FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING: EBAY IS FULL OF IT

Summary: The subject of the discussion is about the misleading nature of promises regarding free international shipping on eBay. Several participants, including leaky-bucket-labs, express dissatisfaction and frustration, indicating that eBay's promotions do not always hold true in practice. The conversation involves sharing experiences about being misled and concerns about transparency in online shopping practices. Everyone seems to agree on the need for clearer communication from sellers and platforms like eBay to avoid confusion and disappointment among international buyers.

Ebay is a joke now. I'm on ebay ca and these things all say free international shipping but when I click on it its $ $11.18 shipping. And look at the 2 cables that are $1300....kinda ridiculous dont you think?

leaky-bucket-labs

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Posted 8 months ago · Edited 8 months ago·Last reply 5 months ago

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flipistics

·5 months ago

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@leaky-bucket-labs Are you logged in when you're initially viewing the items that show free shipping?

leaky-bucket-labs

OP5 months ago

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HERES ANOTHER LIE, FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING ON SOME, OTHERS SHOW A SHIPPING PRICE.

WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE LISTING....OH ITS NOT FREE AT ALL.

BLATANT BAIT AND SWITCH.

HOW MANY YEARS HAS EBAY BEEN ONLINE?

HOW MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE THEY SUCKED OUT OF US?

AND THEY CANT GIVE A PROPER QUOTE WITHOUT LYING TO OUR FACE?

AND WE GOT PEOPLE HERE TRYING TO DEFEND THIS FRAUD?

leaky-bucket-labs

OP5 months ago

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it shouldn't matter what my po code is if its

FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING.

63epimf

leaky-bucket-labs

OP8 months ago

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https://archive.ph/VVQWG

ebay is playing games. bait and switch.

why would it EVER say free international shipping?

and the crazy prices is 100% on ebay's territory as the are SPONSORED listings

Ebay is promoting scams with thier own sponsored listing and baiting people on the CA site.

Its ebay ca for a reason: this is Canada!

malfeasance

marnotom!

·8 months ago

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Are you actually signed into eBay when you do your searching? That archive page you screenshot shows no sign-in information.

For what it's worth, I can't duplicate what you're seeing, either, both on the app and on my laptop.

jtg204

·8 months ago

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I can replicate it by changing my shipping location to Canada with no postal code (or just to USA insteadtoo) and going to:

ebay.ca/b/RCA-Cable-Xscorpion-2-Channel-Car-Audio-Video-Interconnect-Cables/94844/bn_7112864321

They might need to click on 'See All Details', and check/set their postal code in the shipping details.

john_koenig99

·8 months ago

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But I can't see what the OP shared about "free internationa shipping". Neither in .ca or .com. At least while I'm logged in.

If I change location to the US (random ZIP), it shows free shipping with USPS, but not free with FedEx.

Shipping to Canada would be $11.18

jtg204

·8 months ago

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OP is only showing the free international shipping note on the search page, not the listing itself.

With a valid Canada location set it shows a shipping amount on the search page, but with a bad/missing postal code (or other country) it shows that the seller offers free international shipping on just the search page.

lotzofuniquegoodies

·5 months ago

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@jtg204 wrote:
OP is only showing the free international shipping note on the search page, not the listing itself.
With a valid Canada location set it shows a shipping amount on the search page, but with a bad/missing postal code (or other country) it shows that the seller offers free international shipping on just the search page.

On an assortment US eIS listings you may see the following.

Save on combined shipping

When I added 2 items to cart where both showed the combined shipping option total just shows the 2 shipping amounts added together when shipping to Canada 20 + 26. Update to a US address and it just updated to Free UPS Ground advantage. I didn't go any further to see how the customs portion modified/updated.

Appears eIS combined shipping doesn't work in majority of situations. If you do find a situation where it does work most likely entirely fluke. Can be made worse if you try to buy 2 different items for shipping internationally.

As a side in one of the seasonal announcements months back it was stated that this issue had been corrected on the US side for eis. Unsure if that announcement included when it would or wouldn't work. 🙄

grann-4629

·8 months ago

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Here's what I got when I clicked on shipping details from a seller in the US who offers free International shipping ... I am in Canada:

It got it totally backwards and it suggests a domestic only shipment. I never did get an answer from the seller when I asked for clarification. It may only be free to the US 'hub' and the seller may think that's all there is - the rest of the trip to my Canadian address is free because us Canadians are just nice people.

Results = lost sale.

As for the crazy pricing on the cables, I have no idea why a seller would do this, but I see it all over the place on eBay ... ten dollar items listed for thousands of dollars.

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flipistics

·8 months ago

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@grann-4629 wrote:

As for the crazy pricing on the cables, I have no idea why a seller would do this, but I see it all over the place on eBay ... ten dollar items listed for thousands of dollars.

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It's likely a placeholder. In other words, they're probably out of stock and waiting for more to come in. They don't want to break any advertising links to the product or lose the product's sales history. (just a guess)

grann-4629

·8 months ago

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Good thought @flipistics ... that makes sense and probably saves the lister some time. I wonder what would happen if someone actually bought one of these items?

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flipistics

·8 months ago

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@leaky-bucket-labs Shows correctly for me. Try opening it in an incognito / inprivate / private window and see what happens. If it shows correctly, then it's something to do with your browser, an addon, or a setting like a postal code problem or something.

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mrdutch1001

·8 months ago

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That is not what I see...when I search for that exact item, the listing states:

"+C $15.76 shipping

from United States"

and when I click on the listing, for the shipping I see "eBay International Shipping

Estimated between Tue, Feb 10 and Thu, Feb 19 to S4R 0A6

Shipping: US $11.18 (approx C $15.76)"