posted on December 20, 2005 03:25:21 AM new
I ma convinced Canada has "most favored nation" status with ebay - hence all the listing sales and free tickets to bid wherever they want.
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posted on December 20, 2005 05:10:29 AM new
Yo! Peoples!
You CAN block CANADIANS, ELBONIANS, GOBLINS, REPUBLICANS, and others of like disreputable ILK by simply changing yer preferences...
THUS: if ya set up a listing with USA ONLY, only USA bidders can bid or purchase...
HOWEVER, there is a new problem, as it looks like those durn firrriners are getting wise to this! I've had a number of buyers who registered in USA, but actually live in MEXICO or EREHWON, etc!
"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you." —George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2005
posted on December 20, 2005 05:46:00 AM new
... but Tom, certain items and certain times, I like to offer worldwide (even republicans!), but the most of our listings, we want USA bidders only.
If we block Elbonia and Canada and Borneo in our Preferences, they they are not able to bid on the listings that we have marked as 'worldwide' ...
posted on December 20, 2005 05:59:06 AM newestatesalestuff:
The block works on an individual listing basis:
IOW: if yer listing is "USA ONLY," it will block all others; while, at the same time, allow you to also have different listings which are "WORLDWIDE..."
kewl...
"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you." —George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2005
posted on December 20, 2005 10:07:01 AM new
Dumb question, why no international shipping? I have often woundered why someone would not list international. I have ALL my listing's listed international, payment via paypal ONLY and have never had a problem. In fact, even with the high shipping rates I get some high winning bidders from Canada, Netherlands, Japan, Australia etc... Shoot, last night with all the problems ebay was having the international people were hitting hard. Don't know if it had anything to do with the ebay problem or not but I had a bunch of Intl winners. Of the auctions I did not cancel last night I actually did rather well and the 8 items that were won by international bidders went through the roof. And with paypal's new printable international shipping label/postage they have made my life just to easy. I don't even have to take the international packages to the post office anymore, just give them to the postal carrier along with my regular priority shipmet's and they return my copy of the 2976 form the next day. God, for once life is good
posted on December 20, 2005 11:16:21 AM new
The Japaneseare wonderful -- the BESTEST buyers/bidders on earth...
OTOH: the DUTCH really...SUCK! EVERY buyer I've had from the LAND-O-DYKES has been a real PUTZY PRETZEL-CHOKER!
"Why don't ya sell internationally?"
There are a plethora of reasons why many USA sellers forgo the "joys" of global commerce...
NO PayPal Sellers Protection Plan Un-protection, because there's...
NO UsPs tracking for INTERNATIONAL shipping...
The CANADIANS are PITAs...
etc,etc...
If selling globally works for you, het, dat's wunderfull!
"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you." —George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2005
posted on December 20, 2005 11:19:38 AM new
It's not a dumb question Mike.
Depending on what I'm selling, I sometimes don't include international. For example, if I'm selling a sink, I don't want to get into a plumbing discussion with someone from who-knows-where, nor do I want to discuss shipping costs (believe it or not, it happens that people want quotes for ridiculous shipping). Similar issues with a DVD player; I don't want to explain region codes -- it is not what I do for a living.
I've shipped some (what I consider to be) goofy items overseas (a large set of china to Japan, a raincoat to New Zealand via GEM, etc.), and I value international bidders.
Additionally, inexpensive items are too much trouble to go through the explanations about why I won't accept PayPal, gotta be BidPay, etc., so I usually make them US only also.
posted on December 20, 2005 12:56:09 PM new
I just turned down a Canadian sale because items were not going to be cheap to ship,and I didn't want to deal with the I didn't get it in time for Christmas Blah,Blah, Blah. They always go after the cheap stuff and want service on a gold platter for free. If its something small I don't mind, but my items aren't like that much anymore.
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