eauctionmgnt
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posted on May 13, 2008 02:05:23 PM new
http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl?/comments/2008/5/1210707187.html
Thanks AuctionBytes for providing this! And a big old !@#$!%^ to eBay for counting nuetrals the same as negatives!!!!!!!! My feedback percentage is gonna drop from a 99.8% to a 99.1%
Can't wait to get all my ebay merchandise cleared out and concentrate on my own website. Then if I do ever sell again on eBay... maybe I'll just to a couple of sales of clearance lots each years... since feedback will only count for a year... maybe I'll even get back up to 100%... who knows...
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Vintage Paper Ads
http://www.vintagepaperads.com
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zippy2dah
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posted on May 13, 2008 02:21:27 PM new
Bye-bye 100%!
It's been nice knowing you.
Now I really might just have to sue the b#@%h that left me the neutral.
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tonimar1
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posted on May 13, 2008 03:18:58 PM new
Here is how mine will look
Current feedback % : 99.6%
New feedback % : 98.9%
toni
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agitprop
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posted on May 13, 2008 03:34:00 PM new
Ours went from 99.2% back to 100% (on our main selling account) as all our historical negatives (mostly from now defunct competitors or auction-wreckers) have been expunged from the one-year window. Another dormant account went from 100% to 0% - it has no feedback within the past year.
These are strange days!
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vintageads4u
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posted on May 13, 2008 03:37:23 PM new
From 100% to 99.99% due to one neutral. The woman said I guess it was smaller than I thought. THE SIZE IS POSTED idiot because you can't read then I get a neut. Cool.
Beth
Antique Ad Shop
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on May 13, 2008 04:41:19 PM new
Actually a newt would be pretty cool.
I found a live salamander in my friend's house last week. His kitties have 24/7 access through the cat door. They like to bring in live toys. This poor guy was just starting to dry out.
Can't get too worked up about "old" and "new" feedback, though my percentage increases substantially with the new changes. Can't see what difference it'll really make, though. Buyers don't care.
fLufF
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The prettiest Czechoslovakian jewelry you ever did see! Hurry, before it's gone.
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tomwiii
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posted on May 13, 2008 04:43:30 PM new
99.9% to NEW = 100%
Big FD...
I may go down with a NEG soon from a buyer...One of my vendors discontinued a scale model & failed to warn me...Oh, well...[sigh]
As Ralphie opines: "Kaka-poopoo happens!"
Tom & Ralphie
GRAND OPENING of RALPHIE'S EMPORIUM of EARTHLY DELIGHTS~All Vd'ers get 50% DISCOUNT!(except electronics)
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merrie
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posted on May 13, 2008 05:38:21 PM new
Ralphie, as usual, is right.
Especially on Ebay lately, Kaka-poopoo is the name of the game.
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merrie
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posted on May 13, 2008 05:43:23 PM new
Wow, using that calculator on AB really changes some FB %s.I put in a competitor and their rating went for 99.3% to 98.2%. That is dramatic!!
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roadsmith
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posted on May 13, 2008 05:56:03 PM new
From 100% to 99.6%.
I guess it's impossible to figure out what's in eBay's head these days. . . . but neutrals counting as negs is crazy--and punitive.
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cblev65252
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posted on May 13, 2008 06:10:26 PM new
I agree, roadsmith! I suppose it is going to be up to us to once again educate the buyers that EBay considers a neutral a negative. What are they thinking?
Cheryl
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ewora
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posted on May 13, 2008 06:49:21 PM new
Mine stays the same on one id and goes from 99.8% back to 100% on the other.
I also haven't been selling full time since April 07.
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amber
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posted on May 13, 2008 07:22:46 PM new
100% to 99.7%, the lowest it's ever been, due to 3 neutrals. One buyer complained that I wrongly descriped a book as having shawls, the title of the book was "Shawls". The other 2 were from a buyer who wrote every day asking for an invoice, which I kept sending for 2 weeks. I kept replying, no response. In the end she found them in her junk file. I told her I had sent her 13 emails, and she asked me how I expected to read 13 emails, she had far more important things to do!! I couldn't even think of how to reply. Then when she received the items she gave me 2 neutrals for slow delivery! There are some people you can never win with.
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zippy2dah
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posted on May 13, 2008 07:28:40 PM new
They should stop calling them neutrals if they are NOT NEUTRAL.
Or just do away with them altogether.
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cashinyourcloset
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posted on May 13, 2008 07:43:27 PM new
Cashinyourcloset's feedback (for old time's sake):
Current feedback % : 99.8%
New feedback % : 99.7%
B.F.D.
The only worry is if buyers start feeling their oats and leaving loads of unwarranted negatives. That remains to be seen. The change in methodology doesn't seem like a big deal.
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ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on May 13, 2008 08:27:02 PM new
Stonecolds percentage will go from 99.8 to 99.8.
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ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on May 13, 2008 08:29:34 PM new
I just had a good laugh. I just imput one of my buying ID's.
My feedback percentage went from 86.7% to zero percent.
Guess that's not much of a stretch as I hardly ever buy on Ebay. Maybe once a year at most.
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mcjane
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posted on May 13, 2008 10:09:46 PM new
99.9 to 99.5 WTF
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mcjane
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posted on May 13, 2008 10:19:52 PM new
Have a friend in Seattle, a buyer, ID cherable, not a seller. She has 10 FB with 2 negs. Her FB is 91.7 & with the new system she is now at 100%
It's not fair to go back & knock out buyers negs.
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on May 14, 2008 06:13:50 AM new
Mine stayed the same but I'm not doing a happy dance as I'm pretty sure I have a negative coming on the 19th.
Mcjane - now that just WRONG!!!
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neglus
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posted on May 14, 2008 06:20:37 AM new
mcjane -
http://feedback.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=cherable&ftab=AllFeedback
It looks like your friend didn't really deserve the negs - she left neutral FB stating that the books were sprayed with Febreeze and she was allergic to it. The seller left her neg FB for her neutral.
Hopefully there was more communication than the FB but I don't think a seller should leave a neg for a neutral.
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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deichen
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posted on May 14, 2008 07:27:03 AM new
Current feedback % : 99.8%
New feedback % : 100%
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zoomin
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posted on May 14, 2008 08:30:41 AM new
current 99.6
next week 99.9
I'm thinking this 'tool' probably takes all of the multiple feedbacks and makes them 'unique' as if they happened individually.
Although I have a loyal following of repeat customers, I believe this program is ALSO taking feedbacks left at the same time (multiple purchase buyer) and counting each feedback (not what ebay's fb changes will do ~ only for repeat fb left in different weeks).
Guess we'll see next week!
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zippy2dah
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posted on May 14, 2008 08:38:24 AM new
"It looks like your friend didn't really deserve the negs - she left neutral FB stating that the books were sprayed with Febreeze and she was allergic to it."
I agree. The seller admits that she sprays all used books with disinfectant but says nothing about that in the listings themselves.
Ick!
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on May 14, 2008 09:57:48 AM new
I don't think a seller should leave a neg for a neutral.
Why not? One's just as meaningless as the other.
With all the changes eBay announced earlier this year, the one that got sellers upset -- much more than the fee increases -- was "no negative feedback for buyers."
Is that stupid or what?
Have you all forgotten why you sell on eBay to begin with? It's to make money, right? RIGHT?
Who cares about your precious 100% feedback? Nobody. And why do YOU care about an arbitrary score based on a flawed system? Be honest: You're actually proud if you've got 100%. That's pathetic. It doesn't mean you're a wunnerful seller who heals the sick and rescues stray kittens. It just means you haven't been run over by a feedback-wielding psychotic yet. YET.
Those of you who live and die in your emotional lives according to your feedback are sad enough but you know who's the worst? Smart people like you, neglus, and you, zippy. You know better and you still go along with it.
fLufF
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The prettiest Czechoslovakian jewelry you ever did see! Hurry, before it's gone.
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zippy2dah
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posted on May 14, 2008 10:02:57 AM new
I must not be that smart because how you arrived at this:
"Those of you who live and die in your emotional lives according to your feedback are sad enough but you know who's the worst? Smart people like you, neglus, and you, zippy. You know better and you still go along with it."
from this:
"Bye-bye 100%!
It's been nice knowing you."
is apparently WAY beyond my ability to comprehend.
Okay, I admit it, I'm such an emotional wreck about the feedback changes that I can hardly function!
HELP ME HELP ME!
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zippy2dah
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posted on May 14, 2008 10:04:27 AM new
Just in case Fluff pulls a Fluffy and erases her words, as she has done so many times before...here they are:
I don't think a seller should leave a neg for a neutral.
Why not? One's just as meaningless as the other.
With all the changes eBay announced earlier this year, the one that got sellers upset -- much more than the fee increases -- was "no negative feedback for buyers."
Is that stupid or what?
Have you all forgotten why you sell on eBay to begin with? It's to make money, right? RIGHT?
Who cares about your precious 100% feedback? Nobody. And why do YOU care about an arbitrary score based on a flawed system? Be honest: You're actually proud if you've got 100%. That's pathetic. It doesn't mean you're a wunnerful seller who heals the sick and rescues stray kittens. It just means you haven't been run over by a feedback-wielding psychotic yet. YET.
Those of you who live and die in your emotional lives according to your feedback are sad enough but you know who's the worst? Smart people like you, neglus, and you, zippy. You know better and you still go along with it.
fLufF
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ewora
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posted on May 14, 2008 10:10:44 AM new
I don't get my knickers in a twist over it but I do believe it is important for one reason only.
Best Match.....
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pixiamom
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posted on May 14, 2008 10:12:41 AM new
I don't know why it's all so complicated. All other buyers checking feedback want to know is "Would you buy from this seller again?" and accompanying comments. Sellers, instead of leaving negative feedback, can simply put unhappy campers on their blocked bidder list.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on May 14, 2008 10:27:02 AM new
Amy, can you explain how Best Match affects your business?
I only know about my business, and since so many of my sales are to people who browse my auctions specifically, it really makes no difference to me.
I have horrible feedback -- as everyone knows -- yet I still get new watchers, browsers and bidders every day. So if Best Match is supposed to punish me for being an awful seller, I have to say it's not working.
fLufF
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The prettiest Czechoslovakian jewelry you ever did see! Hurry, before it's gone.
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