"Ralph Mowery" wrote in
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If someone orders a crappy made product, he should not give the seller
negative feedback.

There is if the seller won't refund the money. Distance selling regulations
(or whatever they're called now) make this totally clear. It's up to the
seller not to stock bad products, especially once their buying public make it
clear what they think of them. That's free market economics, and the
advocates of such need to suck it up, in my view.

I'll rant just one more paragraph... In the UK, Ratner, a jeweller, sold
crap. He said so too, and it broke his business. Alan Sugar on the other
hand, sold crap that wasn't fit to repair when I saw it reach the second hand
shops where I worked to repair stuff when I was young. The innards were cheap
and shoddy, the cases little better. He basically cut so many corners he
ripped on the whole of England, and what happened? He bullies his way around
the TV networks and is lionised, even worhipped and feared. It's disgusting.
People should demand better, and be ready to pay for it, otherwise they'll
just get kicked in thew teeth till they have no teeth left to bite with.

My own personal fix for the problem is pretty small actually, I buy older
gear, stuff that cost a grand and now costs fifty quid or less because people
didn't respect it when they had it. If more people held on like this I'd not
have it so easy, but at least more people would have somethign worth
defending.

For all its flaws, eBay does seem to be helping this happen, because the
seller will nearly always lose to the buyer when the goods aren't good.