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In Reply to: Re: 94% posted by danlaudionut on April 29, 2007 at 00:21:52:
My rating is currently 99.6% after close to 200 transactions with rating number of 172 (multiples with same party do not count, and these are ALL purchases)The 1 negative I have is a retaliatory from a seller that I gave a neutral for not responding the emails and taking 3 weeks to even put the item in the post. I received the item after a month and thought a neutral was appropriate.
I always pay with paypal and usually within an hour or two of the close of the auction.
Sorry to sound harsh, but 2 out of 40 is a bad record and I sure wouldn't want to deal with one with those stats.
Having said that, I did purchase a Six Eye Mono copy of "Kind of Blue" from a seller with 1 neg out of 10 transactions, but only after I spoke with him on the phone and decided that the grossly underpriced record was staying that was because most serious buyers would see the guy's feedback and run... I really scored on that one.
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I also have one retaliatory negative from a seller who had received a neutral from me. (I should have left a negative.) I pay quickly, like you, and I try my best to keep communication open. I have dealt with almost six hundred sellers, and I am reluctant to buy from one who has less than stellar feedback, although I have successfully done it before. I see it as a high risk when the rating below 98%, so I tend to avoid those who have such ratings. I don't believe that even 98% is good because many unsatisfied buyers do not leave a rating at all. If I am right, a 2% negative return to a seller with a lot of transactions may only be the tip of the iceberg.
I found that when you're selling high price tag items, buyers are often unimpressed unless the sales exceeded the buyers' expectations. More often than not I got no feedbacks from buyers for items over $500 value, but I've never heard any complaints from them either. My impression was that the buyers agreed that my items are as described but they didn't make the buyers jump up and down. It's so difficult to make everyone happy. The only thing I can do is to make sure I describe my items as detail as possible.
Theo
I buy and sell. I *NEED* that 0 to get top dollar.I don't leave feedback as a buyer unless I receive it from the seller first. Hypocritically, I don't leave feedback to buyers when they pay.
I don't leave negs or neutrals either, even if I have been screwed.
Until the system is redesigned to take retaliatory feedback out of the equation, that is all I can do to protect my 0.
The stuff I sell is always marked by me with a sharpie internally, honestly described and packed in a bomb-proof fashion so I can minimize any BS from buyers that swap their broken gear for mine. This has happened to me twice now.
Ebay is a shit filled pond of sharks.
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Al G
Born To Tinker!
I just rechecked my ebay rating and it is 97.7%.
I researched the feedback and
one negative isn't there anymore.
He must have removed it for some reason.
The one that is there is a retaliatory one.
I bought a VHS tape that didn't play and
I wrote to him about it several times
without ANY response from him.
I wrote that if he didn't respond I would post
a negative and still no response.
He then posted a negative to me.
Looking back the negative wasn't worth the $5
so I can see your point.
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