Will Ebay.ca remove the ability to list in US dollars sometime in the near future

Question

After reading on the boards as well as some of the comments on the weekly board, how many sellers think this will become permanent as it is in all other countries? Only listing in Can dollars on the Canadian site. Could be an interesting discussion

Answer 1

"Finally, as eBay's only dual-currency listing platform, our French and English sites present architectural challenges that sometimes slows or event prevents the delivery of new functionality that has tested well on other sites. Removing USD support would simplify things for eBay as well as the companies in our ecosystem moving forward.
 If we do ever decide to retire the option to list in USD on the Canadian site, we will communicate that decision, then look to do so gradually, over a period of time, to minimize disruption for sellers. Canadian sellers who prefer to sell in USD would still be able to list using eBay.com.  "________________________________________________________________________________________ Well, this was an interesting pronouncement, also interesting that Rodney stepped in to make it.  I read "architectural challenges" as "too much cost", for one thing.  Secondly, "delivery of new functionality that has tested well on other sites" sounds like a convenient excuse to me.  They've been making new functionality work on .ca for quite some time.  I agree with Pierre's view: "The way I read this comment by Rodney is that a final decision has not yet been made but will be made within the foreseeable future." ... and I suspect we had all better be prepared to be forced to list in $Cdn if we want to continue to list on eBay.ca. A few weeks ago when this topic was first mentioned by Raphael, I recall pointing out that eBay was probably trying to slowly get us accustomed to an unpalatable concept that would at some point be obligatory, by telling us that their "data" showed that all Canadian sellers would either benefit or see a neutral effect from listing in $Cdn.  It seems that time is around the corner now.   And I'm afraid I still think there is more behind this than the specious explanation given today would indicate.  No wonder they removed the reference to "15% more sales when listing in U.S.".  My goodness, who would want sellers to believe that if eBay needs (for reasons only they know) to have sellers list in $Cdn?  New propaganda required, quick!  Lastly, I find this part of Rodney's remarks rather disturbing: "Canadian sellers who prefer to sell in USD would still be able to list using eBay.com".   So, let me get this right: It appears eBay will likely force us to list only in $Cdn on .ca in the near future.  Yet many of us who mainly sell to the U.S. prefer to list in $US for obvious reasons of profitability.  At that point, the only option will be to list on eBay.com.    In other words, the only way Canadian sellers will really be able to make a profit (if you sell largely to the U.S.) will be to list on .com. Is it really just a coincidence that the recommended "workaround" for a longstanding and serious problem that we're told eBay will never fix (the ".com cart disconnect"), has been for Canadian sellers to list on .com exclusively?  This would be a absurd suggestion if it were not that eBay might have other motives in trying to direct more Canadian sellers onto .com, i.e. to ultimately phase out (or at least pare down) eBay.ca.   Consider this: perhaps this was the true reason eBay never resolved the cart disconnect -- they never intended to in the first place.  One might even cynically say that the disconnect was a deliberate step toward getting more Canadian sellers to list on .com.    Is eBay trying to "shepherd" Canadian sellers off eBay.ca?  I personally believe so, perhaps for fiscal reasons. Quite frankly if I'm still around here in 2 years I wouldn't be surprised to see the whole site phased out.