Power Seller Criteria - Vote it Out

[indconcepts]

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 .... 🙂

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 ? .


best regards

Umang Midha

[krishnaindia]

I am happy to see we will see some Dhonis and Yuvis around . So what role is eBay playing - BCCI ?

Rs 20k is a good thing as it filters out a few guys but our appeal is against the sudden rise , it could have in at least two phases spread out over 4-6 months. That would have been a breather for most of us.

eBay could have announced this a few months before so that people gear up to meet the challenge .

I think powerseller or not, we will I presume , not stop us from working hard and achieve greater heights .

IMHO 100 FB is another major milestone in its own right and crosses another threshold level in creating trust amongst our buyers.


@Umang

You mentioned about packing materials from eBay which is now provided to PS . It is also avaialable offline as well. I am not a powerseller so I have never seen that packets. Can you provide the contact details ? Also what kind of these packaging material are these ? Thanks in advance.

[indconcepts]

Very True .... krishnaindia

Nobody is afraid of 20K .... it's only the time factor which is of concern to most of the PS.

ebay-India's own Figures have fallen by 50% and they are talking of 4 Fold increase for Power Sellers.

Earlier the Live Listings were approx. 2,50,000 and now the Live Listings are just around 1,25,000. Out of which atleast one third are in Shop Format. ( Also many Listings don't carry a Listing Fee )

I judge the growth of the site by the number of CORE Listings.



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krishnaindia ..... the Packing material consists of Tamper proof plastic bags, Packing Tapes, Letterhead, labels etc. All these are printed with ebay Logo and Power Seller Logo.
The Company providing these to most of the shopping Portals is located in Goa as well as in Mumbai. The email address printed on the ebay bags is pcplbom@vsnl.com .


best regards

Umang Midha

[havenindia]

It should be based on the number of sales, not the cash amount.

[coolbrasco]

Number of items in some cateogy or Total Amount both can be considered. But eBook should be excluded. If some one selling pictures for Rs.5-10 may get good count also. So eBay should count both amount and number of items in correct average, should not count item sold less than Rs.100 in ebook, pictures selling cases.

Also i request eBay should give some fees discounts as well for PowerSellers. The only promotion right now is there for 20% discount for Selling Manager Pro. I have very small business to use those automated features for Rs.499. Rather i use Rs.499 to list more items and promote some items in featured plus area.

I feel Selling Manger Pro should be given to PowerSellers for free of cost, or atleast for 6 months to judge the tool. One month is just not just enough to study, configure and tune the system itself.

[emailswarup]

Hi Umang,

I was going thru this thread. Lots of protests and suggestions and also a compassionate expressions by Sapana - but end of the day, has ebay changed anything ? Is it worthy to comment and protest when nobody counts ? .
Best Regards 😄
Swarup
Kolkata