All this difficulty with Canadian (and other) residents who originally set up dotCOM accounts, makes me wonder if eBay is using these experiences to form a simple policy for setting up Managed Payments for our Chinese colleagues and competitors.
Has anyone bought from a Chinese seller lately and noticed if their listings include the "Google Pay/ ApplePay " options that indicate a Managed Payments account?
I would hope that working with Canadian, British, and Australian (etc NZ and Ireland) sellers with whom they at least share a common language and similar business laws would be seen as an important learning experience.