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Bonanza launched a new component to its feedback system called "transaction impressions" that allows buyers to provide more detailed feedback about their transactions. Sellers are expressing their concern over the new program that looks similar to the unpopular Detailed Seller Ratings feedback feature eBay uses. The biggest difference between Bonanza's Transaction Impressions and eBay DSRs is that only sellers can view the Bonanza detailed ratings left for their transactions.

Several sellers filed an antitrust lawsuit against eBay last week over its Detailed Seller Ratings (DSR) feedback policy instituted in 2008. The lawsuit alleges that eBay's DSR policy restrains competition between sellers within the online auctions market to the financial benefit of eBay, and it says the policy "undermines the ability of small auction sellers to compete with larger sellers."

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