STRANGE EBAY QUESTION/FEEDBACK MUST READ!

[Panther67]

The feedback changes suck. Yet again eBay screws the sellers. As if the fee changes weren't bad enough.

[TexKitty]

The new system is getting to be about as complicated as the US tax code. I logged on earlier and noticed the change in my feedback number (buyers with numerouspurchases in the same week) but didn't notice I'm back at 100%. Hah! Take that, schmuck seller who left me a retaliatory neg for my neutral!

Woo, that felt good hehehe. Them losing their account was one thing, but my 100% back again, sweet!

The odd part is, Meg left the company fourth quarter of last year, but someone's still coming up with goofy ideas. I don't know if it's the newcheese, though. He said in an interview not long after signing on with eBay how little he thinks of eBay buyers and sellers. What a tool.

[optiquesjeff]

Hi

Mine changed a bit also.

And

I think most of us who sell on ebay are not too happy about the changes regarding feedback left for buyers.

Jeff

[BRepine]

Yup, mine jumped a couple hundred as well, not sure if I like the new system, but time will tell, Brian

[MINGOTOY]

Mine went from 4420 to 5083. My percentage dropped from 99.9 to 99.8 . I got a negative this year because the post office lost apackage and the winner was an idiot and didn't know how to get her money back from paypal despite the fact that I emailed her and explained it to her..... Thanks Ebay, I can now get justice..

I can see Ebay making more changes to the feedback system in the future. Buyers can NOT getaway with not paying for their auctions. Basically what Ebayhas done is if you have a grudge against someone , you can give them a negative and nothing will happen to the bidder. People are going to abuse this. Ebay has opened up a Pandora's box . They have created more problems than they have solved.

Maribell

[outdoorelvis777]

Mine went from 618 @ 100% to 688 @ 100%. Here's the equation they used to reach the total:

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[1Perry]

Just more reasons to sell your Hot Wheels here.

[MINGOTOY]

Basing the feedback on the past 12 months is not bad. I wish that they had kept the other chart up too. Anyway, if a buyer/seller hada few negatives when they first started, it doesn't show up now. Does it really matter that a seller got a negative 10 years ago for whatever reason or abidder didn't pay for something 8 years ago? It's more important to view their recent activity. But the overall feedback should still be there forall to see especially in cases where the Ebayer doesn't have that many feedbacks in the last year. Give us the original chart with the TOTAL FEEDBACKrecord.

I think that it is a good idea to count the feedbacks from repeat customers /sellers. This was long overdue. When I first got on ebay, I hated to bidfrom a seller that I had already bought from. My goal when I first started on Ebay was to establish feedback inorder to get great feedback inorder to startselling. So in many instances, I actually looked for sellers that I hadn't bought from inorder to bid.

Those of you who had their percentage drop a bit, remember that this is for the last 12 months. If you keep getting positives, eventually the percentage willgo up.

Anyway, I'm sure that ebay will continue to make changes in the feedback system in the future. This not giving negatives to buyers is not going to worklike they want it to. You can already defeat this policy if your deadbeat is also a seller. Just bid on one of their items and don't pay and give them anegative. They won't be able to return it.


maribell

[Playz with Carz]

I've only had 34 sales in the last twelve months and out of those 34, I got ONE neutral (never have had ANY negatives). With the new way of calculations,my feedback went from 100% down to 97.1 because of that ONE neutral !!!

Neutrals never used to count against you - NOW they do !!! If you don't sell much, even one neutral can really kill your percentage in a hurry !!!


Mark.

[MINGOTOY]

Neutrals shouldn't count at all..Mark , bid on a few auctions and win something and increase the percentage. Buy a cd or something inexpensive that youneed. MARK , PLEASE READ THE YUKU MESSAGE THAT I JUST SENT you.

maribell