Transaction defect rate
The transaction defect rate is the percentage of a seller's transactions that have any of the following transaction-related defects:
eBay Money Back Guarantee or PayPal Purchase Protection case opened for an item not received or an item not as described
Seller-initiated transaction cancellation
Sellers need to maintain a defect rate of 2% or lower to meet minimum global seller performance standards, and a defect rate of 0.5% or lower to meet global Top Rated Seller standards.
Any case or return that is referred to eBay or PayPal for review and is found in your favor—or found to be no fault of the buyer or seller—won't count against your performance rating. Learn more about cases that count against your seller performance.
The transaction defect rate won't affect your seller status until you have transactions with defects involving at least 5 different buyers, or at least 4 different buyers to impact Top Rated status, within your evaluation period.
All transactions with defects count toward your global performance rating. Only your transactions with US buyers count toward your seller performance rating on eBay.com.
Sellers in the global program need to maintain a late shipment rate of less than 5% for Top Rated and less than 10% for all sellers.
Notes:
Sellers can have a maximum of 0.3% of eBay Money Back Guarantee and PayPal Purchase Protection cases closed without seller resolution over the most recent evaluation period.
Sellers with 400 or more transactions over the past 3 months are evaluated on their transactions with global buyers from the last 3 calendar months. For all other sellers, the rate is calculated from transactions with global buyers over the last 12 calendar months.
To improve your seller performance rating, follow these best practices for all your transactions, which can also help you achieve Top Rated Seller status. You can also review these tips on becoming a better seller.
To become a Top Rated Seller, you must meet higher requirements than those above.