@canuckcoin wrote:
Unless Ebay is going to enact CAD fees that don't fluctuate with exchange this is of little help. If a someone has hundreds or thousands of listings in US Dollars and pay insertion fees in US Dollars they can properly project their costs. If I list a large number of fixed price listings in Canadian Dollars and their is a big move in exchange as we have seen in the last year, then seller faces a huge task to change pricing in all his listings to keep the margin needed to be profitable. First Ebay eliminates buying from the US with the poorly run internationahttp://community.ebay.ca/t5/forums/replypage/board-id/SellerUpdates/message-id/1174#l buying program and now this.
To us, the opposite is true. If you list in USD, you know what you're going to collect in USD. You have little idea what you'll be collecting in CAD. Unless you are paying most of your inventory costs and bills in USD, most sellers with long tail inventory will reduce inventory risk and eliminate the need to reprice their listings because of FX movements.
If you list in CAD, you know what your margin will be on your sale, today or three months from now. If you list in USD and never adjust prices on your long tail inventory, then if the CAD rises in value it eats away your margin, while if CAD drops, you get a higher than expected margin, but your item is also at risk of becoming uncompetitive.
Currency risk isn't really that big a deal to most of our sellers in most currency environments, but the larger your total sales, the more CAD mitigates risk while totally eliminating the need to keep revising prices.
