DSR's, while I personally like them, CANNOT be used to your advantage.
DSR's when tied to searches, incentives, etc. are arbitrary, and in the manner in which ebay is implementing them, nearly impossible for people to maintain. How can a seller maintain a solid DSR when ebay allows actual s/h charges or Free shipping to be rated a 1?
The only way to make a DSR work for you, is to boycott ebay.
Btw, contrary to ebay's claims, buyers DO boycott ebay. I should know. I am mostly a buyer on ebay. Correction. Was. Now I neither sell nor buy on ebay.
Ebay has proven over and over again this year, they are nothing but liars. The stats they throw out, are lies, as far as I am concerned. Even if they weren't spinning these numbers, I wouldn't believe them, because that is all they have done all year.
Buy.com is just another example of how ebay is lying to the public. They say they allow sellers who sell over $500,000 a month to "negotitate" pricing AND policies. WHATS THAT?
Here, look at THESE numbers, and you see for yourself, if ebay is making good business choices, or, padding their numbers, to make it look like the boycott is working:
Seller: Buy
Dates: March 2, 2008-May 31, 2008
Total Items Listed: 2,708,987
Total sales: $3,924,907
Successful listings: 64,638
Total Items Offered: 249,431,285
Sell through rate: 2.39%
Average Sale: $44.43
MINIMUM listing fee, including dutch auctions: $24,943,128.50 (Based on the lowest fee of .10 per listing, and offering Media Mail. Does not include higher listing fees, or other promotional listing fees, or Final Value Fees, which would increase the fees dramnatically).
EBAY, we deserve to know, WHAT'S GOING ON?
EBAY, your investors deserve to know WHAT'S GOING ON?
Boycott Today and Beyond,
Tim
http://forums.delphiforums.com/boycottebay/start
http://myspace.com/boycottebay