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| title = A-Minus-Minus | | title = A-Minus-Minus | ||
| image = a-minus-minus.png | | image = a-minus-minus.png | ||
− | | titletext = You can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback | + | | titletext = You can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{Incomplete|What about the title of the comic, A--?}} | |
− | + | [[Black Hat]] is trying to make the world a weirder place by shipping bobcats to his {{w|eBay}} buyers. Ordinarily, negative feedback is used to warn future buyers about sellers that ship broken products or post misleading listings. In this case, the unfortunate buyer is leaving feedback warning future buyers that Black Hat ships bobcats instead of the actual products, though "would not buy again" seems to be a rather feeble response to the replacement. This appears to have been a continuing project, as [[Cueball]] receives random packages a year and a half later ([[576: Packages]]). Four years later, it is shown that you can blackmail Black Hat into not sending you a bobcat ([[837: Coupon Code]]). | |
− | The title text is about a flaw in eBay's feedback system: You can intentionally do nasty things to your buyers and get ''very'' bad reviews, but still have overall high feedback scores as long as you don't do it too often. (See also [[937: TornadoGuard]], which shows a different flaw in the concept of averaging | + | Like the weak "would not buy again" comment, the title "A-Minus-Minus" is a play on the frequent ebay postitive feedback comment "A++". That in turn, sometimes with varying numbers of pluses, seems to be an easy way people use to pad the end of an ebay comment field to the maximum 80 characters. |
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+ | The title text is about a flaw in eBay's feedback system: You can intentionally do nasty things to your buyers and get ''very'' bad reviews, but still have overall high feedback scores as long as you don't do it too often. (See also [[937: TornadoGuard]], which shows a different flaw in the concept of averaging reviews—namely that five-star reviews for aesthetic qualities are weighted equally to one-star reviews for major functional deficits—and [[1098: Star Ratings]], which addresses the topic as well.) These reviews would be disregarded by future customers as well for their weirdness. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Bobcats]] | [[Category:Bobcats]] | ||
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