posted on March 24, 2012 09:30:11 AM new
When I took accounting and math, when rounding up and down, anything 5 and above rounded up, anything below 5 you round down.
My DSRs in dashboard:
4.96 description
4.95 communication
4.94 shipping time (1 low DSR - unsure why)
4.99 shipping fees
When I scroll over my DSRs that buyers can see, all of them show 4.9.
As far as I am concerned (and mathematicians and accountants would agree) I should be:
posted on March 24, 2012 09:54:25 AM new
They're not rounding, they're truncating. I'm sure (well, reasonably certain) their excuse would be that anything less than a solid 5 is not deserving of that mark of perfection. Still, very impressive numbers.
posted on March 24, 2012 07:58:05 PM new
absolutely... but do you if eBay apparently, eBay rounds up and down properly if a seller is running a sale on their items. I'm just pointing out that a bit of consistency would be nice.
posted on March 25, 2012 06:16:26 AM new
Shag I have wondered the same thing. Spent 10 yrs in finance and you are correct anything 5 and above gets rounded up, anything below 5 you round down.
posted on March 25, 2012 06:31:43 AM new
Shag I have wondered the same thing. Spent 10 yrs in finance. Banks round up 5 and above, below 5 you round down.
Another glowing example of eBay making the rules up as they go along and stacking the deck in their favor.
posted on March 25, 2012 03:59:48 PM new
Good point hwa.
The way I see it, it should either be show us the 2 decimal points (1/100th) or round it up and down properly.
It may seem insignificant to eBay, but the actual statistics do matter. I have seen plenty of sellers who also have more than their fair share of negatives on their account with low DSRs and they are still TRS.
posted on March 25, 2012 04:49:39 PM new
This is really weird. Like I said, I am not going to obsess over these scores since I will not be getting my 20% in the future, but I was bored, so on my ID without a store, here is what I got.
My scores:
4.96, 5.00, 4.97, 4.95 (the top score for description is the only one with a 1 or 2 from someone that could not read & apologized & tried to correct it, but Ebay would not let her)
Scores that buyers can see:
5.0, 5.0, 4.9, 4.9
Now, does this make sense??? My score for description is the lowest on my DSRs, but shows as 5.0 for buyers!! Scratching my head!!
