Anyone willing to divulge success listing on .ca vs .com?

[craftycatsattic]

I know this is an old subject that keeps re-surfacing but eBay keeps putting spokes in the wheels of their Canadian .com sellers and making the move to .ca seems more and more imminent. Since I have to revise all my listings anyway (as we all do), I am seriously thinking about shutting down my store and re-opening it on .ca.

Does anyone know how such a move will impact the listing searches?

Does anyone have actual experience selling on both sites with any input to share?

[axe_n_gear_music]

Hi Pierre,
Wondering why you don't just use the "sell similar" feature for each specific store item that you want listed for the 5 cent promo, and leave your store items untouched. If the auction items don't sell, then you can relist them at another time down the road or during another promo later.
What do you think? Wouldn't this be easier? Most of the items I sell, I have in quantity anyway. I'd appreciate your thoughts.

AXE

[axe_n_gear_music]

But I guess it would be pretty time consuming if you are doing 300-500 items that way. I usually don't do more than 100.

AXE.

[pierrelebel]

"would be pretty time consuming "

...and very risky.

Most promotions recently have been for fixed price listings.

To have the same item offered at the same price in the store in at fixed price in core may result to waking up to two sales the following morning! Oooooops! .

[axe_n_gear_music]

Yes, I understand what you mean, although most of what I sell I have several of, and in stock all the time anyway- some days I wish I'd wake up in the morning with two identical sales from the two different formats! LOL

AXE

[cumos55]

If you list on eBay.com and specify eBay.ca as your first option as a second country, your listings show up in general search on both eBay.com and eBay.ca and not as international search

If you list on eBay.ca and specify eBay.com as your first option as a second country, your listings show up in general search on both eBay.com and eBay.ca and not as international search

Your exposure should be the same... However, Best Match treats the same search results differently on .com than on .ca Best Match appears to be more aggressive on eBay.com

As long as you list in US$ whether on .com or .ca then end results should be the same.

If you send listings to eBay using Turbolister... shipping for .ca is Canada Post while for .com it is USPS.

I do suspect that the new regulations apply to eBay.com... If you have some but not all listings on .com... they may consider that the new regulations apply to you, even though you have listed the media listings on eBay.ca

Now and in the future, it may become more and more advantageous for Canadian sellers to list on eBay.ca as opposed to eBay.com

And in the future it may be advantageous for some US sellers to list on eBay.ca, mainly because of the difference in regulations... especially if they live near the Canada-US border.

Then eBay may put caps on listings on eBay.ca I can live with Canada Post caps... but not USPS caps...

Que sera, sera.......

[art-in-the-making]

There is one definite hard-factual reason to list on .com that I am aware of. That is, when you are doing a featured listing.

When paying $15 to $25 for the FP, you need to keep in mind that if you list on .ca, the item will only be featured to .ca users.

That makes a HUGE difference in traffic.

Depending on how many FP listings you have, you may want to do the odd one on .ca.