OT: eBay's Top Rated Seller Qualifications Suck

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by JustinD

I cannot believe that anyone would be so inept as to let themselves use that best match crap. The moment they came out with that it was an obvious attempt to take advantage of the technology challenged segment of society.

I can't believe anyone would use that ranking either, I NEVER would. However, I have NO other explanation as to why my sales were down those two months other than not placing high enough on this ranking.

I received a large amount of GTC this past fall. I normally use 30 day listings, so none of my listings are ever over 30 days old. Last fall I did not relist my GTC listings and my sales plummeted again, IMO due to the lack of fresh listings....I started manually ending and relisting the GTC listings and my sales rebounded back up.

So while I know of no one who utilizes the best match searches, but many (including myself) who use the newly listed search ranking, these two searches have both had negative impacts on my results when I do not rank highly on them.