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Quote: Originally posted by frome on 19/5/2010

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Yes I'm not an experienced seller so the lack of feedback could have been a problem, as did the fact I'm in N.Ireland which may have put people off, in reality the courier is the same for one off carriages. Bigger companies can reduce p&p by having a relationship with their regular courier - and it appears this has whats happened in my case, my buyer has a music equip sales company.

I've been looking at a Vango Beta 450 on ebay, £52 or thereabouts. My tent, which is twice the size - only got £31! I honestly thought it would have gone for about £50 and would have been content at that. It cost £150 and was used twice!

Anyway I'm sure sometime in the future I'll dip my toe in the world of ebay selling again. I wonder should I sell some small items just to get my feedback up?

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I don't think neccesarily that low feedback would put me off unless you were on 2 feedback rating and started selling Gold Rolex's! i'd have bought a tent on a low FB score.

The number of feedback is of no interest to me generally, even the % doesn't usually bother me because you can't please some people so i generally read the neg/neutral feedback and make a decision on that. (some negs are petty) I've got over 2000 FB with only 1 neg and 1 neutral (both retalitary after i gave a neg).

When you live in a rural area large items that can't be shipped out are really not worth putting on ebay and you'd have been better going through the free ads because your prospective customer is limited, smaller items will sell no problem with postage so i wouldn't worry about that