Actually, there has been a change to the way ebay feedback works.
Now, instead of 1 feedback per customer, you get 1 feedback per transaction, and it only counts the feedback that you have received in the past 12 months.
So, if I sell you 30 1 dollar bills on ebay, you receive them, are happy with them, and leave me 30 positive feedback, my score now increases by 30 instead of 1. This change has been in place since the time when eBay removed the ability for a seller to leave negative feedback for a buyer, which is almost 2 years old.
12 months after the feedback for those 30 sales have been left, they no longer count towards your ebay feedback, or detailed seller rankings.
I doubt that there is anything malicious about this. If you are found to be selling information gained via transactions on eBay you are subject to account suspension, account termination, and in extreme cases, you can face civil litigation over violations of the Terms and Use of eBay's services.
You as a seller, cannot even use your list of e-mail addresses/names/etc... from paying customers to generate your own e-mail marketing campaign for your business. You may only send advertising emails to people who have signed up on eBay to receive such information from your business, and only through the marketing program that eBay supports on their site. Any attempt to do so outside of the parameters of eBay is a violation of the agreement, and steps will be taken by eBay against you. All it takes is for one of the people you emailed to report it to eBay, and it will be investigated, and dealt with.
While I know that this wont deter the most stalwart of scammers it has indeed made a large dent in the process.
How do I know this information? I spent a very long time as the one of the brains behind an ebay seller who operated at the very edge of what was allowed to be done by sellers. We pushed the envelope as far as eBay would allow, and at times stepped over the boundaries (both accidental and at times purposely) and were faced with the repercussions of our actions. This seller is the largest reason for many of the new restrictions people like King Jim might encounter in their eBay endeavors.
This post has been purposefully left vague. If you have an idea of what seller I am speaking of, and would like to discuss that portion of the post, please refrain from mentioning eBay user ID's and their business practices in this thread and PM me about it. This is a request born out of my wish to maintain a level of distance between myself and the business that I was previously employed with. I am very happy and sleep much better at night in the year and some odd months since I found less 'sleazy' employment, and wish to keep it that way.
Now, instead of 1 feedback per customer, you get 1 feedback per transaction, and it only counts the feedback that you have received in the past 12 months.
So, if I sell you 30 1 dollar bills on ebay, you receive them, are happy with them, and leave me 30 positive feedback, my score now increases by 30 instead of 1. This change has been in place since the time when eBay removed the ability for a seller to leave negative feedback for a buyer, which is almost 2 years old.
12 months after the feedback for those 30 sales have been left, they no longer count towards your ebay feedback, or detailed seller rankings.
I doubt that there is anything malicious about this. If you are found to be selling information gained via transactions on eBay you are subject to account suspension, account termination, and in extreme cases, you can face civil litigation over violations of the Terms and Use of eBay's services.
You as a seller, cannot even use your list of e-mail addresses/names/etc... from paying customers to generate your own e-mail marketing campaign for your business. You may only send advertising emails to people who have signed up on eBay to receive such information from your business, and only through the marketing program that eBay supports on their site. Any attempt to do so outside of the parameters of eBay is a violation of the agreement, and steps will be taken by eBay against you. All it takes is for one of the people you emailed to report it to eBay, and it will be investigated, and dealt with.
While I know that this wont deter the most stalwart of scammers it has indeed made a large dent in the process.
How do I know this information? I spent a very long time as the one of the brains behind an ebay seller who operated at the very edge of what was allowed to be done by sellers. We pushed the envelope as far as eBay would allow, and at times stepped over the boundaries (both accidental and at times purposely) and were faced with the repercussions of our actions. This seller is the largest reason for many of the new restrictions people like King Jim might encounter in their eBay endeavors.
This post has been purposefully left vague. If you have an idea of what seller I am speaking of, and would like to discuss that portion of the post, please refrain from mentioning eBay user ID's and their business practices in this thread and PM me about it. This is a request born out of my wish to maintain a level of distance between myself and the business that I was previously employed with. I am very happy and sleep much better at night in the year and some odd months since I found less 'sleazy' employment, and wish to keep it that way.
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