the problem with being Canadian on Ebay.com (Shipping) | Selling

shallow_karl · 2023-09-25T19:16:43.336000Z

You can't do cacluated shipping offering obviously, because the shipping options on dot.com require a U.S. address. Prior to the most recent change, I would list an American shipping price, a Canadian shipping price and the rest of the world was shown on the listing to contact seller for shipping costs. Plus, you could exclude specific countries or regions.Now, there is no mention in the listing for foreign buyers to "contact seller for shipping costs." What IS offered is a choice: Ship to just Canada or the whole world. The PROBLEM is, you must specify ONLY one price if you permit the entire world to order. This means either undercharging foreign buyers (not feasible economically) and keying the price for Canada shipping, or estimating the average cost world wide, using that, and grossly overcharging Canadians, Western Europeans, etc. Shipping to say Australia is many TIMES the cost of England so none of this works.

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