pnutpug
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Been doing ebay since 2004 and selling for the past couple years. Nothing heavy, very much a hobby thing (fewer than 100 transactions as a seller, all told). Now, I find out that I suck. Ebay has sent me a message saying that I am below their standards, therefore, they will be putting a hold on all PayPal payments to me until they can be assured I have delivered what I have promised.
I have had exactly one negative rating, from a total clown. The lowest average rating (out of 55 as a seller) is 4.6 out of a possible 5 for shipping costs. Communication and shipping time are both 4.8 and item-as-described is 4.9. Overall, I have a 98.6 percent as a buyer and seller on 206 transactions. I think that's pretty darn good, given the vagaries of the purchasing public. But ebay doesn't, and so now I will have to wait for my money if, indeed, I choose to do this anymore, and I am thinking that I will not.
I am surely putting more stock in this than it deserves, but having ebay suggest that I'm less than trustworthy sucks.
I do not know enough about how ebay works to know how I got into this bad-seller boat. I've tried reading ebay's breakdown on how such stuff gets calculated, and I still don't know. If anyone can explain this to me, that would be appreciated, if only for idle curiosity's sake. Because I think that I am pretty much done with ebay, both as a buyer and a seller. At some point, having a faceless corporation call you a douche bag when you haven't done anything wrong isn't worth the pocket change I get from selling thrift-store finds here-and-there to buyers who seem happy to do business with me.
I have had exactly one negative rating, from a total clown. The lowest average rating (out of 55 as a seller) is 4.6 out of a possible 5 for shipping costs. Communication and shipping time are both 4.8 and item-as-described is 4.9. Overall, I have a 98.6 percent as a buyer and seller on 206 transactions. I think that's pretty darn good, given the vagaries of the purchasing public. But ebay doesn't, and so now I will have to wait for my money if, indeed, I choose to do this anymore, and I am thinking that I will not.
I am surely putting more stock in this than it deserves, but having ebay suggest that I'm less than trustworthy sucks.
I do not know enough about how ebay works to know how I got into this bad-seller boat. I've tried reading ebay's breakdown on how such stuff gets calculated, and I still don't know. If anyone can explain this to me, that would be appreciated, if only for idle curiosity's sake. Because I think that I am pretty much done with ebay, both as a buyer and a seller. At some point, having a faceless corporation call you a douche bag when you haven't done anything wrong isn't worth the pocket change I get from selling thrift-store finds here-and-there to buyers who seem happy to do business with me.