Hello Canadian eBayers,
Happy April Fool's Day! We are holding the weekly chat as scheduled, and I'm not joking. See you at 1 PM!
@pjcdn2005 wrote:
Regarding forced ipr on items under $100.
Some sellers on .com are under the impression that the ipr is buyer related. They are saying that some buyers have to either use the cart or pay for each item but other buyers are able to buy a few items and then pay at once without using a cart. Do you know if it is buyer related?
Honestly I don't think this is true.
@pjcdn2005 wrote:
Obviously neither of us know for sure but I don't think that many people have run into that problem. They see that there is no cart on the first page...they click on buy it now and then pay. Otherwise, I think that we would have heard about this particular problem a long time ago. But I am just guessing of course and regardless....it makes no sense for buyers to see that add to cart link when they can't use it anyway. For the few that may try, it would be confusing.
I wonder if Raphael knows if that add to cart button has always been showing on that one page for .ca listings or if another change somehow made it 'appear'.
It's a recent change, about 6 weeks old I think.
It's another great example of something that works well in 95% of transactions on eBay.com. What this does is drive adoption for the shopping cart. Only in rare cases (bear with me here, for a US buyer, the cases where they see a Canadian item are pretty rare, for a Canadian seller, 100% of the transactions are subject to these problems) does the invitation to use the cart cause problems.
That's all for today, folks! Thanks to rose-dee and pjcdn2005 for braving the risk of internet pranks on this fine April Fool's Day. See you next week!
