Ebays New "BEST MATCH" search sorts by Feedback?

[FND]

I was just reading the ebay seller boards and noticed this message about

a new search ebay may start using which may sort your search for items

and put your listing at the bottom according to your star ratings

 

Its rather hard to explain but here is a link to the message board discusion

 

ebay board discussion

[Galaga_Freak]

It's almost like they want to piss off everyone except the largest power sellers. Do they seriously think the small sellers will all convert to power sellers because of this, and to what end?

 

How much revenue do they generate from the "small" guys verses the largest power sellers?

[Albert]

Wow, that has "WIN" written all over it.

 

..Al

[FND]

Here is cut and past from

 

***A Message from Bill Cobb – New Pricing and Other News***

January 29, 2008 | 05:59AM PST/PT

 

Link to Bills Message

 

Seller Standards

In addition to pricing changes, we're making the minimum standards for selling on eBay more stringent, primarily to discourage bad seller behavior on our site. And we'll do this in 2 key ways:through decreased listings exposure in search and safe payment requirements.

 

Starting in February, we will decrease listings exposure in search for the relatively small number of sellers who have a high buyer dissatisfaction rate and low DSRs over the last 30 days, especially for charging excessive shipping and handling.

 

Second, we will be requiring sellers with high buyer dissatisfaction rates to offer a safe payment option.

 

Last year, we started requiring all new sellers to offer PayPal or a major credit card as a safe payment option. This gave buyers a higher degree of protection when they transacted with sellers who had little or no track record.