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Is there a certain positive rating a vendor must maintain to be an ebay member?
Too many scammers in the trading card market. Bait and switch, damaged product etc.
natio2600
Posted Sep 10, 2026 at 4:47 PM · Edited Sep 10, 2026 at 4:47 PM·Last reply Sep 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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eburtonlab
MentorSep 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM@natio2600
eBay does not use feedback to judge sellers, but as a buyer you should have a pretty good idea of what kind of feedback a seller must have to meet your own personal requirements, what percentage you think is high enough to deserve your business, how much feedback for selling similar items indicates a seller that is experienced enough to trust, and how many and what sort of negative comments indicate a seller should be avoided.
natio2600
OPSep 10, 2026 at 8:03 PMI can actually understand both sides as we also sell. However there are many instances
where there are just flat out fraudlent posts. Orders not delivered, damaged product etc.
Maybe try a system, new vendors have a probationary period . If they maintain a certain positive rating for that period great full access. There has to be some kind of standard. So much for the guarantee.
Unfortunately this does reflect well on Ebay. Bad associates in any business is never a good thing.
natio2600
OPSep 10, 2026 at 8:26 PMTo Jacbar Collectibles. Thank You so much for the information. I have had my issue USPS as most of had. This particular incident involved, I am sorry to say a complete idiot, a handful of common cards with a severely scratched holo. Not one of these cards was in a penny sleeve or top loader or any protection got an envelope of trash. My fault, should have checked this person out. Should I have to.
eburtonlab
MentorSep 10, 2026 at 8:32 PMHowever there are many instances where there are just flat out fraudlent posts. Orders not delivered, damaged product etc.
As a buyer, I would recommend others avoid buying from sellers that are obviously fraudulent. If you see signs that a seller is not delivering what the seller describes, find a better seller to do business with rather than waiting for eBay to take action against the poor seller first.
Maybe try a system, new vendors have a probationary period .
If a seller is not experienced enough, concerned buyers can certainly hold off on buying from that seller until the seller is more experienced, particularly if the seller is selling expensive items. Perhaps if the seller is selling inexpensive items some buyers may be more willing to give a new seller a chance to make a sale and gain more experience.
There has to be some kind of standard.
Every buyer gets to set their own standard. If you only want to do business with experienced sellers with 99% feedback or better when buying an expensive camera, and I choose to do business with a new seller with no feedback selling stickers, why should eBay override either of our personal decisions just for the sake of having a single standard?
eBay's standard is necessarily quite lax: eBay will let users create an account and sell even if those users have never sold anything before. And scammers will try to create new accounts using false credentials or hijack existing accounts and use them for scams, so buyers must be wary of new accounts selling expensive items, or any accounts -- even experienced ones -- offering deals that are "too good to be true".
Don't outsource your own judgement decisions to eBay. Protect yourself. Just because eBay chooses to do business with an unknown user today does not mean that you have to buy from that user yourself tomorrow.
eBay has a very good money back guarantee, but if you pick your sellers with care you may not have to actually invoke it very much or at all.
natio2600
OPSep 10, 2026 at 8:49 PMThank you everyone for your insight and advice. I have been in business my whole adult life. This is not the first clown nor the last that I have dealt with. The advice on researching the seller is now automatic. Unfortunately that will affect any fairly new vendors that don't have a track record. Does not seem fair to them. We sell on TCG they have some protection don't maintain 90% rating bye bye.
jacbarcollectibles
MentorSep 10, 2026 at 5:41 PMThere is nothing that you can see other than the sellers feedback profile. eBay keeps internal records of sellers and these are what eBay uses to determine if a seller can keep selling. So it is important that if you are scammed you open the appropriate case with eBay.