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 Author: 1977_mauro View Messages Posted By 1977_mauro
 Posted: Apr 17, 2013 09:32
 Subject: Favourite stores... Once again...
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Hi all,

I see one big problem. When you have marked a store as your positive favourite
store ther eis a big chance that you remove it from the positives when you have
bought something again and it was not ok in your opinion. So you can say the
check for positives is recurring.

For the negatives it lookes different - one time negative, allways negative.
The reason is that you have never again a check if such a store has improved
because you will never buy from it again...

In my opinion there should be a check after one year or another longer time where
you can confirm or refuse that this shop is a negative one for you.

Mauro
 Author: Timothy_Smith View Messages Posted By Timothy_Smith
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In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  Hi all,

In my opinion there should be a check after one year or another longer time where
you can confirm or refuse that this shop is a negative one for you.

Mauro

I've felt the same way about Stop Lists and the Ignore feature.
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 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
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  In my opinion there should be a check after one year or another longer time where
you can confirm or refuse that this shop is a negative one for you.

I don't really see the point. If I don't want to buy from somewhere/someone,
I won't buy from them. Having to confirm that I still don't want to buy from
someone would be annoying. There is the manual solution that you check your (least)
favorites list regularly and choose to give a store a second chance if you want.

You'd probably also want to do the same for sellers lists of unwanted customers.
If you have previously banned someone from your store would you really want to
have to confirm they are still banned some time later?
 Author: 1977_mauro View Messages Posted By 1977_mauro
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And how do you check it without removing them from your negatives????

Mauro

In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  In my opinion there should be a check after one year or another longer time where
you can confirm or refuse that this shop is a negative one for you.

I don't really see the point. If I don't want to buy from somewhere/someone,
I won't buy from them. Having to confirm that I still don't want to buy from
someone would be annoying. There is the manual solution that you check your (least)
favorites list regularly and choose to give a store a second chance if you want.

You'd probably also want to do the same for sellers lists of unwanted customers.
If you have previously banned someone from your store would you really want to
have to confirm they are still banned some time later?
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
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In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  And how do you check it without removing them from your negatives????

Mauro

I don't really get what you are asking. If you don't want to deal with a specific
shop, you mark them as least favorite. The point of doing that is that you don't
want to deal with them. If you want to give them another chance at getting service
right, you can just remove them from your least favorites manually.

If you never want to deal with someone again, why should you have to confirm
this again at a later date? If they mess up, and don't rectify a problem, and
you don't want to deal with them, then you should have the option to never deal
with them again. Having to confirm that you still don't want to deal with them
would be annoying. Instead, you can do the manual thing and delete the least
favorite if you feel you want to give them another chance later on.
 Author: Timothy_Smith View Messages Posted By Timothy_Smith
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In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  And how do you check it without removing them from your negatives????

Mauro

I don't really get what you are asking. If you don't want to deal with a specific
shop, you mark them as least favorite. The point of doing that is that you don't
want to deal with them. If you want to give them another chance at getting service
right, you can just remove them from your least favorites manually.

If you never want to deal with someone again, why should you have to confirm
this again at a later date? If they mess up, and don't rectify a problem, and
you don't want to deal with them, then you should have the option to never deal
with them again. Having to confirm that you still don't want to deal with them
would be annoying. Instead, you can do the manual thing and delete the least
favorite if you feel you want to give them another chance later on.

Suppose it's just an option?
A little checkbox: [ ] forever [ ] time limit: _____
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  Suppose it's just an option?
A little checkbox: [ ] forever [ ] time limit: _____

What would the point be though? I don't want to deal with this seller, but let's
have a cooling off period after which I will.

I've only had a couple of problems in the past. When I don't want to buy from
someone again, I don't want to buy from them ever again. Same thing in the real
world with restaurants, hotels, etc. If they were bad one time, why bother giving
them a second chance? Especially a second chance after a fixed time period. Why
wait a year and not just a week?
 Author: Timothy_Smith View Messages Posted By Timothy_Smith
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In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  Suppose it's just an option?
A little checkbox: [ ] forever [ ] time limit: _____

What would the point be though? I don't want to deal with this seller, but let's
have a cooling off period after which I will.

"Will reconsider". An automated reminder to give a second chance.

  
I've only had a couple of problems in the past. When I don't want to buy from
someone again, I don't want to buy from them ever again. Same thing in the real
world with restaurants, hotels, etc. If they were bad one time, why bother giving
them a second chance? Especially a second chance after a fixed time period. Why
wait a year and not just a week?

Restaurant is a great example- a year later could be a different experience.
You might at least be tempted to stop and look if you drove by, right?
But with a store on your Least Fav list, you'll never even see it.
This makes up for that.
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
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  I've only had a couple of problems in the past. When I don't want to buy from
someone again, I don't want to buy from them ever again. Same thing in the real
world with restaurants, hotels, etc. If they were bad one time, why bother giving
them a second chance? Especially a second chance after a fixed time period. Why
wait a year and not just a week?

Restaurant is a great example- a year later could be a different experience.
You might at least be tempted to stop and look if you drove by, right?
But with a store on your Least Fav list, you'll never even see it.
This makes up for that.

No. Unless I saw an "under new management", I wouldn't bother. There are a lot
of restaurants near me, and there is no point going back to a bad one. That is
similar to BL, there are a lot of stores and if someone is so bad to mark them
as least favorite on one occasion, I wouldn't go back.

But if anyone wants to give a second chance, it is of course possible. Just date
the least favorite comment and manually remove the block later.
 Author: 1977_mauro View Messages Posted By 1977_mauro
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You have made one mistake here:

"There are a lot
  of restaurants near me"

Sometimes not, sometimes your least favourite sellers have the set you wish since
a long timer but you even don't know it...

In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  
  I've only had a couple of problems in the past. When I don't want to buy from
someone again, I don't want to buy from them ever again. Same thing in the real
world with restaurants, hotels, etc. If they were bad one time, why bother giving
them a second chance? Especially a second chance after a fixed time period. Why
wait a year and not just a week?

Restaurant is a great example- a year later could be a different experience.
You might at least be tempted to stop and look if you drove by, right?
But with a store on your Least Fav list, you'll never even see it.
This makes up for that.

No. Unless I saw an "under new management", I wouldn't bother. There are a lot
of restaurants near me, and there is no point going back to a bad one. That is
similar to BL, there are a lot of stores and if someone is so bad to mark them
as least favorite on one occasion, I wouldn't go back.

But if anyone wants to give a second chance, it is of course possible. Just date
the least favorite comment and manually remove the block later.
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For me, it's never happened. But you can also do a search not logged in to quickly
see if any of your least favorite sellers has a rare set / part that you want
without removing them from your least favorite list. Then you have the dilemma
about whether they are really a least favorite seller because of what they did
to you in the past against them being an OK seller just because they have something
you want. Principle vs practicality.


In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  You have made one mistake here:

"There are a lot
  of restaurants near me"

Sometimes not, sometimes your least favourite sellers have the set you wish since
a long timer but you even don't know it...

In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  
  I've only had a couple of problems in the past. When I don't want to buy from
someone again, I don't want to buy from them ever again. Same thing in the real
world with restaurants, hotels, etc. If they were bad one time, why bother giving
them a second chance? Especially a second chance after a fixed time period. Why
wait a year and not just a week?

Restaurant is a great example- a year later could be a different experience.
You might at least be tempted to stop and look if you drove by, right?
But with a store on your Least Fav list, you'll never even see it.
This makes up for that.

No. Unless I saw an "under new management", I wouldn't bother. There are a lot
of restaurants near me, and there is no point going back to a bad one. That is
similar to BL, there are a lot of stores and if someone is so bad to mark them
as least favorite on one occasion, I wouldn't go back.

But if anyone wants to give a second chance, it is of course possible. Just date
the least favorite comment and manually remove the block later.
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In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
  In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  Suppose it's just an option?
A little checkbox: [ ] forever [ ] time limit: _____

What would the point be though? I don't want to deal with this seller, but let's
have a cooling off period after which I will.

"Will reconsider". An automated reminder to give a second chance.

  
I've only had a couple of problems in the past. When I don't want to buy from
someone again, I don't want to buy from them ever again. Same thing in the real
world with restaurants, hotels, etc. If they were bad one time, why bother giving
them a second chance? Especially a second chance after a fixed time period. Why
wait a year and not just a week?

Restaurant is a great example- a year later could be a different experience.
You might at least be tempted to stop and look if you drove by, right?

  But with a store on your Least Fav list, you'll never even see it.
This makes up for that.

They still do appear unless you've checked "Exclude Items in Stores which are
on My Least Favorite Stores List from View and E-Mail Notifications" here http://www.bricklink.com/wantedSettings.asp
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They still do appear unless you've checked "Exclude Items in Stores which are
on My Least Favorite Stores List from View and E-Mail Notifications" here http://www.bricklink.com/wantedSettings.asp

Oh, good point. Thanks!
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In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  In my opinion there should be a check after one year or another longer time where
you can confirm or refuse that this shop is a negative one for you.

I don't really see the point. If I don't want to buy from somewhere/someone,
I won't buy from them. Having to confirm that I still don't want to buy from
someone would be annoying. There is the manual solution that you check your (least)
favorites list regularly and choose to give a store a second chance if you want.

You'd probably also want to do the same for sellers lists of unwanted customers.
If you have previously banned someone from your store would you really want to
have to confirm they are still banned some time later?

I second this.
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In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  Hi all,

I see one big problem. When you have marked a store as your positive favourite
store ther eis a big chance that you remove it from the positives when you have
bought something again and it was not ok in your opinion. So you can say the
check for positives is recurring.

For the negatives it lookes different - one time negative, allways negative.
The reason is that you have never again a check if such a store has improved
because you will never buy from it again...

In my opinion there should be a check after one year or another longer time where
you can confirm or refuse that this shop is a negative one for you.

Mauro

Tell if I wrong.... the least favored is aimed to remind one that he didn't like
the way a seller had dealt with his order. Then it's supposed to avoid to take
the risk to buy another time from this shop and get un-happy with your order.
Then, your suggestion it to encourage people to take the risk that the least
favoured option try to prevent them to take. Is it logical ?
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Yes, it is logical, because people change, the world change, and also experience
can change...

I have not said, give him the second chance to make something wrong in your store
immediately after it occured the first time.
I have mentioned, let the time go ahead and after one year or two years give
hiom another chance.
As an example there were some very experienced users that had some problems at
the beginning of the BL carrier. And some of us will never buy from them again
even they are now better then our positives...

Mauro

In Suggestions, niemand writes:
  In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  Hi all,

I see one big problem. When you have marked a store as your positive favourite
store ther eis a big chance that you remove it from the positives when you have
bought something again and it was not ok in your opinion. So you can say the
check for positives is recurring.

For the negatives it lookes different - one time negative, allways negative.
The reason is that you have never again a check if such a store has improved
because you will never buy from it again...

In my opinion there should be a check after one year or another longer time where
you can confirm or refuse that this shop is a negative one for you.

Mauro

Tell if I wrong.... the least favored is aimed to remind one that he didn't like
the way a seller had dealt with his order. Then it's supposed to avoid to take
the risk to buy another time from this shop and get un-happy with your order.
Then, your suggestion it to encourage people to take the risk that the least
favoured option try to prevent them to take. Is it logical ?
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In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  Yes, it is logical, because people change, the world change, and also experience
can change...

I have not said, give him the second chance to make something wrong in your store
immediately after it occured the first time.
I have mentioned, let the time go ahead and after one year or two years give
hiom another chance.
As an example there were some very experienced users that had some problems at
the beginning of the BL carrier. And some of us will never buy from them again
even they are now better then our positives...

Mauro

In Suggestions, niemand writes:
  In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  Hi all,

I see one big problem. When you have marked a store as your positive favourite
store ther eis a big chance that you remove it from the positives when you have
bought something again and it was not ok in your opinion. So you can say the
check for positives is recurring.

For the negatives it lookes different - one time negative, allways negative.
The reason is that you have never again a check if such a store has improved
because you will never buy from it again...

In my opinion there should be a check after one year or another longer time where
you can confirm or refuse that this shop is a negative one for you.

Mauro

Tell if I wrong.... the least favored is aimed to remind one that he didn't like
the way a seller had dealt with his order. Then it's supposed to avoid to take
the risk to buy another time from this shop and get un-happy with your order.
Then, your suggestion it to encourage people to take the risk that the least
favoured option try to prevent them to take. Is it logical ?

Then, a reminder in the "MybrinckLink" popping up every 6 month( as an example)
telling you something like "you least favored X shop, have a look if you want
change it" won't be enough ?
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It would be a great solution, exactly...

In Suggestions, niemand writes:
  In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  Yes, it is logical, because people change, the world change, and also experience
can change...

I have not said, give him the second chance to make something wrong in your store
immediately after it occured the first time.
I have mentioned, let the time go ahead and after one year or two years give
hiom another chance.
As an example there were some very experienced users that had some problems at
the beginning of the BL carrier. And some of us will never buy from them again
even they are now better then our positives...

Mauro

In Suggestions, niemand writes:
  In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  Hi all,

I see one big problem. When you have marked a store as your positive favourite
store ther eis a big chance that you remove it from the positives when you have
bought something again and it was not ok in your opinion. So you can say the
check for positives is recurring.

For the negatives it lookes different - one time negative, allways negative.
The reason is that you have never again a check if such a store has improved
because you will never buy from it again...

In my opinion there should be a check after one year or another longer time where
you can confirm or refuse that this shop is a negative one for you.

Mauro

Tell if I wrong.... the least favored is aimed to remind one that he didn't like
the way a seller had dealt with his order. Then it's supposed to avoid to take
the risk to buy another time from this shop and get un-happy with your order.
Then, your suggestion it to encourage people to take the risk that the least
favoured option try to prevent them to take. Is it logical ?

Then, a reminder in the "MybrinckLink" popping up every 6 month( as an example)
telling you something like "you least favored X shop, have a look if you want
change it" won't be enough ?
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  Then, a reminder in the "MybrinckLink" popping up every 6 month( as an example)
telling you something like "you least favored X shop, have a look if you want
change it" won't be enough ?

What would you base the decision on? All I can think of, without placing another
order with them, is feedback.

Presumably the seller had reasonable or decent feedback when you least favorited
them (otherwise why did you buy from them?) so why would decent feedback change
your mind six months later?
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In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  Then, a reminder in the "MybrinckLink" popping up every 6 month( as an example)
telling you something like "you least favored X shop, have a look if you want
change it" won't be enough ?

What would you base the decision on? All I can think of, without placing another
order with them, is feedback.

Presumably the seller had reasonable or decent feedback when you least favorited
them (otherwise why did you buy from them?) so why would decent feedback change
your mind six months later?

For a great example, read through some of Troy's feedback.
The replies to some of the non-positives are relevant to this conversation.
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In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  Then, a reminder in the "MybrinckLink" popping up every 6 month( as an example)
telling you something like "you least favored X shop, have a look if you want
change it" won't be enough ?

What would you base the decision on? All I can think of, without placing another
order with them, is feedback.

Presumably the seller had reasonable or decent feedback when you least favorited
them (otherwise why did you buy from them?) so why would decent feedback change
your mind six months later?

Magnanimous/suicidal tendency ? Hope, believe in human good... ? I don't know,
I was just thinking about that another option may be more time-consuming to released
that this kind of reminder.
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  Magnanimous/suicidal tendency ? Hope, believe in human good... ? I don't know,
I was just thinking about that another option may be more time-consuming to released
that this kind of reminder.

I don't know how it works for others, but if a seller makes a mistake, I give
them a chance to rectify it. That is their second chance. If they rectify it,
then it is fine and I'd buy from them again. If they refuse to act when given
a second chance, then I see little point in giving them another chance for my
custom later. They've already had a chance to rectify a problem and refused.
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Not only a selling mistake leads to least favourite store.

I can remember that I have mentioned that it does not make sense that states
get their customs fees from buyers who buy a very seldom LEGO set from outside
their country because it is not available in their country. They haven't another
option to get it so it is not right for me (but it is right for regular sets
which are avilable in all countries).

After this one user has listed me as least favourite store...

And perhaps this user thinks now the same as me after he has paid a lot of custom
fees for a very seldom set...

Mauro

In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  Magnanimous/suicidal tendency ? Hope, believe in human good... ? I don't know,
I was just thinking about that another option may be more time-consuming to released
that this kind of reminder.

I don't know how it works for others, but if a seller makes a mistake, I give
them a chance to rectify it. That is their second chance. If they rectify it,
then it is fine and I'd buy from them again. If they refuse to act when given
a second chance, then I see little point in giving them another chance for my
custom later. They've already had a chance to rectify a problem and refused.
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In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  Not only a selling mistake leads to least favourite store.

I can remember that I have mentioned that it does not make sense that states
get their customs fees from buyers who buy a very seldom LEGO set from outside
their country because it is not available in their country. They haven't another
option to get it so it is not right for me (but it is right for regular sets
which are avilable in all countries).

After this one user has listed me as least favourite store...

And perhaps this user thinks now the same as me after he has paid a lot of custom
fees for a very seldom set...

Mauro


But here, it's not the least favoured option, but the way some are using it as
a retaliatory tools (and expecting to have some power with it). Then any option/feature
can be used in a way it wasn't design for...

Now, I can't speak as a professional who's income depend on his sales, then what
don't matter for me may matter for you.



  
In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  Magnanimous/suicidal tendency ? Hope, believe in human good... ? I don't know,
I was just thinking about that another option may be more time-consuming to released
that this kind of reminder.

I don't know how it works for others, but if a seller makes a mistake, I give
them a chance to rectify it. That is their second chance. If they rectify it,
then it is fine and I'd buy from them again. If they refuse to act when given
a second chance, then I see little point in giving them another chance for my
custom later. They've already had a chance to rectify a problem and refused.
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  But here, it's not the least favoured option, but the way some are using it as
a retaliatory tools (and expecting to have some power with it). Then any option/feature
can be used in a way it wasn't design for...

Now, I can't speak as a professional who's income depend on his sales, then what
don't matter for me may matter for you.

What power do they get from using it? I don't really care if someone doesn't
want to buy from me so much that they least favorite me. It's their loss. All
that happens is that they restrict whose sales they look at (if they have that
option turned on). Is that really having power?
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In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  But here, it's not the least favoured option, but the way some are using it as
a retaliatory tools (and expecting to have some power with it). Then any option/feature
can be used in a way it wasn't design for...

Now, I can't speak as a professional who's income depend on his sales, then what
don't matter for me may matter for you.

What power do they get from using it? I don't really care if someone doesn't
want to buy from me so much that they least favorite me. It's their loss. All
that happens is that they restrict whose sales they look at (if they have that
option turned on). Is that really having power?

Well "having" may be what some think to have while clicking on a button (sociologist
are studying this kind of thinking of web users).
To get a better answer, ask the ones who post sentences like "put you on least
wanted" because of other's opinion, from my point I could only guess....
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Or is there some penalty I have missed if a seller gets too many "least favorites"?
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  Or is there some penalty I have missed if a seller gets too many "least favorites"?

Living with hurt feelings.

I don't think anyone else can see the least favoredness of a store.

Mark
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In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  Then, a reminder in the "MybrinckLink" popping up every 6 month( as an example)
telling you something like "you least favored X shop, have a look if you want
change it" won't be enough ?

What would you base the decision on? All I can think of, without placing another
order with them, is feedback.

Presumably the seller had reasonable or decent feedback when you least favorited
them (otherwise why did you buy from them?) so why would decent feedback change
your mind six months later?


An easy example:
Maybe you least favourited them for having some kind of fees you don't agree
with. (PP fees, lot limits/fees, whatever.) In that case you might want to take
a look at their store sometime later whether they have changed their policy.

People least favourite stores / stoplist folks not only for having a bad experience
with a transaction but for other non-business reasons, too. Like because of forum
posts.
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Great examples, regarding a forum post I have made an example of my own previously
to this post...

Mauro

In Suggestions, Nagyzee writes:
  In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  Then, a reminder in the "MybrinckLink" popping up every 6 month( as an example)
telling you something like "you least favored X shop, have a look if you want
change it" won't be enough ?

What would you base the decision on? All I can think of, without placing another
order with them, is feedback.

Presumably the seller had reasonable or decent feedback when you least favorited
them (otherwise why did you buy from them?) so why would decent feedback change
your mind six months later?


An easy example:
Maybe you least favourited them for having some kind of fees you don't agree
with. (PP fees, lot limits/fees, whatever.) In that case you might want to take
a look at their store sometime later whether they have changed their policy.

People least favourite stores / stoplist folks not only for having a bad experience
with a transaction but for other non-business reasons, too. Like because of forum
posts.
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In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
  Great examples, regarding a forum post I have made an example of my own previously
to this post...

Mauro

In Suggestions, Nagyzee writes:
  In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  
  Then, a reminder in the "MybrinckLink" popping up every 6 month( as an example)
telling you something like "you least favored X shop, have a look if you want
change it" won't be enough ?

What would you base the decision on? All I can think of, without placing another
order with them, is feedback.

Presumably the seller had reasonable or decent feedback when you least favorited
them (otherwise why did you buy from them?) so why would decent feedback change
your mind six months later?


An easy example:
Maybe you least favourited them for having some kind of fees you don't agree
with. (PP fees, lot limits/fees, whatever.) In that case you might want to take
a look at their store sometime later whether they have changed their policy.

People least favourite stores / stoplist folks not only for having a bad experience
with a transaction but for other non-business reasons, too. Like because of forum
posts.

Absolutely true. We had a buyer about 18 months ago come here to the forum and
complain about a USPS damaged shipment when they never emailed or notified us.
The post was full of untrue information and it lead our least favorites to go
from 1 to 17 almost overnight. Fortunately, a benevolent forum member messaged
me about the posts and I was able to respond with the truth about the issue,
but the least favorites remain to this day. (Along with the one stoplist we
were placed on!)

Scott
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In Suggestions, QCBricks writes:
  
Absolutely true. We had a buyer about 18 months ago come here to the forum and
complain about a USPS damaged shipment when they never emailed or notified us.
The post was full of untrue information and it lead our least favorites to go
from 1 to 17 almost overnight. Fortunately, a benevolent forum member messaged
me about the posts and I was able to respond with the truth about the issue,
but the least favorites remain to this day. (Along with the one stoplist we
were placed on!)

Scott


Yeah, both using and not using the forums is dangerous from a business point
of view. If you take part in discussions that will almost surely lead to getting
a few least favourites, too. I'd wager that at least half of my not too many
least favourites was received because someone not liking my opinion on one thing
or another.
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  An easy example:
Maybe you least favourited them for having some kind of fees you don't agree
with. (PP fees, lot limits/fees, whatever.) In that case you might want to take
a look at their store sometime later whether they have changed their policy.


Yes, that is a case for not having such stupid terms from the start!

  People least favourite stores / stoplist folks not only for having a bad experience
with a transaction but for other non-business reasons, too. Like because of forum
posts.

But presumably the person least favoriting the store will add a comment along
the lines of "17 Apr bad cus serv (forum)". Then they can decide later whether
or not they want to get rid of the least favorite. It's easy to so manually,
and I think it would be annoying to have yet another reminder - especially one
as unimportant as this.
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