To all concerned,
Being a professional online seller for the last 15 years, I agree with all of you Canadians who are against this change. With the currency changes over the last few years, Canadian sellers are doing better than US sellers based on the currency alone. We also have had more challenges (especially with shipping) than most other eBay international sites. There are other factors including political and corporate access to the Canadian sellers at work here as well. Distribution companies and other unique industries have turned eyes to Canada as well do to the sales volume online (eBay included). You could be sure they are working with CRA as well to initiate the move to Canadian Currency, as CRA will seldom do all of the work to audit small businesses (under 750k yearly in sales) that sell in foreign currencies as the fluctuations are to complicated to work with. To be quite frank, most Canadian sellers will be taking a 20%-30% pay cut (at the moment) on the items they sell on eBay.ca due to the change (which for us now is only about 500 items a month and used to be 5 times that amount).
I've been a corporate adviser for several of Canada's largest retailers, and can say that these decisions are rarely considering the employees unless union officials are present (in this case eBay small to large businesses), the consumers (the buyers on ebay purchasing from Canadian sellers), or the competition (try to take on Alibaba... eBay). This decision is based on employees or high paid corporate suits (not small business owners or corporate professionals that understand small businesses) sitting around a board room chatting about how to make their jobs easier, how to bring up profits, how to put more work on the eBay sellers so eBay employees don't have to, and other organizations that won't allow them to delegate work on them (Canada Post, USPS, Fedex, UPS ect), and of course how to keep their high paid salaries by doing so.
The obvious answer is this, there are hundreds of sites now that have easier and better systems in place to help Canadian small businesses. These sites can reach a billion person marketplace in a faster and better manner, and of course more professionally than eBay has ever allowed. I'm not saying to boycott eBay but remember they are fighting to keep corporate profits up and make it easier and more efficient to do so. Don't get me wrong, eBay is one of my favorite companies and sites, we've also been lucky enough to make a fortune selling items I'd never have thought as a businesses previous, we do however tend to see where the future of online sales is going and eBay will have a very hard time keeping up with the Amazon's, Alibaba's , crowdfunding sites, and new App's of the world. As with most companies, if you can't set the trends, you'll be left trying to profit from them, compete with them and failing as eBay is doing now.
I do wish all of you the online success you deserve, and I'd love to connect with all of you amazing Canadian small to large business entrepreneurs that help make success like the eBay company possible. Without you, they wouldn't be able to make any decisions or even be a company.
I appreciate all of the words below and above on this thread.
Kindest Regards.
Cory R. Ledoux
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