Grace Period Set for Top Rated in August

[NotAHappyBunny]

Hi

Thought some of you top rated sellers would like to know (if you don't already) that EB are slightly changing the way that they punish top rated sellers when they get an unexpected negative.
Depending on your sales numbers - they give you a 2-3 or 3-4 month grace period to allow you time to fix this issue.
Apparently many business top sellers complained that with the current system, they could not make a viable business plan and were therefore ready to dump EB.

This will not apply to small, private sellers.

A small step in the right direction, thats probably been brought on by EB losing cash.

[TGMT²]

A link to the source of this information to be more helpful.

[TGMT²]

OK, I think this is the link the OP is referring to ???

http://tamebay.com/

Grace period for Top Rated Sellers

eBay want to be a trusted and reliable business partner for sellers, and to do this they’ve introduced some protection for Top Rated Sellers. It was only a month ago I wrote about how a statistical blip of low DSRs could take a seller from being Top Rated to lowered in search. At the time I said “Business continuity and the certainty that you’ll be able to trade next month are what sellers need in order to invest in their eBay business.”

In order to achieve this eBay are introducing a grace period if they fall below the Top Rated Seller DSR requirements. Rather than worrying that a one off issue could result in loss of Top Rated status sellers can concentrate on selling and invest in their business with a greater level of certainty.

You must have been Top Rated for three months to qualify for a grace period, but then for high volume sellers measured over 3 months there is a two month grace period. For low volume sellers measured over a year there is a 4 month grace period to get your DSRs back in line. If however your DSRs then drop below “Above Standard” during the grace period then you will lose Top Rated status immediately – it’s a buffer zone not carte Blanche for sellers to run amok.

[GreenBean]

Of course, the pity is that ebay canned sellers previously for having 'faults'. Bah