Listing on .ca showing up like i'm a US buyer

[simplynightbird]

What's wrong here?   

There's one seller i'm looking for auctions he is doing. This only happenning with this seller listings i noticed so far. I'm shopping on .CA, he is a canadian seller, i'm set as canadian location. But his listings showing up in US and show to me what it seems to be his shipping to US buyers. I'm confuse

 

 

[msau4301 · Accepted solution]

He is selling from the US .com site even though he is in Canada. I haven't done this since the changes though back a few years there was only the .com site and everything was in US. There are some advantages to sellers who sell on the .com site so many choose to do so. The location still shows where he lives (Halifax) but the shipping can't show our Canada Post services so has a generic Standard International Shipping.

One downfall is the amount of time shown to allow delivery which is much longer than it would be if he was shipping from the .ca site. I've bought many things here from sellers set up this way and they usually get here pretty quickly.

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@msau4301 wrote:

He is selling from the US .com site even though he is in Canada. I haven't done this since the changes though back a few years there was only the .com site and everything was in US. There are some advantages to sellers who sell on the .com site so many choose to do so. The location still shows where he lives (Halifax) but the shipping can't show our Canada Post services so has a generic Standard International Shipping.

One downfall is the amount of time shown to allow delivery which is much longer than it would be if he was shipping from the .ca site. I've bought many things here from sellers set up this way and they usually get here pretty quickly.

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@simplynightbird 

The other major disadvantage for sellers is no access to calculated shipping. You can only use flat rate/free (build it in to your price or include out of the goodness of your heart) for wherever you ship to. Shipping options will be very generic. One location you will be able to offer a really good shipping rate whereas somewhere else may not so much. This can scare some buyers away. As noted above  any associated delivery time will be very approximate.

-Lotz

[clemowbooks]

Sellers listing on the US site (dotCOM) are of the opinion that there are 370 million Americans and only 37million Canadians, and that while Canadians* understand US dollars, Americans only understand US dollars.

Merchants sell to markets.

*And everyone else in the world.

[simplynightbird]

Well this is kinda terrible as canadian buyer. It was a huge bidding of hundred items with combined shipping offered and i ended up winning only one item and paying $5 USD / $6.39 to be shipped something that cost something like $2 to ships ( small lettermail). In other words he's a canadian seller and he disavantage canadian buyers making them overpay shipping. I will personally avoid this sort of sellers next times. Very strategic and doubful pratice. Everyone push to win multiple items for to be combined so prices getting inflated, and people ending with only one overpay shipping... People overpay items to not overpay shipping at the end... Did not realised until i ended paying twice shipping the price of my item

[clemowbooks]

The cost of shipping is not related to the value of the item shipped.

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/information/app/far/business/findARate?execution=e1s1

may be helpful in learning actual Canada Post shipping rates.

Note that $5 does not cover the cost of tracked shipping which starts around $12.

And "shipping" is not only postage. It includes packaging and labour.

Given the small amount of identifying information you give, it is also possible that the seller has no stock but is actually dropshipping from an overseas supplier.