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ChitChats US shipping - eBay dot com config

Summary: The discussion is about configuring ChitChats US shipping settings on eBay. Participants, including cottagewoman, hansatrade, byto253, sapphyres-designer-jewellery, and musicyouneed, are sharing their experiences and challenges. sapphyres-designer-jewellery and musicyouneed exchange comments back and forth, but overall, the details of each participant's specific issues or solutions are not described.

So for 7 years I sold on dot com with item location and return address configured as US domestic, and used a local CBS. This has been abandoned for obvious reasons. I am considering setting up with ChitChats for un tariffed goods (books, media,etc). My questions to those that are still selling on dot com are:
Do you have your item locations set as Canada or US?
For shipping, are you using flat rates since ChitChats isn't available as a calculated service on dot com, and if so what are your strategies, especially if you sell a variety of items at different sizes/weights?

Any/all advice appreciated!

cottagewoman

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Posted 1 year ago·Last reply 1 year ago

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musicyouneed

·1 year ago

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I am set up with Canada and I dropped something off at Chit Chats on Friday Tariff free and it is stuck. I don't think I will use Chit Chats very often. Not their fault, it is the orange man's fault. No action today.

Sep 28, 2025
8:12 PM	Shipment Cleared - Border Crossing PendingThis shipment has cleared and has been accepted by CBP via our broker. This shipment will be crossing the U.S. border soon, after which it will be released to the carrier. Continue to monitor this tracking page for further updates.

sapphyres-designer-jewellery

·1 year ago

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@musicyouneed wrote:
I am set up with Canada and I dropped something off at Chit Chats on Friday Tariff free and it is stuck. I don't think I will use Chit Chats very often. Not their fault, it is the orange man's fault. No action today.

Sep 28, 2025
8:12 PM Shipment Cleared - Border Crossing PendingThis shipment has cleared and has been accepted by CBP via our broker. This shipment will be crossing the U.S. border soon, after which it will be released to the carrier. Continue to monitor this tracking page for further updates.

That's Sunday night... it should be released pretty soon. Some of my packges have taken 3 days to cross the border. I batch everything and pay attention to what else is being shipped at the time to get an idea of what's going on.

sapphyres-designer-jewellery

·1 year ago

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@cottagewoman wrote:
So for 7 years I sold on dot com with item location and return address configured as US domestic, and used a local CBS. This has been abandoned for obvious reasons. I am considering setting up with ChitChats for un tariffed goods (books, media,etc). My questions to those that are still selling on dot com are:
Do you have your item locations set as Canada or US?
For shipping, are you using flat rates since ChitChats isn't available as a calculated service on dot com, and if so what are your strategies, especially if you sell a variety of items at different sizes/weights?

Any/all advice appreciated!

I'm on dot com still (now down to 9000 items). I have my location showing as Canada since August since I don't want to mislead buyers into thinking I'm in the US and then have to explain things like Customs and Tariffs. Plus they will complain the shipping is too high if I'm claiming to be domestic.

I have business policies for a shipping amount for each type of item I sell. So banknotes have one shipping price, coins have another, and I use flat rate shipping.

vintage_america

·1 year ago

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Still have all my pre-August stuff on .com with item location switched to Canada. Flat rate shipping and using UPS. I’m not going to pay tariffs. There is now a warning on eBay listings to USA buyers about tariffs and though sales have pretty much died, they’re mostly aware of it if they buy. If they want it, they’ll pay it.

Listing on .ca going forward to get more Canadian exposure.

I use Chit Chats only for
Canada now.

byto253

·1 year ago

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Suggest doing some test set up runs with chitchats. In other threads folks have reported requiring basically CUSMA level detail including SKUs and manufacturer addresses.

hansatrade

·1 year ago

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I use always Canada as location. I offer "free" shipping (all my items fall into 100-250g category). I switched to "free" shipping 1 year ago and I am quite happy with the results - no more combined shipping hassle, overpaid shipping refunds, etc.