Hello. I found Aspkin and stealth guides about 2 years ago. Thanks to the wonderful knowledge of Aspkin & the forums, I have developed a decent grasp with stealth accounts. With absolutely no real knowledge and shaky legs, I have managed to run two successful
eBay Stealth accounts for the past 2 years.
My "main" account now has over 410 positive reviews! With 99.8% positive feedback (only 1 negative / 410). I have generated over $35,000 in sales this past year. Absolutely flawless!...
The problem is I shot myself in the foot by not really understanding eBay's new seller-rating system. On one month, last May 2016, I incorrectly over-listed one particular item's stock... and ended up selling 9 pieces on one day. I refunded all 9 transactions, cancelling the orders... not knowing the impact this has on the new seller-ratings.
This has caused my DSR(sp?) "transaction defects" to be bumped up to 2.3%, with the maximum allowance being 2%. Since then, it seems like they drop all my listings to super-low priority (IE not getting many views, sales dropped down dramatically, limits reduced by over 60%...) I'm still making sales, but I was doing 3-4 sales a day, and now I'm lucky to do 3-4 a week. I guess the account still works, but this is a major setback.
My second "backup" account isn't really being used for sales, although I did age it and did about 40-50 transactions on it, with 20/20 positive feedback.
Does anybody have any experience, or suggestions, fixing my situation?
It seems very difficult to fix the transaction defect rate, as to go from 2.3% down under 2% I would need to make over 50 transactions in under a month or two. While this would normally not be a problem, as my items sell very well, since they dropped me to a "bad seller" status, my listings just don't seem to be receiving hits like they used to. I assume they put me on page 50 or something instead of the first few pages.
I imagine I could just lay off until May 2017 and the 9 cancelled transactions will fall off... but I was hoping there's a better way to fix this quickly, since this is a profitable account.
Open to suggestions/tips - or should I just grab another high-limit aged stealth / work on my "backup" account? Thanks