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Thank you Brian for your post #182.
Canadian buyers certainly appreciate reading from a seller why he is using the program.
And you can read from other posts why so many Canadian buyers detest the program as it leads to (unknown to the seller) extra charges at the receiving end.
While the program may have some value for the seller, it is often detrimental to the buyer.
Unfortunately, nobody wins. 😞
"I can understand why some US sellers opt into it, but I've been at a loss to understand why eBay does.
Yes, eBay gets a kick back from P-B, but that wouldn't even put a dent in the loss it sees from international sales.
I don't know what percentage of eBay sales occur within US borders........... that is: American sellers selling to American buyers.
Perhaps 80%? (Just my guess.)
Maybe another 10% are US sellers selling Internationally?
I have to wonder if that 10% of sales is a percentage that eBay thinks they can safely lose or because the problems are more costly than the profits they make from those sales.
That is........... all the phone calls and time to monitor issues costs ebay more than the FVFs it gets from those sales, and so they decided to use the GSP to do away with the issues.
Ebay knows that international sales will al but disappear, but maybe they don't care that much.
Ebay is more than aware than anyone of how important shipping costs are, but yet they introduce a program that pushed shipping costs higher than ever before.
It's clear to all of us by now that ebay is about Americans selling to Americans.......... the rest of us are nice to have around but expendable.
This program attests to that."
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I have been reading posts on eBay for fifteen years, on eBay.ca, eBay.com and at times from eBay.uk and other eBay international sites. I must admit I had never encountered a post so way off the mark.
Like most Canadians, I do not like eBay's GSP. I have substantial experience in importing from all over and the added costs and delays associated with that program will not attract me. And the same applies to most Canadian buyers.
However, to suggest eBay knowlingly instituted the program with the intention to reduce export sales by American sellers is... (sorry, I am at a lack of words to express my true feelings).
Brian in post 182 did a good job explaining why the GSP may be valuable to American sellers. That is exactly what eBay intended with the program. The fact it may not work as well with Canadian buyers than overseas buyers is another discussion altogether. But to suggest that GSP was a deliberate decision made by eBay to cut export sales by American sellers is... (you know...).
Yes, at this time most Canadian buyers should avoid purchasing from sellers requiring the use of GSP. But it has nothing to do with eBay's intentions as stated above.
