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You buy a TV on eBay. If it happens, you grab it eagerly discover, that it is scratched. Return and a negative comment about the seller on the site. The next day you find the seller by posting a comment bad things about you retaliated, as a sign of the time-waster. Suddenly no one wants to sell to you and your reputation is in tatters.

So far, eBay rating system to auction with the user and the trade to be able to leave comments good or bad about their trading partners, has worked well. Sellers who ship goods or damaged items that have not do not correspond to its online description, rightly, a black mark against their names. However, this system has recently increased pressure for a very human mistake: ill. Sellers can easily retaliate against buyers who her fingers leaving comments unfounded, but say clearly visible – maybe that buyers do not react to purchases or unnecessary items again, they have bought in, pointed out.

The fear of retaliation may deter buyers negging to negative comments about their experiences negotiating post. In turn, this threatens the confidence of buyers in sellers ratings to undermine it.

If a serious problem negging become that this month eBay was forced to its rating system, which prevents service providers to change publish negative comments about bad buyers on the site.

In an online auction site like eBay, your reputation, your livelihood. Economists Daniel Houser of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and John Wooders University of Arizona, Tucson, showed that the sellers have a positive feedback from the ability to sell products at higher prices because buyers like to pay more money to be sure that they are buying from a trusted source. And more people are likely to offer an element of which a good reputation (Journal. bid

of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol 15, p. 353).

In a study in the Journal of Consumer Research reported in next month’s Amar Cheema of Washington University in St. Louis also observed that if the seller is less than spotless reputation of the bidders rather than cost of shipping additional control and safety if they are too high. When the reputation of sellers is good, but the buyers less interested in reaching these supplements and sellers tend to reach an agreement.

Commercial sites are not the only place where nasty comments can have serious financial consequences. Is when someone writes something malicious about you online, they can be read by anyone entering your name into a search engine for year to come – including potential employers and admissions at the University staff. And since the number of sites that people buy and sell or make new friends and contacts increases, so is the need to use against such acts of cyber-guard-hatred.

How can you protect your online reputation: “Some companies now offer to help, by managing what is written about you on the Internet. ClaimID, founded by Terrell Russell and Fred Stutzman is a free service that enables users to collect to comment on, and verify information that is on them, or they themselves wrote, such as blogs, Web pages or news articles where it is. The result is a list of links to websites of authorized users. They can use it as take a summary link online, “said Russell.

This means that when people search for your name, they come across your ClaimID profile, “in which all the online documents that you want. Things that you are online, who you know, contacts you make — they all equate to a good reputation, “said Stutzman.

Other companies now offer an online profile to create, to be shown on this website, you will use. Trust Plus, for example, allows users to information from sites such as eBay and Facebook to integrate to create a public profile. Your reputation is yours, and should be available for use when you are online, “said Shawn Broderick Trust Pluss. You have a great rep on eBay, you should play in a position to take advantage of your good reputation on other sites.

Trust Plus offers can download a piece of code that users their browser, so the next time someone views your profile on Facebook or eBay, a small cross appears next to your specifications. Move the cursor over this cross opens out your profile. It is the voices of people who know you personally, or with you online as a series of symbols of not relying on the most reliable together.

Trust Plus also hopes people from artificially boost their reputation by preventing collusion. A good reputation can be built on sites like eBay, for example, by negotiating with a known partner that uses a fictitious account in order to evaluate high, so you get to unsuspecting buyers in the future. This works because the user has no idea who the ranking if they are displayed is the status of people on eBay, responsible.

Trust Plus In contrast, lists of all usernames, and you click the user to access each of your profiles in order, as these people, you know, turn. Trust Plus can build the user with three levels of trust among family and close friends, people who know you well, and you just know youre.

The idea is that the people who are more and register to build their own circles of trust, the more likely that someone you meet online will be known to one of your friends, or at least a friend of a friend. This allows you, the reputation of strangers through the lens of people who see you know and trust. Online Jane When I walk, I call you, as filtered through Objective to receive, and when I think also of you, your opinion counts Jane, “said Broderick.

If my trusted network liked a very high opinion of you, do you think Jane is usually very important.

But even if you honestly includes trading on auction sites and Facebook page nothing but a brilliant profile of their friends and your family, your reputation is still with derogatory remarks about you in blogs or chat rooms or painful affects pictures of someone drive drunk are They dug in the school. They are probably not take place on this work or university, if a potential employer stumbles over such nonsense.

during the implementation of a background investigation on you – as often recruiters and university admissions staff.

To help you, Reputation Defender, based in Menlo Park, California, monitor what is said about his clean-line customers for a monthly fee, and try to find any bad-mouthing it. The company uses techniques that search engine optimization to critical information about customers down the results pages of search engines push and lift something positive. “It also has areas with significant negative contacts and asked them to remove it.

Although many of us are becoming more savvy about this, have decided what we reveal about ourselves and the nature of the images and videos that we send, we can do all the things that we regret later. We can also find the unintended target of abuse online. At least now there are ways to retaliate, and some of the damage caused by our negligence or other malicious actions caused harm.