A system and method to provide feedback data within a distributed feedback
system of an e-commerce system. Feedback data describing e-commerce
transactions are generated by buyers of goods and services and the
corresponding sellers of these goods and services. The feedback data is
stored and maintained within a set of feedback servers organized into a
peer-to-peer network of distributed devices. The feedback data is
organized into groupings of feedback data that are stored onto database
storage associated with each of the P2P network nodes. Buyers and sellers
may search the feedback data from these distributed data sources to
obtain reputation data associated with parties with which they propose to
enter into new transactions for goods and services.