How come items are listed in Canadian dollars then when a Canadian bids on them it switches to USD?

[timetraveller1793]

I purchased something I assumed was a Canadian selling an item as it was listed for Canadian dollars. Then, when I bitd on it and the final total came it was twice as much as I had anticipated on purchasing the item and it was then listed on the same Ebay page as being sold for the amount in US dollars! I do not want to bid on things that switch to American money and I have to pay double. This never happened before even when the sellers were American. When they listed items in Canadian money the deal was done in Canadian money!

[timetraveller1793]

Incidentally, when I recieved the item in the mail the seller was Canadian and I had to pay the exchange for the American conversion!!@! Not happy.

[femmefan1946]

Yes. That's because the actual price was in US dollars. When you are buying on an international site like eBay, it is important to note in what currency the original post was made.

I am registered on dotCA, but sell mostly on dotCOM.

Today all my sales were from the dotCOM site. Two of those, priced in US dollars, were paid by the buyers in other currencies (one euros, one pounds sterling).

All my other sales went to American buyers.

And our southern neighbours are vague on concepts like "sovereign nation", "foreign exchange", "borders", etc., so we make allowances for the "poorly educated".

Elbows UP!

[marnotom!]

I just almost placed a bid on an item from one of your recent sellers and did so on both my Windows laptop on the eBay.ca website and on my iPhone with the iOS app.  In both cases, there was a "US" before the dollar sign in the location where I had to enter my bid amount.

Are you saying that there was no indication when you bid that the auction currency was US dollars?