@glenbankloel wrote:
From a personal level I would not be buying from a seller with less than 98%.
Preferably 100% but definitely no lower than 98%.
It isn't that hard to maintain a high level if the seller is honest and does the right thing by the buyer.
The trouble is that as sellers get busier and busier and/or have thousands of items for sale their level of honesty and standard of care can become affected in the rush to get the item out the door.
But have also seen several sellers with thousands of items with 100% feedback, and sellers with a few hundred with terrible feedback.
As always it's buyer beware, always check their feedback first before buying.
Come on mate, a high volume seller with 99.8% will be a whole lot worse than your average seller with 95%. Easy to get done over by a few scammers (or potentially one) and cop some negs, doesn't mean you're dishonest. The high volume sellers are a whole different ball game who routinely
1. List stuff they don't have (large book sellers are the worst for that)
2. Sell cheap **bleep** of inferior quality
3. Misdescribe items
4. Misrepresent location
5. Go AWOL when there's a problem
6. Sell counterfeit products, deceive with key words
7. Packages poorly, items smashed
8. Don't even despatch at all
7. etc
8. etc
The average home seller who does none of that yet find themselves with a low percentage of say 93% who accurately describes items and good pack/post etc. can't be asimilated to a fraudulent, negligent high volume seller. It's quite simply not comparing apples with apples.
There are a few key factors that also play a big part in making the small seller look worse and the big seller look better. The big sellers are protected,negs quite often removed, accounts that should be suspended are left running leaving buyers vulnerable but the small seller can receive feedback extortion negs that ebay have proof of but still won't remove and are further affected by scammers who are again protected by ebay.
One red dot for something as stupid as a non responsive buyer getting upset when you cancel the sale or AP delayed delivery, can plummet the percentage of a responsible seller who poses no threat to you, yet would be dismissed altogether in favour of the fraudulent/negligent seller, if they were to go by your algorythm
Further to that, increasing or restoring percentage for me was painstakingly slow, even when my volume increased, I would keep watching the feedback but it wouldn't move, when they would eventually put it up, it would go up .01%. Then you buckle down furiously selling waiting for it to rise another .01% in 3 months time if you give away lots of free goods and speak nicely to criminals, if you aid and abet the way they want you to, you know usual expectations to be a 'high rated' seller ๐
It's not comparing apples with apples.
BUT if people are stupid enough to believe this codswallop, it's their funeral when things go wrong, not mine. Go ahead, buy your new phone from a 99.6% seller without clicking on the number and examining properly. R.I.P. ๐
Disclaimer: any typos will remain. This post is too long to proof read lol
