lot of other sites do it.........  I presume to try to show feedback is "real" from a real buyer...........

[soh.maryl]

Looked at your FB received as a seller as well as your FB received as a buyer and don't see anything like this.  

[soh.maryl]

OK, now I see it for both of you.  Who knows? 

[kako_5344]

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@chicka8618 wrote:

Today under the feedback I am now seeing "Verified purchase" after every transaction. 

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Does eBay also show "Unverified purchase" or "No purchase but left feedback anyway" after any transaction?

Wonder why not.

[sumsum70 · Accepted solution]

You can't leave FB if you weren't the buyer or seller, so this is completely stupid. Must have been some busywork quota that a programmer saw on other sites. EBay should fire the remaining 91% of employees.

[toomuchstuffagain35]

ebay's not like Amazon where reviews can even be left with a disclaimer that the author received a freebie in exchange for a review. I often wonder how they get in on that.

It's a stupid idea here where you can't leave FB unless you're in a transaction.

[wastingtime101]

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@chicka8618 wrote:

What is the purpose of putting it in the feedback?

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I noticed it this morning and had the same question as you. This isn't the 90s where you could leave FB for anybody. You have to be in a transaction to leave FB for a buyer or seller. Adding 'verified purchase' seems pretty pointless to me when it appears on every single FB.

FB isn't a product review where 'verified purchase' has more relevance (though eBay does seem to be pushing in that direction).

[mam98031]

I still don't see these changes, but Ebay is in the process of rolling out a few changes to the feedback display.  I'll be able to see them at some point, as will others that don't currently see the changes.

[wastingtime101]

Hey @mam98031 , here's what your FB page looks like to those of us seeing the change.

[mam98031]

@wastingtime101 

Thank you.  The change makes no sense to me, but it must to someone!

[iamalwaysright]

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@toomuchstuffagain35 wrote:

ebay's not like Amazon where reviews can even be left with a disclaimer that the author received a freebie in exchange for a review. I often wonder how they get in on that.

It's a stupid idea here where you can't leave FB unless you're in a transaction.

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I’ll go a step further and say Amazon also allows anyone to leave a review for any item, even if you’ve never purchased it before. That’s why they have a “verified purchase” badge so people know that person never bought or did actually buy the item from Amazon. Their logic is that the person could have bought the exact same thing from like Target and just want to leave a good (or bad) review of the item in Amazon.

But we all know eBay doesn’t allow this and having that badge is redundant and useless. Are they just trying to fill out the feedback page with noise? If so, they should also add “account ID screen name created by member when they registered” right under their screen name and “feedback comment and testimony written by member when they left the feedback” under the feedback comment. Maybe even add each member’s avatar next to the screen name of each feedback accompanied with “Profile pic uploaded by member” description. That should do it.

Seriously I wouldn’t argue it if they’d add and bring back the exact time stamp shown for each feedback tho. 

[toomuchstuffagain35]

Agree with the bringing back the date & time on FB left instead of this past month, past year nonsense.

[a_c_green]

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@mam98031 wrote:

@wastingtime101 

Thank you.  The change makes no sense to me, but it must to someone!

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It's an attempt to copy Amazon, IMHO. I don't see any other purpose to it. Maybe their rationale is that buyers expect to see that, since other sites (well, Amazon anyway) are already showing it.