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How to Check an eBay Seller's Reputation
(and Why You Should Do It)
By - Jason Isakson
When you buy something from an eBay
seller, you are giving them your money and hoping that you will get something in
return. However many guarantees of safety eBay might make to you, nothing is
certain: if you just give your money to scammers all the time without doing any
checks then the chances are you won't get all of that money back.
That's why you should always check the
seller's reputation, or 'feedback rating'. This is a quick and easy-to-read
summary of their history as an eBay seller, which gives you some idea of whether
or not you should trust them with your money. Buying anything is a calculated
risk: you want to minimize that risk.
How to Check Feedback Ratings.
On each item's description page, there
is a box in the top-right hand corner about the seller, with the title 'Seller
information'. This contains the seller's name, their feedback score, and their
positive feedback percentage, as well as any stars they have earned.
Different coloured stars are given to
eBay sellers depending on their rating, in this sequence: yellow, blue,
turquoise, purple, red, green, shooting yellow, shooting turquoise, shooting
purple, shooting red. Anyone with a 'shooting' star is an experienced eBay
member who you should be able to trust.
If you click on the seller's name, you
can get to a more detailed view of their reputation - their 'member profile'
page. This page shows the total number of people who gave them a positive or
negative rating, as well as a breakdown by time. You can also see a complete
history of all the comments that have ever been left about them, with the most
recent first.
What to Look For.
You might assume that anyone with a very
high number can be trusted, but that isn't always true. It is more important to
look at their positive feedback percentage - and you should really consider
anything below 99% to be a red flag and investigate further.
Take a look through the first visible
page with the most recent transactions: are there any negative comments? What do
they say? Take others' experiences into account, as they could happen to you if
you deal with this person. Be careful not to punish sellers unfairly, however,
if they did bad things in their past on eBay but have improved since. You should
look at the breakdown by time and ignore any negative feedback that was left a
long time ago. Equally, though, you should sit up and pay attention if a seller
seems to have been left an out-of-character amount of bad feedback in the last
month or so.
Now that you know who to trust, it is
worth learning a little more about how the different kinds of auctions work, so
that you don't accidentally slip up and make yourself and your feedback page
look bad. Our next email will be about the different kinds of auctions you can
expect to encounter during your time on eBay.
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About The Author:
Jason Isakson Author Of "The Double Payment System" Discover How To Turn Your Computer Into A Money Making Machine! Go To http://www.FastIncomeNow.com
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