I sold 40 thinsg on ebay today...

[retrojc]

Best bit of advice that i can give about ebay that i do now is to list no more than 5 items at a time then stagger a few days then list another 5. Ive done the list as much as you can at once and it gets too much.

Coming to post it all is the worst bit.

"You need to post 33 items"

FML.

[psj3809]

"You need to post 33 items"

FML.

Yep posting is the worst thing ! Plus being behind someone in the queue at the post office (When its obvious they must be an ebayer) is frustrating !

Then after selling an item for 99p you hear back from someone moaning weeks later its not in pristine condition for 99p and how theyre unhappy - will you offer them a refund etc ?!

[retrojc]

"You need to post 33 items"

FML.

Yep posting is the worst thing ! Plus being behind someone in the queue at the post office (When its obvious they must be an ebayer) is frustrating !

Then after selling an item for 99p you hear back from someone moaning weeks later its not in pristine condition for 99p and how theyre unhappy - will you offer them a refund etc ?!

Yeah, but then being behind me must be horrid to haha (oh, that sounds bad)

Do you send items which sold for 99p recorded?

Too many scammers these days...

[speedlolita]

I tend to risk it on lower cost items. RM aren't that bad.

But yeah, I usually have to post in a wave or two as I don't drive and the postie in about a 1km walk.

[retrojc]

I tend to risk it on lower cost items. RM aren't that bad.

But yeah, I usually have to post in a wave or two as I don't drive and the postie in about a 1km walk.

I would risk, but cost has to be below £2 all in otherwise i'd rather go recorded

[Treguard]

I've sold around 500-600 items on ebay in the last year, what really narks me about feedback is when I sell is that if I have one buyer buy multiple items at the same time, you only get one extra feedback rating out of it. I had one guy spend over £230.00 over 23 items in one week, but it's only worth +1 feedback. Yet if I'd sold them to 23 different people, I'd have an extra 22 feedback. I know it's to prevent people artificially inflating their feedback scores with shill bidding, but it gets on my t*ts.

[speedlolita]

Yeah that is annoying.

I have "368" as my feedback score but I have "417 Feedback received".

[James A]

Best bit of advice that i can give about ebay that i do now is to list no more than 5 items at a time then stagger a few days then list another 5. Ive done the list as much as you can at once and it gets too much.

Coming to post it all is the worst bit.

My local Post Office they hate my guts Saying that theres one guy he goes in the same time each afternoon with about 50 parcels, they specially open a counter for him

[retrojc]

Best bit of advice that i can give about ebay that i do now is to list no more than 5 items at a time then stagger a few days then list another 5. Ive done the list as much as you can at once and it gets too much.

Coming to post it all is the worst bit.

My local Post Office they hate my guts Saying that theres one guy he goes in the same time each afternoon with about 50 parcels, they specially open a counter for him

haha what a hero!

[Mayhem]

I've sold around 500-600 items on ebay in the last year, what really narks me about feedback is when I sell is that if I have one buyer buy multiple items at the same time, you only get one extra feedback rating out of it. I had one guy spend over £230.00 over 23 items in one week, but it's only worth +1 feedback. Yet if I'd sold them to 23 different people, I'd have an extra 22 feedback. I know it's to prevent people artificially inflating their feedback scores with shill bidding, but it gets on my t*ts.

I thought that had been changed fairly recently, and now all +1 feedbacks count?

[Treguard]

I've sold around 500-600 items on ebay in the last year, what really narks me about feedback is when I sell is that if I have one buyer buy multiple items at the same time, you only get one extra feedback rating out of it. I had one guy spend over £230.00 over 23 items in one week, but it's only worth +1 feedback. Yet if I'd sold them to 23 different people, I'd have an extra 22 feedback. I know it's to prevent people artificially inflating their feedback scores with shill bidding, but it gets on my t*ts.

I thought that had been changed fairly recently, and now all +1 feedbacks count?

It did for about a week after they changed it, then the script broke and they couldn't be bothered fixing it as ebay don't really care about small sellers anymore. You should read some of the rabid rants about it on the ebay forums, they're quite hilariously mental.

[nokgod]

I've sold around 500-600 items on ebay in the last year, what really narks me about feedback is when I sell is that if I have one buyer buy multiple items at the same time, you only get one extra feedback rating out of it. I had one guy spend over £230.00 over 23 items in one week, but it's only worth +1 feedback. Yet if I'd sold them to 23 different people, I'd have an extra 22 feedback. I know it's to prevent people artificially inflating their feedback scores with shill bidding, but it gets on my t*ts.

Out of interest, why does it matter? I don't care if someone has 500 or 522 feedback. It wouldn't make any difference if as a seller, you had something i wanted to buy.

[Treguard]

I've sold around 500-600 items on ebay in the last year, what really narks me about feedback is when I sell is that if I have one buyer buy multiple items at the same time, you only get one extra feedback rating out of it. I had one guy spend over £230.00 over 23 items in one week, but it's only worth +1 feedback. Yet if I'd sold them to 23 different people, I'd have an extra 22 feedback. I know it's to prevent people artificially inflating their feedback scores with shill bidding, but it gets on my t*ts.

Out of interest, why does it matter? I don't care if someone has 500 or 522 feedback. It wouldn't make any difference if as a seller, you had something i wanted to buy.

It's all about the Detailed Seller Ratings (the little stars you give the seller on your feedback). The higher your DSR's are, the more ebay leaves you alone to list things as you like. If you get too many lower ratings, your listing privileges can get affected, and they can jack up your listing fees. The sanctions are decided based on a percentage of your feedback score's DSR's, so naturally if you have more 5 star positive feedback you're less affected by one sodding ejit who blames you for his parcel being delayed because the Italian parcel service is the only organisation that could make the Italian government seem efficent and trustworthy.

[nokgod]

I've sold around 500-600 items on ebay in the last year, what really narks me about feedback is when I sell is that if I have one buyer buy multiple items at the same time, you only get one extra feedback rating out of it. I had one guy spend over £230.00 over 23 items in one week, but it's only worth +1 feedback. Yet if I'd sold them to 23 different people, I'd have an extra 22 feedback. I know it's to prevent people artificially inflating their feedback scores with shill bidding, but it gets on my t*ts.

Out of interest, why does it matter? I don't care if someone has 500 or 522 feedback. It wouldn't make any difference if as a seller, you had something i wanted to buy.

It's all about the Detailed Seller Ratings (the little stars you give the seller on your feedback). The higher your DSR's are, the more ebay leaves you alone to list things as you like. If you get too many lower ratings, your listing privileges can get affected, and they can jack up your listing fees. The sanctions are decided based on a percentage of your feedback score's DSR's, so naturally if you have more 5 star positive feedback you're less affected by one sodding ejit who blames you for his parcel being delayed because the Italian parcel service is the only organisation that could make the Italian government seem efficent and trustworthy.

Christ! I didn't know that those star things made such a vast difference. I can understand your frustration now.

[simes]

That's what annoys me about ebay at the moment. I'm using it for a mix of buying and selling and make a habit of leaving feedback for everyone as soon as possible and for all my buyers, usually as close to them making payment as possible, but about 80% of my buyers seem to have been pretty apathetic so far and haven't reciprocated so it doesn't do me any good on the feedback front.

I may have a 100% rating and a pretty flawless track record and a lot of happy sellers that I have dealt with, but when you have buyers who simply don't want to leave feedback for you, ebay's current system is penalising sellers just for the inactions of their buyers rather than the quality of service that they provide.