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towertreasuretrove · ‎04-20-2016

Well...I decided to give the free 30-day listings promotion a shot with $CAN. I've been selling for years and there isn't much doubt...I'm going to sell a lot less items on .CA. For whatever reasons I'm not getting the watchers or the bids. Selling on Ebay gets more and more disheartening...I think I'm going to have to shift everything to .COM but I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it...

jersey..authentix · ‎04-20-2016

I may get a lot of flack for saying this and I know there are many sellers who disagree with me , but showing your listing with US funds will do better in the USA than if you sell using CDN in your list. Im just saying.

pierrelebel · ‎04-20-2016

"I'm not getting the watchers or the bids."

At this time I see seven (7) auction listings, all of them in US$. So listing other items in Cdn$ would not affect those US$ listings.

towertreasuretrove · ‎04-20-2016

I was talking about the 30 day BIN..

100+..with less hits than I usually see...

aubreyclay56 · ‎04-20-2016

great price and free shipping honestly dont know how you can make any money like that? To ship tracked to canada is like 13.00 and 15 to the usa, Even untracked for the size plus cardboard to protect has to be at least 7-8 dollars?

2nd-time-around-jewelry · ‎04-20-2016

I did the same thing & relisted over 800 items from US funds into Canadian funds. It took me a few weeks to complete. I have noticed a big drop in sales. Very disheartening!

musicyouneed · ‎04-20-2016

I too have noticed a big drop in sales from US buyers. I think that if I want to remain selling on ebay, I'll have to move everything over to .com.

towertreasuretrove · ‎04-20-2016

great price and free shipping honestly dont know how you can make any money like that? To ship tracked to canada is like 13.00 and 15 to the usa, Even untracked for the size plus cardboard to protect has to be at least 7-8 dollars?

Not for anything...but just getting started with photos. I sold books for 10 years. I don't shipped photos tracked. Lettermail in Canada is $3.00....US $5.00 so I can make about $4-5 a photo. Mailers I buy in bulk from U-Line for about 40 cents each. But the real money comes in when a customer buys multiple photos....10 photos/$100....ship for $10...It happens...Cheers

femmefan1946 · ‎04-21-2016

It's my opinion that there is little advantage in listing on dotCA if the product can be shipped Flat Rate or Free Shipping.

With items that are over 2CM thick or 500 grams, and require parcel rates, sticking with dotCA where we can use Calculated Shipping makes more sense.

On the third hand, when your product has a strong Canadian market (CNR stations, Billy Bishop) it is reasonable to list on dotCA. But a lot of Canadians are still unaware of the Canada site and will find you on dotCOM.

Keep in mind that your customer sees your prices in the currency of the site he is looking at.

So your CDN$ items show on dotCOM in USD , on eBay Australia in Aussie dollars, on eBay Germany in euros etc.

pocomocomputing · ‎04-21-2016

@femmefan1946 wrote:
It's my opinion that there is little advantage in listing on dotCA if the product can be shipped Flat Rate or Free Shipping.

With items that are over 2CM thick or 500 grams, and require parcel rates, sticking with dotCA where we can use Calculated Shipping makes more sense.

On the third hand, when your product has a strong Canadian market (CNR stations, Billy Bishop) it is reasonable to list on dotCA. But a lot of Canadians are still unaware of the Canada site and will find you on dotCOM.

Keep in mind that your customer sees your prices in the currency of the site he is looking at.
So your CDN$ items show on dotCOM in USD , on eBay Australia in Aussie dollars, on eBay Germany in euros etc.

A listing shows in CAD first (and other foreign currencies first) on eBay.com with small print underneath saying "approximately US $x.xx" . I think this appears strange to US buyers and makes USA buyers more aware the listing is from outside the USA with some US buyers backing out so they can buy from a USA seller.

dutchman48 · ‎04-21-2016

One thing, when I get my daily emails for searches I have saved, those all show up in the currency they are listed in, not Can $.

You have to open the listing to see the Can $ equivalent.

It may make a difference to people or it may not, just an observation

pierrelebel · ‎04-21-2016

"searches I have saved,"

Did you save the searches on eBay.com or eBay.ca?

Anonymous · ‎04-24-2016

Why would eBay treats Canadian sellers shabbily and put us in visibility less than US sellers?

We Canadian sellers generate lots of millions of $$ to eBay and that is how eBay is treating us shabbily??? I felt that eBay should treat everyone equally.

pierrelebel · ‎04-25-2016

"I have noticed a big drop in sales. "

Really?

When I take a look at your sales, I see you have approximately 15 to 18 sales a month .

So far in April (and the month is not over yet) I count 18 sales in Canadian dollars. That is correct: 18 sales so far in April

What is the problem?

rose-dee · ‎04-25-2016

@pocomocomputing wrote:
"A listing shows in CAD first (and other foreign currencies first) on eBay.com with small print underneath saying "approximately US $x.xx" . I think this appears strange to US buyers and makes USA buyers more aware the listing is from outside the USA with some US buyers backing out so they can buy from a USA seller."

This precise issue, in addition to the yo-yo effect of $CDN prices when converted to $USD on search pages, is one of my biggest concerns about listing in $CDN . Oh yes, and not only does the conversion look "foreign", but the $CDN number, on the face of it, will always be a bigger number -- not a great snap impression if you look at the example you posted -- the $CDN number is in larger, bold print, which may be all a potential buyer actually notices.

The above would be true even if the "cart disconnect" weren't a problem. I'd still rather list in $USD because I believe, as you say, that US buyers do not react positively to anything that appears "foreign", or at the very least, given a choice, they'll prefer to buy from another US seller.

Canadians who sell mainly to the U.S. have to remember that U.S. buyers always have a huge domestic seller market available to them. They are used to buying from other Americans, in $USD. What possible incentive can we Canadian sellers offer to such buyers, aside from lower prices? List in a currency that makes us look like domestic sellers to those buyers!

After all, many Americans don't really think of Canada as another country anyway -- if we as sellers can convince U.S. buyers right off the bat, at first impression in listings, that it's as easy and familiar to buy from us as from other Americans, I think we have a real advantage.

The "comfort factor" of dealing in familiar terms is important for Americans -- I would say it's even expected by them when interacting with the rest of the world -- and this is something Canadian sellers have to accept. When in Rome...

dutchman48 · ‎04-25-2016

I list in both so I can continue to double my store listings (until they take that away as well)

Sales have really not been good in either currency for the last few months so this may not be a good time frame to compare.

gifts_of_elegance · ‎04-25-2016

in reply to Dustmite 007

@pierrelebel wrote:
"I have noticed a big drop in sales. "

Really?

When I take a look at your sales, I see you have approximately 15 to 18 sales a month .

So far in April (and the month is not over yet) I count 18 sales in Canadian dollars. That is correct: 18 sales so far in April

What is the problem?

Are you serious Pierre? You don't see 16 sales out of 876 a problem? That is less than 2% of the inventory in numbers. I don't know what percentage it is of the $ value but it can't be much more.

I have 876 items listed (some in quantities) and had 24 sales this month and that only represents 2.666% in numbers or .6% (Yes, 6/10th or 3/5th of One Percent) of my $ value. At that rate, it will take me 12-14 years to sell my inventory. Not a problem?

westernstargifts · ‎04-26-2016

Today I had yet another U.S. buyer contact me about not being able to combine shipping. He wanted to make multiple purchases and said that "others offer combined shipping". Because eBay makes buyers pay immediately, it appears that we do not offer combined shipping which puts us at a disadvantage.

I explained to him that the shopping cart doesn't work for items that were listed on .ca and to log onto this site to make his purchases. I haven't heard back from him and he hasn't made the purchases so far. If they make it too difficult for buyers to purchase from us we lose sales. I will be going to .com.

pjcdn2005 · ‎04-26-2016

@gifts_of_elegance wrote:

in reply to Dustmite 007
@pierrelebel wrote:
"I have noticed a big drop in sales. "

Really?

When I take a look at your sales, I see you have approximately 15 to 18 sales a month .

So far in April (and the month is not over yet) I count 18 sales in Canadian dollars. That is correct: 18 sales so far in April

What is the problem?
Are you serious Pierre? You don't see 16 sales out of 876 a problem? That is less than 2% of the inventory in numbers. I don't know what percentage it is of the $ value but it can't be much more.

I have 876 items listed (some in quantities) and had 24 sales this month and that only represents 2.666% in numbers or .6% (Yes, 6/10th or 3/5th of One Percent) of my $ value. At that rate, it will take me 12-14 years to sell my inventory. Not a problem?

Pierre was not comparing items listed vs items sold. The poster had said that their sales dropped when they started listing in Canadian dollars and Pierre pointed out that sales did not look that much different now than when the seller was listing in $US.

I had a look at that same sellers sales. From Jan 29 - March 24 (55 days) they had 23 sales and all listings sold were in $US. That works out to about .418 sales/day.

From March 25 - April 24 (31 days) all of their sales were for listings in $C. They had 21 sales which is about .677 sales/day.

When looking at the few details that are available for me to see, it looks as if they are actually selling more in Canadian dollars than they were in U.S. dollars. But I don't know how many listings they had in those time periods. If they have more listings now, that would account for more sales.

Your listings or at least some of them are on .com but the posters here...at least most of them...are commenting on the change from listing in $US to $C.