Comments on: How You Can Help Destroy the eBay DSR System

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:22:29 +0000

I totally agree with the article. As a Platinum Powerseller on eBay, these rules have made it impossible for me to sell. I sell the same products I’ve sold ten years ago, and sales are stronger and better then ever, but with eBay’s new system, I’ve had to implement a 12% increase in price to cover eBay fees, PayPal fees, and the cost to put a feedback sticker into each and every order, requesting the buyer’s NOT to leave low DSR’s, and yet it STILL happens, regardless of how good of a show I put on.
Either way, I have looked into the different types of auctions sites, and though I was skeptical at first as well, I have found a GREAT outsource for selling my products. “onlineauctions.com” has a WONDERFUL program, and it has a great plan for the future. The “founding members” are guaranteed to never see a fee increase, and in fact there are no fees, just $96 a year — which is about 10% of what I pay eBay EACH AND EVERY MONTH.

Do yourself a favor, check out onlineauctions.com and refer your friends. This is the declaration of cyber independence!

By: jim

jim — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:02:12 +0000

This DSR system is really absurd!! I am handicapped, so I stipulate a 15 business day handling time. Buyers don’t bother reading this stipulation, and write me about where their package is, and why it wasn’t mailed yet. This after only 7 days. Then they rate my shipping time low, and I therefore get punished by Ebay, even though I have shipped item within the stated shipping time. Everything Ebay does is unfair to the seller, and after all, it is the seller that pays the insertion fees, final value fee, and PayPal fee. Without sellers, Ebay wouldn’t exist. It seems to get worse everyday! Thanks for letting me vent.

By: jim

jim — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:30:56 +0000

Sorry but this new DSR thing is BS! I have a 99.9% feedback and an average DSR rating of 4.90 but my S/H has a 2.64% 1 and 2 rating which will put me out of bizz if this goes into effect. My DSR for S/H is 4.78 today. This is a bunch of BS! I paid eBay and PayPal almost $30,000 in fees last year and this is how I am thanked! Whata kick to the #&%#&#* by eBay AGAIN!!!

By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:40:51 +0000

BY THE WAY HERE IS THE LINK, IT’S BROKEN DOWN, SO JUST ELIMINATE ALL OF THE SPACES & PASTE IT ON YOUR INTERNET BROWSER.

http: // myworld. ebay.com/ zhaotian 0123

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:10:53 +0000

I am the latest victim of this hackneyed approach. In implementing the new DSR system eBay also raised listing fees and stated that the differential increase can be refunded to their top rated sellers as a rebate. It took me some time to adjust, but prior to Dec I was averaging 4.95-5.00 DSR status. With this high level of buyer satisfaction I typically got a rebate from eBay of $300 – $500 per month. In the past month I have received over a dozen positive feedbacks with 1’s DSR values. Even though these account for less than 1% of my transactions and does not currently threaten my account for suspension it did eliminate my eligibility for the rebate thus giving eBay an additional $500 in profits. I understand most peoples anger about the new DSR system, but you must recognize that the victims of your malice do have a face and it is not just eBay. This strategy cannot be sustained long term without eBay having a countermeasure, thus all consequences will be short term making eBay more profits and driving away sellers selling items at reasonable prices that you are obviously interested in buying. If you wonder what the eBay countermeasure will be I would look toward Amazon marketplace. Lets not be the ones who make that the only profitable alternative
Greg

By: LEO

LEO — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:54:42 +0000

I HAVE BEEN SELLING/BUYING ON E-BAY ON & OFF; BUT I HAVEN’T BEEN IMPRESSED WITH E-BAY SINCE DAY ONE. I MEAN, APPARENTLY E-BAY MAKES IT A PARADISE SHOPPING MALL FOR BUYERS, THEY ARE THE ONES THAT COMPLAINT THE MOST & HAVE TO DO THE LEAST. IT IS CALLED BUYING POWER, E-BAY WANTS TO ENSURE POTENTIAL BUYERS COME BACK TO E-BAY TO SHOP, BUT AT THE TOKEN THEY ARE MAKING IT A NIGHTMARE FOR ANYONE OF US TRYING TO SELL AND STAY AFLOAT. I HAD SOME TERRIBLE, PROBABLY THE WORST SELLING EXPERIENCES ON E-BAY. YES, YOU MAKE A SOME MONEY, YES YOU GET MORE VIEWS FROM PEOPLE YOU WILL PROBABLY NEVER KNOW, BUT BOTTOM LINE IS; E-BAY DOES NOT GIVE A RAT’S *** ABOUT THEIR SELLERS, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE SMALL SELLERS. I HAVE BEEN UPSET, DISGUSTED WITH A LOT OF THEIR RULES & PRACTICES; BUT THIS DSR SYSTEM??? EVERYONE SHOULD READ UPON THEIR “STRICTER POLICY” ON THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://pages.ebay.com/sell/July2009Update/Details/index.html#1-5 ; I BELIEVE LIKE CHRIS, IT’S A JOKE. TRULY I WILL NOT BE SELLING MY STUFF ON E-BAY SINCE IT IS FOR US BENEFICIAL TO CHANGE THIS STUPID POLICY WHICH DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE. EITHER THAT OR CREATE A NEW SITE & GET ALL OF THE BUSINESS SWITCHED OVER TO A NEW, FRESH SITE.

By: Jago

Jago — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:31:47 +0000

IGNORANT THREAD

YOU WOULD ACTUALLY BE HELPING EBAY BY POSTING 1’s TO SMALL SELLERS. …ITS EBAYS PLAN TO RID THEMSELVES OF ANNOYING SMALL SELLERS. WHY HELP THEM?

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:26:07 +0000

why dont everyone start a donation $$ REWARD PRICE for hackers and terroists to attack ebay? i’m sure the reward price will attract many hackers and terroist. The goal is to destroy ebay headquater, and get that ******* CEO of our sellers life.

By: UnHappy

UnHappy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:22:53 +0000

Ebay doesn’t change anything unless they are sued. If you want to fight for something sue them. I mean the dsr’s can’t be seen and even a person accused of a crime gets to see thier accuser. It’s unamerican and is opening us up to people buying a 1.00 item just so they can ruin our feedback. I have nothing but positives and a perfect 5 for the last year but then for a month they go and say someone just left low on something. I think ebay is doing this they even say your not allowed to ask a buyer about the stars. Why? Because they themselves ding the stars. They will kick you off if you ask a buyer if they left less than 5 stars.

If you go dinging peoples stars you will only hurt them. What an idiot. So I work my butt off to be an honest seller and someone just buys something so they can ding my stars in hopes of it crashing the star system. When has ebay crashed or changed anything. They don’t care about the sellers just money. That is why people who sell more it doesn’t matter how bad thier feedback it. You need to not harass people like that !

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:39:13 +0000

How the DSR system destroyed our Gold poweseller business in three weeks:
We were selling between £900-1600 worth a week, we were gold rated with averages of 4.95.
Ebay brought in the order handling time, we filled it in, saying it took us 3 days in addition to the shipping time, a total of 5 days as we make to order. Then the DRS’r came in, the customers down see the handling time, just the shipping service you are using. They give you poor DSR’s because they expected shipment with 2days. Our shipping DSR has dropped to 4.2 from 4.9, ebay have not banned us but even worse, backlisted us. This means all our listings are at the very back page no matter when the end time is. So we have taken £200 this week, from £1600 normally, this have been going on for three weeks. Ebay are still taking the fee’s though. So our previous service counts for nothing.We are going to have to shut our ebay site and look elsewhere.