candibates1
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posted on July 8, 2001 12:54:13 PM
I was doing some market research and stumbled upon a seller with 13,587 positive feedbacks with only 30 negatives. The person is now Not A Registered User as of last week. I have never seen anyone with a feedback rating this high being a NARU.
Thought you all would find it interesting.
cb
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bustervein
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:05:21 PM
NARU doesn't always mean booted by ebay for infractions...this seller may be giving up the bizzzzzzz
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candibates1
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:09:37 PM
buster:
I understand and agree--its just that you normally dont see someone that has a fb rating that high quitting eBay. I would wager that there are no other sellers with higher fb ratings that are NARU. Can anyone find one? Or one even close?
cb
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undercovers
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:18:33 PM
interesting....along the same line, why would someone go to ebay and say i am no longer going to sell here so unregister me....what would be the advantage of doing that as oppossed to just not listing or buying??
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loosecannon
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:20:29 PM
Could be he/she burned out, or their line(s) of merchandise cooled off, so they decided to quit.
Or, could be they started up under a new ID with new fb.
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hwahwahwahwa
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:20:58 PM
could be dead! or very ill!!
or take the money and run to ??
sometimes if it could be twosome,one died the other does not want to continue.
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ebaypowersellergold
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:26:27 PM
Actually, if he/she was NARU'd, it's almost certainly eBay's doing (i.e. not a request from the seller). I have 5 registered ID's, and actually TRIED to get one "retired" (someone else wanted it so I tried to "unregister" . It's IMPOSSIBLE! I suspect it has more to do with eBay keeping their "registered user" total high than anything else. My guess is 1/3 of the TOTAL registered ID's are inactive for more than a year. Sure wouldn't look good to investors to see registered users drop from 30 million to 9 million... (LOL, probably what the real number is).
It's possible the large seller was a "shooting star jacket" type that REFUSED to remove a link to their web page... I know several sellers where that policy was "the last straw" (no one with 13,000+ though!) They are leaving the home page link on their auctions, almost "daring" eBay to do something. Maybe ebay is!
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hwahwahwahwa
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:30:14 PM
if a seller is defiant in removing the link and gets NARU by ebay,can he come back after agreeing to remove the link?
hard to imagine such a highpower seller will leave like that,
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bustervein
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:32:19 PM
powersellergold
i have gotten 2 different ID's of mine NARU'd b request....now i had to email more than once but it did happen................
as for not going thru the trouble to unregister, some people feel its the right thing to do ...
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hwahwahwahwa
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:32:25 PM
it is possible to sell at a loss,so the more you sell,the more you lose.
finally you just put up some pictures,collect the money and split.
everyone just assume you have the merchandise??
well,suppliers can cut you off if you dont pay your bills.
i know a lot of wholesalers are being squeezed,retailers before they file for bankruptcy,will place a large order!!
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reamond
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:36:33 PM
I can't believe that high a FB seller would voluntarily unregister the account.
Before I would drop the account, I would sell it. If you sell your "business" the eBay account can go with it.
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bidsbids
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:37:32 PM
Over the several years I've been on eBay I've found the the most common reason for a seller NARU is 'failure to pay eBay it's fees'. Either ia a snafu with the credit card expiration date or a seller that won't pay.
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hwahwahwahwa
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posted on July 8, 2001 01:56:42 PM
if the seller cc expires,if he is in good standing with his cc issuer,charges will go to his new account.
sounds suspicious.
we have a guy here who registered with ebay,has zero feedback and list a few items,never meet reserve so he never sold anything,so he did not pay ebay.
then he wants to sell again, and willing to pay what is owed ebay plus interest,like 8.87 dollars and pleaded and pleaded with ebay to no prevail.
dont know why ebay is so tough on him,he told ebay he wants to sell his friend's ferrari,bla bla bla(do you think ebay cares about another ferrari ??).
there must be something we dont know with all this NARU.
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RichieRich
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posted on July 8, 2001 05:03:32 PM
I recently won an auction - seller 2200+ feedback. The seller is now NARU. Per the seller someone turned them in for charging extra for using PayPal. They are dead for 30 days.
[ edited by RichieRich on Jul 8, 2001 05:39 PM ]
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jereth
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posted on July 8, 2001 08:31:59 PM
Another shooting star seller (feedback +11,000) who sells music was also NARU'd last week. He was back up and operating in 48 hours. Devastating loss of 3000 active auctions, now being relisted quickly.
I suspect he had a billing problem similar to mine last February. I was NARU'd as well for 48 hours. Each and every month my eBay bill is declined by my credit card company (it's around $8m/month, well above my credit limit) and each month I must then scramble to overnite-mail a check to eBay for the bill. This is a month I zoned on and didn't send the money in time.
FYI Marie
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undercovers
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posted on July 8, 2001 08:45:06 PM
richie
is charging for paypal fees a naru issue??
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brie49
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posted on July 8, 2001 08:55:47 PM
candibates1, it's ironic that you would bring up this 13,000+ seller that was NARU'd. I had been watching this person's auction, waiting to bid on an item they were selling about a week ago. They sell the same type of items over and over, so I was waiting for a new one to appear to bid on. I eventually went in to bid and saw the person got the boot (that day).
At that time I checked out his about me page and he was still selling from a web site, but did not have the item I wanted listed on the site.
It is my guess that the NARU was because of a credit card problem or someone turned them in for some infraction.
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quickdraw29
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posted on July 8, 2001 09:04:39 PM
I bet it was for non-payment as a buyer. Yes, high feedback buyers can be a headache too.
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hwahwahwahwa
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posted on July 8, 2001 09:25:22 PM
someone said in most cases,it has to do with not paying ebay fee.
so it is possible for a dealer to exceed his credit card limit when ebay submits its bill,so he becomes naru??
can you just switch to another credit card??
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jereth
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posted on July 8, 2001 10:58:15 PM
hwah, I take offense at your spelling and am tempted not to reply.
But, yes, of course, $8000/month and it HURTS.
Marie
[email protected]
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commentary
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posted on July 8, 2001 11:11:09 PM
Marie of [email protected]
I'm confused. Always paid the ebay bill by check. Usually, you have more than a couple of weeks to do so after they send you the invoice notice. Never had a problem with them shutting down the account.
Also, I kind of know when the cutoff is for the ebay bill. You don't always have to wait for the ebay notice. Can check your account online when closed to the cutoff date and send in an estimated amount.
Regarding the high FB seller being Narau - I am not sure that all high FB seller are on top of the situation and their profit margins. They may not really know how much they are really making after all the fees. Some of them can be growing a business and may be financing the venture. They can be losing money and not realize it until the whole thing come crashing down.
Just ask a high volume seller if they truly know what fees are as a percentage of sales, and are they really making money after paying for all the hired help. See how many can really tell you.
Also, some sellers think only profits on items they sell. They never account for the warehouse full of the unsaleable items. How many sellers you know actually sit down and writeoff unsaleable goods.
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MichelleG
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posted on July 8, 2001 11:14:01 PM
hwahwahwahwa
I have deleted one of your posts because it contained offensive spelling. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a typo. Perhaps you need to proof read next time.....
Michelle
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gravid
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posted on July 9, 2001 01:25:15 AM
You have to have a card on file to be extended crdit but if you don't have access to a card with enough limit it is just a work - around. Not everyone has access to that big a line. Sometimes it does not matter if you do have a big line with cards. I had a Visa that drew on my Merrill Lynch account I use to trade stocks so in theory I could charge $50,000 because I would have that much cash sometimes. In reality I tried to charge a Dodge Caravan and the dealer would not accept it even though the have the logo displayed several places.
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Powerhouse
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posted on July 9, 2001 02:43:20 AM
It is all speculation but he may simply have quit ebay and deregistered so that ebay would delete his personal account info.
With all the changes ebay and other sites go though (without warning) he may have recognised that ebay may get to the point of selling info as others have and decided he didn't want that.
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isworeiwouldneverdothis
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posted on July 9, 2001 04:48:24 AM
I know that about fifty percent of my favorite sellers (beads) are no longer selling, and many of them are NARU. dunno what is going on.
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ddicffe
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posted on July 9, 2001 04:57:53 AM
I registered a credit card when I first started selling, but it is now expired. I was going to register the new one, but they keep billing the old one, so I figure if they are too brain dead to realize they are billing an expired card, so be it. I use my new card to pay them when they send me my bill, so they do not have it "on file", so to speak. I had heard horror stories about overbilling, so I did not want that to happen to me.
Rick
In the begining, God created the heavens and the earth.
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codasaurus
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posted on July 9, 2001 06:06:23 AM
Some high feedback sellers who have rather blatantly shilled their auctions are being NARUed as eBay attempts to limit the damage.
Whether these sellers have been handed temporary suspensions until the heat cools on eBay remains to be seen.
eBay is one of three online auction sites that recently received letters from a Congressional committee regarding efforts to detect and control shilling.
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zymo
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posted on July 9, 2001 06:13:32 AM
bump
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hwahwahwahwa
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posted on July 9, 2001 06:14:48 AM
since AW has deleted my post,i dont know what kind of typo error i made,i apologise for the oversight,yes i am a lousy typist and i should proof read.
thanks,jereth for answering my question
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sun818
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posted on July 9, 2001 09:16:09 AM
If a seller pays listing/fvf fees that exceed their CC limit, why not ask to have it increased? If you are consistently charging and paying your card off on time, I'm sure CC company would not mind the extra profit on interest.
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