How Important is it to be a "Top Rated Seller"? | Selling

sin-n-dex · 2024-06-06T23:14:55.036000Z

So basically I've gotten a lot of US postage to ship my cheap stamp lots by using stamps instead of ESE, and I noticed my shipping with tracking has dropped to 95.47. Under 95.0 I won't be top rated anymore. How important is that? Does it give me preferential placement in the searches or more visibility? Or is the only perk that badge that shows up on your listings to say you're top rated? Does anyone pay attention to that? I know shipping with tracking is not mandatory (unless you want to be sure to win INRs). This postage I have is basically free, and other posters here have said stamp collectors like their packages to be mailed with stamps. In Canada and International it doesn't matter, eBay is only tracking my shipping with tracking on US sales.It's great to save 1.16 in postage on my covers and presentation packs and ship the buyer's stamps with stamp postage, but if it's going to have negative consequences, I'll have to ensure I don't fall below the 95%. I already don't ship some items with stamps because they seem to create more INRs than usual (like banknotes). But I haven't had problems with stamp customers except them getting upset the ESE shows delivered when they don't have it yet (and it's a lot of work to try and explain that to someone when they insist they know best). I ship enough stuff that I should be able to stay 95% if I monitor it, I just wanted to know if the forum thinks this is important or not (and if it's important, what I benefit from being top rated). My handling time is too high to get the 10% discount, so aside from that... what else does it do for me? C.

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