Hello Everybody,
There are changes in the Power Seller Criteria which raises the minimum average Sales required from Rs.5,000 to Rs.20,000.
Is it justified ?
ebay-India is trying to match it with ebay-USA where the criteria for Bronze Power Seller is $1000.
Taking into account that 1$ = Rs.40 .... Power Seller status should have been at Rs.40,000 worth of Sales per month. But Indians are being offered at a Sales figure of Rs.20,000. (50% discount)
But what ebay-India is not looking into is the amount of Sales an average Seller is having.
On ebay-USA there are more than 1.5 crores Live Listings as compared to ebay-India where there are just 1.25 lakhs Live Listings. There are massive Sales on ebay-USA and $1000 criteria is quite justified.
Upholding Community Values, maintaining 98% Feedback, clean ebay account and complying with all Policies .... All these have taken a back seat and Sales figure of Rs.20,000 have overnight become the Main criteria.
Apart from status PS Logo ... ebay was distributing packing material to all Power Sellers. This was the only recurring expense which ebay India was shelling out of their pocket. Now it seems that it has started pinching ebay-India and wants to reduce the Power Sellers in India.
So rather than denying the Packing material they seems to have come up with an immediate solution ....
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Many New Sellers I know where just working hard to achieve this status PS logo .... would definitely be discouraged now as the target has been increased 4 folds.
I feel the increase from Rs.5000 to Rs.20000 should have been over a period of 1 year. This would have given reasonable time to serious sellers to work hard and push their sales. Un-realistic goals cannot encourage anybody to attain the targets.
This ebay step is not to encourage Seller's to achieve higher Sales but it's a specifically created Criteria to knock down the number of growing Power Sellers.
I am sure that the existing Power Sellers with much higher Sales would support this ebay move.
I am also sure that serious Sellers with lower Sales would not favour this at all.
It's just a debate to see how many are in favour and how many against it.
So guys ..... just VOTE it out.
Are you in FAVOUR ..... or ..... are you AGAINST it ?
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best regards
Umang Midha
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best regards
Umang Midha