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Valued Member
Canada
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That's great! I generally only buy in Cad dollars unless it's a really discounted price.
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03/24/2016 7:14 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Fantastic! I have a question though....why would it inconvenience Cdn sellers to list in Cdn $ on ebay.ca, including ICCS particulars? Wouldn't potential international buyers still be able to view the listing on the ebay site relative to their own country and in their local currency.... in the same way we Cdns are able to buy from American sellers who list on ebay.com, as the listing automatically appears on ebay.ca if the seller records that the item can be shipped to Canada? |
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Canada
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Simply put Canadian sellers wanted the US dollar advantage, but if you were gearing these coins toward US buyers you could list on ebay US, problem for Canadian buyers is two conversion fees by paypal and your credit card or bank card like another 5%. I can understand a US seller listing in their currency, but A Canadian listing in US$ just creates so much fees, unless it's a must have coin I just pass. |
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Will not affect us at all as we have been changing our business model gradually over the last few years to list very little on ebay.ca anyways as almost all better Canadian coins do better in the USA.There will still be no problem selling ICCS coins on ebay.com. Our business is currently well over 80 per cent export to the US anyways. A far bigger problem is the exorbitant shipping fees in Canada for tracked shipping. Since our ebay accounts are extremely important to us NOTHING gets sold or shipped without tracking. As an example this afternoon shipped 14 tracked US parcels for under 42 USD and 2 Canadian that cost 24 CAD. Quite frankly selling in Canada in Canadian dollars is a huge wasted effort, not profitable at all. Another far more important issue is the current political , economic, and fiscal climate in Canada. Quite frankly I just do not care to have much in the way of Canadian Dollar holdings. Much prefer US dollars, Swiss francs and lots of silver. |
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Canada
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There are even bigger changes coming to ebay policy on selling Canadian coins on ebay.ca. An announcement should be coming soon. It has taken 10 years but it will benefit both sellers and buyers in Canada. |
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Canada
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Glad to hear your persistence is paying off Mike...  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
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Pacificoin, There is actually a big difference listing ICCS graded coins on ebay.ca in USD vs ebay.com. The Canadian site currently allows ICCS grade references in the template, header and description. It even has ICCS listed in the template pull-down. On ebay.com, you cannot have a reference to a numerical grade anywhere in the listing, even in the body of the listing (unless you try to slightly re-word it or hide it). To my surprise, that filter exists even for coins listed in non US coin categories. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Nickelsguy I just hope there was a focus group put together with some expertise to drive these changes. All too often its is not the case with ebay. |
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Canada
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Coin hunter ....where there is a will there is a way. I have been researching the various blogs as to ebay and the change in policies as to listing in Canadian Dollars on ebay.ca. The spin is amazing. It is still better to sell on .com and in US . Even more so when that is 80 per cent of your revenue stream. Another option is to certify Canadian at ANACS. They seem to be more conservative than ICCS three letters anyways. That however is another story and thread. The cost is overall about 20 percent more in quantity. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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Personally, I feel it is an overall positive move for ebay. Yes, it does suck for sellers in some regards, but from a buyers perspective(and probabuly ebay's business perspective), it's something that should have always been in place. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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A lot of thought, time and effort went into the policy changes. The potential for further Canadian TPG companies was even considered. The reliance on PNG and the 'mericans will be a thing of the past on ebay.ca. |
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Canada
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Nickelsguy, Without knowing the details, I just hope that the reputable US TPGs will be included in any restrictions that ebay has potentially in mind. There are many American buyers (and some Canadian) that specifically want and look for US TPG holders. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2301 Posts |
Any accepted TPG from USA will also be allowed I am led to believe. MM |
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Pillar of the Community
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Prediction.....once ebay.ca looks at its listings and fee collections for July onward (overall sales figures) it might give this a major rethink. As off June 1 everything we list goes on ebay.com. |
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Canada
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my 2 cents. I can't believe that it is a major issue for them to consider 2 currencies, for ebay.ca, we are a landlocked country, yet they want us to believe we are ocean's apart.. e-commerce trade has always been locked to the dollar, and the individual selling and buying..so going forward it would only make sense to allow the individuals who choose to sell in usa$ be allowed to do so, and vice versa.. ebay states that it would benefit the majority of sellers.. that is there opinion, so they are straight up saying we don't care what the rest of you think, we assume it will benefit the majority, so everyone else better get on board..and the will obviously not show any hard facts, of their round table discussions with any of us.. so what do you do now.. |
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