Ebay and other online auction powerselling tips and information

Former Top eBay Powerseller, Randy Smythe, founder of GlacierBayDVD has done some interesting research into the state of the eBay PowerSeller.  I recently spoke with Randy and we share many of the same concerns over eBay's current economic issues:

According to a recently published list of the top 10,000 sellers on eBay (as of September 2006) published by Sellathon.com - a site that tracks eBay sellers by their feedback - some interesting trends are developing:

• 25% (8) of the top 32 US sellers (129,714 feedback or greater) are either NARU (Not A Registered User) or are inactive (No longer sell on the site)


• 8% of the top 500 sellers worldwide are either NARU (Not A Registered User) or are inactive (No longer sell on the site)


• My former user ID GlacierBayDVD is still #8 on this list even though I haven’t been doing business on ebay since mid February of 2006.


• 18 of the top 50 sellers list primarily on eBay's International site (Germany has 16, UK has 1 and Canada has 1)


• 37 of the top 50 sellers have seen a decline in positive feedback Year over Year for the month of Sept.


• The top 4 sellers/user id's on eBay are all the same company (Eforcity, EverydaySource, Itrimming, and AccStation)


• The top 10,000 eBay sellers range from 8333 total feedback at position #10,000 to 410,805 at position #1


• 9594 sellers on eBay out of the top 10,000 have less than 50,000 feedback.


• 7 of the top 42 active sellers have Feedback ratings of less than 98%