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Pillar of the Community
United States
1911 Posts |
Anyone else receive one? I just thought it interesting that it said I was among the top 10% of sellers in the coins and paper money category. Seems a bit of a reach honestly, but wondered if it meant through total dollar amount sold, number of items, or what. Random email is random, but interesting.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10284 Posts |
Sounds like a suspicious email to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2023 Posts |
I got one highlighting my amazing accomplishments as a buyer, as if buying stuff qualifies as either "amazing" or an "accomplishment".
It was legit, but weird.
Edited by Alpha2814
01/03/2018 12:23 pm
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Valued Member
United States
467 Posts |
I received one once and was in 10% for week. I guess I have never been in top 10 since because I have not received one since.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
17928 Posts |
I also got an e-mail from ebay stating how much I had bought and sold in 2017 and it also said that I was in the top 10% of coin sellers. I was a bit surprised as I don't sell very many coins on ebay! Edited by NumisRob
01/03/2018 12:58 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1911 Posts |
Yeah it was a legit ebay email but interesting if they consider 205 items sold last year as top 10%. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10284 Posts |
Sounds like a tricky way to get you to list more on ebay by sending a cheesy compliment. If they were really impressed, you should get more than an email for being in the top 10% sellers. I have noticed that many coins listed are re-run relists and searching is a pain. Same old stuff, even when checking newly listed. Sure ebay may have a million coins and paper money items for sale at any given time but most do not sell. They just get listed over and over with the list 300 items for free angle they came up with years ago. You guys may very well have been the top 10% at the time. You should get 10% off your final value fees! Congratulations! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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TNG - I concur - LOTS of relists where they don't change the BIN price at all. I've seen some coins relist a dozen or more times. I guess eventually someone might click the button. I've never gotten a letter like those above from ebay, but I'm not a huge client either. Just a couple of dozen transactions a year. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1261 Posts |
I looked at my spreadsheet and have only bought two coins ever off of ebay. Both were 1 oz. silver Australian Kooks. |
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
5172 Posts |
I wonder whether the "top 10%" is out of every single ebay member, or only the ones that actually did buy or sell any items in the respective period... (For comparison: 27 posts is enough to be in the top 10% of CCF members by post count. I suspect it's even more unbalanced for ebay.) |
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Bedrock of the Community
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It's only 250 free bin listings a month and they aren't free either because you have to pay for the store subscription to get that. They give 250 free auction too but most people don't like using those or just use it like a bin listing, they should just give 500 and let you decide what works best for you. Excluding people trying to catch a sucker with pocket change and the small percentage of fakes most of the realists are things where there are a lot of that item available. Don't forget though they play games with where your listings appear in searches and what buyers can see them so it may not be the sellers fault it didn't sell they may have just been trying to direct sales to someone else at the time.
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