We’ve been getting a few emails lately from sellers asking why we request that they only submit blocked bidders with whom they have had direct experience. Their argument is that they have gathered these IDs from message boards, other sellers, etc. and by sharing them via RepXchange, will only benefit other members too.
In theory they are correct as the purpose of the site is to provide a pre-emptive strike against bad bidders. However, we want to ensure that this site is better than just a list of blocked bidders that have been collected by various sellers for various reasons. As Sue Bailey has commented in her blog, a bad buyer for one person may not necessarily be a bad buyer for her.
Unless sellers submit only bidders with whom they’ve had a first-hand experience, they are in turn unable to effectively leverage the large volume of blocked bidders in our database. For example, when there are 100,000 blocked bidder submissions to pick from, how will sellers choose 5,000 to put in their own blocked bidder list if each blocked bidder could come from any source and submitted for any reason?
We foresaw this conundrum when we created the service and that’s why we have this particular submission policy in place and have provided such granular filters to allow sellers to download a subset of the blocked bidders that make the most sense for them.
If you’re hungry to earn credits on our service, don’t upload unqualified blocked bidders - just promote this site to someone else and we’ll give you 2,500 credits.
I’ll even take it one step further, if you write about our service on a blog or a message board, send us a link to it and we’ll give you 5,000 credits!
Also, don’t forget there is an alternative to the bulk-upload feature: By entering your blocked bidders one-by-one (this requires sellers to supply more details on the blocked bidder) you can earn 250 credits per blocked bidder you report.
Happy selling!
August 16th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Hello — I can’t find the place to submit where I have written about your service to get the credits. But, have posted at the new selling source online Wigix.com. Here is my posting: http://www.wigix.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=597
August 17th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Just email us at info@repxchange.com with the URL to your review. Thanks for your support!