eBay

cottagewoman · ‎04-14-2023

Selling on .com and used the GSP for years flawlessly. Now as they are switching to the new eBay international shipping platform, all of my policies have been switched to no international shipping (which is how the new system works) but I'm not yet enrolled - no invite email sent, I checked with CS on twitter and they said to wait it would happen. Just wondering if anybody else has been enrolled? Thanks!

ricarmic · ‎04-17-2023

Yes that is a good point, especially for lower priced items where the shipping component would be a big piece.

Despite selling wee stamps, I do sell volumes of them right up to bankers boxes sized lots with free (ie built in) shipping.

It has been some time, but I ran an experiement with a number of low priced items that one woud expect to be purchased in bunches. Rarely were they, a bit more when I put a rising discount (which was the equivalent of the built in shipping) on them.

I haven't repeated that experiment in a long time and now my minimum priced item being added is $9.99 The size and effort required to test it again would make it unlikely that I'll try it again anytime soon.

I do see that ebay continues to favour free shipping items in the search algorithm that is my current motivation.

Some of my "watchees" don't do free shipping and do generate volume purchases, although some over time have been raising their prices, it is pretty hard to make a living selling 99c items even in bunches and requires a large selling item count to do that. I only have to sell one $9.99 item to equal 10 of those 99c lots (that seems to be about the lowest here, other sites I list on have PILES in the 10c to 25c range each!!).

cottagewoman · ‎04-26-2023

Well, low and behold, today I come to see that, against all common sense, policies, etc - I am now enrolled in the eBay International Shipping program! I had written to the international team asking how policy would be implemented, etc, and they never wrote back. Much to my surprise, believe you me! Just hope it won't now cause issues that other US sellers are reporting with items on their stores being visible, etc, since this doesn't seem to have been the smoothest rollout - but when is that the case with new eBay tech? Anyways- maybe as a Canadian seller on .com you need to ask? If anybody else tries it, please post to this thread and notify me!

recped · ‎04-28-2023

Against all common sense?

Not really, you have an old account (2001) that would have originally registered on .com. Your Items are listed on .com and your items are located in the US so you are eligible.

If you don't want to use EIS just opt-out!

I'm curious why you are Blocking Canada?

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pjcdn2005 · ‎04-28-2023

Your listings are only visible on .com as Canada is blocked.

marnotom! · ‎04-28-2023

@pjcdn2005 wrote:

Your listings are only visible on .com as Canada is blocked.

Well, they wouldn't be "only visible on .com" as there are other eBay sites where they'd be visible, such as eBay Australia. I suspect that @cottagewoman shipped by a different shipping method to Canada when she used the GSP but eIS doesn't make allowances for that.

France is also blocked, I notice, and the one listing I stumbled on doesn't make any mention of the United Kingdom for some reason.

marnotom! · ‎04-29-2023

Help page still says this:

pjcdn2005 · ‎04-29-2023

I stand corrected, I should have said they are not visible on .ca.

marnotom! · ‎04-29-2023

Hope I didn't come off as being snotty about it. I knew what you meant, but other people read the stuff we post, yanno?

cottagewoman · ‎05-26-2023

Sorry for late reply. I'm actually happy to have eIS now - received 3 orders in it in the last few weeks and went smooth no issues.

I block Canada because my sales were less than 5% listing on .com, and with all the fluctuations in CP pricing going on the hassle of updating all shipping policies to the most expensive rate to cover my butt isn't worth it. No way I'm going to list on both .com and .ca to get calc shipping for CA, no time for that, managing sales on each side, etc.

As for France I'll put it back as active - had blocked it earlier before eIS, have to update a bunch of policies.

marnotom! · ‎05-26-2023

@cottagewoman, some of your listings have quirks. Your boomboxes, for example, have a heavy exclusion list that I suspect was added by eBay, but a few destinations such as Australia and Austria aren't excluded but also show no shipping rates.