EIS + Ebay blue banner warning mess | Selling

rdemaree · 2025-10-10T06:16:48.795000Z

I have looked at some Canadian sellers listings who are using the EIS program in Montreal for instance and it appears as if the shipping fee to the USA for a small item is 2 1/2 times the rate I get through chitchats. Keep in mind I live in Toronto so mine probably won't be quite that high but i'd imagine I won't be able to offer $10 CAD shipping fee for small items if I were to use the EIS. If it was $15 or under TOTAL I would consider it but anything above that and it will scare customers away. Perhaps the EIS might be worth it on larger $ items above $50 in value that are made outside of North America and arent covered by CUSMA but small items made in North America covered by CUSMA will likely not be worth it unless you literally live in Mississauga and can just drop the item off yourself. I also noticed that for the Canadian seller using the EIS program the annoying and falseblue banner by ebay warning about tariffs disappears. If this is any indication it seems like ebay is going to coerce us into using the EIS program or else the false blue banner will plague our listings. I really do hope this warning disappaears or they at least change the wording.Most of my store is handmade stuff and is all CUSMA certified with a broker through chitchats. My customers absolutely do NOT pay any tariffs on my product so what ebay is doing is false advertising and hurting honest sellers. Either lose sales from the banner or lose sales from huge shipping fees....or....only sell high dollar/ hard to find items. Really seems like a squeeze on sellers who sell small/ low value items especially if they are CUSMA compliant items. Hope they sort this out before mid November when holiday shopping really starts ramping up. Seems like an act of self-sabotage on the behalf of ebay. Force a false warning onto every listing no matter what OR force sellers to use a shipping program that is at least twice the cost of what Canada Post ebay labels or Chit Chats is. Lose lose situation here. I am fine not using EIS becase I live near a Chit Chats but I am NOT fine with ebay sabotaging my shop with their false advertsing warning on all of my CUSMA registered listings. Come on ebay. Put some effort into the warning on our listings and at the very least reword it because as it stands its a blatant lie because my shop is overwhelmingly CUSMA compliant and broker approved.

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