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How to be a Top Helpful Authors

topestore360 — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 09:21:12 GMT

Hi guys

I am a newcomer at here

I found that some members are shown in the top helpful author ranking, how can i in it？

Hope you can give me some advise,thanks in advance.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

countessalmirena — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 09:46:37 GMT

The answer is simple.

Be a helpful eBay poster.

When genuine eBay members find posts helpful, they give the post a helpful click. Over time, 1+1=2 and so on.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

davewil1964 — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:26:26 GMT

Why do you care?

You have 60k+ Feedback, have posted a whole twice in 4 months.

To be a top helpful author (something I've never heard of) you would certainly need to average better than 6 posts a year. And they would also need to be helpful, as deemed by other members

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

k1ooo-slr-sales — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:29:10 GMT

if you have to ask . . . . . . .

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

davewil1964 — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:32:09 GMT

Okay, it's the bit on the right-side.

I have 46 helpful posts and I'm not even in the top 10. Your 2 unhelpful ones won't even get you in the frame.

Like I said, why do you care? You are not a regular board member, and thus are unlikely to hit the heights of top rated author.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

imastawka — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 21:06:19 GMT

Depends which board you look at Dave.

This is for the Discussion Boards as a whole -

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

arctoph_49 — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 21:45:56 GMT

I don't think it means much at the end of the day. There are also many contests here where people can be given many likes or helpfuls, but of course they have nothing to do with eBay or with really being helpful. Although I only joined recently, I vaguely remember visiting in the past when I had a question I wanted to look up, and the old forum didn't have top helpfuls at all I think? I probably only visited it a couple of times, but I don't think I ever saw top helpfuls.

I am not sure why you care. It won't improve sales or anything and whom you see depends on your settings - the forum you are looking at, the time range etc. It is nice to show appreciation if you like a post or if a post makes you smile, but it doesn't really mean much (like on Facebook or any other social media platform), and personally I liked the old forum better (if my memory of it does not fail me). I mean, it is nice to show appreciation, but it should be more of a personal thing.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

domino-710 — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:38:14 GMT

The kudos became helpfuls.

Given where the OP is registered I would have thought a flack jacket - if he had even read the threads here.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

padi*0409 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 03:04:52 GMT

Your best bet would be to change a couple of things that are glaringly obvious in your account, and forget about getting kudoes on the boards, which are going to help you as much as the so called "Top Rated Seller" label which is, at best, a misnomer.

1. Your feedback at 98.6% with 212 revised feedback would have many buyers hitting the backbutton on their computer. 99.5% feedback is what most responders here see as a minimum for a reliable seller.

2. You claim your items are in Regents Park when you are registered in China. Sorry, but that is a very well-known ploy by Chinese (and other) overseas registered sellers to disguise the fact that their goods are not really in Australia but are in fact in China, and are being drop-shipped to Australia from China.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

arctoph_49 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 05:19:23 GMT

@domino-710 wrote:
The kudos became helpfuls.

Given where the OP is registered I would have thought a flack jacket - if he had even read the threads here.

I meant there were no "top" contributors, not on the main page at least, not as far as I can remember, but I could be wrong. I do think kudoes were better, just meaning you liked something. Funny stuff is not really "helpful" per se, so "helpful" is not appliable to everything.

Maybe they are trying to motivate people to offer advice and their time for free, as people here say that eBay don't read or reply.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

domino-710 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 05:26:50 GMT

Please understand - there is a difference in a post being directed at you - which is usually quoted - and - a post simply following the last post.

My post simply followed your post - it did not quote it.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

arctoph_49 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 05:30:27 GMT

Even if you (not really you, anybody) have been really helpful most of the time, if you want to work somewhere in customer service and tell them you have experience and have been among the top rated contributors here, they will probably just smile and won't care a bit.

Padi*0409 is also right. I have seen "top rated sellers" with 95% positive feedback or less, just because they sell a lot.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

domino-710 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 05:33:51 GMT

@arctoph_49 wrote:
Even if you (not really you, anybody) have been really helpful most of the time, if you want to work somewhere in customer service and tell them you have experience and have been among the top rated contributors here, they will probably just smile and won't care a bit.
Padi*0409 is also right. I have seen "top rated sellers" with 95% positive feedback or less, just because they sell a lot.

I am trying to make sense of this.

Feedback has absolutely nothing to do with the Community Boards.

Padi was simply pointing out - the OP has work to do on his selling.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

arctoph_49 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 05:39:32 GMT

I know, I was just agreeing with Padi that all these top things don't have much significance.

(From his post: Forget about getting kudoes on the boards, which are going to help you as much as the so called "Top Rated Seller" label which is, at best, a misnomer.)

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

twyngwyn — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 07:13:28 GMT

You can be 'in it' by giving helpful advice....but.....you would first need to improve your feedback , to gain any credibility

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

domino-710 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 07:24:02 GMT

Why - when a number here who are and have been only buyers - yet give selling advice.

They have absolutely no selling feedback.

No selling credibility at all.

Just a question. ??

LOL

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

padi*0409 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 07:53:18 GMT

@domino-710 wrote:

Why - when a number here who are and have been only buyers - yet give selling advice.

They have absolutely no selling feedback.

No selling credibility at all.

Dom, with all due respect, I've heard that argument before. I am a buyer only BUT I do have a fair idea on how eBay's policies work for both buyers and sellers.

So, if I can give a seller a pointer in the right direction to help them out, I will do so. 😉

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

domino-710 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 08:27:26 GMT

Believe me - I totally agree.

But there are some circumstances that occur - which can only be answered by someone who has actually sold.

Actually having to deal with issues - which affect a selling account.

I've seen answers from some - have they done the - acrobatics - of the minefield - of listing - description - postage etc - where eBay itself does not even cover all options - and never has.

And - to - add - it seems a little weird - when reading the advice - then right at the final word - ' but I'm not a seller '. ?? lol

Advice is good - but experience with some issues is better.

Some things are easily covered by policy - some are not - some are a little out there - eBay is not infallible - there are sometimes questions - I would not even deign to answer even having sold here for nigh on 18 -19 years.

That's all I'm getting at.

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

arctoph_49 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:50:06 GMT

I don't have my own store. My family has and I help them.

But issues have been discussed here again and again, like managed payments (which was the issue with countessalmirena's post last week or so), so buyers who come here regularly have obviously learnt something about them (and other issues), even if you wouldn't call it "experience"?

In other words... they have read what a seller would like to say before and have learnt something (directly from sellers), are online before a seller and reply. I don't see a issue with that.

People also give advice about Smartycash Plus without having subscribed to Smartycash Plus for example?

Re: How to be a Top Helpful Authors

domino-710 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:07:21 GMT

Did you get the ' some issues '.??