Automatic Reciprocal Feedback
Leave automatic feedback for any customer who has left positive feedback for you.
As much as you should respond quickly to any complaints lodged against you in your feedback profile, youâll also want to leave positive reciprocal feedback for each and every positive comment you receive from buyers, as suggested by [Hack #5]. As you might expect, this is also something that can be done with the eBay API.
But letâs add a little spice to the mix. Instead of leaving the same feedback comment every time, letâs have the script choose a random comment. Start by creating a plain-text file with a handful of positive comments, one on each line:
Lightning-fast payment. Reliable buyer. Thanks for your business! Quick to pay, friendly emails. This eBayer makes selling a pleasure! Very fast payment, good communication. All-around excellent customer!
Save the file as prefabpraise.txt
and place it
in the directory specified in your config.pl
file (discussed at the beginning of this chapter).
Next, take the script from [Hack #96] and replace the code between line [5] and line [6] with this code:
if ($type eq "Praise") { open (INFILE,"$localdir/prefabpraise.txt"); @line = <INFILE>; close (INFILE); chomp @line; $lines = @line; $choice = int rand ($lines); system './leavefeedback.pl', $item, $from, 'positive', $choice; }
Or, if you want a single script to leave positive reciprocal feedback and notify you of negative feedback, just place this code before line [5].
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