Promotions this morning Canadian currency only???????

[aligolf]

First  EBAY thanks for all the promotions this morning (3 different ones, could list 250,000 on these)

HOWEVER this is exactly what I have been complaining to you about for months/year now

No promotions for over a month then all of a sudden WHAM more promotions than I will ever use?

BUT all promotions currently are ONLY IF YOU LIST in CAN CURRENCY

I have my own stats that show I sell more and make more when I list in US currency for what I sell.

Would it not be better to be less restrictive on things like currency and auction duration and type and let the knowledgeable sellers list in a way that benefits them based on what they are selling?

Over the past month I have lost money and so have you based on your restrictive promotions, you also state that they are random promotions but you did the exact same thing last year at this time just on a smaller scale.

[hlmacdon]

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@pierrelebel wrote:

"are they bound by the TRS requirements,"

NO

As a Canadian seller selling on both sites, I get my full 20% rebate as a TRS on sales made on eBay.ca and eBay.com as long as I meet the eBay.ca Global requirements,

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Thanks for the confirmation Pierre. So then it should just be a case of top rated plus visibility, which as I understand would not be applied given the difference between .com and .ca TRS requirements. Sellers will also want to look at the renewal dates for their store subscriptions as well.

[pierrelebel]

"renewal dates for their store subscriptions as well."

????

Where your store is located has NOTHING to do with the currency of your listings or the sites where you list.

I had my eBay store on eBay.com for years, paying my monthly fees in US$ yet my listings were in US$, Cdn$. Sterling and euro as I listed and sold on four different eBay sites with the same eBay store (and the same PayPal account for those wondering).

When i closed my eBay store on eBay.,com and later re-opened it on eBay.ca, nothing changed except for the fact I am now paying lower monthly fees as the same amount is now billed in Cdn$.

[hlmacdon]

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@pierrelebel wrote:

"renewal dates for their store subscriptions as well."

????

Where your store is located has NOTHING to do with the currency of your listings or the sites where you list.

I had my eBay store on eBay.com for years, paying my monthly fees in US$ yet my listings were in US$, Cdn$. Sterling and euro as I listed and sold on four different eBay sites with the same eBay store (and the same PayPal account for those wondering).

When i closed my eBay store on eBay.,com and later re-opened it on eBay.ca, nothing changed except for the fact I am now paying lower monthly fees as the same amount is now billed in Cdn$.

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No but for sellers migrating to .com many will not require .ca store.

[pierrelebel]

There is no such things as an eBay.com or eBay.ca store.

Sellers have a store on whatever site they want - it makes no difference at all.

All listings by one seller on ALL eBay sites are included in ONE eBay store.

To better understand, take a look at my store;  about half the listings are on eBay.ca (Cdn$) and half on eBay.com (US$)

For more clarity you can have your store on eBay.ca (paying monthly fees in Cdn$) and have ALL your listings on eBay.com. No problem!

[esclyons]

so if i start changing my listings to ca$ as they end. will it be an invoicing issue if someone buys a item in us funds, and a item in can funds..will it invoice properly.. thanks

[pierrelebel]

For the last fifteen years or so, Canadians were able to list and sell in both US$ (eBay.com and/or eBay.ca) and Cdn$ (eBay.ca)

It has never been possible to combine two transactions made in different currencies on an eBay invoice (or PayPal invoice for that matter)

Sellers have always had two options:

1) send two eBay invoices - one in each currency (get two payments)

or

2) send one PayPal invoice combining both items after converting the currency of one item into the other (time consuming and often confusing for the buyer).

That procedure will not change.

[esclyons]

so i should wait for the migration tool to switch my auctions to can. $ all at one time?

[bruno_1111]

Can someone confirm me he listed on eBay.com in USD(obviously), sold to a Canadian buyer and that GST/HST taxes were charged correctly according to eBay.ca sales taxes table?

[esclyons]

also are their any issues if i choose to list in usd and migrate all my listings. to .com

[bgpowersports]

Yes I cannot charge Canadian sales taxes when listing on ebay.com or even select the provinces on the tax table. 

Ebay suggests I list on .com because we sell in the automotive/Ebay motors section and we have always listed in USD since day one. 

Ebay needs to set up a tax table for us .com listers in Canada that mainly sell to the US but still have Canadian customers. 

[pierrelebel]

" I cannot charge Canadian sales taxes when listing on ebay.com"

Yes you can.

If you are GST/HST registered and wish to charge GST/HST to your Canadian buyers, it is easy to do:

You need to fill the tax table on eBay.ca  (eBay-Canada)

http://pages.ebay.ca/help/pay/checkout-tax-table.html

Then when listing on eBay.com indicate you use the tax table.  eBay will automatically use the tax table you have created on eBay.ca to charge the appropriate amount of sales tax to your Canadian buyers - buying on eBay.com or eBay.ca (it does not matter) - based on the province where the taxable goods are shipped. 

Thousands of other GST/HST Canadian sellers sell on .com using the tax table prepared on .ca.

Good Luck

[bgpowersports]

Thank you sir. I have the tax tables all filled out on .ca so I hope it works! Just confused me when listing on .com and I go to select the provinces for the tax table and it only brings up states. 

I have listed a couple hundred so far on .com so we will see what happens! 

You have helped me a couple times and I owe you a beer or two!

[bgpowersports]

Now I'm looking into my site preferences on .com. 

I go to the sales tax table and I cant turn it on in preferences. I will have to individually select each state and put the taxes on but still doesn't show provinces and I cant just turn tax table on....So I cant change the preference to charge sales tax. I have to select it on every ad....Or I can do a mass edit after and just add taxes...Might be the only way. 

[pierrelebel]

That is correct.

Your old listings on .com do not know of the tax table on .ca

You can simply bulk "revise" your listings on .com, from your Selling Manager on ,com

Considering you have 7,000 items listed, it may take a while as I suggest you batch them no more than 100 at the time.

Good Luck

[bgpowersports]

Thanks. 

All of my old .ca ad's are good. I just started listing on .com. Each time I relist a item I have to select "charges sales tax"  button. Would be nice if it was already selected. 

I will just bulk revise after I'm done each machine I guess.

[pierrelebel]

"Each time I relist a item"

????

How do you "relist" your old unsold items on eBay.ca to eBay.com?

[bgpowersports]

Sorry, I didn't mean re-list. I meant sell similar!
I list till cancelled on every single item

[a52split]

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@mjwl2006 wrote:

With all due respect, if virtually none of your buyers are Canadian, why do you use ebay.ca as your platform? Just to get the free double allotment? ebay.ca is the only ebay in the world to allow listing in two different currencies.

If most of my buyers were in the USA on ebay.com looking for USD, then for the sake of the Shopping Cart functioning, I certainly would want to stick to listing on ebay.com. For me, they are not, so CAD is best, as I would expect on an ecommerce site that is inherently Canadian. I don't buy from any seller listing in USD on any other Canadian ecommerce site, ebay or otherwise.

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I'll give you an example of why it is sometimes better to sell in US$ on .ca.

Last summer I had some collector stamps from Canada Post.  I listed them on .ca in $CAD.  The auction results were lukewarm, and the winner was in the US.  The next few were the same, always US buyers.  When I switched to $US, the final values rose considerably.  What I realised was that US buyers couldn't go to a Canada Post office to get stamps.  And why would an american look for a Canadian stamp on .com?

I sold 11 stamp sheets, 10 of them went to US buyers.  The last one sold for triple what the first one sold for.

[pjcdn2005]

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@a52split wrote:

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@mjwl2006 wrote:

With all due respect, if virtually none of your buyers are Canadian, why do you use ebay.ca as your platform? Just to get the free double allotment? ebay.ca is the only ebay in the world to allow listing in two different currencies.

If most of my buyers were in the USA on ebay.com looking for USD, then for the sake of the Shopping Cart functioning, I certainly would want to stick to listing on ebay.com. For me, they are not, so CAD is best, as I would expect on an ecommerce site that is inherently Canadian. I don't buy from any seller listing in USD on any other Canadian ecommerce site, ebay or otherwise.

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I'll give you an example of why it is sometimes better to sell in US$ on .ca.

Last summer I had some collector stamps from Canada Post.  I listed them on .ca in $CAD.  The auction results were lukewarm, and the winner was in the US.  The next few were the same, always US buyers.  When I switched to $US, the final values rose considerably.  What I realised was that US buyers couldn't go to a Canada Post office to get stamps.  And why would an american look for a Canadian stamp on .com?

I sold 11 stamp sheets, 10 of them went to US buyers.  The last one sold for triple what the first one sold for.

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Those purchases were likely made on .com as there is no reason for an American to sign into .ca.

If you ship to the U.S. your listings are visible there.