what are some general pointers, should I only go for 99% feedbacked?
but heard the other day someone mentioned they rather a 97-98% seller with 10,000 feedback, than a 99% seller with 5,000 feedback, and some agreed. Or something like that but I can't find the comment again.
your thoughts about this? general guide?
curious, whats a reverse image search?
I look for anything in the 98-100 range, then I review the negative feedback left to see what kind of things people complained about. You can usually tell fairly quickly whether it is a bad seller, or if the buyer was the real problem.
last 6 months and what products. some products are trash but seller is ok and vise versa
I am suspicious of anything below 99.5%. The feedback system is such that you can pretty much count 97% as "Bottom tier." Therefore the range of 'goodness' is extremely narrow between 97% and 100%. 98% is really like a 50% rating.
Ditto about checking individual negative feedbacks in the last 12 months, see if there is a pattern there. The absolute number of negative feedbacks tells you more than the averaged feedback score.
Over a thousand, no recent negative feedback, 99% and above.
I usually lower feedback score for 100% vendors. Often these are individuals rather than business.
Don't rely solely on the actual score. Take time to review the comments for negative feedback, they will tell you more
yeah but as a first line of defense when i'm comparing 10+ tabs worth of items, it's good to instantly rule out ones below a certain %/feedback score?
All you’re doing is comparing different drop shippers. The items are shipped from a few mega warehouses in Sydney, Melbourne or overseas.
yeah but sometimes there's the odd item that nobody else is selling, not all are dupes.
also i find ain't it better to deal with/give business to a Seller who cares about their reputation/work ?
Don’t worry about the feedback. Buyers have Ebay/PayPal buyer protection and a chargeback as a fail safe.
Purchases $250+ 99.5% +
Other purchases no less than 99%
While buyers protection is available I don't want to go through the inconvenience of lodging a INR or SNAD claim and then waiting for a refund and then have to reorder from elsewhere and have to go through a wait of up to several weeks again for the item.
Anything over 500 feedback is good, anything over 98.5% is good for feedback in the 5000+ range. I also try to stick to sellers inside Australia.
Depends on the item.
Personally:
If it's like a ~$5 cable or something, I'll just buy from someone with at least ~100-1000 feedback in Australia. I don't want to wait 3 weeks for delivery, happy to pay 50 cents more or whatever. Don't care about percentage.
If it's a $100+ brand new item I'll buy from someone with at least ~1000 feedback, judge the negative feedback on a case by case basis, and favour any sellers who are legit in Australia.
If it's a $100+ second hand item I'll buy from someone with at least ~100 feedback, zero negative (unless the seller has replied to the negative feedback with an explanation), only in Australia, has what appears to be a legit description of the second hand item (and not a copy and paste from the manufacturer), has actual photos of the item (and not just stock images) and then I'll do a quick reverse image search to make sure they're genuine pics of the item and haven't been pinched from somewhere else.