Getting Ready for Canada Post Strike

[john_koenig99]

So, I spoke today with my trusty CP delivery guy. He delivered my order from Japan (the one that was stuck at Customs in Vancouver for over a week, but it turned out was released and sent forward- not showing in the tracking), and mentioned that the strike is almost a certainty, according to the union.

How's everybody preparing? I went quite cautiously, and decided to take time away as of today. And to monitor the situation day by day, to see how the conflict evolves (and to see what Carney and his combo will do to handle it).

[flipistics]

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@byto253 wrote:

Unfortunately, no.  The best you can do is open the .ca site in another window and copy and paste your title and description over, then fill the rest of the listing manually.  

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Well, you can sell similar off the dot com listing before deleting it. That won't port everything over, but it should grab a lot of it. If you have Firefox, pictures can be grabbed from Tools -> Page Info (the 1600x1600 ones). I don't know if eBay might have a problem with that (who knows how their systems work), but from a technical standpoint it should work.

[sapphyres-designer-jewellery]

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@vintage_america wrote:
I’m in a similar boat. I wasn’t able to figure out how to switch my items to the eBay Canada site though. Is there a way to migrate my existing on US site with photos and complete descriptions/specifics etc?

For now I switched my item location to Canada but it still forces me to use US site and the shipping options are US. As well as USD pricing. Not ideal.

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No, the two sites have different fields, so there's no easy way to transfer them from one to the other.

You can't block the country whose site you're listing on, so if it's on dot com, you must ship to USA, if you're on dot CA you must ship to Canada.

This is why my dot CA store needs to remain closed during the strike (I use Expedited Lite for most packages), and my dot com store will reopen when my medical leave is over. (I intended to open it this Thursday, but things have changed, maybe I'll be able to turn it back on in another week).

C.