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Hello Canadian sellers,
This thread is open for discussion regarding the recent announcement about eBay Canada retiring USD support from its selling flows. Myself and other employees will come visit this thread and do our best to answer any questions on this topic.
"claiming that a seller had a 15% better chance when listing in USD than listing in Cad"
That may have been correct at the time.
Now, let's go back to 2002.
eBay was an auction site mostly with the vast majority of listings offered with the "auction format"
At the time. depending on categories, a seller could expect a "sell through" rate of 20% to 50% (not as good as the 70%+ we experienced back in 1998-1999)
Basically, assuming an exceptional 50% sell through rate, if you offered 100 auctions in US$ you could expect at least one bid on 50 listings and a bid on only 43 listings if listing in Cdn$.
That was then, this is now where the vast majority of listings are offered at fixed price, not auction.
Twelve years later, in 2015, eBay-Canada analyzed current data and came to a different conclusion as explained in their announcement (there is no point in repeating the same stuff here).
You either accept their conclusion or you do not.
The choice is yours.
What is certain - whether we like it or not - is that eBay-Canada will soon become a single currency site (Cdn$) like all other eBay sites around the world. They all manage to do very well listing in domestic currencies. There is no basis in believing Canadians cannot do as well as all other international sellers. We are just as good as they are, are we not?
The reality in Europe is that the euro (€) is their domestic currency. There is nothing anyone can do about it. When they list in euro and Americans or Canadians or Australians or British buy from them, PayPal charges the buyer's account in euro (€) and the buyers get charged in their own domestic currency while the sellers receive euro (€)..
The Australians (country with smaller population than Canada) seem to do OK using their domestic currency. So do the British.
I do not see why Canadians should not. We are as smart and capable as all others.
The only problem is that many Canadians got used to list in US$ and now have to consider making change: either change the currency or change the site. Nobody likes changes. And that is the real problem.
A year from now things will have settled down. Just like they did after eBay started charging FVF on the shipping charge about four years ago. Sellers adapted or left. Looking at the big picture and considering that eBay's overall sales by sellers keep going up, few actually left.
What the actual data from their survey actually showed is irrelevant. eBay-Canada made the decision on what they felt was best, whether we like it or not, whether we approve or not, whether we trust or not. eBay wants sellers to sell more as that is how they generate their fees.
"I run a physical store"
Do you sell in US$ at your store?
' It's perplexing to me that you chose to defend just about EVERY bad decision Ebay makes"
???
Please take a look at:
http://community.ebay.ca/t5/Weekly-Chat-Session/May-the-4th-2016-Weekly-Session/m-p/336774#U336774
"not to mention the questionable advice the two of you provide to many posters here. "
At the end of the day every seller on eBay.ca has options:
1 - complain about the change making eBay.ca a single currency site like all other eBay sites and approve of all other posters complaining how the change will affect their eBay business
2 - accept the fact that the decision has been made and will not be changed regardless of comments made here by Canadian sellers.
Once Canadian sellers have accepted the fact the decision is here to stay, then it becomes a question of deciding the best way to proceed. You will find many other sellers with substantial eBay and online experience offering many options. Each seller is free to follow the advise offered or.... not.
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