@robertqc2017 wrote:
Global Shipping to Canada should be canceled as a service, US Sellers can not view what Canadians see on Ebay.ca when they use this service, therefore do not realize they are losing Bids from Canada due to extra unnecessary fees.
What the GSP needs is a comprehensive education program for both buyers and sellers on how and why it works the way that it does. The big problem is that there seems to be a significant portion on users on both sides of the equation who just don't get it, either because they don't realize they're using the program, or else they haven't done their homework.
The GSP generally doesn't work that well for items that can be shipped as oversize letters, but my wife and I have made purchases where it seemed to work reasonably well for the items we purchased. Cancelling the GSP because people can't or won't figure it out isn't really in the interest of most users, or eBay itself. I still maintain that most sellers using the GSP inappropriately are "US only sellers" that likely have no idea that they're even using it in the first place. It's not going to affect their Canadian sales as they're accustomed to having no Canadian sales in the first place.
Even sellers who have shipped to Canada in the past and have blundered into the GSP unwittingly probably won't notice much difference until a Canadian buyer blunders into their listings as Canadian sales generally don't make up a very large proportion of most US sellers' sales.
@robertqc2017 wrote:
I will never bid on a item in the US with Global Shipping to pay Tax & Duty for a $50 item when I know for a fact Canada Post or Canada Customs will never charge me a penny if a parcel is declared for $50 mailed to Canada via USPS Priority from the USA without Global Shipping.
That's fine for you, but my wife and I have been charged taxes on fairly low value items we've purchased from the United States. In one case we were charged taxes on a higher value that customs assigned to the item as they didn't like the declared value.
In a nutshell, just because it hasn't happened to you in the past doesn't mean that it's never going to happen at some point down the line.
For whatever reason, I just seem to be charged GST on GSP shipments even though my province has a provincial sales tax. I think I'd consider paying $6.50 or so in import charges on a $50 item if the shipping charge were reasonable, which it can be for a GSP shipment if the seller offers "free" shipping within the United States, if I wanted the item badly enough.
@robertqc2017 wrote:
Ebay US Sellers just see a convenience.
Of course they do. You probably would, too, if you didn't have any information on what it looked like on the buyer's end and you didn't do your homework to figure out if it was a better option than shipping directly outside of the country.
And this is how the GSP is being pushed to US sellers: a way to make international shipping as "easy" as domestic shipping.
Having said that, many sellers are pushing themselves into the GSP inadvertently, and this is where problems really start.
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