Well I received a reply from ebay regarding my query about whether or not it was possible to have improperly scored DSRs revised, and it appears that they've set it up so we simply can't win. The following is part of the SR's comprehensive reply, in which he also suggests that I limit those buyers who have a record of leaving bad feedback or DSRs (like how can I possibly know that before they've already hit BIN?). Sheesh!
Thank you for contacting eBay about the inaccurate ratings that your buyer left for your transaction. I understand how this has worried you, seeing how you have kept your account in excellent status.
William, I agree that you don't deserve the ratings. Please understand that it is the buyer's prerogative to leave detailed seller ratings and that the only time that a rating can be revised is when the buyer left a negative feedback and agrees to have the feedback revised. The buyer will then need to revise the feedback and the detailed seller ratings all together at once within ten days from receipt of the request. When a buyer left positive feedback, the ratings cannot be revised since a positive feedback cannot be revised as well.
Don't worry since your detailed seller ratings will only reflect your last 12 months ratings received. Ratings older than 12 months will not impact your detailed seller ratings which may still become 100%.
And therein lies the main problem. If it had been a neg, I could have negotiated a revision, but because it was positive feedback, the DSRs can't be revised at all. There's something inherenttly comical about that if you ask me. And then he has the gall to tell me "not to worry because they'll drop off after 12 months". FGS, at my age I could be dead in another 12 months! Why do I feel like I have a starring role in some absurd farce or a comedy of errors? I suppose you have to laugh, don't you? 
@digital*ghost wrote:Reading your post, I feel a strong urge to go play Mad Libs.
(It's all the bleeps - although the bleeping words are kinda intuitive, the later at night it is, the more creative my intuition gets....but I digress).
Just to clarify - neither the communication nor postage cost DSR can result in a defect, no matter how low it is scored, so on those two fronts, sellers can relax a little.
LOL I admit I did read my post back and noticed all the bleeps & realized the longer the day had worn on the more bleeps I was leaving behind me in some posts (me tired & cranky much?? **bleep** no). It occurred to me if they were to keep increasing at this rate I might soon be best advised to change my ID to the '**bleep**ing **bleep** **bleep**er'. At least my posts would soon become simpler and less long-winded, I could just post **bleep**, **bleep**, & **bleep** to that **bleep** too, bye.
I'm not too sure what the Mad Libs is, but I suspect it's like a game I played of my own creation once a few years back on a pretty big US based firearms forum I joined briefly (I was at the time dealing in antique flintlock/percussion black powder pistols, so it was a good research source). I had found it amusing how the gents on their talked about their guns with more fondness & passion than they would if discussing their wives/girlfriends. So I wanted to try a little experiment so I spent a day copying out an entire thread with each & every post, copied word for word except for replaced the various gun names with girls names and italicizing the various actions they took with their guns (girls), along with key words associated with how their guns (girls) felt and behaved & the assorted trades and swaps they made with their guns (girls). I then posted the entire thing in a new thread in the same chronological order as the original one.
Those that read it posted in hysteric laughter at it (including a few that were posters in the original thread). It lasted about an hour before a mod saw it and immediately binned it & sent me a very strongly worded PM. I tried objecting on the grounds it didn't have a single expletive in it, and apart from switching gun names with female names it was word for word identical to the original thread & posts, albeit with a few key words emphasized... no joy though, it was staying binned.
Truth be told, despite no expletives & technically no pornograhy, I must admit it was one of the most obscene pieces of prose I've ever read, or rather 'edited'. Those yanks sure do love their guns, and as I found, some of them don't have much of a sense of humour when it comes to an Aussie poking fun at them about it. It was then that I stopped & considered that equation: cranky humorlous zealots with lots of guns and a new found & intense dislike of me, needless to say I made a very hasty & permanent retreat from that forum. 
@digital*ghost wrote:
Just to clarify - neither the communication nor postage cost DSR can result in a defect, no matter how low it is scored, so on those two fronts, sellers can relax a little.
Oops me, I forgot about the comms not being defected, I'm pretty sure it was earlier in this thread too that I saw that mentioned by you or by another poster (I'm too tired to go back & check). Bugger, there goes a perfectly good rant.
@cq_tech wrote:Well I received a reply from ebay regarding my query about whether or not it was possible to have improperly scored DSRs revised, and it appears that they've set it up so we simply can't win. The following is part of the SR's comprehensive reply, in which he also suggests that I limit those buyers who have a record of leaving bad feedback or DSRs (like how can I possibly know that before they've already hit BIN?). Sheesh!
Thank you for contacting eBay William,
Tough luck, it sucks to be you
Don't worry though, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, all you have to do is get there before our huge & defective ebay dsr freight train runs your slow **bleep** down... so good luck with that.And therein lies the main problem. If it had been a neg, I could have negotiated a revision, but because it was positive feedback, the DSRs can't be revised at all. There's something inherenttly comical about that if you ask me. And then he has the gall to tell me "not to worry because they'll drop off after 12 months". FGS, at my age I could be dead in another 12 months! Why do I feel like I have a starring role in some absurd farce or a comedy of errors? I suppose you have to laugh, don't you?
cq I'm getting tired, so did I read that ^^^ right?
@cq_tech wrote:Well I received a reply from ebay regarding my query about whether or not it was possible to have improperly scored DSRs revised, and it appears that they've set it up so we simply can't win. The following is part of the SR's comprehensive reply, in which he also suggests that I limit those buyers who have a record of leaving bad feedback or DSRs (like how can I possibly know that before they've already hit BIN?). Sheesh!
Thank you for contacting eBay about the inaccurate ratings that your buyer left for your transaction. I understand how this has worried you, seeing how you have kept your account in excellent status.
William, I agree that you don't deserve the ratings. Please understand that it is the buyer's prerogative to leave detailed seller ratings and that the only time that a rating can be revised is when the buyer left a negative feedback and agrees to have the feedback revised. The buyer will then need to revise the feedback and the detailed seller ratings all together at once within ten days from receipt of the request. When a buyer left positive feedback, the ratings cannot be revised since a positive feedback cannot be revised as well.
Don't worry since your detailed seller ratings will only reflect your last 12 months ratings received. Ratings older than 12 months will not impact your detailed seller ratings which may still become 100%.And therein lies the main problem. If it had been a neg, I could have negotiated a revision, but because it was positive feedback, the DSRs can't be revised at all. There's something inherenttly comical about that if you ask me. And then he has the gall to tell me "not to worry because they'll drop off after 12 months". FGS, at my age I could be dead in another 12 months! Why do I feel like I have a starring role in some absurd farce or a comedy of errors? I suppose you have to laugh, don't you?
Ha ha! I too have gotten the same message, I am sure other sellers have too! Except where they mention a name, it really is starting to make me think!!! Maybe Ebay don't read messages and use bots to scan messages for certain words and when a certain amount of the right words or phase return in search results they automatically send you an according response. Ok maybe I am overthinking this.... It is however possible! 
I think I have done more than enough programming and coding tonight time for me to get some sleep and stop thinking liking a computer geek.
LOL! You paraphrased somewhat, but yes, you essentially got the gist of what they were really saying.
Totally agree. If that wasn't a stock boilerplate reply, I'll eat my keyboard (and as I told somebody the other night, I don't intend doing any keyboard-eating any time in the foreseeable future).
@modestbods wrote:
I'm not too sure what the Mad Libs is, but I suspect it's like a game I played of my own creation once a few years back on a pretty big US based firearms forum I joined briefly
Yes, and - in general - the results are the same ๐ (Mad Libs is a word game that provides the shell of a story, with blank spaces and prompts for particular words, eg nouns, adjectives etc) The players who choose the words don't have any context, and it is rare, even for adults, not to choose words that result in stories which would make Beavis and Butthead giggle for hours, or worthy of a Penthouse letter.
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Sounds like a shame the mods of the other forum
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didn't agree with the right to **bleep** and share charms...
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YEAHHHH!!
