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onestopcollectableshop · ‎03-22-2022

GOOD MORNING TO ALL USA SELLERS!
As a Canadian buyer and seller on this platform I urge all USA sellers to OPTED OUT of the EBAY GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM. It's proper name should be THE GLOBAL EBAY MONEY GRAB SHIPPING PROGRAM!
For every transaction for a Canadian buyer, buying from the USA, the shipping cost will be already outrageous as it is. EXAMPLE: 5 PENNIES VALUES ALL TOGETHER AT AROUND $45usd and the cost to get it here was all together with shipping and import fees $52.40. I mean, come on!?!? As a seller on this platform, I am very well aware about the different shipping costs and locations. EXAMPLE: I CAN SHIP 3 FULL OBW WHEAT CENT ROLLS FROM CANADA TO THE USA FOR $18.77 CANADIAN INCLUDING TAXES.
Where's the problem???
EBAY THESE ARE THE KINDS OF REASONS WHY YOUR SALES AND REPUTATION HAS GONE WAY, WAY, WAY DOWN. Don't believe me eBay...just compare your sales from 3 years ago, to today. ENOUGH SAID! Get on board eBay, or get out...which is what's happening as we speak. CHEERS!

femmefan1946 · ‎03-22-2022

Canadian sellers cannot use GSP - only US and UK.

GSP is a Seller Protection Program that is popular with paranoid and xenophobic sellers there, who otherwise would not sell outside their borders. Even then-- everyone knows Hawaii is a small town in Kenya, right?

The GSP fees we pay are made up of Canadian duty and Canadian sales taxes plus small (~$5USD) service fee.

I don't understand whether you paid $97.40 (price +shipping separated) for your coins or $52.40 (price +shipping together).
If the latter, you were paying only $7.40 for shipping+duty+sales tax+service fee, which would be low.

So.

I don't think coins are dutiable, so your $45USD /$54Cdn coins should have between 5% ($2.70) and 15% ($8.10 Cdn) and about $6Cdn in service fees.

The rest would be the shipping charged by the seller to get the coins to the GSP plant in Erlanger. Does the tracking show him using Priority International or the like? That is the first choice on the USPS International Rate Card, but a stupid one, since he was in fact shipping domestically.

marnotom! · ‎03-22-2022

@femmefan1946 wrote:

The rest would be the shipping charged by the seller to get the coins to the GSP plant in Erlanger. Does the tracking show him using Priority International or the like? That is the first choice on the USPS International Rate Card, but a stupid one, since he was in fact shipping domestically.

Psst, @femmefan1946, the seller would be using a domestic USPS service to get the coins to Erlanger, not an international one. But your point that some of the GSP's shipping charge is actually levied by the seller should definitely be noted. If the seller uses a pricey domestic shipping method, that's definitely going to have an impact on the GSP's shipping charge.

marnotom! · ‎03-22-2022

@onestopcollectableshop wrote:

GOOD MORNING TO ALL USA SELLERS!

I don't think you're going to find any US-based sellers on the Canadian discussion boards, although I suppose there may be lurkers. You may find some Canadian-based sellers who registered with US addresses back in the Bronze Age of eBay, however.

I'm looking right now at a lot of five Canadian pennies from the 1920s and 1930s selling for US$15 with a GSP shipping price of US$19.49 to BC. The seller's shipping price to Erlanger is US$5.15, making the GSP's take US$14.34. There are no "import charges" on the item because it's within the tax/duty-free thresholds but the processing charge has been folded into the shipping charge. Let's say that processing charge is US$4.34. That would make the GSP's share of the shipping charge US$10.00, which doesn't strike me as being out of line compared to First Class Package International.

One of the GSP's big weaknesses is that it is very reliant on information the seller provides on the item, and if the seller provides the "GSP bot" with little to no or poor information on the nature of the item, the bot is going to calculate some pretty wacky charges. It's a classic case of "garbage in, garbage out."

If you do decide to post your concerns to the US discussion boards, you might consider making this point to them.

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎03-22-2022

@onestopcollectableshop wrote:
GOOD MORNING TO ALL USA SELLERS!
As a Canadian buyer and seller on this platform I urge all USA sellers to OPTED OUT of the EBAY GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM. It's proper name should be THE GLOBAL EBAY MONEY GRAB SHIPPING PROGRAM!
For every transaction for a Canadian buyer, buying from the USA, the shipping cost will be already outrageous as it is. EXAMPLE: 5 PENNIES VALUES ALL TOGETHER AT AROUND $45usd and the cost to get it here was all together with shipping and import fees $52.40. I mean, come on!?!? As a seller on this platform, I am very well aware about the different shipping costs and locations. EXAMPLE: I CAN SHIP 3 FULL OBW WHEAT CENT ROLLS FROM CANADA TO THE USA FOR $18.77 CANADIAN INCLUDING TAXES.
Where's the problem???
EBAY THESE ARE THE KINDS OF REASONS WHY YOUR SALES AND REPUTATION HAS GONE WAY, WAY, WAY DOWN. Don't believe me eBay...just compare your sales from 3 years ago, to today. ENOUGH SAID! Get on board eBay, or get out...which is what's happening as we speak. CHEERS!

You may want to try posting your concerns to the US board. Unfortunately you have arrived on the Canadian side of the fence and not likely many US sellers will ever give this the light of day. I've attempted something similar in the past and for most part fell on deaf ears.

As noted many US sellers truly do not know the actual ramifications of GSP when it comes to selling to Canada specific. Many sellers were opted in from the get go. It is possible to opt out or opt out on a per listing basis but this is not the easiest tidbit to discover so most sellers never bother. They just know it's pushed as a "Godsend". End of story.

You may even want to tag one of the sales team members attached to the US board. Not saying it will go anywhere but then you will know atleast you tried.

-Lotz

As a side note to post 3 regarding a seller using premium shipping to get an item to Erlanger, too bad item doesn't get premium service after.

jt-libra · ‎03-22-2022

Occasionally I find a seller who ships for a reasonable rate, many of them sellers of DVD's, CD's. And they're ones who obviously got wise about the global shipping program years ago because their sales number in the thousands annually.

I remember a year or so after the GSP was introduced, I contacted a seller about a small item I was interested in that could have been sent for a couple of dollars. Instead it showed a $24.95 shipping charge to Canada. When I asked if he would consider shipping outside of the program, he said he didn't know how to do that. But he would get back to me. He did, and said he was sorry, but he could not see any way of doing this. Seriously!

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎03-22-2022

@jt-libra wrote:
Occasionally I find a seller who ships for a reasonable rate, many of them sellers of DVD's, CD's. And they're ones who obviously got wise about the global shipping program years ago because their sales number in the thousands annually.

I remember a year or so after the GSP was introduced, I contacted a seller about a small item I was interested in that could have been sent for a couple of dollars. Instead it showed a $24.95 shipping charge to Canada. When I asked if he would consider shipping outside of the program, he said he didn't know how to do that. But he would get back to me. He did, and said he was sorry, but he could not see any way of doing this. Seriously!

https://www.ebay.com/help/global-shipping-program/default/global-shipping-program?id=4646

At the bottom of dot com help page for GSP. Kinda too bad this important tidbit doesn't show on the GSP Canada help page.

-Lotz

turnerr-15 · ‎03-24-2022

I loathe Ebay's shipping programme. It's ridiculously slow, pricey and charges items that are exempt or subject to minor duty, the maximum duty on the item erroneously or to increase revenue. I know duties and taxes like the back of my hand, and charging 18% on items zero or 10% is costly on high ticket items. Further, an item in Chicago should not have to go to bloody Kentucky to be "relabeled" and sent to Canada. I always used to post my items myself, using an efficient, cost effective way for my clients to receive their items. I wish other sellers would take some time to review the charges, and realize they are missing sales due to this fantastic programme.

turnerr-15 · ‎03-24-2022

It should be **bleep**tastic not fantastic!

turnerr-15 · ‎03-24-2022

I've rarely paid such a low fee in 25 years of buying and selling on EBay for shipping. It's at least 39.95 USD for a tiny item, plus import and duties, which for handbags, small leather goods and jewellery should be 10% not 18%. It gets expensive and irritating when an item was pricey, to be charged almost double in duty erroneously. Plus I usually give a break to a client buying something expensive on shipping to foster good relations, shipping isn't cheap from Canada to anywhere in the world, and it gets embarrassing charging the actual rate for signed for tracked parcels.