eBay Canada Price Promotion - 10¢ Listing Day on eBay.ca!

[lilybean@ebay.com]

Hi...it's Ira Grossman from eBay Canada's Community team.

Today, we announced eBay Canada’s next pricing promotion – a 10¢ Listing Day starting Monday, November 20, 2006 at 00:00:01 ET (12:00 AM plus one second) – click here for the announcement.

I just wanted to reinforce that the 10¢ Listing Day is open to all Canadian resident users who list their items on eBay.ca (not eBay.com) in Auction Format, Auction Format with Buy It Now feature Upgrade or Fixed Price.

I hope you enjoy the 10¢ Listing Day promotion!

Regards,

Lilybean

[zarzuella]

It's sporadic. A week ago all I got was the new relist form, now I always get the old one.
The new form still has so many bugs (for example it does not interface properly with Selling Manager Pro) that I suspect they have pulled it while they get their act together.

[cannyscotsman]

I have tried to change my listings in Turbolister to list on eBay.ca only but even when I tick off only Canada on the sites list it doesn,t seem to work.The individual auctions when previewed still show the US site where they were originally listed.My selling manager pro also does not integrate with eBay.ca.Looks like I will skip this promotion as I can't use it for eBay USA which is where all my listings have been made and stored in Turbolister.I can,t see what benefit there is either to eBay or sellers to force us to change listings to eBay.ca to take advantage of the promotion.Cannyscotsman.

[art-and-home]

Same issue here...

All of my inventory is in Selling Manager Pro (which I can't even access when I sign into eBay.ca).

Even when I try to "relist" an item through eBay.ca, it reverts to eBay.com (where it was originally posted).

Looks like - in order to take advantage of this - I have to recreate every single one of my listings in .ca, not even close to being worth the effort.

Plus, I tried to reach someone through eBay Live Help and through the PowerSeller support line - no luck. Can't seem to reach anyone.

What a useless piece of annoying crap this promotion is turning into. Thanks eBay.ca for ruining a perfectly good Monday.

[bytownbathandbody]

Does anyone know if Canadian sellers who list on eBay.com (as opposed to ebay.ca) eligible for any of the specials that may run for US sellers (i.e. comparable to the 10 cent listing days)? If so how can a Canadian seller be notified?

[zarzuella]

Keep watching the .com PS board and announcement boards.
Will that be the next treat? Will Canadian sellers be excluded from .com promotions?

Still disgusted.

[jakeeangel]

😮

HEY - BE QUIET YOU!!!! 😮

Don't go giving them any ideas now!!!

I'm just bugging ya, but I did wonder that too. 😞 Just didn't want to say it out loud. I was too afraid.

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[whoscloset]

I don't think you guys are getting the big picture. I believe ebay.ca has VERY little power over these things.

While this is just speculation on my part, this is how I see what is happening...

ebay.ca has a great bunch of peeps trying to improve the North American ebay experience for Canadian sellers. They know Canada Post, excessive shipping charges and customs delays are crippling the Canadian ebayer, but they can't do much about that. So they do the next best thing...They hold a Canadian brain-storming session with some PSers and invite the community to send in suggestions...Some great ideas come out of it and the .ca guys get right on implementing them...

Seller Pack: great way to help Canadian sellers off-set the hits we consistently take to our pocket-books. That sure would help us remain competitive.

.ca discount days: another great way to help those of us who are trying desperately to compete with the American sellers who have it comparatively easy.

But then big, bad .com comes in and puts the kibosh on it all. No more Seller Pack...the Americans don't like it. If you want to run discount listing days keep it on .ca...the Americans don't like you listing up a storm on .com.

Jordon and crew have been effectively castrated in this matter. They have now had their hands slapped good and red for helping us out and it will be a long time, if ever, before you see any further REAL effort to help us compete in the North American market. It's not that the peeps at .ca are trying to tick us off...it's just a lovely byproduct of their inability to wipe their proverbial butts without the okay from above. Save your anger for the people who deserve it most, the ones over at .com. But then again, they don't give a hoot what your piddly little Canadian problems are anyway so you'd still be wasting your energy.

Like I said, it's pure speculation on my part, but I don't think I'm far off the mark.
Monique

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[jakeeangel]

Totally agreed Monique! I said pretty much the same thing here at home and in bits and pieces on different threads and boards.

You're not off the mark at all! At least I don't think so.

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[zarzuella]

Sorry guys, don't agree. The seller pack was a trial - they run these kinds of things on a trial basis on eBay UK and Aus too - and it simply did not translate into increased dollars and cents for ebay and so it was canned, and quickly.

Ann

[zarzuella]

Sorry guys, don't agree. The seller pack was a trial - they run these kinds of things on a trial basis on eBay UK and Aus too - and it simply did not translate into increased dollars and cents for ebay and so it was canned, and quickly.

Ann

[sen$ational]

It would be so much easier if I could list on the US site and get the Canadian rate. All my listings are on the .com site and it's just too much work to list on the .ca site no matter what the promotion is.