STOP IT!

Stop whining and complaining about the ebay system.  Stop fighting against the rules of ebay and start to play along…

Lets say you just started out on eBay, and now you have built up a good number of feedbacks and you have 100% positive feedback.  You feel great, and you are being trusted which is allowing you to make your sales and your profits.

Then it happens, you get slapped out of the blue with a negative feedback.  It could be that a shipment got lost, or you missed an email from the customer, or maybe it was just a competitor trying to make you look bad.

If you don’t think that happens, think again…  It happens to everyone.

When you get into a battle with a competitor, there will be dirty business all over the place.  Don’t stoop to that level.  Keep on plowing forward..

So, you get hit with this negative feedback and then BAM.. business stops..

You immediately get mad, furious, hot, sweaty, anxious.  So, you call eBay and complain and whine, and nothing changes.  Then you get sad, down, and you realize what has happened to your business.

eBay is the only place where you can do such a thing.  Just imagine if anyone could walk out of a store, and slap a big red X on the front of the building with a rude comment along with it so that every customer who drives by could see that transaction went bad..

Well, if you are going to sell on eBay, and use all of their great features and exposure, then stop complaining about the system.  Stop calling eBay and trying to get the negative removed.  No matter how obvious it is, eBay does not care.  that is their system, and you have to play the game.

Now, I don’t mean you need to go back and leave negatives on your competitors.  NO.  Never retaliate!

Part of what you should already have established in your eBay business is a “gold product”.  This product will be somewhere around $10, and it is a guaranteed sell on a regular basis.  This product should be on an automatic “relist” daily.

This product is a guaranteed sell for you, and it might only make you a few dollars, but the point is to make the sale.  “RING THE REGISTER”

Now, you will begin to rack up the feedbacks… Not only will your percentage of negatives thin out, but you will be able to move that negative feedback off the first page very quickly.  Once that feedback is off the first page, it will have little to no affect on your business.

This gold product should always be sold, whether you have the negative sitting there or not because lets say you have 20 of those products sold, but the customer hasn’t left you positive feedback yet, well in the meantime you get a negative, and it is sitting at the top.  Now you have 20 positives that will push it right down the list..

PLAY THE EBAY GAME.