Okay, I know this might sound idealistic or maybe even naive, but isn't this theoretically possible?
As you know that small time ebay sellers can't really afford to have any defects else risk going below standard and basically making no sales since your listings will be at the bottom where maybe only 2 or 5 people might see it the whole month. The key seems to be "transactions". The more transactions you can make, the better you can handle having a defect.
So if you have 997 out of 1000 transactions (per year) perfect, but 3 are defects, you are now sitting on the 0.30% cut off line. But let's say you had 1047 perfect transactions out of 1050, still 3 defects but that gives you only a 0.28% defect rating so you are still safe to remain in Above Standard/Top Rated.
Basically, the more transactions you can have, the better (or lower) your defect rating. Simple math. I think we all know this.
So what if, theoretically, we were able to get 100 ebay sellers to be part of a group and agree to help each other by each buying a $1 item in your store free shipping (doesn't even have to be a real item you will ship, once the payment is made, simply consider the transaction done, mark it as shipped and buyer just leaves + feedback), then the seller would buy something ($1) back from the buyer who bought from them earlier. So you are not really losing $1, you're just getting it right back. You'll only pay the small final value fee, a few cents. Now if all 100 sellers did this for each other, you could theoretically get 99 perfect transactions each.
Of course I wouldn't think doing it all in one day would be good. But just gradually or steadily doing it over a few days period....shouldn't this actually work?
Remember, this is for small time sellers. I realize that large sellers can easily make 50 or 100 transactions a day or a week, but for someone like me and others that sell only about 1000 per year, an extra 50 or 100 would really help when you are on the bubble and need to get below that 0.30% cut off.
I'm at 0.31% now and I'm working my butt off trying to move cheap sales as fast as I can before my next evaluation on Jan. 20th. So that's why my brain is working overtime and I'm thinking of all these ideas lol.
As you know that small time ebay sellers can't really afford to have any defects else risk going below standard and basically making no sales since your listings will be at the bottom where maybe only 2 or 5 people might see it the whole month. The key seems to be "transactions". The more transactions you can make, the better you can handle having a defect.
So if you have 997 out of 1000 transactions (per year) perfect, but 3 are defects, you are now sitting on the 0.30% cut off line. But let's say you had 1047 perfect transactions out of 1050, still 3 defects but that gives you only a 0.28% defect rating so you are still safe to remain in Above Standard/Top Rated.
Basically, the more transactions you can have, the better (or lower) your defect rating. Simple math. I think we all know this.
So what if, theoretically, we were able to get 100 ebay sellers to be part of a group and agree to help each other by each buying a $1 item in your store free shipping (doesn't even have to be a real item you will ship, once the payment is made, simply consider the transaction done, mark it as shipped and buyer just leaves + feedback), then the seller would buy something ($1) back from the buyer who bought from them earlier. So you are not really losing $1, you're just getting it right back. You'll only pay the small final value fee, a few cents. Now if all 100 sellers did this for each other, you could theoretically get 99 perfect transactions each.
Of course I wouldn't think doing it all in one day would be good. But just gradually or steadily doing it over a few days period....shouldn't this actually work?
Remember, this is for small time sellers. I realize that large sellers can easily make 50 or 100 transactions a day or a week, but for someone like me and others that sell only about 1000 per year, an extra 50 or 100 would really help when you are on the bubble and need to get below that 0.30% cut off.
I'm at 0.31% now and I'm working my butt off trying to move cheap sales as fast as I can before my next evaluation on Jan. 20th. So that's why my brain is working overtime and I'm thinking of all these ideas lol.