Selling on US eBay

[phorum_junkie*]

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.

[thecatspjs]

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. 

[pickapresent13]

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

[kg5collector]

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!

[pickapresent13]

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

[kg5collector]

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!

[kg5collector]

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.