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Coincidence? World’s Top eBay Sellers are Most Trusted

Matthew Godwin 1 Comment

Perhaps not as well-known as the Forbes and Telegraph Rich List, the UK’s WebRetailer is quietly keeping track of the world’s top sellers, who they are, where they live and what’s brought them to the pinnacle of their success in a hyper-competitive, ever-changing space.

Hot on the heels of the 2015 top Amazon Sellers, the Webretailer team has yet again broadcast abroad the standard-bearers for Amazon’s Professor Moriarty: The World’s Top eBay Sellers. Following the former’s success, they’ve added additional data, helpful graphics illustrating trends and the product verticals that dominate.

So what’s in the data? The world’s top three sellers are in the UK, but the largest proportion of the top 1000 are in China. China dominates cross-border sales, with more than 50% selling with stores in the United States alone. Australia and Europe are also destinations for Chinese cross-border merchants. With little discrepancy, the top three countries for sellers are China, the United Kingdom and the United States.

As for product verticals, the top three are Clothing, Shoes and accessories, home and garden and phones and accessories - sporting goods, collectibles and health and beauty round out the bottom.

The critical conclusion by way of performance is simple and straight from the horse’s mouth:

What makes these sellers the “top” sellers? Well, they have gained the most positive feedback in the last 6 months, and they are all Premium Store owners (or the international equivalent such as Featured Shops in the UK). Feedback volume is a useful approximation to selling volume.

If you want to know you’re eWorth, it’s not a great leap to base that conclusion on what your reputation metrics are. How much you sell depends on your reputation, which lends credence to the importance of reputation management and optimizing sales through aggregating your platform reputations into one place.

Congratulations again to WebRetailer for leading the way in ecommerce performance reporting!

eRated: A More Human Way to Trade

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Want to be a part of the sharing economy? Start by joining eRated.

For centuries, sellers and buyers wouldn’t dream of buying or selling products, or using services they couldn’t see, touch and smell. Fish was smelled, fruit was squeezed and services were provided by the people you knew, almost always in the same town market. Trust between sellers was built on familiarity, rather than on a brand or corporate emblem.

This changed in the 20th century when the vast majority of goods and services purchased by the average consumer came with a corporate tag. The “marketplace” narrowed to the consumer and a small collection of corporate providers. You bought from “trusted brands”. Brands were trusted because they came with history, a history of quality and the confidence that comes with scale.

In the 21st century, we’re harkening back. Collaborative consumption is returning consumers and sellers to marketplaces again. The difference now is we’re not confined by geography, as in the past, but by the anonymity that comes with the online marketplace. We can’t touch our goods and we don’t know our sellers. Additionally, individuals and small enterprises don’t come with global corporate brands. So, in the shared economy, where does trust come from?

Trust can only be built in one way: Reputation. eRated is the world’s first tool built to bring the trust of town marketplaces to the global, online shared economy. eRated spans the divide between hundreds of marketplaces, large and small. It works for first-time sellers and large-scale buyers. eRated is free because it’s filling a crucial need: The need to establish trust between tens of millions of sellers who don’t live in the same town and don’t shop in the same marketplaces. It’s the friend of a friend who told you, “You can trust this woman because I’ve bought from her before.”

Collaborative consumption is returning us to the way exchange should be – between people who care about their products and a marketplace where quality is guaranteed by reputation, not by a corporate brand. eRated is offering the world a more human way to trade.

Be a part of the collaborative consumption movement by telling your friends about eRated:

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/erated.co?fref=ts

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Visit us our website: erated.co

eRated, meet World. World, meet eRated

Dan 1 Comment

Hi everyone,

We are thrilled and excited to bring to life our passion and creation, eRated.

creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go.

By using a universal identity, you will now be able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase your conversion rates and sales as you no longer need to re-build your reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site you operate in.


eRated uses a reputation widget which is displayed in our partner sites. This widget aggregates and summarizes the ratings and feedbacks you have earned across various marketplaces, ultimately increasing your potential buyers’ trust.

We are launching our full system in a weeks time, working extremely hard on building the beautiful and intuitive widgets you will be able to utilize as your one and only e-commerce identity online:

Stay tuned!