Comments on: Pros and Cons of eBay’s (Latest) Changes http://www.genuineseller.com/pros-and-cons-of-ebays-latest-changes How to sell and what is selling online. Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:55:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jerry Hernandez http://www.genuineseller.com/pros-and-cons-of-ebays-latest-changes/comment-page-1#comment-1681 Jerry Hernandez Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:12:20 +0000 http://www.genuineseller.com/?p=1493#comment-1681 The fee hikes on eBay is pretty tough to swallow. I know a lot of friends who sell on ebay are contemplating not doing it any more. ( I doubt it will really happen). I have looked around for different online auction websites and not many provide the same platform for buying and selling. (At least visually of course). Try www.moneyca.com I opened an account with them but have yet to sell anything. Visually they seem good and are far less expensive than ebay. Hope this helps. The fee hikes on eBay is pretty tough to swallow. I know a lot of friends who sell on ebay are contemplating not doing it any more. ( I doubt it will really happen). I have looked around for different online auction websites and not many provide the same platform for buying and selling. (At least visually of course). Try http://www.moneyca.com I opened an account with them but have yet to sell anything. Visually they seem good and are far less expensive than ebay.
Hope this helps.

]]> By: TekGems http://www.genuineseller.com/pros-and-cons-of-ebays-latest-changes/comment-page-1#comment-1074 TekGems Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:24:25 +0000 http://www.genuineseller.com/?p=1493#comment-1074 The new fee structure will allow us to market higher priced items on eBay. For lower priced items, this is a fee hike which will require us to re-evaluate what we sell on eBay. Hopefully, the fees we pay overall will balance out or be in our favor. I agree on your blog post re: DSR 4.3. You have no business being on eBay if you can not maintain such a score. It is not difficult to do. You really do have to a "bad" seller if your DSR is below 4.3 using current calculations. The new fee structure will allow us to market higher priced items on eBay. For lower priced items, this is a fee hike which will require us to re-evaluate what we sell on eBay. Hopefully, the fees we pay overall will balance out or be in our favor.

I agree on your blog post re: DSR 4.3. You have no business being on eBay if you can not maintain such a score. It is not difficult to do. You really do have to a “bad” seller if your DSR is below 4.3 using current calculations.

]]> By: doctorfegg http://www.genuineseller.com/pros-and-cons-of-ebays-latest-changes/comment-page-1#comment-1071 doctorfegg Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:47:21 +0000 http://www.genuineseller.com/?p=1493#comment-1071 >> Automatically suspending sellers with less than a 4.3 DSR. There's not much screaming about this yet.>> Oh yes there is (please check out http://workshops.ebay.com/forum.jspa?forumID=14000000003). Almost all of us sellers and buyers are glad to see the bad sellers are weeded out. The actual problem stems from how Ebay uses the 5 star DSR: if a buyer gives a "4" across the five rating options, they responded as follows: 1. How accurate was the item description? If the buyer says "Accurate" they leave 4 stars 2. "How satified were you with the seller's communication? If the buyer says "Satisfied" they leave 4 stars. 3. "How quickly did the seller ship the item?" If the buyer says "Quickly" they leave 4 stars. 4. "How reasonable were the shipping and handling charges?" If the buyer says reasonable they leave 4 stars. So a buyer who responded "Accurate", "Satisfied", "Quickly" and "Reasonable" gets the seller a 4.0. But ebay uses 4.3 as 'acceptable' as far as letting the seller continue to sell widgets. My own DSR's are far above this, but I have joined in asking Ebay to tell us how a buyer is to learn that using those terms will result in a seller being booted of Ebay. So essentially using, ratings between 1-4 stars means "bad" and 5 stars means "acceptable." Somethings wrong here... >> Automatically suspending sellers with less than a 4.3 DSR. There’s not much screaming about this yet.>>

Oh yes there is (please check out http://workshops.ebay.com/forum.jspa?forumID=14000000003). Almost all of us sellers and buyers are glad to see the bad sellers are weeded out.

The actual problem stems from how Ebay uses the 5 star DSR: if a buyer gives a “4″ across the five rating options, they responded as follows:

1. How accurate was the item description?
If the buyer says “Accurate” they leave 4 stars

2. “How satified were you with the seller’s communication? If the buyer says “Satisfied” they leave 4 stars.

3. “How quickly did the seller ship the item?” If the buyer says “Quickly” they leave 4 stars.

4. “How reasonable were the shipping and handling charges?” If the buyer says reasonable they leave 4 stars.

So a buyer who responded “Accurate”, “Satisfied”, “Quickly” and “Reasonable” gets the seller a 4.0. But ebay uses 4.3 as ‘acceptable’ as far as letting the seller continue to sell widgets.

My own DSR’s are far above this, but I have joined in asking Ebay to tell us how a buyer is to learn that using those terms will result in a seller being booted of Ebay.

So essentially using, ratings between 1-4 stars means “bad” and 5 stars means “acceptable.”

Somethings wrong here…

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