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segojasegoja Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭✭
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affect your e-bay buying habits?

Will you bid more on a TRS's items?

Other thoughts?

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 39,393 ✭✭✭✭✭
    moving further away from the customers this company first served: small time traders.

    cost effectively trading beanie babies on eBay just got harder.
    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • segojasegoja Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭✭
    Not that I fully understand, but I thought this move was to help small time traders and level the playing field based on service etc not volume.
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  • commoncents123commoncents123 Posts: 2,648 ✭
    Ebay is making toooo many rules. K.I.S.S. keep it simple, stupid
  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,099 ✭✭✭
    I am a TRS, and I don't see it impacting sales at all.


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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,503 ✭✭✭✭
    My only concern with regard to the TRS is when I sell. Other than that, I try to use my head for determining what or what not to bid on or buy.

    There are just way too many variables involved for eBay to really categorize sellers as either god to deal with or bad t deal with. Usually, the bad news sellers have a wad of negs which help you make a determination. Right?

    I mean, the shipping is right in the listing.

    3 to 5 days delivery time. *Unless its registered but I rarely if ever buy anything which would require registered.)

    Return Policy/No return Policy.

    All right there in the listing, what else is there James?
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All I see is that when you are searching you will have to wade through all the Top Rated Sellers junk to find what you want from a real collector seller or small dealer that does not do thousands of dollars per month. There fixed Best Match search that you can not opt out of sees to that. I want to see the auctions ending soonest and have to reselect it every time. I don’t care what is ending in a month at 150% price list because they had to add in free shipping and 15% final value fees.
    No they are not trying to help the collector.
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  • derrybderryb Posts: 38,555 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It will save me some research of feedback to know I am buying from a reputable seller.

    "A car is a tool that takes you from one place to another. Everything beyond that is a payment for other people's perception of you."

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 39,393 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Not that I fully understand, but I thought this move was to help small time traders and level the playing field based on service etc not volume. >>



    volume and sales requirements listed here
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  • highbidder1970highbidder1970 Posts: 167
    It will help my bottom line.
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had a TRS80 once. That's about the limit to my knowlege of this.

    Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I am a TRS, and I don't see it impacting sales at all.l >>



    Ditto here.
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • VAMSKYVAMSKY Posts: 178
    If you have trust in EBay you may take their word for it. That ribbon means nothing to me. If I see an item I want to place a bid on, I will do my own seller research. Ebay just keeps falling further and further into the black hole.
    Dave of the cornfields
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    No effect at all.
  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    So how long before the TRS acronym becomes known as Top Rated Scammer instead of Top Rated Seller?

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