@pierrelebel wrote:
Rose-dee - "My FB rate is around 1 out of every 8 or 10 sales right now,"
Are you sure? When I take a quick look at your feedback rating, comparing feedback you have left for buyers and feedback received from buyers, it appears to be about 1 in 2.
And that trend seems consistent for the last year 52/114
I think you're making some false assumptions in coming up with these numbers.
For example, eBay only displays "FB left for others" (FBLFO), not "FB left for buyers" specifically. You're overlooking the fact that my FBLFO includes years of purchasing on eBay as well as selling, as does the FB received, a good portion of which is from sellers I've dealt with.
So when you see my FB rating of 764, it doesn't represent anywhere close to 50% of the sales I've actually made as a seller. That number also includes FB from sellers I received in earlier years when I was a much more frequent buyer. My FB left for others is currently at 2,907, whereas FB received as a seller is exactly 471. Since I always leave FB for others, whether they are buyers or sellers, that 2,907 is a better representation of my transaction history as a seller, minus roughly 20% FB left by me over the years as a buyer.
So my actual seller transaction count is probably somewhere around 2,300, and my actual FB received from buyers is 471, or about 20% over time. That percentage however includes earlier history, when buyers were far more generous in leaving FB. At one time, in my category, it was unusual for a buyer not to leave FB. Back before about 2013, my FB ratio was pretty close to 100%.
To be honest, I don't even look at my FB page to determine how much FB I'm getting from buyers, since it's so skewed. What I look at is how many "FB received" icons I see on my list of sales in Selling Manager. And it has dropped off, quite drastically, in the past couple of years. Currently, the ratio I see on Selling Manager is about 27% FB received to left. This has actually been a surprisingly good month (I've had a few months in the past year where it was closer to 10%).
I think the only FB that has any real relevance anyway is the most recent. I doubt most buyers look beyond a couple of pages of a seller's FB history (if they look at all). Nobody cares about old, stale FB. Which is why seeing FB dropping off to between 10% and 30% can be a concern for smaller sellers. You want buyers to see how you've performed on recent transactions, not years ago.
Which brings me back to my earlier advice to the OP -- use buying to increase your FB score if you're concerned about seeing a larger number displayed up front on your ID. Because these days you're unlikely to get it very quickly through selling.
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