Chucho68 wrote:I am quite proud of my 207-long 100% pos feedback. It's been hard work over four years. How is it possible to be that shady with almost my same feedback at 100%? I'll never understand that.Hector.
mbassoc2003 wrote:You can have as many negative feedbacks as you like in previous years, because your feedback is only taken over a 12 month period. You can also have as many neutral feedbacks and removed negatives as you like because they are also not counted. Basicly, you have to be deliberately trying to steel from people to get hurt by the system. Being an a55hole or a liar isn't an offence under eBay's system so long as they get their fees.
Badmike wrote:Bad DSR ratings are what kill you nowadays, not the feedback itself.Mike B.
mbassoc2003 wrote:Bad DSR ratings are only really damaging to volume sellers. If you only sell a couple of dozen items a month, the DSR has no impact on you, and provided you put the correct words in the title of the item, buyers will find your items anyways. It only really hurts if your selling lots of items and competing with other sellers selling the same things you are at similar price points.Or at least that's my perception of it. Certainly both Cougie and T&T do great business, so something they are doing is right, and the guys in the US seem to have a pretty bad perception of Cougie, and T&T are notorious for shafting international buyers and faking their delivery confirmation to win PayPal disputes. Both have a bad reputation, and both have extensive bad press both here and elsewhere on the web, and yet they both do great business, so something about their business ethic works.
Badmike wrote:Let me correct you on one thing Ian, volume sellers are affected less by bad DSRs because it is connected to a percentage of your sales. For example, a friend of my wife's just got put on suspension because she received her 10th low DSR in a year, she only has under 500 sales in a year, which is under their threshold of 2 percent. I can bet you anything Troll and Toad has that many bad DSR ratings a week and it does nothing to impact their sales. So actually, it's the smaller seller that is inordinately affected by a low DSR score rather than a high volume seller. This btw is part of Ebay's plan to eventually eliminate most smaller mom and pop sellers from their site by making it nearly impossible to function to recover from even one or two legitimately bad sales (or bad buyers that leave low DSRs for spite). All Troll & Toad and Coug are doing "right" is listing hundreds and hundreds of sales, which causes negative feedback and low DSRs to have little effect.Mike B.
bbarsh wrote:This is actually very astute, Mike. If you sell a couple hundred items a year and you get a few low scores, you are in big trouble quick. This really would not be a big deal but I have noticed that seller expectations are getting crazy. Everything has to ship for free and it better be there the next day. I now sell very little because of time and the eBay hassle. When I do, it goes priority mail with tracking (which still does not seem to be any protection). All it takes is one asshole who buys a few items to be a jerk and you are suspended. It has to be bay's plan to dump the little guy.
mbassoc2003 wrote:Either way, they have an absolute monopoly, and they can do as they wish. There is no viable alternative, and no viable alternative has emerged in the past decade. That pretty much says it all.Yes, there will be classified and little fan sites, but there is no secure auction site or even a secure sales channel that doesn't make it easy for buyers to steal from sellers. After all, Amazon is the biggest free book shop on the planet. You want a copy of something and you have no mmrals, you can order it from Amazon and claim a refund. Amazon will refund you, no questions asked, and the seller is told to go f"ck themselves.Atleast with eBay, you get a fairly honest service, you can judge fairly accurately how honest or dishonest the seller is, and both the seller and the buyer have a fair chance during a dispute. eBay is a good sales channel because the buyers and sellers trust eachother. No other sales channel has managed to establish both the foot traffic and the trust and place them together in one place.
mbassoc2003 wrote:How many people here regularly log on to RPGMP and browse to see what's new?
TheHistorian wrote:Never use it. Search doesn't work right. Generally, prices are such that I may as well buy from NKG, T&T, etc.