Draconian Feedback Formula

So I discovered eBay penalises a seller for 12 months - In my case I had a 100% rating for years - If a buyer gives negative feedback the seller goes down 0.05% to 99.5%

Based on eBay's totally unfair policy,  It takes the seller 12 months to get back to 100% even if they have numerous positive feedback's and not even one negatives whatsoever during that 12 month penalty period.

There is NO incentive or fairness whatsoever to enable a seller to be able to slowly creep back up to a 100%  before the anniversary date of the negative feedback received 

Been that way for many many many many years

 

Just as buyers cannot be given anything other than positive feedback or no feedback

 

I am not sure what your question is for other members? other than telling us what we already are well aware of?

How much the positive feedback goes down depends on how many positive ratings a seller has. 

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It takes 12 months for the -FB to become irrelevant, as FB is calculated on a running 12 month period.

An increased  number of +FB  during the 12 months increases your FB%.

The FB% score does not remain at 99.5% and will vary +/-, depending on future FB received.

For a small or mid size seller it will take over 200+ positives to move a lousy 0.01 % to 99.6% 

 

Do you think that is a fair calculation policy !!!

An extra 200 +FB  would increase your total FB score  to  99.75%, so an increase of .25%  not   0.01%

Frankly, I do not think the FB score should auto reset to 100% after 12 months