ARGH!!! I am so SICK of all these d**m STAR DINGERS!!!
bobbyw8469
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Just got another one....and this guy is a seller too! I charge $4.00 for slabbed cards. He charges $3.00 for raw cards! I individually bubble wrap every slabbed card and then stick THAT inside a padded bubble mailer to prevent damage! I wonder if he packs as well as I do!! Anyway here is his username: mrniceguy1126
He left glowing feedback while silently dinging away at my stars. Is there any way to appeal that??
What is the main point behind sellers dinging other sellers stars, especially when they are charging almost the same thing I am!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Thanks for letting me vent.....
He left glowing feedback while silently dinging away at my stars. Is there any way to appeal that??
What is the main point behind sellers dinging other sellers stars, especially when they are charging almost the same thing I am!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Thanks for letting me vent.....
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<< <i>Just got another one....and this guy is a seller too! I charge $4.00 for slabbed cards. He charges $3.00 for raw cards! I individually bubble wrap every slabbed card and then stick THAT inside a padded bubble mailer to prevent damage! I wonder if he packs as well as I do!! Anyway here is his username: mrniceguy1126
He left glowing feedback while silently dinging away at my stars. Is there any way to appeal that??
What is the main point behind sellers dinging other sellers stars, especially when they are charging almost the same thing I am!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Thanks for letting me vent..... >>
Sellers ding sellers' stars because they are pissed at the system and the people who ding their stars, so dinging other people's stars is a sick way of getting even... even if they are getting even with the wrong people.
On the appeal note, I have been told that you can't leave a 1 or 2 if you leave positive feedback, but if you call eBay, the enforcement of this rule is mixed. One anecdote, though:
I shipped someone a magazine a day or two before Hurricane Irene--I live in RI and the buyer lived somewhere on the East Coast, I think PA. Of course, the magazine got "lost" in transit, so he kept asking me where it was and I kept telling him that I mailed it, and the DC number showed that it was somewhere in transit, and that due to the Hurricane it may be sitting somewhere and please be patient. After two weeks it hadn't been delivered, so I told him I would refund him if he didn't get it by the end of the week. Well, he got it by the end of the week, and he left me a positive with a "2" for shipping time. I couldn't control the hurricane; I mailed it either the day he paid or the day after, as I do everything that I sell, and that is all that I can control.
Well, anyway, after a few weeks, I noticed that the low DSR for shipping time had disappeared from my account. The only thing I can think of is that they might have a program that trolls feedback and removes 1's and 2's that were left with positive feedback. I would be really surprised if they cared about sellers enough to develop such software, but that is my story, and that is the only good explanation I have.
I work as a claims adjuster for an insurance company. Our performance reviews are largely tied to file audits which are done by someone outside our office. The current file auditing system that is in place is not fair at all, and the results bear only a very loose correlation to how good a person actually is at his or her job.
In order to help keep myself sane in the face of this, about a year ago I developed a mantra:
"Sometimes, you just get screwed".
Give it a try; it is a great stress-reliever.
Also, if you never want to deal with this exact problem again, offer free shipping and you can't be dinged in that category.
-CDs Nuts, 1/20/14
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Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Good Luck!
Jeff
<< <i>$4 shipping for one card is pretty steep in my opinion...I charge $2.99 and have never had an issue. >>
$4 to ship a graded card sounds right in my opinion. $3 to ship a raw card sounds a little extreme. If they are charging that much, then it had BETTER be well packed to prevent damage.
On a side note, take a gander at what PWCC charges to ship graded cards. You will see everything from $3 to $30.
<< <i>Nothing you can do unless he admits via eBay message system he left you bad stars as a mistake. >>
this is not true , the only way to get it erased is if the buyer left negative feedback
it is an impossible system, unles you are shipping free, you are bound to get some idiot to hit you and if he bought 3 things from you , 3 dings and you are done for 3 months of getting any discount
I've got 100% feedback, 4.9's and 5's accross the board for 1000+ sales.
Item as described: 5.0
Communication: 5.0
Shipping Time: 5.0
Shipping & Handling: 4.8
No discount for me - no top rated seller. As far as I'm concerned, Ebay's dashboard is a JOKE!!! They want everyone to charge free shipping - well guess what - the post office charges me to ship!
by bidding, the buyer commits to paying your rate, otherwise they should refrain from bidding if they disagree with your shipping policies.
pretty simple. either buy it or don't.
eBay's horribly flawed system allows for people to take potshots at you virtually at will once they've made a purchase.
whether it can be fixed on a case-by-case basis or not, it's ridiculous.
you either learn to deal with the horribly flawed system or just walk away. they don't care which you choose.
i feel for you Bobby. really. i'm in the same stupid slowly sinking boat. my discount disappeared several weeks ago, AGAIN, due to one smart aleck and the horribly flawed system.
whatever. it is what it is. take the good advice you get here. use it if you need to.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>Is the extra buck really worth the stress and irritation? >>
Is it REALLY an extra buck? I don't know what other bidders do, but if I'm willing to pay $10 for a card, my high bid will be $6 if the shipping charge is $4, $7 if the shipping charge is $3, and $10 if it's free shipping.
How does $4 to ship a graded card say less than $50 sound right when it costs $1.75 with delivery confirmation?? $3 still allows you $1.25 to cover supplies or offset ebay fees. When your charging approx 2.5 times cost your going to get dinged.
Another approach I have seen sellers take is to not worry about the discount and just charge whatever they want for shipping. Depending on what you sell you may be able to offset the discount with the higher shipping fees.
Good Luck
Jeff
<< <i>If it really irks you this much, just lower your shipping charge to $3.00. I think Paul summed it up pretty well...if people are chiming in that $4.00 seems high, then you are going to encounter this situation on a regular basis. Is the extra buck really worth the stress and irritation? >>
If he only charged $3 he'd wouldn't have as much to complain about. And that wouldn't be fun at all.
<< <i>Guys . . . . guys . . . . perhaps you need a refresher course: It's all ball bearings these days.
This made my day. I love Fletch, After the weekend I have had It made me smile.
Thank You
....for some reason I am thinking he says "now-a-days" instead of "these days", but I could be wrong.
<< <i><< Guys . . . . guys . . . . perhaps you need a refresher course: It's all ball bearings these days >>
I love the line in Fletch where he tells that old coot he is from the Mattress Police and someone ripped the tags off his.
~WalterSobchak
$3 though is more realistic if you are getting bubble mailers in bulk like everyone who is on these boards should be if you sell on eBay. royalmailers.com is what I use.
<< <i>I'm just trying to figure out what 'd**m' stands for. >>
dadgum.
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<< <i><< Guys . . . . guys . . . . perhaps you need a refresher course: It's all ball bearings these days >>
I love the line in Fletch where he tells that old coot he is from the Mattress Police and someone ripped the tags off his. >>
What kind of name is Poon anyway......
I live your body Larry
Hes actually 6'3" with the afro 6'9"
Fletch is just a classic movie
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<< <i>I'm just trying to figure out what 'd**m' stands for. >>
dadgum. >>
lol. too many letters.
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<< <i>I'm just trying to figure out what 'd**m' stands for. >>
dadgum. >>
lol. too many letters. >>
lol. 2 stars.
But the best thing to do is do FREE shipping, you will get more bids overall and it will make up the difference in cost.
All depends on what you are selling if its a bunch of under $10 garbage, then FREE may not be so good, but if your selling mostly $30-$100+ stuff do it FREE.
I personally will be turned off by shipping of $4 or more unless its a bigger $$ card ie $150+ and the $4+ includes insurance.
It is an attempt by ebay to to try an become amazon (which will never happen), and force you to ship for free. If you get seller discounts with power rating you really have no choice in the matter. Even if you charge $1 for shipping, someone who gets their shipping for free may ding you and you have absolutely no choice.
Deal with it or move to a different market place, you really have no other choice.
<< <i>Deal with it or move to a different market place, you really have no other choice >>
I heard that. I appreciate all the advice. I will probably do like Burgundy said, and just consign all my stuff with someone else. They get higher prices than I do anyway - let them deal with all the hassles and headaches. Just send me my check once a month.
Oh - if you charge free shipping, they buyers CAN NOT ding your stars. That is one change that the boneheads at Ebay got right. In the past, they USED to have the capability to ding your stars when you offered free shipping. Too many buyers complained and Ebay saw what a bone-headed move that was, so they took away that ability.
PS - CDNuts....the word D**N rhymes with NAM!
Danm, you were right! It is "nowadays".
<< <i>http://www.moviesoundscentral.com/sounds/fletch/bearings.wav
Danm, you were right! It is "nowadays". >>
I have seen that movie over 100 times. One of my top 5 of all time
Uncle Sam may ruin the consigning option if online sellers grossing over 500k are forced to charge sales tax. That will hurt their prices realized compared to smaller sellers.
I never look at my feedback which makes ebay far less frustrating. Keeping the shipping charge in the $3 range seems to be enough to maintain the discount. Surprisingly, even raw card sellers who grossly overgrade their cards still get the TRS discount if their shipping charges are cheap. Seems like most card collectors really have no idea what they're buying but obviously know what they're paying.
<< <i>PS - CDNuts....the word D**N rhymes with NAM! >>
If you'd actually spelled it that way in the thread title, he probably wouldn't have had to ask
Tabe
I'm a power seller with nice discount too
buy something from him and ding his stars...
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The cheapest I get for a 1oz first class with dc is like $2.50
<< <i>You get a small break if you do everything online. If you stand in line at the USPS and do everything the old fashioned way, it costs more. >>
If I walk into the post office its $2.51 to mail a padded mailer, raw card. If i do it online I save about 70 cents.
some examples of my dings ,
2.50 shipping for 3 raw cards from 3 auctions valued at 40 bucks. 3 - 1 stars , sorry no discount for 3 months
6 shipping for 6 tallboys sent priority mail the only way since they weight over a pound. 6 - 1 stars
2.50 for a raw card valued at 5 bucks send in a bubble mailer fully protects , ding
I since switched to sending all raw cards under 15 bucks in a white envelope with a card saver and piece of cardboard charging 1.50 which seems to keep people happy. I think I have only received 1 ding out of 200 transactions this way
4 bucks for 2 graded cards valued at 30 bucks to a board member , member says he didn't mean to ding me and left 4 stars, ebay says too bad we will not reverse it because he left positive feedback
I gave up on trying to get a discount , I charge 3.50 no matter the price on a graded card , 2.50 for raw over 15 bucks , 1.50 for raw under 15 bucks. I figure I cover shipping and ebay shipping charge (11% of shipping) plus the paypal transaction fee. I guess that is excessive in ebays book ......
<< <i>i'm not the least bit surprised you're a Browns fan. >>
what the hell does that mean. im thinking outside the box. you should try it sometime. all im saying is give the buyer options to make them happy.
so i ask, whats your issue!
<< <i>Ok, let me ask this. What if ebay gave the seller the option of shipping. 1.50 for a white envelope or 3.00-3.50 for a padded mailer. I would be nice at checkout if you could give the buyer a choice of how they would like their item shipped. I think this would curn alot of the issues with people. >>
You already can do that.
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<< <i>i'm not the least bit surprised you're a Browns fan. >>
what the hell does that mean. im thinking outside the box. you should try it sometime. all im saying is give the buyer options to make them happy.
so i ask, whats your issue! >>
again, i'll repeat what i posted here earlier, but to clarify: the option we as sellers offer to buyers is the merchandise which they seek....this stuff doesn't grow on trees, ya know.
well, it did. originally.
but, to get back to the point at hand, the buyer COMMITS to making a purchase simply by bidding.....the facts are right there in their faces, INCLUDING the costs of shipping.
if they are dissatisfied with the facts which have been placed before them, they shouldn't bid.
so, what right does ANYONE have to jeopardize the health of another's business just because they feel like being as A$$HOLE???
there's no other way to put it, you either bid based on the facts placed before you or DON'T!!
the system stinks because people can rip you no matter what....if you offer FREE SHIPPING, they can still rip you somewhere else.
play the stupid game, deal with it, but don't give stuff away just because you're trying to coddle people who couldn't care less whether or not you profit from your business, unless they are sophisticated enough to understand that your business health benefits them too, because you're still around to sell them stuff they want.
THAT, my friend is the issue. how much happier does anyone need to be?
btw, the Browns thing.......needed a
peace.