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Selling Limits question -- What's going on?

I have  two charts with selling limits and want to know which One do I pay attention to.  Which one is the most important.

#1

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or #2

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*confusing*

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Selling Limits question -- What's going on?

Let me sum it up in one sentence:

 

Chart #2 shows you how many free insertions are available to you if you have not yet reached the limits in Chart #1.

 

Chart #1 is a limit, Chart #2 is merely a counter that shows how many you have used.

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@liawri-75 wrote:

I have  two charts with selling limits and want to know which One do I pay attention to.  Which one is the most important.

#1

liawri75_0-1743502748668.png

 

or #2

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*confusing*


 

No, you don't have two charts with selling limits. Those two charts are different.

 

Chart #1 is your selling limits. Those limits are personal, they apply to your account. Your account has received too many defects, because you have had too many bad transactions. That means your selling performance as a seller is low because you have disappointed too many buyers. eBay is still allowing you to sell, so that you can try to make improvements, but they are limiting how much more damage you can do.

 

Chart #2 is a generic chart, it is not specific to your account. That shows how many promotional listings a seller gets, and it applies to all sellers who do not have stores. (Store owners get more than that.)

 

You can ignore chart #2, because unless you can get your selling standard improved, you will never be able to list that many items.

 

You need to pay attention to chart #1, and improve your selling performance so they will allow you to list more items. If you don't make improvements, you will eventually be restricted from selling.

 

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 That means your selling performance as a seller is low because you have disappointed too many buyers.

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Sorry but you are wrong.  I have almost 100% rating.   So it's not selling, it's NOT SELLING ENOUGH to Ebay's liking.

 

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You seem to be immune to understanding how your performance is evaluated.  eBay's seller performance evaluation is not based on your feedback record. Nor is it based on selling "enough."

 

You have gotten significant defect points because you canceled transactions. Here again is  the link already provided above, to help you understand how your performance is evaluated by eBay, you should take the time to read it:

 

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/selling-policies/seller-performance-policy?id=4347  

 

Also, a feedback rating of 97.9% is not very good.

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@liawri-75 wrote:

 That means your selling performance as a seller is low because you have disappointed too many buyers.

^^

Sorry but you are wrong.  I have almost 100% rating.   So it's not selling, it's NOT SELLING ENOUGH to Ebay's liking.

 

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Below standard means you are not meeting eBay's standards for two criteria:

 

1) Cases closed without seller resolution

2) Seller-initiated cancellations

 

Both of these are within your control. 

Your feedback score has nothing to do with eBay's performance metrics.

 

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@liawri-75 wrote:

 That means your selling performance as a seller is low because you have disappointed too many buyers.

^^

Sorry but you are wrong.  I have almost 100% rating.   So it's not selling, it's NOT SELLING ENOUGH to Ebay's liking.


I'm not sure if the facts are not "clicking" for you, or if it's a refusal to accept what the experienced sellers here have explained. We've been trying to help you with these topics for 4 years now.

 

Your Below Standard rating is because you have too many out of stock defects; it's not about how many items you sold. A seller with only 1 sale under their belt can still be Above Standard if they have no defects.

 

I am posting links to some of your old discussions where listing limits and seller performance have been explained to you in several different ways so you can take another look at them.

 

I hope reviewing the responses a second time will help.

 

Ebay just limited my Listings 

I want to promote ONE item and cannot find the Promoted button 

Is this a coincidence or a Conspiracy by Ebay 

Have you ever received a message like this from EB 

At risk Account 

This is only a rant - Penalized for not selling to eBay's standards 

Reached my Limit? What??? 

Opening a 2nd EBay account (continuing discussion) 

What will happen to my free listings come February1? 

What does this mean: Limits question 

How serious should I take this threat? 

My Performance Rating by EBay 

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Wow, that's a spectacular track record. Thanks to @wastingtime101  for being the Community historian!

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I don't typically look for and post someone's history like that; in this case I thought reviewing past posts might be more beneficial for this seller than repeating the same answers. I was surprised by how many threads I found on these topics - there are more than the ones I linked.

 

I'm not sure if there's a new way to explain seller performance and listing limits that hasn't already been said. My aim was to help the original poster, and respect the time of all the sellers responding here.

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@liawri-75 wrote:

 That means your selling performance as a seller is low because you have disappointed too many buyers.

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Sorry but you are wrong.  I have almost 100% rating.   So it's not selling, it's NOT SELLING ENOUGH to Ebay's liking.

 

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Uhm,  yeah, NO.

 

Your "almost 100% feedback rating" is not good on eBay. It's lousy.

 

I have been here for more than 25 years, and all along, 97.9% has been a lousy feedback score. The usual recommendation is not to do business with any seller that has feedback less than body temperature, or 98.6%. And that is being very generous.

 

As others have said, feedback doesn't count when eBay is evaluating your seller performance. Many buyers who have a bad transaction won't leave any feedback, but bad transactions do result in defects. So any transaction with bad feedback will almost certainly have at least one defect, but there will be more defects as well. From buyers who couldn't say anything good, so they said nothing.

 

The feedback doesn't matter, it is the defects that matter.

 

Look at your seller dashboard https://sellerstandards.ebay.com/dashboard. Show us what your defect rates look like for what determines your seller level: cases closed without seller resolution, transaction defect rate and late shipment rate.

 

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Oh I didn't realize OP was a board regular with numerous similar chronic issues like this. I assumed they were a newbie seller. I'll see myself out now.

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