Feedback question...

RFW

charlies_mum wrote: »

Ebay earn nothing from the buyers

There's a slight flaw in that argument, if no one buys anything then no one pays any fees.

eyelinerprincess

TGXbuyer wrote: »

just adjusting for previous feedback where you've been left more than one feedback by a repeat customer. The headline feedback number is based on lifetime. The % on the last year.

But the two new feedbacks are new sellers to me, I haven't bought anything from them before...

By my calculations, it's right, (37/38x100 = 97.4 to the nearest sig fig)...maybe some of my feedback has just expired, and that's why.

charlies_mum

RFW wrote: »

There's a slight flaw in that argument, if no one buys anything then no one pays any fees.

There's an even bigger flaw in that argument - if no one buys an item, the seller is still charged a listing fee, so even without buyers, Ebay still gets paid

RFW

charlies_mum wrote: »

There's an even bigger flaw in that argument - if no one buys an item, the seller is still charged a listing fee, so even without buyers, Ebay still gets paid

Who's going to list if no one is buying? You can say all you want about Ebay's changes and the future, but to think that sellers are more important than buyers is ridiculous. The majority of changes have been made as a result of Ebay's research into why a percentage of buyers don't return after a single purchase, usually down to some kind of bad experience in the selling chain. In their eyes they are protecting buyers to keep them on their site (whether they are doing it right is another matter).

I can't think of any selling environment where the sellers are more important than the buyers, even on Ebay!