dadofstickboy
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posted on July 13, 2003 07:24:42 AM new
Woke up this morning to find an Email from Ebay offering me( Power Seller ) Status.
This is the first time, in 3-1/2 years of selling.
I think it's neat, but I also know I won't be able to keep it up.
Should I take it for however long it lasts?
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max40
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posted on July 13, 2003 07:31:32 AM new
Congratulations, and condolences too. I accepted power seller status 4 mo's ago, and have been busting my butt to keep it. For years I was coasting merrily along listing when I felt like it. Then when I got power seller status, I felt like I had to keep it, and now I'm doing more than I really want to do on eBay. It's seems like I'm on a sales team that has quotas, and I don't want to be low man on the team.
There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
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drcomm
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posted on July 13, 2003 08:17:02 AM new
Dadofstickboy, can I share your thread? I came here intending to post the same question. I got my notice this morning too. I am flattered, but wonder if it will do more harm than good to join.
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tomwiii
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posted on July 13, 2003 08:28:04 AM new
My totally UNSCIENTIFIC experience with SOUR-SELLER status was: it HURT me sales!
After 4mos of LOGOs, I finally dumped the JUMPING RABBIT TURD logo & sales picked-up!
Fact or Fiction??
Fantasy or Over-Medication??
Ye be da judge!
 
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on July 13, 2003 12:25:44 PM new
I gave up PowerSeller status four months ago.
Couldn't be happier.
Now I'm aiming for my own sales goals instead of eBay's...and achieving them.
I am not a bathtub full of brightly-colored machine tools on Vendio.
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cta
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posted on July 13, 2003 05:01:56 PM new
No real reason to not accept it. I reached Power Seller status about 6 months ago but took some time off to run my other business, therefore, lost my Power Seller symbol next to my name. No big deal. I guess if I want to put in more effort, maybe I can get it back. But it does look nice there for however long it lasts. Have fun and don't let it pressure you.
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drcomm
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posted on July 13, 2003 05:30:05 PM new
There's always the option of not having the logo next to your name..that might be something to try. I would like to browse the "powerseller" board to see how much more gifted they are at selling than me 
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beatnikera
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posted on July 13, 2003 05:32:34 PM new
I had powerseller status throughout
2002 but since then have sucessfully sold items off my own website. I'm no longer a powerseller and have no plans to be one again. Back then my eBay sales
were very good some months and alittle soft on other months. That's just the way
it goes.
Ultimately, I really didn't want the powerseller program to tell me what
my sales quota should be (according to them) so I happily jumped ship after
they informed me in their form letter that I needed to do better. Gee, thanks eBay.
I still sell items on eBay but usually
only from early August until early May.
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"You're gonna look just like a porkchop when ya get old!" -- Michael Hurley, Snockgrass LP
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neroter12
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posted on July 13, 2003 05:33:35 PM new
I would accept it dad. You can only go back to where you are right now and that cant be so bad!
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Roadsmith
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posted on July 13, 2003 05:53:53 PM new
I had PowerSeller status for 1 month, lost the logo after 3! Not sure it made a bit of difference, but I do have to say that, as a buyer, I am more comfortable NOT dealing with power sellers. What I know about them is there won't be any personal attention to the customer, only cut and dried stuff. Also, I suspect them of cutting corners somewhere and I'm sure that's unfair.
Speaking of quotas, here's a true story: A nephew fresh out of an Ivy-League college took a job at the low end of the totem pole with a stock brokerage firm.
Every morning, EVERY salesman's name was posted in the main room on a big board called "The Wall of Shame." Name came off when you made your first sale, whether it was in 5 minutes of 7 hours. He did pretty well there but left after 6 months because (to his credit!) he wasn't comfortable working for a firm that would do that. I applaud him.
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dadofstickboy
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posted on July 13, 2003 06:44:28 PM new
Well: I took them up on their offer.
I don't suspect it will last long.
After 3-1/2 years I finally had a couple exceptionally good months.
But I figured what the Hey!
What's the worst they can do.
Bust me back down to where I've been all along.
I'm not going to kill myself trying to keep it.
I didn't even try to get it.
I've been selling for the fun of it,and I intend to continue to do the same.
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drcomm
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posted on July 13, 2003 06:48:24 PM new
I think I won't. They aren't offering any benefits I can't live without, and anything that might even remotely jeopardize my sales is just not worth it.
Congrats to you dadofstickboy! At least you know you're doing a good job!
Deana
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neglus
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posted on July 13, 2003 06:56:08 PM new
Good for you Dad! SOunds like the right attitude! I busted my butt to reach the bronze PS level and then decided to go for the silver - finally got there after lots of hard work but after a few months the summer slump set in..
When I saw I was burning listing fees, selling items with one bids, and more or less spinning my wheels, I decided to enjoy the summer and to heck with the PS levels...up here in the northland (Minnesota) summers are just too short to spend chained in front of a computer!
I'll probably be demoted any day now but the world will go on and hey! I am getting a tan! 
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neroter12
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posted on July 13, 2003 07:22:48 PM new
Roadsmith:
Did you see that news story that broke about the PHD scientist working for warner lambert as a sales liason? Said he was pressured into selling pharmaceuticals to doctors to use for non-fda approved illiness. He said his stomach churned every day about it.
I Never want to do sales except on my own terms. (It is always a compromising business to be in. I dont care how honest you are. Bound to meet that fork in the road.)
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Roadsmith
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posted on July 14, 2003 12:28:05 AM new
neroter: I caught just the tail end of the story you're talking about but did hear enough to want to go brush my teeth or something.
All of us, and I mean all of us, know how tempting it is to shave the truth, cut corners, gyp a little here and a little there. I'm sure most of us have resisted these temptations, but when you're in sales, you are your own boss in that the harder you work (and sometimes the more dishonestly you work) the more money you make.
Ditto for politicians. I have been one, at the local level, and even there I was offered bribes in such a casual way that I had to assume those bribes are usually accepted. Horrible. (Of course I turned them down; I finally put out the word publicly that anyone offering me a bribe would be sued. It stopped.)
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