Ebay stated the reason for the change is they think buyers were prevented from leaving honest feedback since they feared retaliation from sellers if they left a negative feedback.  Though sellers has bombarded ebay for making ebay pro seller instead of being neutral. Powersellers even so react negatively with the changes, especially those who are Trading Asssistants and Ebay Educators.  A positive feedback of 98% is too much as a requirement and credits not enough for repeat feedback.     

Powersellers should know how to make their title look attractive to buyers. An effective title could drive traffic to your site. You need a few easy tricks to do this.

Capitalize Title
An all-CAPS title makes your item more readable and will catch buyer’s attention. It is a very effective trick to drive traffic to your ebay store and your ebay listing.

Bold Title

Bold title makes your title darker in eBay search results lists. This is another important trick to make your item stand out from the rest of the listings.

To advance to powerseller levels you will need to continue to comply with all of the PowerSeller program criteria. Your sales and DSR will be evaluated for 3 consecutive months. The first powerseller level is the Bronze Powerseller with a minimum monthly requirement of at least $1000 in sales or 100 items per month, for 3 consecutive months. A powerseller is required to achieve an overall Feedback rating of 100 and at least 98% positive rating. You must be an active member for 2 months and your account must be in good financial standing. You must have maintained an average of 4 monthly listings for the past 3 months. Ebay will automatically notify and congratulate you when you reach the next level. If your selling success falls below the level for your current tier, you will automatically receive an alert email. You will be given 30 days allowance to bring your account back to compliance. If after 30-day grace period, you account still falls below the criteria, your Powerseller status may be demoted or may eventually lose the ebay Poweseller status.

Powersellers are folks who sell at least $1000 per month on eBay, maintain 98% feedback rating and provide high level of service to buyers. Ebay rewards powersellers with the following:

Prioritized Customer Service

eBay provides priority customer support and technical assistance to powersellers. This includes priority customer support through email, phone or directly calling your dedicated account manager during business hours. Priority email and Telephone support is also provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can email or call you queries pertaining to Trust and Safety such as feedback removal, non-paying bidder, ended listings or suspension. Use of Skype an online phone system where you can call your customer directly from your computer. All you need is to download the Skype software and a headset.

Powerseller Discounts

eBay offers discounts on final value fee to powersellers. You need to go to the Seller Dashboard to know how much can be discounted from your final value fee. The percentage will depend on your DSR rating.

Expanded Seller Protection Program From Paypal

In expanded seller protection program, powersellers are provided with unlimited coverage of Seller Protection Policy with paypal transactions. The coverage limit of ebay seller is worth $5000 per year. As a powerseller this comes unlimited with no more confirmed address where customers can choose any shipping addresses. Also, coverage is extended to more countries in the world. Powersellers need to register to Expanded Seller Protection to paypal before they can avail of such service.

Increase Visibility In Best Match Searches

Powersellers who maintains no less than 4.6 DSR ratings in the last 30 days will have a 5% to 25% advantage of visibility in Best Match Searches than the average ebay seller. This is a new feature ebay has added to Best Match. Not only does the search depend on keywords but also considers the seller performance factors.

Exclusive Networking

Powersellers can participate in discussion boards and forums and share ideas and selling with other members.

One of the most attractive benefits from ebay is the access to additional product sources in eBay Reseller Marketplace. Powersellers get the chance find great values for excess inventory directly from manufacturers, liquidators and wholesalers. Powersellers can buy in bulk for resale by small and medium-sized ebay business.

It is easy to ship items on ebay and if you are smart enough, you can save a lot. You just need to know a few strategies to do it. First, you need to know the weight of the item that you are suppose to ship. Second, you need to visit USPS.com where you can calculate postage online. You will have to choose one of the 3 categories: domestic, international and business postage. You can save at USPS.com because of reasonable shipping price. Choose the type of package you want depending on the number of days you the buyer will receive the item. Remember that to profit on ebay, you need to deliver items at the soonest possible time. Choose for priority mail. Most ebay sellers prefer online postage because the online price is lower than the post office price. You may also ship your ebay items at stamps.com, endicia.com or to your local post office.

Today, as I am browsing the news on ebay, I stumbled on this report at ABC news: A “Divorced Man Sells His Life on Ebay”. My first reaction is to laugh. It’s absurd, don’t you think so? The man named Ian Usher offers to sell everything he owns in one package. Everything will be in auction including a house with all its contents, a car, a motorbike, a jetski, a kite surfing gear, his friends and even his job! It will be a 7 day ebay auction and will start on June 22, 2008 up to June 29, 2008 Australian Western Standard Time. The auction will be in Australian Dollars and starting bid price will be AU$1.00 to a maximum of AU$ 402,000.

Ebay UK announces to check computers regularly used by buyers and sellers in order to prevent unauthorized access of ebay account. There have been too many cases where an eBay account is being used by another person. This time, eBay will use some new technology that will link the ebay user ID with the user’s computer. When eBay finds out that the computer does not match with the one regularly used by the seller or buyer, they will require you to provide some more information to confirm that you own such account. The account owner is required to update eBay with his/her personal information otherwise, there may a delay of transaction. It is no problem if you are using more than one computer. EBay will be able to track down all the computers you are regularly using. Account theft has always been a problem in ebay selling and any other auction selling business. Ebay continuously introduces new programs to protect its members.