How to inlcude specific country in Shipping Area?

[Anonymous]

Hi. I wonder how can I include the specific country in the shipping area?  I want to include Italy, Brazil and a few other countries that I no longer ship without tracking number.  I want to include these countries with XpressPost rates, so how do I do that.

The shipping location has way too vague like Europe,  Asia, etc.  I need specific countries like these countries I mentioned here.

I think eBay should start to give us more options to choose specific countries as there are more and more sellers like myself that didn't want to ship any items to the specific countries due to too many claim of never received, possible scammers.   eBay should have many countries for us to click to include in the shipping information in our listings, than just Europe, Asia, etc.  It is way too vague.

I even have 2 buyers informing me that their postal corporation in their countries are corrupted and cannot trust them and always asked for  XpressPost rates. 

Imagine if  Canada Post would be like that??  I feel sorry for those countries.  Thanks.

[rose-dee]

I think what you can do in this situation is use your exclusion list (in "Site Preferences/Shipping Preferences") to exclude all but the countries you wish to ship to.  Then when you choose, for example "Europe" when preparing a listing, make sure you specify that eBay should use your shipping exclusion list, and all the countries except those you've excluded will show as "ship to" countries.

As an example, I've done this to exclude Russia and a couple of other countries in Europe that have doubtful postal systems, but all the rest of the countries in Europe will be "ship to" countries when I check the "Europe" box in the shipping area when preparing a listing. 

I do admit though, that setting up shipping destinations is anything but simple - it takes a bit of a backwards workaround to do it thoroughly. 

My personal gripe about these shipping lists is that the whole, long list of exclusions shows up when you click on the "Shipping" tab on a listing.  Really, how often is someone in, say, Tonga, going to be checking the exclusion list?  It would be much better to have it as a clickable drop-down list, much neater and cleaner.  Rant fini. 

[Anonymous]

Hi. Thanks.  I wish that the eBay system would make it easier to have clickable drop menu for us to choose which countries that we want ship with tracking number.  For example, I want to click Italy, Brazil and a few other countries for the shipping information that will include with tracking number. 

eBay, are you listening??  Thanks.