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"How about "none of the above"."
For me it is ABH (Anybody But Harper)
I could even vote for the Progressive-Conservative (not the reform coalition) under the right leadership.
"they convert to US $$"
Payment is made in the currency on the listings.
Most Canadian sellers chose to list in US$ because it is the universal currency, understood everywhere, more so in the USA, the largest marketplace for eBay.
You will find some Canadian sellers listing in Cdn$.
When a Canadian buyer purchases from a Canadian seller and the currency of the listing is US$, many sellers will offer the buyer the opportunity to pay in equivalent Canadian dollar using current foreign exchange rate. You need to read the listings carefully to see if the seller offers such payment option.
However, because the automated system requires payment in the currency of the listing, payment cannot be done with PayPal through the listing. It requires a special manual invoice be sent by the seller and calculated in Canadian currency. Then the seller has to manually advise eBay that payment has been received.
Because of the extra work involved, many Canadian sellers simply do not bother although it does cost them the same exchange conversion spread.
For example, on a US$ 20.00 transaction, the currency conversion fee (spread) would be about $0.55 paid by the buyer. The seller would also pay that extra $0.55 fee when converting the US$ received from the buyer into Cdn$. The total conversion spread charged by PayPal is about 5% (2.5% each to buyer and seller). That of course is in addition to the actual cost of purchasing a foreign currency (US$).
"Why does ebay hate Canadians?"
"A better question would be "why does eBay hate sellers"."
???
From my perspective, a better question would be: Why so much paranoia?
Canada is home to thirty-five million people. There are over seven billion on Earth. That means Canada accounts for less than one half of one percent of the total population of the world.
eBay is an American business offering worldwide buyers and sellers the opportunity to buy and sell on their venue. Their policies are made using the American way of doing business, adapted for international trade.
Canadians wishing to use this venue should adapt to its way of doing business and its policies or find another venue to trade.
Good Luck with that.
It is not personal. It is business.
I remember the 'good old days' with eBay long ago. It was great, it was fun, it was prosperous.
Then, things changed.
- I was forced to use PayPal and I didn't want to. For years cheques had worked well and I never had a problem.
- As one of the other posters mentioned, suddenly buyers can give bad reports on a seller, but not a seller about a buyer and there are bad buyers out there and I and I am sure others would like to know about it, but we can't.
- Then bidders IDs were disguised and that allowed shill bidding. Before that changed I had caught 4 shill bidders. With their ID hidden, it was impossible.
That's when I said 'enough was enough' and I quit.
Later I heard that you were told what the shipping should cost. But it didn't work that way, in reality, not when you are double boxing or triple boxing an item.
Then there was the policy that if the customer didn't get the item, even with proof in some cases that it was shipped, you still had to pay the money back!
I had my own personal incident with a buyer in California that I shipped and expensive statue to. He said it arrived broken, which I couldn't understand because I had bubble wrapped it like King Tut and double boxed it with bubble wrap between the boxes. He sent photos, not good ones, but I said ok ship it back. When it arrived and I looked at the breaks they were old breaks where the colour had changed. It takes years for a fresh break in porcelain to change colour. I figured out what he was doing, which was shipping me his old statue that was broken and keeping the new one I had sent. I emailed him and told him to forget it, no payment back. He emails back he will take me to court in California and the only way I can defend myself is go to California or hire a lawyer to represent me there. Neither were options which means I would lose by default. At that time he said he would damage my credit rating. I have a perfect credit rating so I looked into if he could from the US and ......he could. So I had to pay him back near 800 bucks. I looked up his name and address and found he was a lawyer in California and then I looked up the cases he defended, all drug dealers and forgers and assorted other lowlifes. Obviously he had learned from them.
eBay made other changes as well that had an effect on sellers. There was a woman who use to be a poster here and she use to sell patterns for it was either knitting or sewing, I can't quite remember. But then the new rules said she had to put the patterns on a disc instead of sending it by email to the buyer. The disc, the packaging wasn't worth it anymore and she was forced to quit.
eBay as I said use to be great and I really enjoyed it, but it changed, got greedy, cared less and less about the sellers.When it's not broke....don't fix it!
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