On whichever online buy/sell/trade site you may be part of, how skeptical are you when a user's rating is less than 100%?

There’s always going to be one unreasonable person in a crowd that lives for ruining a 100% rating. If there’s 3 or 4 people that are really unhappy, that is when I get very skeptical but then again, I’m always very skeptical when dealing with eBay by default.

I am on swaptree, and once you have accepted a trade, your rating does improve. I usually give people the benefit of the doubt, until they give me reason to be wary. I try not to reject a trade, and have only had one rejected back at me. I’ve been on it for a year or so adn have completed about a dozen trades. I will deal with folks on amazon, ebay, etc., with a rating as low as 90%, especially if they are newbies. It helps to read customer reviews as well. People with many transactions, though, I will rarely use them if their rating is below 94%. It just depends.

I try to treat transactions online as I would in person, and to maintain an honest demeanor. Just because you have the anonyminity of the Internet, that doesn’t give you the right to be an ass. An online reputation of being fair is as important to me as any personal real life reputation.

It depends upon the website. With ebay, I tend to be very skeptical on general principles. If the seller is unknown to me and he has a less than 90% rating, I tend to avoid him.

On the other hand, I’ve known good, professional sellers with years of experience on and off the net who have had less than perfect ratings, so I’m aware that the rating systems are flawed. On ABE, for example dealers can get demerits for refusing to send heavy sets of books overseas when the automated shipping costs are clearly inadequate. So, you have to take a look at the criteria for the ratings and judge accordingly.

i dont care. Im on ebay Ive never had anything bad happen. if i want it i buy it i dont worry about it.