yes, we were in effect forced to switch to .com or kill the majority of listings on ebay due to high fees and all single item sales since the multi item sales stopped once the cart was introduced, it took over 400 hours and some creative solutions to make it happen, and it solved the problem of disappearing American multiple sales almost overnight
it also took over a year for somebody to figure out(or to admit, not sure which) that there was a problem with Canadian sellers and the cart disconnect, we lost tens of thousands of dollars in sales year to year, so this is an actual quantitative look at the disruptive effect that ebays direction took it with the amateur cart that only works under certain conditions.
just to repeat, we lost tens of thousands of dollars year to year with the same inventory, so to say that the cart disconnect had nothing to do with the downturn was a bit of an exaggeration from management, as that was the only major glitch that seemed to affect us in a financial manner, we have the same amount of listings as we did last year as well
I do not believe there is a consipiracy to get away with Canadian sellers, however, the empirical evidence suggests that they are scrambling to make things work again, but have no idea how to do it, so are just making things worse with each fix, it is almost comical if it didn't affect our livelihood so dramatically
listing on .ca will become even less relevant as they force the savy sellers to list on .com, there really is no choice if you want to survive selling in most category's here but to list on .com, but that is only our experience in selling collectibles on the old ebay, which used to be a collectibles marketplace, now ebay is a poor mans amazon, and really, who wants poor buyers?
ebay told us in the early days to put a note on our listings to teach buyers how to purchase multiple items by going to the .com site, once we added the note to the 30,000 listings we had(it took about 60 hours of effort to do that) than we were told it would just be better to list on the .com site. as most people do not read the notes. really? they seem to be very cavalier with our time and business, and it seems like they are more clueless than you can ever imagine, as the advice changes day to day, week to week, month to month, too difficult to keep up with any longer....we were certainly not going to go and change all those messages...again since ebay changed their recommendations...again
we decided to not jump through a single ebay hoop ever again, they were just too much of a drunk bumbling fool as a business partner, even when they said use UPC codes to help sales, ha, we did a test, 50 auctions with UPC and 50 without, all the same items, the non UPC codes were outpacing the UPC codes almost two to one, lol, so I almost think you have to George castanze the ebay recommendations, whatever they tell you, kind of do the opposite, or ignore their advice, and than you will have the best chance to succeed if you sell volume, otherwise, listen to their advice at your peril, it just is consistently always wrong I find, pretty sad to say, and I am not sure how they have survived this long like this to be honest.
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