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Quite frankly, I think very few French speaking Canadians are aware of the French site,
When you look at the community, you notice the emptiness:
http://community.cafr.ebay.ca/
On the other hand, looking at my own Canadian sales, I would estimate I get 20% to 25% of my sales from Quebec (which approximates the population).
" they look identical to the items listed on .com"
Are you looking on eBay.ca or eBay.com?
" see only those items listed on .ca"
No.
There has never been a way to segregate listings based on the site where listed
On eBay.ca you can search for items located in Canada. Both listings that were listed on eBay.ca and eBay.com will appear in the search result pages if located in Canada.
To the best of my knowledge, the listing site has never been a factor in search results. In any case who really cares? Buyers do not know the difference between listing on one site or another. Not relevant to buyers. Item location (country) is.
As stated earlier, the listing site is irrelevant.
The important thing to a Canadian buyer may be the fact that the listing and payment (for item and shipping charge) are in Canadian dollars, avoiding the extra currency conversion fee.
Why .ca? Because you cannot list on .com in Cdn$. The only options to list in Canadian dollars are eBay.ca and eBay.cafr (which I use extensively for the free searchable sub-titles).
That suggests to me that you did not list in Canadian dollar.
If you had, the listing on eBay.com would show in Cdn$ with equivalent US$.
Please refer to the two links I provided you earlier.
@pocomocomputing wrote:
@rose-dee wrote:True, but aside from some ex-patriots in the Louisiana area, how many Americans do you think would be able to navigate through the .cafr site en français in any case?
You use cafr.eBay.ca to get free subtitles. The listing is viewed on eBay.com or eBay.ca English sites. No French is seen by the buyer on English sites since they are not logged into cafr.ebay.ca.
Hi 'poco' -- Yes, I am aware of this. Which is why I use the .cafr site for some of my listings even though I know they will be viewed by US buyers (who will see them in English).
The point I was trying to make in response to Pierre's comment (that this listing perk available even to U.S. sellers - which is true) was that I doubt many US sellers would be able to navigate through the French language SYI form in order to take advantage of the free subtitles.
In other words, as I see it, these subtitles are preferential, in the sense that they really are designed primarily for the benefit of French-speaking Canadian sellers. (The discussion was about protectionism/special treatment by eBay).
I'm sure there are a few intrepid American sellers who speak/read French and might like to give preparing a listing on .cafr a try, but as I said, I think most of them would get as far as the SYI form and hit the back button. So it really is more of a Canadian seller feature.
