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What the marketplace publishes about a seller
Four numbers, published before you pay. Three of them are easy to misread.
Before you pay a seller you have never used, the listing already tells you four things about them. None of the four is an opinion, and none of them is a promise. They are counts of what earlier buyers did, which is a different and more useful thing.
The four numbers
| Number | What it counts | How it misleads |
|---|---|---|
| Rating and review count | Buyers who left a score after an order | A perfect score on few orders says less than a lower score on thousands |
| Got sales | Share of buyers who reported making a sale | Reported by buyers, not verified, and it depends on their offer as much as the traffic |
| Repeat orders | Share of buyers who came back and bought again | The hardest number to fake, and the one most people skip |
| Traffic countries | Where the seller says their list sits | Published by the seller, so treat it as a claim you can test on a small order |
Rating is the number people read first and it is the least informative of the four. People leave a good score when delivery arrives on time. Sales happen later, if at all.
See the marketplace and its seller stats
Repeat orders is the one that cuts
The reason to lead with repeat orders is that nobody comes back and pays a second time out of politeness. Watch what happens to the size of the list when you ask for it.
One filter took the shortlist from 125 to 12. That is not a reason to only ever buy from those twelve. It is a reason to know which side of that line the seller you are about to pay sits on, because the listing will not tell you unless you ask it.
The twelve, in full
Every seller that passed the filter above, ordered by repeat rate. Each name links to the published record for that seller. No scores of ours, and the order is the marketplace's number, not our opinion.
| Seller | Repeat orders | Got sales | Rating | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tam Chi Pham | 46% | 81% | 4.9 (758) | $0.47 |
| Angelo Sayson | 41% | 98% | 5.0 (3,183) | $1.05 |
| Farzana Shanta | 36% | 38% | 4.9 (188) | $0.49 |
| Igor Varoscic | 31% | 99% | 4.9 (1,855) | $0.64 |
| Maurizio Pace | 31% | 44% | 5.0 (3,577) | $0.79 |
| Greg Prouse | 28% | 62% | 4.8 (690) | $0.58 |
| Shaun Critzer | 28% | 33% | 4.7 (104) | $0.45 |
| Thomas Freeman | 28% | 86% | 4.9 (3,352) | $0.79 |
| Agung Nugroho | 27% | 24% | 4.8 (108) | $0.40 |
| Deepak Kulkarni | 26% | 46% | 4.9 (95) | $0.59 |
| Bill Abbott | 25% | 31% | 5.0 (185) | $0.55 |
| Kevin Hansen | 25% | 65% | 4.9 (3,495) | $0.40 |
Two things to notice before you read down the column. Repeat rate and reported sales do not move together: the seller with the lowest reported sales here has a higher repeat rate than four sellers who report more than twice as many. And price spans two and a half times across a group that all cleared the same quality filter, so price is telling you about positioning rather than about quality.
Two sellers just below the line
The twenty five percent cut is ours, not the marketplace's, and a line drawn anywhere has somebody sitting under it. Both of these are worth reading for what their numbers argue about:
- Glenn Fedoruk, 23% repeat, and the largest review count we found anywhere.
- William McRea, 20% repeat, a perfect rating, and the lowest reported sales figure on this site.
New to the numbers entirely? Start with the three you check first, then come back here.
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See the marketplace and its seller stats