Excited! - Hit the Power-Seller and Top-Rated Seller mark

butterjc81 · Feb 21, 2011

Received my email notification over the weekend that I meet the standards for Power-Seller and Top Rated Seller on Ebay. Took me three months to get these marks and I am very happy about it, just thought I would share the news!

BowmanChromeAddict · Feb 21, 2011

Congrats. I had that last week and just lost it. Too many impatient people or I don't ship fast enough...one or the other.

ballerskrip · Feb 21, 2011

Congrats. To keep it, I highly suggest shipping within 2 days and offering freeing shipping on any items that will sell over $10. If not, you will lose it soon enough.

skrip

butterjc81 · Feb 21, 2011

I was actually surprised I got it after hearing all the stories on here about DSR's and the like.

ThoseBackPages · Feb 21, 2011

yes, always do free shipping

Krom · Feb 21, 2011

ThoseBackPages said:
yes, always do free shipping

I charge 2 for shipping and have been a power seller and top rated seller for a while. I do try to ship in the first day or 2.

RZimm11 · Feb 21, 2011

Just checked my ratings, and apparently, I'm $80 short of the minimum dollar limit over the last 3 months to qualify. Ratings fine, transaction count fine, just not enough cash!

All The Hype · Feb 21, 2011

Congrats, What are the qualifications that you needed to meet to become power/top rated seller?

jubei777 · Feb 21, 2011

I got mine again but I figure it's just a matter of time before I lose it due to some trigger happy DSR's. It seems to come in waves. D/C info loaded into eBay seems to have helped though over the last few months.

butterjc81 · Feb 21, 2011

$3000 and 100 transactions over a 3-month period

Then you have to keep certain feedback and DSR standards, which with 300 feedback at 100% positive I have done, except somebody gave me a positive feedback and gave me a 2 on each DSR, so I have one of those on my current evaluation, the limit is 2.

allstarauction · Feb 21, 2011

I get the feeling more and more people are intentionally leaving low ratings to try to screw sellers after the ebay crackdown.

BowmanChromeAddict · Feb 21, 2011

I literally lost it one day (with no warning despite them saying that they notified me that I was at risk), checked my ratings which said I was at 2.37% on shipping time, and I then came back the next day and I am in perfect compliance. So I lost my silver powerseller status, top seller status, and a 5% discount over 1 days worth of ratings and they won't re-evaluate it for another month.

Rickzcards · Feb 21, 2011

Van Slyke Collector said:
$3000 and 100 transactions over a 3-month period

Then you have to keep certain feedback and DSR standards, which with 300 feedback at 100% positive I have done, except somebody gave me a positive feedback and gave me a 2 on each DSR, so I have one of those on my current evaluation, the limit is 2.

Is that still the benchmark? Ebay gave me both PowerSeller and Top-Rated Seller about 5 months ago and I hardly sell that much. It's a nice thing to have but I'm not sure how I deserved it, well at least the PowerSeller status. My DSR's are 5, 5, 5, & 4.9-5.0 so I think I deserve the Top-Rated Seller at least. Congrats on your elevated status!

jcmint · Feb 21, 2011

its getting tough to keep. I always ship next day if I dont I refund the s/h charge. I figure if they get their package in three days or less they'll be happy and leave a good dsr. then again there are some pricks out there that will never be happy and like dinging peoples dsr for fun

loftlife · Feb 21, 2011

I am a power and top rated seller. I now charge 2.50 to ship... I use 2 poly mailers. I fold the first one over almost like a trifold (card in sideways) then place in the second poly mailer. 98% of the time I mail the next day.

DSR's 4.9-5-5-4.9

I get a 20% discount on Ebay fees and they even mailed me a certificate suitable for framing

:lol:

massey · Feb 21, 2011

I have both power seller and top rated seller status currently but was dinged by one feedback. I maybe close to losing it. Anyone know how to figure out which item cause the bad feedback? I also noticed that ebay removed one feedback without my knowledge. Good to know they're reviewing some of these low end feedbacks.

butterjc81 · Feb 21, 2011

I also charge $2.50 for shipping to US bidders and always do combined shipping and notice I have alot of people who buy more than one item and they generally appreciate the combined shipping.

massey · Feb 21, 2011

Do folks think $2.99 for shipping is generally too high? I've been fine so far but the lowest I would probably go is $2.49 for a single card.

bigpapiMA32 · Feb 21, 2011

massey said:
Do folks think $2.99 for shipping is generally too high? I've been fine so far but the lowest I would probably go is $2.49 for a single card.

I do 1.99 on all my auctions. That covers shipping with DC and leaves $0.58 for packaging, which is more than enough if you recycle bubble mailers.

butterjc81 · Feb 21, 2011

Unfortunately I don't buy much of anything to be able to recycle mailers

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