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My "opinion" is that TRS was a mistake from the beginning. eBay is giving sellers a discount for doing what? Just what they are supposed to do. The discount comes right off eBay's bottom line. The bar was set too low, 100 sales and $100, isn't it?
If anything, it should have been a sliding scale as sales increase. It was a no return on investment, discount.
PowerSeller badge meant something, once upon a time, $1000 a month for XX months running. I remember when I first hit that, 8 1/2 years ago.
@femmefan1946 wrote:It's my guess that the majority of buyers, US, Canadian, Venezualan, whatever, do not notice any TRS badges.
Look at how many times we see complaints about 'accidentally' buying something or 'why is my purchase in Kentucky?' Buyers don't read.
(Sellers aren't much better, but that's a different story for another day.)
The important question is, 'Did I get my 20% discount this month?'
If you did, all is well.
If you didn't, can you still make money selling here?
If yer profit is dependent upon the 20% , y'all got problems.
10% of sellers do 90% of the profit, 90% of the sellers do 10%.
"The reason Canadians don't buy on line is our $20 import limit before they start charging taxes and maybe also duty.'
????
Online business in Canada is growing, growing fast, growing faster, much faster than the overall economy:
http://www.statista.com/statistics/241453/forecast-of-b2c-e-commerce-sales-growth-in-canada/
Somehow, some posters may think of eBay as a huge part of e-commerce in Canada. It is not.
Canadians buy more online this year than last and will buy even more next year. And yes we pay tax. So what? The idea that Canadians only buy online to avoid paying consumer taxes (GST/HST) fails to look at the much larger picture.
Not everyone purchase "stuff" online, from outside the country, for the sole purpose of avoiding taxes.
While selling on eBay may be challenging at times (that is an understatement), reality remains that sales overall by Canadian sellers are still growing on eBay and other online venues. If that does not apply to you, try to find ways to change your listings, your pricing and/or your policies to make it work. Most others do.
@rose-dee wrote:
@pjcdn2005 wrote:It sounds like you're saying it's TRS plus or no badge at all for Canadians?
There's no TRS badge for anyone unless they meet all of the requirements for TRS plus.
That's not completely accurate -- if you're a Canadian seller who has met all the qualifications for Global TRS, you'll have the TRS badge on your listings displayed on eBay.ca (but not .com), for what it's worth. If you sell mostly to the US, and expect that most of your buyers will be viewing your listings on .com, then of course it's useless. But it does still exist here.
My listings and yours show the Canadian (TRS Global) badge. As I'm sure you know, the US TRS Plus badge looks somewhat different (for those who have it). It has a sort of laurel leaf design on each side. I had it up until August 20th, but it's gone now, as I expected.
I agree with the OP that we Canadian sellers are the least of eBay's concerns, let alone small Canadian sellers. This is just one more nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned, signalling that eBay has no real interest in encouraging its "boutique" sellers anymore. I'm beginning to get that "bum's rush" feeling...
@rose-dee wrote:
@pjcdn2005 wrote:It sounds like you're saying it's TRS plus or no badge at all for Canadians?
There's no TRS badge for anyone unless they meet all of the requirements for TRS plus.
That's not completely accurate -- if you're a Canadian seller who has met all the qualifications for Global TRS, you'll have the TRS badge on your listings displayed on eBay.ca (but not .com), for what it's worth. If you sell mostly to the US, and expect that most of your buyers will be viewing your listings on .com, then of course it's useless. But it does still exist here.
My listings and yours show the Canadian (TRS Global) badge. As I'm sure you know, the US TRS Plus badge looks somewhat different (for those who have it). It has a sort of laurel leaf design on each side. I had it up until August 20th, but it's gone now, as I expected.
I agree with the OP that we Canadian sellers are the least of eBay's concerns, let alone small Canadian sellers. This is just one more nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned, signalling that eBay has no real interest in encouraging its "boutique" sellers anymore. I'm beginning to get that "bum's rush" feeling...
You're right although I was aware of that. Since the OP was asking about the badge on .com, I was referring to the TRS plus badge and meant to say that Americans too (not just Canadians) must also meet all the TRS plus requirements to have any sort of TRS badge on .com but once again my fingers didn't type what I meant to tell them to type. lol
As far as ebay not being concerned about Canadian sellers.....I think that because of the defect system many sellers feel like that regardless of where they are located. As you said earlier, it was nice that we were able to have the badge on .com at all for the last year or two but I'm sure that some U.S. sellers wouldn't have thought that it was fair. We each tend to look at things from our own point of view.
"Canadians do not buy on line to avoid taxes. "
Let's get the quote correctly. I wrote "Not everyone purchase "stuff" online, from outside the country, for the sole purpose of avoiding taxes."
"If the government were to raise our limit to $200 to be in line with the US and announce that publicly, Canadian eBay sellers would likely have a influx of business even though many charge tax."
Have a large cup of coffee and think it through.
If the Canadian government were to raise postal import tax exemption limits to $200, it is NOT Canadian sellers who would benefit but American and foreign sellers. Canadian retailers who are forced to remit GST/HST on their sales to Canadians would suffer tremendously from this unfair foreign competition resulting in many businesses closing their door or laying off Canadian workers.
Why should Canadian consumers buy from Canadians where they have to pay consumption taxes (HST/GST/PST) if they can get the same product at an equivalent price (including shipping) without paying taxes?
"our limit to $200 to be in line with the US"
Canada import tax limit cannot be compared with the USA where no such tax exist.
We have a national consumption tax (GST or HST) while the USA is one of the few countries in the industrialized world without a national consumption tax.
