Top Rated Seller Vs. Power Seller Explained
What is the difference between a Power Seller and a Top Rated Seller you might ask.
Power Seller Status:
To qualify for the PowerSeller program, sellers need to consistently sell a significant volume of items and provide a high level of service to their buyers. Membership in the program is free. PowerSeller levels include Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Titanium depending on the number of items you've sold or the dollar amount of your sales.
If you're not a PowerSeller yet, you can always work your way up by meeting these requirements:
Be registered with eBay for at least 90 days.
Have an account in good standing.
Maintain a positive Feedback of 98% or higher over the past 12 months.
Follow all eBay policies.
Have a minimum of 100 transactions and $3,000 in sales with US buyers over the past 12 months.
For all transactions with US buyers, have no more than 0.30% of transactions result in the eBay Money Back Guarantee and PayPal Purchase Protection cases closed without seller resolution.
Top Rated Seller Status:
Top Rated Sellers are recognized and rewarded as sellers who consistently deliver outstanding customer service. To be a Top Rated Seller, you must meet certain sales and tracking requirements, as well as performance standards. There is tons more information about the requirements on eBay.
Once you're a Top Rated seller, your listings can qualify for additional benefits. If your listings offer same - or one-business-day handling plus a 30-day or longer return period with money back option, you get:
The Top Rated Plus seal displayed prominently
A 20% discount on final value fees (this applies to the final item price only, not to shipping charges)
In a nutshell, Power Seller has to do with amount of dollars sold. Top Rated Seller has to do with customer service stuff like defects, uploading tracking on time, etc. Powerseller gets no discount and top rated seller gets discount on fees. Also you get the top rated seller icon in the search results which many buyers look for.
