This is an update on the post I wrote a post about inflating my positive feedback on ebay.
My progress so far is that in about 3 weeks I received 80 positive feedbacks. What was the point of this? Well, it was mainly an experiment to see how much it would cost for me to “buy” rack up the feedback.
Listing eBook in my eBay Store – $0.05
10% final value fee for ebook sales – $0.001 per sale
So 80 feedbacks have cost me $0.05 + $0.08 = 13 cents.
The inflated feedback count is mainly cosmetic. Since I’m selling more higher priced items on ebay, I didn’t want the buyer to be discouraged by a seller with a low total feedback count. I’ve always had a 100% positive feedback rating before this and I plan to maintain that rating.
It may also depend on your buyer as to whether or not this feedback is “good feedback”.
Especially when buying items >$100 from people with less than 100 feedback I generally check their last 5+ listed items and make sure they’re also somewhat high value, so I know I can trust them handling a large purchase.
I know a lot of people probably don’t do this, and even if they do…the item will retire from the archives after a while. It’s still something to think about.
Thanks for your input. If I wanted to be sneaky about it, I could just make all the purchase information private so the feedback would only display the username, but not the purchase information. Part of the reason I did this was because I knew the items would be retired after 3 months.