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Does your DSR affect where your ebay listing is ranked?
 

If you have a low DSR does that mean your listing will be on a further page (lower ranking)? My feedback is good because it reset after 12 months but my DSR is low still even though my feedback is 100%

This one guy copied my listing almost entirely and he has a new account but his listing is ranked higher than mine. He's on page 1 I'm on like page 3.

Any insight on this topic would be helpful thank you

Re: Does your DSR affect where your ebay listing is ranked?
 

DSR's are one aspect. Sales volume. Sometimes length of time on the website.

For example if you have perfect DSRs all 5.0's but only 300 feedback and other sellers in the same searches have lower DSRs but 10,000 Feedback. You will be listed lower.

Sometimes eBay also bumps items with free shipping, one day shipping policy. Number of cases opened against you can also affect it.

It is a big algorithm they run. Sometimes wired things happen like new accounts getting placed higher. You just never know.

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You should tell Eb that this guy copied your stuff it's against the rules I believe.

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As much as I hate snitching on people. Literally a few years back people use to copy my pictures, my listings, etc. It got quite annoying. Especially the pictures. I still see it from time to time. I usually check to see if they purchased the item from me and want to liquidate it for whatever reason.

Other than that if it is that blatant. And I hate advocating reporting sellers. But if you are going to steal other peoples time and energy to free load. You really should report them. Sometimes you have to learn the hard way. Many of us were guilty of something like this at one point in time.

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You need to look at why you are getting low stars.. and start doing something about it.. or when august time comes your defect % is going to look poorly.. and could have a worse impact on you.

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It has nothing to do with snitching! It's all about them taking your pictures, auction style and using all your hard work. I remember back in the day people would say their auction is copyrights or whatever.

Don't worry about reporting them but I'm sure they would do it to you since they are so shady already for taking everything from you. ;)

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You need to worry about getting your DSRs up, it is a very important factor in determining what spot you are in, I wouldn't worry so much about reporting others, especially if they have bey
Tater feedback, higher DSRs and more Sales, you will end up shinning more light on your own account

Work on getting your account in order

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SEO for eb doesn't work no more then? So sad it is all up to DSR's.

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Yes dsrs are important and one way to boost your ranking is if you sell an item quite a lot, list like 5 and when your down to 2 for example revise it back to 5, this way it will show that you sold a lot of that item and it will rank you much higher instead of relisting

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If an account gets hit with a couple low DSRs the best way to go is auctions, because if you list BIN you will notice that they will put u way back

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For BIN I normally put like 50 or 100 but when it gets closer down to 10 I redo it for another 50.

Should I use a smaller number like you said? Or was that just an example?

I remember that ranking for BIN worked like this. Lets say you and someone else selling the same item. He gets 1,000 clicks and 100 sold. And you get 1,000 clicks and 90 sold. His will be ranked higher due to the click/sold rate.

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Problem with auctions is that some people waste your time with those.

Change their minds and not pay up. etc.

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Best to experiment with listings and try and vary title-text as well

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Yeah I had my product in 2012 rank #8 on EB within 3 months of starting. I did a cool trick and it worked! :)

Then I stopped doing the trick and it dropped.

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I got like 2 DSRs a few months ago and all my listings got shafted the last page. I was able to get the DSRs removed and the enxt evaulations my listings were back to the first page

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That really sucks! I've noticed even if you sell items to get fast feedback and are hot selling items with no profits at times you'll get a low DSR's rating from someone at times. So I figured plan B out. But it really sucks for new sellers. Because 1 DSR and you are like almost done and no way of getting up from it unless it's removed! If you are a seller with at least 100's of sales per month then yeah you can get 1 or so.

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That's why I'm trying to move onto other platforms even though I still sell on eBay I try to do us elsewhere, the platform I sell on has no selling limits, low final value fees, No insertion fees, and pretty good traffic, I think it's going to be ebays competition soon cause eBay is screwing everyone over.

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Holy crap yea there's some great listing advice. thanks guys !

And yeah, I was slacking on this account that's why my DSR is crap but I'm doing much better now slowly building my DSR up and will implement some of the tricks you guys use thanks

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Careful not to go above 1% in item as described category because they will not give you a chance and will suspend you indefinitely, other categories will allow you to fix the issue but if you go below standard in item as described, then you're screwed.

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What category would that be?

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I think what he means is, don't have more than the 1% cases opened for the reason "item not as described". It happened to me, and they kicked off an account over 10 years old and 2500+ feedback....

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1% of your feedback for the last 12 months right?

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I just spent the last half hour trying to figure this out. I got .22% out of 300 . But I've got over 1,000+ feedback in the last 12 months so why does it show 300?

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It not cases I'm talking about, if you get more than 1% of 1 and 2 stars in item as described category which is considered low, they will suspend you indefinitely like they did to me.

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Yeah I get that point. But how do they calculate this? Out of how many months? I mean I got like 1k+ feedbcak and .22% and it says 1 out of 311.

311? I'm trying to figure out what that is.

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So...I was wondering why my BIN listings hit the bottom and not the auctions. I may have low DSRs with 100% feedback...You would just think if that is the case, you would see a negative....crazy!!

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eb system blah.

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Makes you wonder if it is competitors in a highly competitive niche leaving "invisable" negative feedback by doing this. Why else would anyone do this? What are the percentages to get your listings down at the bottom? Does it take a large percentage or just small especially with a low denominator of sales.

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On the new seller rating pop up under seller dashboard...it says 0 low dsrs. But I had a case open that stayed open forever due to buyer mistaking the order and very slow communication. I finally got it closed 5/10. When will my listings go back to normal? I swear...this is why I am making stealth accounts!!!

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It is calculated yearly, however many dsr are left per year, your are not to exceed 1% of low stars in that category.

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What about when a case is closed in your favor, how long does that take to fall off? I don't even know if that is when it started, but something happened. Its ridicolus...and this is why I am going to have a few accounts thanks to the great people on this forum!!!

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This is really bs to be honest with you all. I'm at a .22 so this means I can only get 3 more max but I'm fine just got to build up more feedback. Not a problem on my end really. But wow so easily to get rid of your account I can see. tap tap tap

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I've seen one seller in my category have like 0 negatives but a lot of N feedback. He probably calls in all the time to get the Negatives removed or so.

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No it was not about feedback is about low drs, when I called to inquire why I was suspended that's what they said, just a word of advice and I didn't believe it either until it happened to me.

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Dang man! They don't even give you a chance? Yikes, years of selling, making money etc. then bam! they ban you like that.

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Competitors take every angle they can to hurt the competition. Especially in highly competitive categories.

If I get a dinged DSR I make sure I list some items that will get that ding fixed by adding several perfect 5.0s by selling low priced items I have never had a single issue with.

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That's a good idea but it's too late now, Ya they may give you a chance in other categories such as shipping price, speed, and communication, but not in item as described. It those three categories you can have up to 2% low drs but in item as described only 1% and no chance to fix it.

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Well build feedback + let the account sit for months.

It's what I'd do!