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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: John555 on August 13, 2013, 05:11 pm

Title: Sellers rank
Post by: John555 on August 13, 2013, 05:11 pm
Hi everyone,
tell me please -  there are 2 indicators, which shows quality of sellers work:

1-100 % feedback score and
sellers rank.

What is more important?
For example, if i read next  about seller -
ranked in the top 2% of sellers with 93.2% positive feedback from ....
which indicator in this case is more important? 

Thank's
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: JerryGarcia007 on August 13, 2013, 05:14 pm
BUMP GOOD QUESTION
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: John555 on August 13, 2013, 05:51 pm
UP
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: GrandmasSecretBIO on August 13, 2013, 06:03 pm
Hard to say.

But cant you be betrayed anyway, if a seller allows Escrow? So for me this would be more indicator of trust, as the feedback which could be faked anyway. Maybe if they make transactions with their friends.

I wanne sell MJ btw. interested? Shipped from Spain. I want to have some pre-orders before I open up a vendor account, since it needs a quite huge pre-investment. The fee (appropriate packing material, etc.
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: John555 on August 13, 2013, 06:11 pm
Hard to say.

But cant you be betrayed anyway, if a seller allows Escrow? So for me this would be more indicator of trust, as the feedback which could be faked anyway. Maybe if they make transactions with their friends.


But this indicators shows, which seller better to choose.

Anybody knows about diffirence between those 2 indicators?

GrandmasSecretBIO

thank's,  dont need it.
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: farmer1 on August 13, 2013, 07:02 pm
The feedback ranking is how a vendor has been rated by buyers when they leave feedback.

The percentile ranking evenly distributes all SR vendors across a 1-100% range depending on a number of different factors. Essentially it tells you who is doing the most business.



You could have a small time vendor with low volume, but very happy customers. They may have a 100 next to their name but only be ranked in the top 50%.

A large vendor doing tons of business may be in the top 1% but less customer satisfaction, only earning a feedback ranking of 90.



I would advise you to put more weight on the feedback rating then the percentile ranking.
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: beta1099 on August 14, 2013, 12:02 am
I'm always impressed if a vendor is able to keep a high feedback rating and is doing high volume however.
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: Hitch on August 14, 2013, 12:12 am

   I think scanning through feedback is a better method for deciding whether a vendor is worth a try. The percentile score is calculated via a pretty complex algorithm with a whole bunch of variables that can skew ranking.

   For instance buyers with long history, great stats and heaps of coin spent effect the percentile score more than other buyers. So a vendor who has an almost perfect run, but then gets into a dispute with a solid buyer who gives the vendor a 1/5 will see the percentile rank drop quite a bit.

   Then there's those scammy vendor fucks who, after building good rep, do a mass fe scam, which can take a while to reflect in percentile ranking, but is usually pretty quickly obvious in feedback.
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: swimfan on August 14, 2013, 12:20 am
I would advise you to put more weight on the feedback rating then the percentile ranking.

Feedback ranking is too easy influenced by scammers to be a good representation of how the vendor actually performs and how good their product is.  If someone has a good percentile rating, there is usually a good bet they are shipping things correctly and their goods are up to snuff.
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: John555 on August 14, 2013, 09:35 am
cvv
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: John555 on August 14, 2013, 09:36 am
Thank's everybody
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: phoniks on August 14, 2013, 09:57 am
Useful to know. I had thought that the percentile was just based on the feedback score in relation to all the other vendors. I see that it's more complicated than that.
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: dataloss on August 14, 2013, 10:50 am
Buying in SR can be pretty straight forward but can turn into a hideous ordeal-like going to the DMV or the dentist.
We must always keep in mind that a DRUG DEALER IS A DRUG DEALER IS A DRUG DEALER.
Just placed my first order here with a trusted vendor.If it arrives all is ok , if not , who's fault is it ?Did the vendor actually sent it? Was it intercepted by customs?Was it lost by the Royal Mail?
There is no simple answer.
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: Hitch on August 14, 2013, 11:32 am
We must always keep in mind that a DRUG DEALER IS A DRUG DEALER IS A DRUG DEALER.

   That's a pretty harsh indictment on an entire group of varied individuals.
Title: Re: Sellers rank
Post by: dataloss on August 15, 2013, 03:25 pm
I am talking from personal experience.I am an addict.20 years now and very few decent people out of the hundreds I ve came across.Maybe I was unlucky or I didnt command respect..Who knows?
But harsch?I thing not-but we the addicts are a very difficult bunch of people to deal with.So dealers must be a certain type of people.
As everything else in this life there are the good and the bad.I like SR because much of the bull you have to take when doing business face2face here is virtually non existent.But even here people bring with them all the flaws they pick up from the street-some because it was the only way to survive others because they liked it.I have seen dealers behaving so sadisticaly that it reminded me things I heard about concentration camps in WWII.I have no idea the people that you came in contact with but my experience so far-FROM THE STREET NOT FROM SR-left me with a very poor taste in my mouth ,and propably a lot of anger.I am no saint myself so who am I to judge.I hope I havent offended you or anyone else.The people here are real professionals.I hope that they will restore my faith and gain my trust.
NOBIS SOLUM HONOR MAMET...I live by these words.