Why isn't there a site that allows you make comments about or rate eBay items for sale?

[thaugen]

While an eBay auction is active, my ideal site would allow people to comment on that item#, preferably with something helpful like, it's an older version, or that size is the most popular. Yah Yah I know the touts would flood it but they could be controlled e.g. people with really bad peer ratings would be voted off the island. And competitors could piss on others' goods but that also should be controllable through voting and other means.

I say this because comments about unique items before the auction ends could be really helpful. Or would the fools still bid stuff up too high anyway?

Massive undertaking to put this up and buy the bandwidth, but if I had the skills I'd be betting on something like this to make the next billionaire (think PayPal.)

 

[Ballatician]

Sounds like a good idea. With some items like electronics I just go to Newegg to read reviews and comments although I could see this being useful for a lot of items that don't have such reviews. Maybe someone will chime in with a site that does this or this could be something to net you some Pay, Pal!

 

[HardcoreRobot]

ebay SUCKS
its feedback system is an embarrassment
its attitude towards it's users is atrocious
it makes no effort to improve its service

 

[thaugen]

This is not an ebay sucks thread. That's been beat to death.

 

[Tsaico]

I woudl think the problem is the numbewr of items that are on ebay any given moment. Also how would you link it? You would have to 1st, hope the person selling is telling th etruth on what the item is, 2 have a huge data store on all sorts of random items, like the leg warmers and the dog shampoo.

3, but not really, would be most of the items last for a few days at best, by the time the data got compiled, someone left a comment, etc. it would be gone. If I am interested in an item, I just google it. If I find it, great, if not, then too bad for me.

But yes,. ebay sucks. I find the only time that it is of use is for those strange or those hard to find items that are worthless to most, but have a valuie to me. Example is I have a 92 Geo Tracker. It is a crap car, but becauise it is so simple, most of the repairs I can handle myself. In some cases, like the soft top that it came with has these stupid cheap clips that break. The pair costs 80 new. Only one breaks, so I just want the left one and when the time comes, the right one. I can readily find eitehr on ebay for 10. In regards to electronics, I find that the FT here are generally better prices, and I have a smaller chance of being ripped off then I do on ebay. In some cases, newegg has a better deal even brand new.

 

[thaugen]

from OP: my vision was not to assemble a long-term database but rather to enable each poster to make a comment about a particular current item number. The comments would be kept only for a short while after each auction ended. Only those eBay items that received a comment would be in the current database, so this wouldn't include the millions of items with no comment attached. You guys like spreading the word about hot deals so I suppose some of you would look at the bad buys on eBay and tell people about a better place to find that item. As with all things, if the site became popular over time the current database would continually enlarge. Kinda like this forum.