Excuse me while I swear and curse at ebay.
According to chatGPT there are eBay International Shipping Program Size and Weight Limits (which or course are not mentioned anywhere on eBay)!
And if the limits chatGPT is giving me are true, they are pretty **** poor limits!
Maximum weight per package: 4.4 lbs (2 kg).
Maximum combined dimensions: 36" (91 cm) in length + girth. (Girth is calculated as the distance around the package, which means girth = 2 x width + 2 x height.)
What an utter waste of my time this has been. The more I think about it, the more I do not see a benefit of this EIS program. At the end of the day, my customers, which are mostly in the US, will still have to pay a duty or customs whether I ship to them directly myself, or Amazon does it through their EIS program. Also, if all of my items magically fit their weight and size restrictions, I actually get penalized by selling to the US in that I have to pay to ship my item to Mississauga, whereas if I just ship directly to the US as I have in the past, I normally charge the customer for shipping so at least I don't lose out on shipping costs.
Perhaps it is time to wind down my ebay selling. Between duties and customs my US customers will have to pay, and very few Canadian customers (because we are ALL struggling), I anticipate a HUGE drop in sales. The removal of the De Minimis Exemption (allowing goods valued at USD $800 or less to enter the United States duty-free and tax-free) has really ruined everything. Perhaps this new EIS program by eBay was just to distract Canadian sellers.
