posted on February 5, 2006 07:26:32 AM new
My feedback recently went back to 100% after being 99.9% the past couple of years.
At what point or percentage rate does ebay move you back to 100% when I have 4 negs ?
Member Profile: namebrandgolfshirts (8377)
Feedback Score: 8377
Positive Feedback: 100%
Members who left a positive: 8380
Members who left a negative: 4
posted on February 5, 2006 07:57:21 AM new
(8384-4)/8384 = 99.95%
When I went to school, back before the wheel was invented, you round up when the number to the right of your rightmost displayed number is at 5 or above. Thus... 100%.
Dang, I need to go back to coffee drinking.
[ edited by cashinyourcloset on Feb 5, 2006 08:02 AM ]
posted on February 5, 2006 11:34:55 AM new
I'm at 100% after 7 years of selling. Got maybe two negs (both undeserved, of course!) a few years ago, nothing since. (Do I sound braggy?) About 1750 total, 1550 from unique users. Gee, I'd like to keep this as long as I can.
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posted on February 5, 2006 11:45:26 AM new
The simple way to figure it is: if you have less than 1 neg for every 2000 feedback rating, you will have a 100% rating.
Always found this a little interesting calculator. I just went up from 99.8% to 99.9%
Later last year, I was facing a negative--it ended up being a positive--but it calculated I would have needed 666 positives to make up for that negative.
I know people still bid regardless of the percentages, but I like calculators
posted on February 5, 2006 01:37:18 PM new
Easiest way to get back to 100% is to get the miscreants, who gave you undeserved negatives, kicked off eBay. If their contact info is invalid and no response to eBay CS = NARU. Other options are also available.
posted on February 5, 2006 02:03:10 PM new
If that calculator is correct and the rounding up thing is true then I should already be 100%...but I am not. If it rounds up at 99.56% then I only have about 400 to go! I would have to receive about 10,000 more to get to 100% without rounding (11 negs, 11,834 pos)
Roadsmith - one of your negs must have gone NARU - the calculator shows you need about 4,000 to get back to 100% with 2 negs.
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posted on February 5, 2006 07:34:31 PM new
Neglus: Yes, as I recall one of my negs did go NARU. It would take me a lonnng time to sell 2,000 more items, so I'm hanging onto the 100% as long as possible.
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posted on February 5, 2006 08:59:14 PM new
I'm a bit confused...2 of my 3 negs are NARU but their negs are still on my rating and still count. Is it true that, if a person is NARU, their feedbacks disappear? If so, how can I get mine to go away?
posted on February 5, 2006 09:06:12 PM new
Years ago, when a person went NARU, any feedback they left was changed to neutrals. Ebay discontinued that practice 5 or 6 years ago, and all feedback left by an NARU person remains unchanged. Recently, Ebay instituted a rule that any user NARU'd within 90 days of registering will have all feedback they left removed. This includes positives as well.
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posted on February 6, 2006 04:52:58 AM new
(Oops sorry Claude! I used 99.95 in my calculation but typed 99.55) I used the calculator link and put in 99.95 as desired percent and it said that I needed 10,989 pos FB with 11 negs (I have 11,832) and 12,212 ro reach 99.96. So 99.95 does not ALWAYS round up to 100 - I am hoping 99.96 will!
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posted on February 6, 2006 08:07:57 AM new
Well, they say that eBay has changed the world, and now I guess they've changed the math world also. It's a simple concept. If you're rounding to least significant digit of whatever, you take the digit to the right of it (whether it be hundreds or hundredths), and if it is 5 or more, you round up, otherwise you round down.
It has worked this way since numbers were invented. I didn't make it up , although I still remember when they introduced the number 0; boy, did the church ever get angry.
edited to add: an "exception" to this is if you're using floating point numbers but only displaying to 99.95 -- the number might actually be calculated as 99.94999999, which does NOT round up to 100 (but will display as 99.95 if you're limiting it to 2 places to the right of the decimal). Display more digits, and you'll see if that happened.
[ edited by cashinyourcloset on Feb 6, 2006 08:11 AM ]
posted on February 6, 2006 09:05:30 AM new
I went a long time without any negatives (many years) but I have 9 now. 7 of those are from the last year, the latest a retaliatory from a moron who never bothered to pay me. (This was in November before the new process that will cut that down a bit) - I've also received 19,000 positives in that year, so now when I see a negative, I shrug my shoulders and go on. I think it is impossible to avoid negative, it really isn't a big deal if you are well over 99%, you are doing probably as best as you can.
(11 negs, 11,834 pos)
, although I still remember when they introduced the number 0; boy, did the church ever get angry.