Ebay US v Ebay AUS

[max-power-models]

I recently posted an item on Ebay USA,Funny how they get 50 free listings a month and an sub title only costs 50 cents there. Are we better off listing items on US Ebay? 

[imastawka]

Dunno

(But just to be a nit-picker, the word is sprue and the plural is sprues)      

[digupatin]

Good question

http://www.ebay.com.au/gds/selling-items-overseas-from-ebay-OZ-search-visibility-/10000000016977413/...

[digital*ghost]

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@max-power-models wrote:

I recently posted an item on Ebay USA,Funny how they get 50 free listings a month and an sub title only costs 50 cents there. Are we better off listing items on US Ebay? 

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Depends on who your buyers are, really.

On the US site, FVF on postage is charged on the first domestic rate offered to buyers. Domestic postage on the US site is considered to the US.

AFAIK, that means the first domestic postage option you will offer to the US is what the FVF will be charged on, no matter where the buyer is, so if you say charge $20-odd P&H to the US and $2 P&H to Australia, you'll be charged FVF on $20 even if your buyer pays $2.

[heihachi_73]

Be glad we aren't in the UK, where they get all of twenty listings a month with 35p per listing beyond that - unless they have changed since I last looked on there.

[gec2002]

Also a very big difference in the store costs, particularly for an anchor store

Australia Anchor store $499.95 (Unlimited free listings) Auctions $1.50 ea (Zero free) FVF 6 - 7.5%

US Anchor store $179.95 - $199.95 (2500 free listings) then Fixed $0.05 ea., Auctions $0.10 ea (100 free) FVF 4 - 9%

So after 8500 fixed price listings better off in Australia provided you don't want auctions.