@silverpinups wrote:
eBay.ca is going to lose a huge chunk of money with the possibility of ending millions of USD Listings in Jan/17.
It might take sellers several months or longer to relist them depending on how motivated they are.
I hadn't thought of it this way previously, but you might be right. Some sellers just won't bother to relist immediately, some will doubtless leave eBay completely and go somewhere where it's easier to sell in the world's most common currency. It's a hassle and time-consuming switching listings to .com, and by all accounts the migration tool was a disaster (in fact I seem to recall it will be phased out soon anyway).
One thing is true though. A lot of us sellers who do move our inventory to .com will be paying more in FVFs if we've been selling mainly to the U.S. and relying on using free (or low) domestic shipping rates on .ca to reduce shipping FVFs. It makes it even harder for us to compete, since I'd guess few "niche" sellers can afford to offer free or reduced shipping to the U.S. I used to use my savings on domestic shipping FVFs to subsidize my U.S. buyers' shipping. I can't do that anymore, or I'd be losing money at both ends.
Like you, I list a number of unique items. Many literally can't be found elsewhere on eBay. Maybe as you say eBay will extend the $USD again, but that's only postponing the inevitable pain.
I'm really not sure at this point what I'll do come 2017.
