Here are eBay’s terms for getting the production bonus:

1) A credit equal to 1% of the difference between your individual sales target and your actual eligible sales during the 6-week PowerSeller Challenge.

2) If your Detailed Seller Rating (DSR) scores are equal to or greater than 4.5 in all four DSR scores, and the average of all four DSR scores is equal to or greater than 4.8, then you will receive a credit equal to 1.5% (instead of the 1% credit) of the difference between your individual target and your actual eligible sales for this period.

So in my case I have 4.9, 4.8. 4.7, and 4.7 which comes out to 4.775. That qualifies me for a 1% bonus

But is my real numbers are 4.93, 4.83, 4.73 and 4.73, then I actually have 4.805. That would qualify me for a 1.5% bonus.

Always follow the money trail on the lack of information.

I presume eBay slapped their wrists or summat like that?

Too right, in general most eBayers do a fantastic job, which is why the spread of DSR’s is just 0.6 out of five stars from the top 10% to the bottom 10%

When you consider that with 4.88 on both the top DSR cats we are STILL only in the top 50%, not the top 25% even, that means that there are a lot of people with high marks. I do wish someone would make a bigger hooha about the fact that most eBay sellers are good, reliable, honest people….:(

Is that the new name now that ChannelAdvisor have swallowed MarketWorks?

ChannelWorks… someone tell Mr. Wingo

What would be helpful if is Channelworks developed this so you could type 4 or 5 users in and then a handy little comparison table pops up populated….

Maybe one to suggest?
Kindest wishes
Suz x

I dare someone to buy from this guy and leave feedback/dsr (if there was ever any doubt ebay needs to do something about sellers abusing fb…)
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=havemodelswilltravel
&ftab=FeedbackLeftForOthers

Out of the thousands of PowerSellers out there (anyone know how many there are in the UK? About 70,000 people make their living on eBay so there must be a fair few….) a couple of dozen is so insignificant most people can totally ignore the limitation and are nowhere near the levels that it’ll ever affect them even if eBay jack it up slightly in the future.

http://www.tamebay.com/2007/12/pp-stars-to-affect-search-result-placement.html

You could have the lowest price, but if your DSRs are in the low-tier, your items won’t show on eBay. That’s where data meets sales.

As for if you can live without eBay, that’s your business, we’re assuming that people that want to sell on eBay will care about their DSRs, if you don’t then that’s fine too.

Toby – I agree there are elements of DSR that are troublesome. The reality is that a) eBay loves them and b) they are here to stay and in fact are going to go from ‘moderately interesting’ to ‘determine if I am successful on eBay or not’. Thus unless you are like Nort where you can turn off eBay if it gets too painful, then its something to keep a very close eye on.

ERM am I missing Something
I have an id in this 10% and so far its got less than nowt
its not even a powerseller

I suppose the ones who have left negs when they detected a tenth fall in their stars will go nuts having the extra decimal now…

when your parked on a dark edinburgh street,
and yer eyes are worn out with gawking at ebay all day,

to make myself clear

there is sod all more I can do about my stars, short of turning into a charity

it a does not matter what my stars are now or what my competition have

because I can do bugger all about it, I do my best now I cant improve those stars other than giving my goods away sending it for nothing with cash back

There’s only so far you can push sellers and keep taking the mickey before they think enough is enough.

As each new change is introduced the well worn phrase “Fiddling while Rome burns” keeps coming to mind. I seriously think eBay are getting more clueless and lost about what really matters with each change and daft idea they come up with.

Sue – eBay has APIs that allow us to retrieve the DSR ratings to two decimal places.

On the competitive side, DSRWatch allows you to monitor any seller. We leave it up to you to research, define and DSRWatch who your competitors are.

northumbrian – that’s great. Our guess is that eBay will neither advantage you or disadvantage you with a median DSR. HOWEVER, you may have competitors in the top 25% or even 10% that will be advantaged. Thus (here’s where it hits your bank account) in the future your competitors with higher DSRs will get more traffic (for the same price). While this is speculation, it’s possible this could become a ‘self fulfilling prophecy’, which is to say that if your competitors already have high DSRs and get more traffic, they will have a higher chance to keep their DSRs. If you have median/low DSRs, you will be starved of traffic/sales and thus your ability to improve your DSRs will go down and you’ll essentially be ‘starved’ out of the market.

Sue – It’s important to note that everyseller is not average. For example, look at the user ‘bargainland’. This is a seller that eBay has severely disadvantaged (PC talk for NARU).