One thing is they live by pennies. We ordered from them several times to see what they are doing. They use the CHEAPEST packing supplies, free labels from fedex, literally no packaging material …and batteries and headsets and silicon skins made from the cheapest materials overseas.

Also think about the frustration they have when ebay makes a fee change.
Again, when they sell a $5.00 wired headset with free shipping that charges are

.60 cents to list, 80 cents FAV, $1.25 to ship, $50 cent actual cost, labor etc. When ebay increases FAV by 20-30% they sweat bullets.

Anyways i wont ramble, im just saying. They have their thing down (and im sure making alot of money) because they mandate direct import cost with their factories over seas. Also imagine having a database for email ads of 3-4 million customers (b/c 1 million feedbacks only means about 1/4 actually leave feedback) and they can drive that to their website and circumvent ebay fees.

Just my 2 cents. I prefer to sell less a day and make larger profits $20-35/piece so when ebay makes a fee adjustment im not having to cancel items that dont fit the profit margin or worry about fees with a 20% success ratio like theirs.

I bet their fees are in excess of 60-85K (maybe more?) per month.

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Not necessarily. Other than for myself feedback also pays the bills for companies like Toolhaus, RatePoint, and FeeFo.

As you say, still impressive though

Upon doing a hammertap on their user name, accstation is doing about $600,000/month.

Their success ratio is 25%. Imagine how many tens of thousands of dollars th ey lose every month to unsuccessful auctions.

Now take our user name. We are doing 350,000/month but only receiving 2500 feedback/month. But our margins are much higher than accstation, where they are making pennies or a $1 an item where we can sell a V3 and make $35 with a 85% success ratio.

So while they have achieved 1 million feedbacks, it doesnt mean they are the biggest ebay company, the most profitable or largest seller on ebay gross profit wise.

Only means. …they have the most feedbacks.

On another note, accstation and eforcity are the same company lol. They use seperate user names to achieve more search results as ebay’s search algorithm does designate a certain amount of hits per user name. I think they have 3-4 user names actually. Check it out. Their websites, products and templates are all the same.

Congrats to them for sure though! That warehouse has to be pumping out at least 1-2K items per day!!!!

Confirmed, they are the same person just like amajorukpowerseller said.

To be honest the easiest buyer too get on with that i have found are the craft people. But even the craft buyer is morphing/changing into a different buyer with ebays changes.

Do you waste time fighting negs, answering stupid questions, worrying about DSR’s or would your time be better spent adding several hundred more lisitngs and packing products.If your prime aim is to make as much money as possible then that question is a no brainer. You know at that level you’re never going to be perfect, so why try any more than the minimum needed to keep you out of hot water with eBay.

Sellers, myself included, are all guilty to some extent of only seeing eBay from their own size of operation. Someone shifting 1000 items a day looks at things from an entirely different perspective to someone selling 100 a month.

I answer all questions including “what is the catalogue number for this CD” when it’s stated on the listing (although I do put “as stated on the listing” at the end of my answer). I sell to them too. And newbies. The only people on my BBL are non-payers. Can’t say I get too many complaints (the complaints I do get are usually about Royal Mail), and so far no negs (touch wood).

I think that some of you are being too harsh – after all some people ask a question – any question – just to see how helpful the seller is. I would do that with an expensive item (athough I would try to ask something sensible and not already covered in the listing).

I get far stupider questions when I sell my jewellery at craft fairs eg “are these real gold?” about £2.50 earrings!

I like to think I’m “customer service” oriented. But then again, I’m not the sort of seller that ebay wants any more, am I?

Anyway you only suffer if you make yourself suffer, they are not annoying you, you are getting annoyed at them.

A stupid question takes no longer to deal with than a sensible one, usually less time.

Q. Does this game work on a playstation 2?

A Yes it sure does.

I guess all sellers are different too.

I have exactly 7 folk on my BBL all for not paying.

I would rather someone ask a stupid question than be a stupid buyer , which they aint until after they ask the question.

#45 Try dealing with men who can’t decide what size a bit of wood they need.

Title – playstation 2 game SPYRO

Q. Does this game work on a playstation 2?

That buyer is for the bbl list for me.

I answer all questions , just not the stupid ones.

I’ve found that just not answering the person’s question is a good way to get them to not buy from you. It is a lot easier than adding them to your BBL.