I haven't and it's a shame. I have regular buyers there but not enough to register. This change appears to be a small part of a bigger picture including;
*Other European countries coming onboard with new import restrictions and
*eBays replacement of the GSP with the new program "eBay International Shipping".
The reason the EIS is relevant is because eBay will need to incorporate the EU countries including Germany, France and the UK into that US program. They can't really do that without circumventing the new import requirements.
Based on your volume and what you sell you have to decide for yourself if you want to register. It has had an impact on me however not a big enough one to go it alone and register. I think your best to focus on markets you can sell to normally.
This is a bigger problem for eBay than for us. I'am waiting for them to fix it in the US during their transition to eBay International Shipping.
In the meantime my answer to the buyer would be a polite "No Thanks". As an alternative you can suggest they find a freight forwarder in Canada registered to ship the item to Germany. I haven't arranged that myself but have seen buyers do that. I think they have to add the forwarder's address to their own eBay account and use it as the shipping address. There are other threads here about that and it can be risky. I would not recommend assuming any liability.
The last mention I have seen made by eBay came from Griff in the Oct 11, 22 eBay For Business podcast. Here is what he said;
"Griff: I know there's a lot of sellers after the German Packaging Act looked at their sales, realized they weren't selling that much into Germany and just excluded Germany from their list of countries. I suppose that's always an option as well. And if you listen to the podcast, go back past episodes, it's actually a two step process. It's not that difficult to do. Each shipping policy that you create has an exclusion list. You can add any countries that you like to that exclusion list. But if you use GSP and I assume moving forward eBay International Shipping, you need to check in your shipping preferences for the setting that says override your exclusions for GSP and make sure that box is unchecked. Unchecked. Anyway, you can hear that in uh, past episodes on the topic. Or if you have any questions, just send them to podcast@ebay.com. "
Good luck with that!
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