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Not to be confused with fuzzy math, or maybe it is the definition of fuzzy math, but I digress.
Could someone explain to me in plain English how to figure out something with feedback?
I've seen sellers with 100% feedback, then suddenly they get a negative which drops the percentage to 99.9% positive feedback. How do you figure out how many positives that person will need until the percentage rounds back up to 100%?
I'm really not good at math
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Well, I'm not sure if eBay calculates the math the normal way math is calculated.
The normal way to round to 1 decimal:
99.95000000% becomes 100.0% OR 99.9%. Both are correct but most people tend to round up.
Anything above that percentage become 100.0%
Anything below that percentage becomes 99.9%
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I think it goes back to 100% if one gets 1000 positives for each negative.
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Here's a tool that will do the calculations for you:
To calculate feedback required to attain a certain feedback percentage
http://home.alltel.net/micrep/feedback.html
Blanche
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To have 100%, you need 2,000 positives per every negative.
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Yep, it goes back up to 100% at 2000. If I don't get another neg before 4000 (assuming that I were to stay on Ebay), I get a "bonus" neg and stay at 100%.
Speaking of feedback maths, I bookmarked this feedback page a couple of weeks ago to see whether it was a glitch that would straighten up, but it is still similar.
How does "unique" 750 members leaving positives become a feedback rating of 920? (This is only asked in relation to the figures supplied by Ebay, and is not meant to reflect or discuss in any way the person whose feedback I have linked)
Kind Regards, Kevin
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Yes, my error, 2000 and not 1000.
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Thanks for your help everyone. I knew it had to be simpler than I was making it, but darned if I could figure it out.
Blanche, thanks for the link, that's pretty slick.