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"I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories"
I am and greatly enjoy some of the posts here. 
"when the Promo team cooked up this offer..."
It depends which team and which offer you are referring to.
The eBay.com (USA) team seems to be trying new promotions - by invitation only - limited to listings on eBay.com (USA). They have offered two such promotions back-to-back. I suspect they kept their promotions to themselves and did not let the Canadian management know about it.
North of the border, in downtown Toronto, the Canadian team prepared what they considered a great promotion available to some Canadian sellers (I was not invited) for listings on eBay.ca only and for items priced in Canadian dollars. I am pretty sure that promotion had to have been approved by San Jose well in advance. That would explain the timing of announcing both "by invitation only" promotions the same day, The goal of the Canadian promotion is to convince invited Canadian sellers that listing and selling in Canadian dollars will be advantageous to them.
The problem I see is that while the Canadian team worked on a short time promotion, the Americans went for long term (four months). Quite frankly that does not seem fair to Canadians regardless of what the staff in Toronto may claim.
Hi Michelle, I tried to private message through Ebay messaging but it did not work........ here is what you need to do
Step 1
First try and group items that have the exact same shipping
Place these in a separate folder make sure you use separate folders in TL for auction and fixed price
Under edit "Select All" the items from your inventory that you want to export
Then under file header select Export
Next you will see a box come up, select the middle option that reads
Turbo lister format CSV and click the Export button
Step 2
Open the file using Excel
Under the site tab change the numbers to 0 for USA or 2 for Canada
all of the numbers in that column need to be the same
Once you have done that save the excel file
Step 3
Go back to Turbo lister and under File... select Import items
That will now import the files back into Turbo lister where they will be now USA or CDN depending on the code you used (0 or 2)
Step 4
Now Select "Edit Multiple Items" under the Edit tab
Than change all of the shipping to be the same for Canada....than USA and than rest of the world
Once you have changed the shipping Turbo lister will let you now save the inventory in the new country format.
If anything is missing Turbo Lister will alert you to what it is
Very important.........Gallery Plus is Free for use in the USA site under collectibles but not in Canada.
If you select Gallery Plus in Canada you will be charged a listing fee.
There is no Turbo Lister manual, so it took a lot of trial and error over the years to perfect the above.
Once you get the hang of it you can do 1000's of listing all at once as long as the shipping is the same......example selling stamps or photos where the weight is very similar.
Good Luck Linda
Michelle you are very welcome, I am glad to have helped.
"...so that obviously isn't the reason for the push towards listing in Canadian currency."
I totally agree.
There are two reasons for the "push" towards Canadian dollar listing by eBay.ca
1) These guys want to generate more revenue and truly feel, based on their six month analysis, that Canadian sellers will benefit, therefore eBay will benefit. eBay does not have to prove anything to anyone. They have done the analysis and put their own revenue stream on the line. That is good enough for me.
2) There is no doubt that eBay.ca will become a single currency site at some time in the future. As such, it makes sense for eBay to prepare Canadian sellers well ahead of time.
As far as all the technical problems at eBay around the shopping cart and ability to combine orders and discount shipping charges, etc... etc... these problems are well known by now and sellers should spend their time productively working around the problems.
