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Selling on US eBay

pickapresent13 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:40:53 GMT

Re: Selling on US eBay

pickapresent13 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:45:20 GMT

Sorry everyone, first time I`ve posted a question here, and obviosly hit the wrong button and only posted a title

My question is, can/how do I list items via US eBay. I have read that there are lower fees for us on AU eBay if we now list on US eBay, and I`d like to give it a go. Mianly due to what I think is a ridiculous "Auction Style" listing fee of $1.50 on the AU site, compared to about 30 cents on the US site

Am I able to do it by just logging into the US site ? I tried, but the listing seem to automatically default to an AU listing and charged at $1.50

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks Everyone 🙂

Re: Selling on US eBay

digital*ghost — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:03:52 GMT

You should be able to list on US eBay by simply being logged into the site when you list - I'm not sure why it would default to an AU listing, so all I can suggest is perhaps ensuring you're logged out of the AU site in any other tabs, or maybe even try using a different browser for listing on the US site.

They do have lower insertion fees, but just keep in mind that FVF is also charged on postage, and there will be different policies your listings will be subject to.

Re: Selling on US eBay

thecatspjs — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:16:37 GMT

I have found that one way to access the extremely attractive listing fees and fantastic incentives (that more than compensate for FVF that are levied on post) offered to US sellers on the US site is to register an id via ebay.com - and go through the prompts accordingly.

In any case, my advice is to log onto ebay.com and have a good read through the policies that apply to the US site, as buyer and seller disputes are managed quite differently, you must offer post to the US and there may be some $$$ involved in the US to AU conversion rate when you make payment of your US ebay seller account.

Re: Selling on US eBay

pickapresent13 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:22:45 GMT

Thanks for that information, i will try again tonight. I do think I didn`t actually log out of my account the firt time i tried it. Will the US fees just be added to my normal AU fees, or will they show up seperate (not that it matters, just interested)

I don`t mind the FVF being added to the postage as well, if I`m going to sell more stuff, it will be irrelevent in the end

Re: Selling on US eBay

phorum_junkie* — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:03:38 GMT

Your fees will be changed into Au$ and added to your bill in the usual way. You will have to use flat rate postage as you will not be able to use calculated as that only applies to the US postal service, you wiol also have to have proof of delivery, not just proof of posting as you do with Australian buyer protection. Your payments will all be in US$ so you will have to set your Paypal account up to accept that currency and will pay a conversion charge when you go to convert it to AU$. As you get 40 free listings on the au site it may be better to consider using more than one id if you want to sell more than 40 items a week.

Re: Selling on US eBay

thecatspjs — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:16:54 GMT

@phorum_junkie* wrote:
Your fees will be changed into Au$ and added to your bill in the usual way.

If you are using your AU account to list - yes they will be converted.

But for a seperate US account I did not realise you could set your account currency to AU ? How can you do this ??

Re: Selling on US eBay

pickapresent13 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:51:23 GMT

Thanks

I actually have a Store, and get 200 listings free, but normally wait til the 5000 free listing offer comes around each month to list most of my stuff.

I`m only really interested in the US site for listing Auction format, as its far cheaper. Any BIN format I will continue with the AU site

Re: Selling on US eBay

thecatspjs — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:28:16 GMT

Yes, I intend to dabble in listing from the US for auctions as well - and see how visibility and interest in AU shapes up.

Worth a crack I reckon,

Re: Selling on US eBay

pickapresent13 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:33:14 GMT

I was thinking of listing a few auctions of the same items on both US and AU and see which one gets the most hits, and the best price, as a bit of a trial first

Re: Selling on US eBay

phorum_junkie* — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:02:02 GMT

If you list on the US and Au sites at the same time you had better have two identical items.

Cats how do you create a US account without a US address and or bank account? When I said fees would be changed to Au$ I was meaning if the Aus account was used to list on the US site.

I too have a store for my BIN items, I also have another id for 40 free auction format listings and another one for 40 free BIN with best Offer.

Re: Selling on US eBay

thecatspjs — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:09:20 GMT

To create a US account and add address details it gives you the option to select your location country - from what appears to be a world wide list of countries.

Re: Selling on US eBay

pickapresent13 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:20:15 GMT

Yes, only listing stuff that I have 2 of, so I can compare how they go

Re: Selling on US eBay

kg5collector — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:56:41 GMT

For the 1st 18 months of being a seller on eBay it was with .com and things could not of been better, Top Rated Seller, an eBay store, listings front page around the world, bulk sales, 10c listing cost auction style, heaps free listings.

Then..............!

We were called interboarder traders and alians. Lost our Top Rate Sellers Rating accept in Australia. No more free listings. All listing were stopped accept for Australia and then for the last 2 months our 19th and 20th month not a single sale. Tried to find one of our listing on line but could not find a single listing on any eBay anywhere. No one told us anything. It took me 6 long weeks to figure it all out. Shifted our whole store to .com.au.

Not long after this the deal for a featured store came on line and from that platform we have rebuilt our store sales and have an income that we are very happy with again.

Beware of doing the .com eBay saler with an Australian address. The eBay .com computor does not like it. The eBay computor always wins!

Re: Selling on US eBay

pickapresent13 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:39:47 GMT

I tried doing an auction list on the US site last night. Become to much hassle in the end. As it was going on the US site, I had to click on US postage service, and then AU showed up as international postage, which meant if I put it as $1.20, I would have to post it at that price to all international destinations

Unless I was doing something wrong

In the end I gave up, and paid the $2.00 AU fee ($1.50 auction + 50c BIN fee), which, I find a totally ridiculous price to list something as an auction.

The price of my items I auction, some will sell for more than $2.00 above my normal BIN price, so I win, others won`t make my normal BIN price, so I lose. But I like auctions as they`re entertaining for the bidder, and I think when someone loses, they look in your store to see what other similar products you have

Anyway, its the way it goes

Re: Selling on US eBay

kg5collector — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 01:04:21 GMT

Free mailing is the way we went.

But the .com system has changed even more since to stop an Australian address using .com

It all comes down to how is eBay .com going to process you if you are a nasty person and rip some one off for $10,000

Every listing I had to sign an agreement that let .com eBay come after me in Australia. That is every listing a horrible red-orange form to agree too!

Re: Selling on US eBay

kg5collector — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 01:21:48 GMT

Free mailing does work but you have to add it to your prices. There is no such thing as free mailing really!

As a .com store over 98% of our sales were from Australia.

We still have free mailing on our .com.au store for Australian address only. We are very happy doing this.