Ebay search via feedback - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 11:39:29 am
content: I am not good with ebay and often I see a seller selling say 1200 resistors and has 1278 feedback, I cant be bothered to trawl through all those feedbacks to see if the item is good or not so does anyone know if there is a way of just finding all sales of that item in their feedback to check reviews ?.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 11:48:23 am
content: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=ebay%20feedback%20checker

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 12:06:52 pm
content: Thanks, sadly none of those work , toolhaus says it cant fetch hidden feedback and shows nothing when i just want to check a particular item feedback. nor do the others, oh well .

author: Tandy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 12:42:45 pm
content: Often HK & China sellers make listings private so that you can't see what the item was. They do this so that their competitors can not see prices that they sold items for.

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 12:50:16 pm
content: It's this itemhttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/350985994709?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AITSays he has sold a number of them but i cant find any feedback on the sales of them.

author: Tandy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 01:04:29 pm
content: No feedback for that item in the 5000 most recent feedback posts.Just means people probably haven't bothered leaving feedback. I can't see anyone bothering to leave any detailed feedback for a pack of resistors anyway. If anything it would be "Arrived Quickly" or such like. I'm not sure anyone would bother testing if they are really 1% etc. Most people buying things like resistors are probably buying them because they are cheap not because 1% accuracy is important.You can see the sales history.http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&item=350985994709&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2564

author: Andy Watson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 01:19:04 pm
content: We're only talking about five pounds, seventy two! And the seller has a feedback for over 300k items in the last year (ok - not 100% positive) - so he/she is probably not a scam artist. I think I would take the gamble.

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 01:29:31 pm
content: Its £5 odd I cant really afford to lose to be honest but I agree and so I clicked BIN. it was just that I have sent him msgs before about things and he never replies, not even on a best offer. Oh well I shall see

author: Seekonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 01:50:39 pm
content: If I have had a problem and say it is nicely handled by by the seller with a refund, I no longer have the option of leaving feedback even good. So if you really have to fight with a seller for two months to resolve an issue it will never show up in feedback. Feedback is a joke and ebay has rigged it so sellers always look good.Example, I sold an item and then did an outside deal for some other stuff. Sellers haveinternal performance markers such as shipping within a couple days. This other stuff was at a remote location and took a week to ship with back and fourth negotiation. Seller was happy and left good feedback but I was dinged on timing. I didn't care. Two months later they said they were removing it.

author: nixfu
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 01:54:32 pm
content: Keep in mind that EBAY has totally DESTROYED the feedback system.Basically, you are no longer allowed to leave negative feedback for anyone, so most people have just stopped bothering. Everyone now has 100% positive feedback, so the whole system is worthless.

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 01:59:37 pm
content: Funny enough one of the sellers who had me worried most very early on was etang_uk, but they have bee stirling since I first purchased from them. always fast and as described. I do seem to have a couple of items I got, that now, I have no idea why I got them !.

author: Tandy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 02:06:19 pm
content: It looks like a typical HK/China based seller with a friend in the UK.They simply send all the stuff to their UK based friend who posts things out for them. They are not interested in answering questions for a sale that makes them a few pence profit. They are basically competing on price with other eBay sellers and it is a take it or leave it offer.The reason that they don't bother responding to best offer is that they only put the best offer for multiples. The way they work is, this is the price for 1 pack, if you want more make an offer. Offers for single packs are ignored.The apparent lack of interest in customers can be a bit unsettling but it is all about sales volume, it will be one guy who probably has a day job trying to sell as much stuff as they can making 20p per sale. Their attitude is why bother spending time answering questions for 20p somebody else will buy it anyway.

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 02:11:36 pm
content: Yeah I can understand that, makes it easier to relate to him now anyway.