It seems that the general sentiment is that what makes a great eBay business is not the balance sheet, but the DSR scores. I’m sure the reason why Lehman Brothers went bust – really bad scores on P&P.

Agree with you – a lot of brainwashed people trying to convince themselves they are not…

The only reason items ever ended up on the first page was due to time ending soonest, but in some categories with large numbers of listings this was a fleeting advantage sometimes only worth seconds or minutes at busy times of day. With Best Match, featured listings do have less exposure, but here are some tips on better features to use.

It has been confirmed on in the eBay forums that eBay does not guarantee that your featured items will ever appear on the first page. I read a post recently where someone had raised status and a featured item that was posted towards the last page due to the recent best match glitch. eBay refused to refund the seller on the grounds that there is no guarantee of their listing ever appearing on the first page.

IT MEANS ONE THING TOO A SELLER, IT MEANS ANOTHER TO A BUYERS, OH AND OF COURSE IT MEANS WHATEVER EBAY WANTS IT TO MEAN TOO THEM.

Hood winked and brain washed comes to mind.

Reminds me of the sayings “We are only a venue”
another one “ebays a community with community spirit”

Looking at your feedback now your customer service is obviously greatly improved and you should be proud of yourself!

The option to include videos is not included in the eBay SYI form; you’ll need to go through the vzaar site to do that. More info here:
http://www.vzaar.com/help/howto_use_vzaar_a_step_buy_step_guide

Sounds good.

To be clear when I mentioned Yahoo putting my ads on eBay I mean when someone does an item search for “leave feedback” sometimes they see a text link to my site. These are usually buyers that don’t know what just happened (I’ve spoken to many of them) and are just trying to leave feedback for their sellers. They might click one of my sellers’ advertisements (an affiliate link) back to eBay and that is what I’m concerned about. The way you make it sound it sounds more like a policy violation rather than just not counting the commissions in the first place.

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Actually we’re very careful to be clear of eBay’s policies. When our player is off eBay we drop a cookie (as we are allowed to, and as we think we should be able to as we are helping drive traffic to eBay from off site). When we are on eBay we do not drop a cookie and go directly to the relevant eBay page.

@ebuyerfb

I’m not sure how they do it exactly, but they can see which affiliates are generating high revenues and what the referral links are. It’s then probably easier just to check the affiliates out see if they are playing properly. There are some log analysis that can be done as well. This can’t be done with a cookie, and because our video widget technically sits on our page, embedded into the eBay system, referral tracking would fail. However why risk getting kicked off the system? We’re rather play by the rules.

Do you know how eBay enforces that? Is it with a cookie? It shouldn’t affect me for the most part but sometimes people post links to my site in their About Me pages, in the forums, or Yahoo puts my ads on their site.