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kalvin@ebay.com · ‎09-26-2013

Feel free to share your thoughts about the Global Shipping Program here.

A few questions to get the ball rolling:

What has worked well for you with the Global Shipping Program?
Any ideas to help improve the experience for Canadian buyers?
What has deterred you from buying items offered using the Global Shipping Program?
How have you managed to search for items outside the program?

Please try & keep the comments constructive 🙂

If you have any questions about the program, please post them here.

~Kalvin
eBay.ca Community Manager

kalvin@ebay.com

marnotom! · ‎11-17-2013

@brandeentertainment wrote:

Helps sellers that are too lazy to figure it out themselves...
Helps buyers know who the lazy sellers are ...

Might also help other sellers identify buyers too lazy to read up on how the program works in the first place.

I'm not saying you're necessarily one of those, but if you were a U.S. seller would you want to deal with someone who purchases from listings without fully understanding the terms of sale and then complaining about those terms afterwards, or would you rather just have them on your blocked bidders list?

anguscoinshop · ‎11-17-2013

why would anyone waist there time reading and handing up paying more money if you buy. HELLOOOOOOOOOO.

dont need to read, money talks

rick31797 · ‎11-17-2013

I just received an item from Florida , sent USPS, took 8 days which i thought was very fast shipping, the value was 139.00 and i was not charged any customs fee`s, somebody at the border gave me a break,so i can`t ever see using GSP, and paying all the fees up front, when there could be a possibility of not having to pay anything other then the cost of the item and shipping.

ludydexter · ‎11-17-2013

I totally agree i also refuse, from now on, to buy from a seller who uses GSP. The additional costs are outrageous, and the package is automatically opened...

rick31797 · ‎11-18-2013

I now have an AD in MY EBAY, asking me to enroll in the GSP, they also give you the option on hiding the AD which i did.

marnotom! · ‎11-18-2013

@rick31797 wrote:

I now have an AD in MY EBAY, asking me to enroll in the GSP, they also give you the option on hiding the AD which i did.

Were you logged into eBay.com or eBay.ca when you saw this?

rick31797 · ‎11-18-2013

I was at MY Ebay..Canada

marnotom! · ‎11-18-2013

That's weird, seeing as the GSP is offered through eBay.com, not eBay.ca.

rick31797 · ‎11-18-2013

I don't have an account with Ebay USA

pierrelebel · ‎11-18-2013

Rick - you do not need an account with eBay.com to view your stuff on eBay.com

pierrelebel · ‎11-18-2013

Take a look at your Selling Manager on eBay.ca.

Look at the address (URL)

Change com to ca in the address. Press enter.

You now see the same thing on .com !

prairietrains · ‎11-18-2013

What rock do you fools live under? A few months ago it was all over the news that Canada Boarder Services only has enough manpower to process 5 % of what comes into Canada by mail. And this is not about to change anytime soon. So explain to me why anyone would want to pay 100% of all their import fees when they would have a 95% chance of paying no fees?

Last winter I bought well over 100 Post War Lionel pieces from the US and only got charged customs twice (that's 2 times for the cbay types here). That's less than 2%, in my case it adds up to over $1000.00 saved.

Everyone is asking for a GST number that they (cbay/PBI) will not give out, just maybe they do not have one to give out?

rick31797 · ‎11-18-2013

@prairietrains wrote:
What rock do you fools live under? A few months ago it was all over the news that Canada Boarder Services only has enough manpower to process 5 % of what comes into Canada by mail. And this is not about to change anytime soon. So explain to me why anyone would want to pay 100% of all their import fees when they would have a 95% chance of paying no fees?

Last winter I bought well over 100 Post War Lionel pieces from the US and only got charged customs twice (that's 2 times for the cbay types here). That's less than 2%, in my case it adds up to over $1000.00 saved.

Everyone is asking for a GST number that they (cbay/PBI) will not give out, just maybe they do not have one to give out?

Without a GST number are you saying they are keeping the import fees,I know in Canada a business needs to have a GST number. We should contact W-5 maybe they can do a story on this a get some answers.

afantiques · ‎11-18-2013

Without a GST number are you saying they are keeping the import fees,I know in Canada a business needs to have a GST number.

They are not collecting tax. They are making sure they have the money handy when they pay tax to the collector, the customs office that clears the shipment inwards.

This may seem a slim distinction, but it is an important one. It's like your accountant collecting money from you and a hundred other clients, then remitting it to the govenment to cover your tax bill, along with others. The accountant is not collecting the tax, merely facilitating its payment to those legally empowered to collect it.

Having the money paid by the buyer in advance is the only possible way this scheme can operate, but it is not tax collection. That comes later, when a customs agent acting for or employed by the shipper settles the import tax bill.

marnotom! · ‎11-18-2013

@rick31797 wrote:
I don't have an account with Ebay USA
That's odd. According to your feedback page, you've been an eBay member since October 2000. Since eBay Canada wasn't launched until April 2001, you would have had to have initially registered on eBay.com.

prairietrains · ‎11-18-2013

@marnotom! wrote:
@rick31797 wrote:
I don't have an account with Ebay USA
That's odd. According to your feedback page, you've been an eBay member since October 2000. Since eBay Canada wasn't launched until April 2001, you would have had to have initially registered on eBay.com.

Whats that got to do with the price of rice in china?