To filter eBay listings by seller rating, you have two practical options: search within sellers you already trust, or screen each matching listing by its feedback percentage and feedback score. The standard eBay Advanced Search page does not provide a minimum-percentage or minimum-score field. TruffleHunt adds those thresholds to a monitored search as alert filters; matching items remain tracked even when they do not qualify for an alert.
What you can filter on eBay itself
In eBay Advanced Search, narrow your results by model, condition, buying format, price, returns and location. Its Sellers section lets you enter specific seller IDs. That helps when you already have a shortlist, but it does not discover every seller above a chosen feedback threshold.
- Search for the exact item or model you want, then apply the relevant condition and buying-format filters.
- Open a promising listing and check the feedback percentage shown near the seller's name.
- Select the number in brackets next to the username to open the feedback profile. Read recent comments before deciding whether the seller meets your requirements.
- If you want future results from that seller, save the seller or use their ID in Advanced Search.
eBay's trusted-seller guide explains where these signals appear and how to search for a specific seller. Available controls can differ between marketplaces and the app.
Feedback percentage and feedback score answer different questions
The positive-feedback percentage describes the proportion of positive ratings used in eBay's calculation. The numeric feedback score gives you another measure of the account's feedback history. Neither number is a count of inspected items or a guarantee that the listing is accurate.
For example, a seller with 100% positive feedback and a score of 18 has a different history from one with 99.7% and a score of 12,000. You might consider either seller, but the percentage alone does not explain how much feedback supports it. eBay's feedback-profile help also points you to recent comments and detailed seller ratings.
Read complaints about the problem that would be costly for your purchase: inaccurate condition, incomplete bundles, shipping damage or unclear compatibility. For a used camera, check the photos and stated faults. For an auto part, check the exact part number and fitment. A high feedback score cannot resolve either question.
Set minimum seller feedback in a TruffleHunt hunt
A hunt is an eBay search that TruffleHunt checks for matching listings and, when enabled, fixed-price price drops. Use seller thresholds when you want fewer alerts from sellers outside your preferred range.
Follow these steps where Alert filters are offered in your account's hunt editor. If you use a temporary onboarding offer, check the advanced settings available in that flow before relying on a seller threshold.
- Build a specific eBay search and copy its results URL.
- Create or edit a hunt in TruffleHunt using that search.
- Open Advanced, then find Alert filters.
- Enter a value in Min seller feedback %, Min seller feedback score, or both. Save the hunt.
- Check your connected and enabled delivery channels in Notification settings. Inspect the resulting listings before buying.
When you set both thresholds, a listing with known feedback values must meet both. These settings govern alerts, not the contents of eBay's search page, and they do not remove matching items from the hunt's tracked results.
A worked example: 98.5% and a score of 500
These are illustrative thresholds, not recommended minimums for every category. Suppose you set the percentage to 98.5 and the score to 500:
| Seller feedback | Filter result |
|---|---|
| A: 100% positive; score 18 | Fails the score threshold |
| B: 99.7% positive; score 12,000 | Meets both thresholds |
| C: 98.1% positive; score 900 | Fails the percentage threshold |
| D: 99% positive; score 0 | Fails the score threshold |
Meeting the seller thresholds makes an item eligible under that part of your alert configuration. Other hunt filters, event settings and delivery conditions still apply.
Missing feedback is not a failed rating. If eBay does not supply a feedback field, TruffleHunt cannot compare that field and does not suppress the alert on that basis. Any other known feedback field must still meet its threshold. An actual score of zero is compared normally. Check the seller profile when an alert lacks feedback details.
Choose thresholds without excluding the inventory you want
A strict score threshold can exclude occasional sellers with useful inventory. Leaving it blank lets you assess smaller sellers manually; tightening it reduces those alerts. Choose according to what you can verify and the cost of a mistake, rather than treating one percentage as universally safe.
Keep the search specific, compare item price with quoted shipping, and check returns before buying. The underpriced-listing guide covers the price and condition checks; the price-change workflow explains what a monitored discount does and does not mean.
Create an account to monitor your first eBay search. If onboarding offers you the eligible 48-hour trial hunt, you can test a search without API keys or a card. Continued monitoring uses your own eBay Developer credentials. Forager is a permanent free plan, separate from that onboarding trial; check current plans for hunt limits and delivery options.