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authenticantiques · ‎05-30-2016

Hi All 🙂

Still unsure what the most beneficial move in my case would be...I have slowly started today to relist a few items in CAD after letting most of my 600 listings run out...

I read that some CDN sellers list on both .ca and .com ( what goes to .com and what goes to .ca???)

and others are just uprooting everything to .com...

I would appreciate any advice you may have as to what my best move would be.

Don't mind the work any transfer would require...beats a 9-5 job any day so that to me is no problem. Just want to get it right 🙂

mr.elmwood · ‎05-30-2016

I only list on com, motors. ca does not have parts comparability, less features. I price point in US dollars.

When you price in one currency and it gets switched to another currency, the numbers go weird. I was public retail for 35 years and customers are trained to look at prices a certain way. Your Etruscan Antique Brooch Necklace is easy to read $125.00 on com and that becomes $162.91 on ca, and, that will change every time the currency exchange rate changes.

Items you price in CDN on ca will similarly float all over the place on com in Greenbacks. Customers will be going "What is going on here?".

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sylviebee · ‎05-30-2016

I think that the type of vintage jewelry you're selling is extremely competitive and that you're doing very well with it.

If I were you I wouldn't change a thing.

pjcdn2005 · ‎05-30-2016

They do have to change something as they have $US listings on .ca. Are you saying that they should move their listings to .com so that they don't have to change the currency?

I started listing on .com years ago although I do list Canadian related items in $C on .ca. That works for me but I also know sellers that list on.ca only in Canadian dollars and they do well. In other words...I think that it is an individual thing. Some sellers swear that they have to list in $US, some don't think that Canadian is fine. You might want to try listing on both sites for a couple of months and see how it works out. If you list on .com you won't be able to use calculated shipping although you can still use Paypal to print labels.

I just had a look at your listings and approximately half of them do not have a shipping price for Canada and only about a dozen of them have a shipping cost for the U.S. Some of them are missing an international shipping cost as well.

sylviebee · ‎05-31-2016

@pjcdn2005 wrote:
They do have to change something as they have $US listings on .ca. Are you saying that they should move their listings to .com so that they don't have to change the currency?

Yes.