Worth paying the fees to list on ebay.uk as a Canadian seller?
Summary: northstardc4m is contemplating whether it's worthwhile for Canadian sellers to list their items on eBay UK, especially since they've turned off US shipping. They primarily sell handbags, wallets, and jewelry. reallynicestamps shared their experience of enabling shipping to various countries, including the UK, without paying extra fees, and mentioned they receive most of their international sales from the UK and France. john_koenig99 echoed interest in this issue since they have European buyers but no UK sales yet. electronicsextraordinaire believes the fee is not worth it unless the products have a significant following in the UK, while marnotom! suggests checking visibility by searching on eBay UK using incognito mode. femmefan1946 successfully shipped to the UK without paying premium fees, indicating it's possible to sell internationally without the added cost.
Just wondering and looking for experinces from fellow Canadian sellers if as my US shipping has been turned off... is it worth it to tick that little list on UK site box and pay the few cents extra? I have had some sales to European buyers in the last year...
If it matters I sell handbags, wallets and jewellery mostly.
And please skip the "try and find out" type replies... if I wanted to do that I would not be asking...
femmefan1946
·11 months agoI'm shipping a sewing pattern to the UK today.
I suppose the buyer bought it on dotCOM where most of my patterns are listed, but I don't pay the premium on either site.
marnotom!
·11 months agoMy understanding is that that little tickbox is a relic from eBay's Bronze Age. If you're selling something pretty unusual, your item will likely show up in a keyword search on eBay UK even with the tickbox unchecked.
Try searching for your items on eBay UK with your browser set to incognito or private mode and see if they come up. Of course, the "best match" search results may be based partly on the fact that your location is Canada (if the search bot is sophisticated enough to pick up on that), but it may not, but it's worth seeing how much competition there is out there for the item in your search.
electronicsextraordinaire
·11 months agoI doubt it's worth it unless you're selling something with a huge following in just UK.
I figure if I turned it on, I'd get maybe an extra 1 in 50 sales to UK, effectively paying $25 per sale, which is totally NOT worth it for most of us.
And even then, UK buyers occasionally buy my stuff anyway somehow.
eBay might want to get rid of the dumb fee if they want to make some extra commissions. I can't imagine many people paying it on lower-cost items.
john_koenig99
·11 months ago+1.
I would be intersted to know this, as well.
I have gotten a few sales from buyers in continental Europe, but none from the UK, so far. And like @reallynicestamps , my shipping options are enabled for both locations.
reallynicestamps
·11 months agoFWIW - I enabled shipping to the UK as part of ordinary shipping, but do not pay "special fee".
I just gave a shipping price and enabled shipping to Europe/UK/ Germany/France/Australia/Japan.
I get sales to all of those, but mostly to UK and France. This may be something to do with my stock which does have a lot of Commonwealth material.
I can only assume that my UK customers are Searching on dotCOM where I usually list.