June 2005
Beginner
463 pages
14h 19m
English
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Use Prefabricated Feedback
Save time by storing prewritten feedback for future use.
It won’t take you long to get tired of writing feedback comments for the various buyers and sellers with whom you trade. You always end up saying the same thing, so why bother typing it every time?
The solution is simple. Write two generic, all-purpose positive feedback comments, one for buyers and one for sellers, and place them in a plain-text file saved on your hard disk. Remember that each comment can be no longer than 80 characters, including any spaces and punctuation. (Your text editor may have a column indicator to tell you how many characters you’ve typed.)
When it comes time to leave feedback for someone, open the text file, highlight the appropriate comment, and press Ctrl-C to copy. Then, click the Feedback Review field and press Ctrl-V to paste.
Tip
Naturally, you can store as many prefabricated feedback comments as you like (variety is the spice of life, after all). Just be careful not to place any negative comments in this file, lest you select the wrong line in haste.
Feedback for Multiple Auctions
Go to My eBay → Feedback → Leave Feedback, and you’ll see a list of all closed auctions for which you have not yet left feedback, as shown in Figure 1-4. Simply go down the list, pasting your prefabricated comment for any deserving transactions.
Figure 1-4. Leave feedback for dozens of auctions at ...
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