posted on January 11, 2004 08:01:10 PM new
You stated in another thread:
"The same thing with PowerSellers. There can be an ebay user ID that obviously generates only a few hundred dollars per month in sales and the have a PS icon. It's the total of the sales of all the seller's ebay IDs combined that earn the rank of PS"
How? I have multiple id's but the PS logo is only on one of them.
posted on January 11, 2004 08:09:25 PM new
Ebay makes it quite clear that each account must stand on it's own merits unless you wish to combine 2 accounts into one. You can then import feedback to the surviving account. You CAN NOT combine sales from different accounts to meet the powerseller requirements. Been there, tried that.
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posted on January 11, 2004 09:03:09 PM new
I read that too. It is simply another auctiondoofus mis-information spewing. At my place of employment, we have only one Ebay ID and it is eligible for PS Status. Why? Because we list enough to put us above their listing fee quota. Don't believe me, ask any powerseller that lists tons of items and has very poor sales for a period of time. Will ebay pull your PS status? No, because you have listed enough to keep your listing fee quota.
posted on January 11, 2004 09:14:33 PM new
sparkz is correct and once again Auctionace is wrong, wrong, wrong......... same as he always quotes percentages like "90% of ebay sellers do such and such....... blah, blah, blah". He just pulls this info out of his head and has no facts or experience to support it.
One criteria of being a PS is that you "Maintain a minimum of $1000 for 3 months of average gross monthly sales." So you may check on a PS for a month or two and not see that average but they may make up for it again. And ebay also gives us a "grace" period to smarten up and make money again before booting us if we don't maintain the level. And I know this because I've been there and back a few times.
posted on January 11, 2004 11:58:57 PM new
Put it this way - it's about as valid a claim as his insistance that ebay is about to make ebay searchable by neg, pos, nuetral despite it being pointed out repeatedly that the sort type ebay stated they would be using buyer and seller feedback. Of course he still has not owned up to that one even though ebay has specifically stated that misinterpretation such as his were not correct.
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posted on January 12, 2004 01:06:13 AM new
Ace already erased his comment that lindajean posted here. He won't face up to anything ever, just continues to post whatever pops into his head even when he is wrong and then rushes in later with an "I love Vendio" edit. It's not the first time he's done this and it won't be the last. Yet at other times he brings us some good info.
This is a great example why we shouldn't all believe everything we read and we should wait to get a balanced view from experienced sellers and buyers before taking action on anything. None of us know it all.
posted on January 12, 2004 05:31:13 AM new
I always assumed a powerseller would have at least somewhere in the vicinity of 500-1000 fb's. And at least 1000.00 a month in sales. I never knew it had anything to do with your listing fee quota, which is what, btw?
posted on January 12, 2004 08:05:46 AM new
I made power seller with only 300+ feedbacks on this id. It just happened because I listed a ton of bulk items to clean house. Relists resulted in the magical 3 month $1,000 average. Now, I am listing 300 postcards a week under it (had to make it my primary one after that) and maintaining the required sales+.
There is no "fee quota". It is just based on $$$$ sold. I could sell 1 $1,000 laptop a month and be a Power seller. Which I have always felt was unfair. Ebay would make very little money from my sales but would still label me a PS if I wanted to be.
But then, I suspect you knew that already and was only questioning someone's remarks (again).
posted on January 12, 2004 08:19:20 AM new
No, to tell you the truth LindaJean, I am probably a long way from power seller, unless as you said, I could sell maybe one thing for 1,000.00 a month -- which I don't have that kinda Ebay gig. Although, I might be able to do $300.00 a week, if I pushed it hard enough, did my research, and had some luck.
I was just asking in following the thread. Up until now I really haven't given much thought to PowerSeller status but ultimately, I guess I'd like to know what its about, if I ever do get there.
posted on January 12, 2004 08:35:18 AM new
The powersellers I know are all "Mom and Pop" type sellers who deal in antiques and collectibles. They don't list a multitude of items but with a few things closing at $40 or so it only takes about 25 or 30 listings a month to be a bronze seller. One of my friends is a silver but she sells vintage jewelry, sometimes at about $150 to $300 each piece.
This page has all the questions and answers about being a PS. Over all, it's no big deal except that the e-mail support seems to help somewhat. I've never had too many problems but always got a fast response. Then again, I always did when I wasn't a PS so who knows?
posted on January 12, 2004 08:46:42 AM new
Thanks, Kiara, for the link to read up on it!
(ps: seems to me, it should be called Power Money Maker -- instead of Power Seller, if you can do it in as few actual sales per month!
btw, LindaJean, what do you mean by (again)
??? If someone posts about a fee listing quota, and I never heard of it -- and I ask what it is, Why is that suspect to you?
Actually, I think you are the one who, BEING a powerseller, already knows the deal, but is just TARGETing someone here and hoping for others to jump on the bandwagon.
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posted on January 12, 2004 09:38:48 AM new
No, Fluffy, I don't. Thats why I question, what I read especially if I have no prior knowledge of it.
You know, there are very few people who've got it so sewn-up on EBAY enough who post here, who's opinion I might trust. Maybe You, Kiara, and a few others....but everybody's STILL post's their thoughts, opinions, and supposed "expert knowledge", based on their experiece. And If I remember correctly, you got kinda disgusted of that back in December.
AuctionAce stands on his own words here; just like I do mine. And I dont have a clue what when on before I got here. But I really dont like being accused of being coy when I'm wasn't especially since that was probably the OP's original agenda and its only purpose is to just be f***ing mean.
posted on January 12, 2004 10:14:01 AM new
Nero, I guess I read it differently. I tend to read for content and sometimes miss other things going on.
I had a real-world tech support job at one time that wasn't too demanding or very interesting, for that matter. I used to spend a lot of that time online in the forums I preferred. It relieved the tedium a little and made me feel involved. None of the forums really had as much traffic as I would have liked, though, even with my copious contributions. There wasn't enough going on to make up for the boredom. So I'm afraid I may have "made up" things from time to time, or made more of something than it really was. I blush to recall.
I think that some of the people who post here repeating rumors and half-truths must be in the same sort of situation I was. They've made this forum as a sort-of nexus for news, fact and congregating with total strangers who, oddly, they consider friends.
posted on January 12, 2004 10:22:24 AM new
A year or two there was some threads about sellers with Power Seller status that appeared to only sell a few inexpensive things month after month. A few posters offered the explanation that combined ebay accounts allowed them to have Power Seller status. Like Fluffy says " don't believe everything you read here."
Many of the pompous posters here are probably only one lost major wholesale connection from being in dire straits. Of course, they can shrugg it off with a " I'll replace the connection easily " remarks but that may be much easier to say that to do. Have you ever worked in a company that had proposed layoffs and heard the " I can get a better job tomorrow with no problem " remarks and then saw those same people out of work for months on end or take a crappy job?
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posted on January 12, 2004 10:34:52 AM newMany of the pompous posters here are only one lost major wholesale connection from being in dire straits.
Do tell.
No, I mean it. Tell us how you know this and what the details are. I want to hear about the dire straits, too, presumably not the "Sultans of Swing" variety.
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posted on January 12, 2004 10:50:30 AM new
Yes, do tell.
I've got some time to read today. I wanna know! Name the names, tell the stories, spill the dirt. "Many", you say? "Pompous", you say? That narrows it down somewhat. So tell me.
posted on January 12, 2004 10:56:54 AM new
Some posters even brag about the high quality jewelry they bestow upon the relatives as gifts and how crappy QVC jewelry is all the while selling mostly very low value store return jewelry ( quotes like " they are getting it at 10% of a retail store " is pure BS ) and only apparently making much of their profits by gouging on s/h and making others subsidize their free Paypal accounts.
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posted on January 12, 2004 11:34:59 AM new
Fluffy, lol..re the copious contributions. Me, personally, - I love reading them! I get bored on this is thing, too. You have to know you are one of the most interesting posters here! God, you left for a few days and had over a 100 post thread speculating about it!
My point was Ace is not THE ONLY one who posts the wrong the things on here, and unless he puts his foot in his mouth, I dont see what the going after him is about. But I guess as Big Peepa said, "board's been dead lately." Maybe it needs stirring up.
I gotta go to the PO and run some errands. Save my seat. I'll be back in a bit to see where this hammy continuing saga goes....hahaha..
(ut-oh Ace, looks you are in for it now!! )
edited to add: Ace, I've taken those crappy jobs and I am a failure at them!! LOL>>>>
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posted on January 12, 2004 11:49:37 AM new
Fluffy, I've looked at a lot of your " Sterling Silver Bargins for Weird People " auctions and most of the stuff looks like stuff that nobody would want anyway unless it had a 1 cent start bid with no reserve. Most of it seems to go for less than $6 . Those phoney stickers that say " Retail $300 " are all a sham and you know it as well as just about everyone else. Look at Bidz.com and you see nothing but Retail $160 tags for gawdawful looking jewelry that often goes for it's $1 minimum bid or no bid at all. Are those '20 oz of sterling silver scrap' lots the stuff that is too dang ugly to sell?
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posted on January 12, 2004 11:51:52 AM new
Nero - I can tell ou that in my case - the only reason I have "gone after" Ace is because he had the nerve to call me arrogant for relying on my own interpretation of ebays announcement and having the audacity to contradict the opinion of him and others and said that he would own up if shown to be wrong. He has instead gone to great lengths not to menntion childish and obnoxious behavior on another board to avoid simply saying that he was incorrect.
Lots of people on these boards occasionally make a mistake, it's ony human, but they own up to it. As seen above - that is not the case when it comes to Ace. He has chosen to instead, blame it on a thread posted a year or two ago and then deflected the attention away from his misinformation and onto an attack against Fluffy.
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posted on January 12, 2004 11:57:11 AM newAnd your authority for this is...?
I think his authority is sellercharlene.
When some others post wrong info I've seen them step up to the plate and admit it. Most don't hide behind other IDs or pretend to put the poster who corrected them on "ignore", or hide out at the Other Online Auctions Forum and continue to play games.
Ace was always knocking fluffy's auctions and suddenly he started sucking up to fluffy for weeks on end and then one day she slapped him and he turned on her like a snake.
posted on January 12, 2004 12:22:10 PM newFluffy, I've looked at a lot of your " Sterling Silver Bargins for Weird People " auctions and most of the stuff looks like stuff that nobody would want anyway unless it had a 1 cent start bid with no reserve.
It's possible I don't take very good pictures. I use a scanner for ease-of-use and speed. Perhaps if I set up a digital camera on a stand and did multiple views that the pictures would be better. I would, however, have lower volume and there is no guarantee the profit per piece would be higher.
However (and more to the point), it is more than possible,based on your posting to costume jewelry threads, that you don't know jack about jewelry. I hate to say it, but your slip has shown a few times in those discussions. Not to mention your bra straps.
Under the terms of my agreement with the source of the jewelry, I am not allowed to mention the department stores the jewelry was originally purchased for. So, I cannot directly verify what I am about to say. But if you go to their Web page, I am selling nearly everything they have listed in the sterling section...and it very often ends at less than 10% of their Web page price.
Whereas your posts here continue to be a mixture of conjecture, simmering resentment and outright fabrication.
posted on January 12, 2004 12:25:59 PM new
Nero, I wasn't trying to be mean, really!
I'm not that type. And, I earned my PS easily with bulk lots but am keeping it with hundreds of very small $5 items a week (it takes 3 listings to sell 1 postcard so that tells you how hard it is to make that mark in this field)
I just assumed that everyone would know there is not and never was a "fee quota" to anything Ebay. Your fees can be under $50 a month and you can be a PS if you sell the right things. Unfortunately, my fees are more in the $350 range to make $1500.
posted on January 12, 2004 12:28:03 PM new
I don't help identify much here because honestly I am not as seasoned as some of you are.
I try to help on other simpler things (Shipping Asst for one), as well as fix links from time to time...
If I have been wrong, I admit it and apologize...just setting the record straight here, as my butt doesn't need anymore chewing anytime soon
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posted on January 12, 2004 01:44:19 PM newUnder the terms of my agreement with the source of the jewelry, I am not allowed to mention the department stores the jewelry was originally purchased for. So, I cannot directly verify what I am about to say. But if you go to their Web page, I am selling nearly everything they have listed in the sterling section...and it very often ends at less than 10% of their Web page price.
you can't identify the stores so this tidbit does no good at all. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that you print out those retail $600 tags and attach them to your unwanted low end jewelry.
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posted on January 12, 2004 02:14:19 PM new
In view of todays posts - is there anyone that still actually attributes any credibility credibility to this person?
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posted on January 12, 2004 02:38:53 PM new
Would that person be the one whose posts have been replaced by "You are currently ignoring posts by..." on my screen?
