Ebay Feedback System Clone Rapleaf to Launch in May

[mandy]

Auren Hoffman, a professional networker in Silicon Valley, has launched Rapleaf, a company that keeps track of your reputation for reliability as you buy and sell things online...

Rapleaf will launch May 7. He wants to give people a portable rating, so that they can build a reputation in any commerce environment -- including offline.

It is a good idea, as there is apparently no Web site that efficiently tracks e-commerce reputations across sites. EBay tracks reputations, but these are limited to eBay transactions. A couple of other companies are trying to track reputations across sites, such as ikarma, which lets people who have done business with you leave comments about how you handled the transaction, but the information there seems rudimentary so far, and ikarma apparently rate you on all kinds of things, even dating. And there's Opinity, which deals more with your identity than your reputation...

full article: http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2006/..._ebay.html

Rapleaf web site: http://www.rapleaf.com/

Related topics:
Start-up iKarma offers eBay-style user ratings for your web site
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...881.0.html
The Effects of Buyer and Product Traits With Seller Reputation on Price Premiums
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...930.0.html

[bargainbloodhound]

Does eBay clone mean Rapleaf's system will include retaliatory negatives?

The big problem with Rapleaf, iKarma, and Opinity is that they are unknowns.  A buyer isnt going to put a lot of trust in a reputation system from an unknown.


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