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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 325<br />
| date = October 5, 2007<br />
| title = A-Minus-Minus<br />
| image = a-minus-minus.png<br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = You can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The Hat Guy is trying to make the world a weirder place by shipping bobcats to his 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 the Hat Guy ships bobcats instead of the actual products.<br />
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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.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[the hat guy is packing a bobcat into a box; a woman stands beside him.]<br />
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:Woman: What are you doing?<br />
:the Hat Guy: Making the world a weirder place.<br />
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:bobcat: <<mrrowlll>><br />
:[The hat guy has finished taping the package for shipping.]<br />
:Man: Starting with my eBay feedback page.<br />
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:[Bandaged person at a computer with assorted debris around the floor]<br />
:screen: comments:<br />
:<<bandaged person typing>> Instead of office chair package contained bobcat.<br />
:<<bandaged person typing>> Would not buy again.<br />
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