From: dahoov2@cox.net   
      
   because they now count if you win several items from the same person   
   you get credit for each item instead one one from one person you   
   bought 10 things from.   
      
   Consider this scenario (I keep thinking of them because there's soooo   
   much potential for problems now).  If you bought 10 items from one   
   person and they rip you off.... and you leave them 10 negatives, they   
   can now leave YOU 10 negatives and ruin your score 10 fold!  Or if you   
   sell 10 things to someone and they thought you were not that great   
   (slow shipping, high priced shipping, slow communication) they can   
   leave you 10 neutrals and ruin your business....   
      
   I am just saying for those who are happy now, that all it's going to   
   take to make you upset is ONE bad transaction.  It's going to be   
   mortifying for you.  All it'll take is one unreasonable person.  Oh   
   and the less you buy/sell in a year, the worst your problem with be   
   with one neutral or negative.  You'd literally have to sell (do the   
   math) 990 items to have 99% to rid yourself of 10 bad/neutrals.  and   
   999 to get to 99.9%.  If you do 50 items a year and have ONE neutral?   
   you will have a 98%.  25 items and one nuetral? 96.1 will be your   
   feedback.  10 items and one neutral? 90%.  It may be they're after   
   "more realistic scores" but for the first year or more, a lot of   
   people are not going to get this and be p/o'd.   I remember a similar   
   thing happening in the military where they had inflated EPR's   
   (enlisted performance reports which don't get you a pay raise, but are   
   everything when it comes to higher rank promotions for E-7 and above).   
   They went from a 5 category to a 9 category and changed the wording to   
   "honestly reflect reality".  The result?  People in that first year,   
   lost out big time; reviewers didn't promote many that should have.   
   THey'd score high on the test portion, have the assignment/letters   
   from Generals and medals, but because of the EPR's being "accurate"   
   where they got 5-8's, mainly, people looked bad on paper.  Oh and   
   after that year?  Boss's starting inflating those scores too... giving   
   only 8's and 9's with a "BAD" candidated getting 7's.  It's a damned   
   joke.  Just like Ebay.  Just like these "stimulus checks".  They put a   
   band-aid to solve a problem that only makes it continue or be worse!   
      
   Please people, report back here your experiences.  Good or bad. I'd   
   love to be proven wrong.   
      
   On Tue, 20 May 2008 23:57:53 -0400, "pe2"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Yeah, mine went to 303. I was at 280 something. go figure....   
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