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Every seller who sells their product is able to review a buyer. It costs them.

Every buyer who buys something from a seller can review them. It's part of the cost of the goods.

Escrow - same deal.

Edits - this does seem too simple. Is it just naive? Perhaps it doesn't exclude circular transactions and gaming it.



Yes, it is too simple. If a vendor wants to pose as a buyer and post fakes reviews if there is no cost to the transaction itself then there is no cost for the vendor to post a fake review.

In Silk Road the cost of producing fake reviews was the commission cost of the sale.




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