Ebay should get rid of ebay.ca and just use .com for Canada and the U.S. | Selling

shallow_karl · 2025-04-29T02:16:30.721000Z

The Canadian market in itself is near worthless, compared to the American market. Even though the population of Canada is 10% of the U.S. or so, Canada's Ebay market is maybe 1/50th the size of the U.S. market mostly because of lack of disposible income, compared to Americans. .CA just functions to appeal to people living in trailers maybe in the boondocks of Saskatchewan or Alberta, the people who used to buy everything from the Canadian Sears or Eaton's catalogs. What Ebay could do is fix the shipping system on .COM so it could allow for different pricing of Canada from the rest of the world (aside from the U.S.) because if you go with fixed shipping costs (you can't do calculated from Canada on Ebay.com) you have to price Canada the same as the overseas markets, which is ridiculous since it is far cheaper to ship TO Canada FROM Canada than Canada to Europe, say.

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