@byto253 I'm not sure I agree with you. For your first question maybe you didn't read my post. Yes inserting a video on ebay Canada is totally possible by using HTML coding in your listing. If someone wants to see how they appear your welcome to look at my listings. If I have a video in a listing "See Video" is usually the last word in the title. Does it help sell an item? Yes. Is it worth the extra work? Depends. If you want information on how to do that please DM me. Too complicated for here.
With respect to the OP's @savvyfalcon items in my previous post I indicated html links have issues. Most of the time they require cut & paste and do not work via one click. Most cell phones do not allow click through depending on how the security for the device has been configured.
The US ebay tool is a totally different system. First of all eBay hosts the data not YouTube. That's so Buyers aren't led off of the platform. Secondly the eBay videos are very short and very easyt to add to your listings. It's not much different than adding a picture. This makes it worthwhile to add a video to a low value item. html coding can take a lot of time to make the video, upload it, create a link, code the link and insert it into the background html in your listing. It's worth it for an expensive itenm or an item you have major quantity of.
Re the boombox which the OP has at auction for $130ca. As you know selling any used electrronic gear is very risky. For example a video for that might be nice to show it works. Lights come on, sound comes out. so now you've driven up the bidding price from $130 to say $250. The seller ships the item.
The buyer gets the item and the headphone jack doesn't work. It wasn't demonstrated in the video. Nether was the rca output jacks. the shortwave function, the police band, the loudness switch (hypothetically) etc etc. so theres a good chance the buyer wants a refund, a discount or a return. Any non working function is good enough for an INAD. If you use a video you've sugar coated the item. Videos only show what buyer's see not what they don't see. There is no added seller security.
Going thru the time and effort to implant an html link has now caused more trouble than it's worth. the eBay dotcom videos would be great because they are easy peasy but you still have to be careful.
Here's another example. You have an autograph book to sell. It has 40 pages and every page has a movie star's signature. An experienced eBay seller (but not an experienced YouTuber) made a video to display the book in her listing. This was a great idea except she added copywiritten background music to the video. Oops, copywrite violation...Poof. video gone. Now you have a YouTube strike against you and a dead link in your eBay listing. If you go the html coding route you must have a grasp of both the eBay html guidelines and the YouTube Creator restrictions.
I don't think eBay dotcom is moving away from videos as @flipistics suggested in her post. Currently there is no facility for US users to upload eBay listing videos from their cellphones. At the same time most sellers use their mobile phone to make the video so this seems to be a conundrum. Apparently eBay dotcom is looking at changing that. If that happens we should see a lot more video on the US seller listings.
I hope this sheds some light and helps a bit. Petition for the eBay feature to come to Canada.
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