I stopped buying and selling on eBay a year ago, I’m glad I did because sucks now.

Unless, of course, the buyer desperately wanted to give us more money, but weren’t allowed to by eBay.

Oh, hang on, that’s actually what will be happening every single time someone purchases more than one item from us… Not really fair on the buyer.

eBay say:

For transactions with free shipping, there will be clear messaging in the Feedback flow encouraging buyers to leave a 5 DSR for shipping and handling charges.

£369.99 + 39.99 Delivery or £409.98 with Free Delivery. Does one look better than the other?

Average size of a bath on a pallet is 2000x1000x800. We charge a set fee of £39.99 just because it seems like a reasonable/attractive figure, it costs us £45-£50 inc vat so we already take a hit, sometime we get lucky and the drop is not to far from the factory so we make a small margin, most of the time we loose, particulary scotland / North wales were on average we pay around £60 per pallet.

I will have to wait and see how the new best match works before I make any changes with regards P&P, we have some baths with free P&P running at the moment but there is nothing obvious to suggest we sell more of them to be honest.

glad i dont sell books though….ouchy!!!

Just to add insult, the average star rating for Postage & Packaging is 4.58, so hardly anyone on the site will qualify for the new standards

Time for a DVD I cannot be bothered with this nonsense anymore today.

I have no problem with customers paying more, as long as it doesn’t impact on sales.

I suspect this will encourage buyers (particularly our repeat buyers) to go directly to our website, where they will still get a discount on postage that I won’t be able to offer anymore on eBay! Mental.

Also, I hope I’m right in assuming that no-one will be able to leave us anything less than 5 stars once we’re forced down the Free p&p road?

Well, hope springs eternal, I guess…

I have just checked mine using the following link
http://etrspreview.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?TopratedSellerPreview

I have had 3 1or2 DSR star ratings for shipping and handling charges between June 2008 & July 2009, we do not qaulify for the Top Rated Seller Program.

762 Transactions or £450,000 in sales = you are pond life get off our site.

I wonder what the average DSR score left across the UK site for P&P charges on Free P & P listings is.

Free P&P on all Media catergories, that includes books. Still digesting the email but the books is a real killer. Absolutely sheer profiteering from Ebay.

I’m with whirly on his questions. My situation is exactly the same. I sell about 3000 items per month, and am left around 2000 feedback per month with around 1200 leaving DSR’s.

Is is judged against my 3000 sales per month or feedback/dsr’s left?

I would also point out that recorded “signed for” is not a trackable method it just offers a proof of dispatch & receipt (in theory). It follows the same route through the postal system as standard mail & is just as likely to go missing as standard mail (possibly more, due to perceived value).

Simple question for me to answer when I reconcile the changes to my situation:

Will I make more money from the same effort, the same money from less effort or neither of the those?

I suspect that I aleady know the answer.

I sell high ticket items, approx 65-70 recorded sales a month, of those about two thirds leave feedback, of the two thirds that leave feedback only just about half leave DSR stars.

Are the yearly transaction numbers based on sales or the number of feedback and stars you get? this year at a guess our recorded sales are 750 transactions,498 feedback recieved, 354 star ratings recieved.

Confused.

There are three separate calculations;
* one for feedback percentage in which the multiple item buyer would only impact your rating once,
* one for your DSRs in which a multiple item buyer would only impact your rating once with an average score, and,
* one for TSR in which eBay looks at the total number of low ratings you get and the multiple item buyer could knock you out.

Starting in October for TSR there are three scales dependent on your sales volume.
*Low volume sellers with less than 400 annual transactions may have no more than 2 instances of 1s or 2s on each one of the four DSRs over the past 12 completed calender months
*Sellers with more than 400 annual but less than 400 in the last three calendar months may have no more than 0.50% transactions with 1s or 2s on each one of the four DSRs over the past completed calender 12 months. In other words for every 200 sales you can only receive ONE low DSR rating,
a 1 or 2.
*Sellers withmore than 400 transactions in the last three calendar months may have no more than 0.50% transactions with 1s or 2s on each one of the four DSRs over the past completed calender 3 months.

In your example selling 150 items a day:
150 x 7 = 1050 per week = 4515 per (averaged) month
You would need to keep your incidence of 1 and 2 ratings below 22, that is NOT 22 sales but 22 individual ratings per month.

Worst case scenario, one buyer who bought 5 items and was seriously miffed enough to give you 1 star across the board on each one would put you on the edge.

In April the rating scale and weighting will change for PowerSellers.

Simple huh?

# Number of impressions (views) versus number of sales will become a factor in BM.

I did a little research on this and it is the number of times the item is returned in search results that matters, not the number of times your listing is visited. I really hope they don’t include search API and finding API calls into that. This will probably have a side effect of constantly cycling through the bottom listings on the first page that no one ever looks at.

Yea to the UID shortening
Yea to the opt out for specific countries

(If you’ll check the ‘guess’ discussion, I predicted both! LOL)