eBay global shipping

[Kovorkian]

I searched the thread and did not find anything about this.

User agreement from eBay in the spoiler

Spoiler

Updates to the eBay User Agreement

Dear Name Redacted,

We are writing to let you know about updates to the eBay User Agreement. The updated User Agreement was posted on www.ebay.com on April 26, 2013. The updated User Agreement is effective immediately for new members, and on July 1, 2013, for current members.

Key updates to the eBay User Agreement:
Provisions regarding Global Shipping Program. We added provisions describing the Global Shipping Program, through which we may make your domestic U.S. listings available to international buyers. For items that are located in the United States and that you sell through the Global Shipping Program, you will simply ship the sold item to a parcel processing facility located in the United States, where a third party global technology and shipping provider will oversee the processing, customs clearance, and international shipment of the item to the buyer. Buyers will pre-pay all applicable shipping and import charges during checkout and will benefit from international tracking of the item from the parcel processing facility through delivery.

Unless you have previously opted into the Global Shipping Program or are a new user, we may make your eligible new and existing listings available to international buyers through the Global Shipping Program only after you have indicated a desire to take advantage of this program in the form of an electronic click-through acceptance of the User Agreement or otherwise. Your participation in the Global Shipping Program will be subject to additional terms and conditions, including an agreement with that provider for the provision of its services to you.

See Frequently Asked Questions for more information about this User Agreement update as it applies to the Global Shipping Program.

Updates relating to eBay's process of amending the User Agreement and users' acknowledging acceptance of it. We updated the provision regarding the process by which the User Agreement may be amended and added a provision describing how a user may be asked to acknowledge acceptance of it.
As with previous updates, other changes have been made to keep the User Agreement up-to-date. We encourage you to review the updated User Agreement to familiarize yourself with the updates.

You don't need to take any further action to accept the updated eBay User Agreement. If you choose not to accept it, visit this help page for further direction.

Thank you for being a part of the eBay Community.

Sincerely,

The eBay Team

Anyone know if you will be able to 'opt-out' ? The wording I made lime makes it seem mandatory.

Thanks for any input!

 

[kodave]

The wording there is slightly confusing, but I assume that even if you're opt-ed in, whether by choice or whether because eBay auto-included you, you probably don't have to make international shipping available when you create your listing.

If you want to ship international though and you're opted-in or auto-included, you might be forced to use their shipping service rather than your own international shipping service? It's hard to say based on the wording of that email. It would probably be best to pull up the full "eBay User Agreement" and see what it says in there.

 

[Kovorkian]

[quote name='kodave']The wording there is slightly confusing, but I assume that even if you're opt-ed in, whether by choice or whether because eBay auto-included you, you probably don't have to make international shipping available when you create your listing.

If you want to ship international though and you're opted-in or auto-included, you might be forced to use their shipping service rather than your own international shipping service? It's hard to say based on the wording of that email. It would probably be best to pull up the full "eBay User Agreement" and see what it says in there.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the reply!

This just gives people the opportunity to defraud sellers. (at least in my opinion)

 

[kodave]

[quote name='Kovorkian']Thanks for the reply!

This just gives people the opportunity to defraud sellers. (at least in my opinion)[/QUOTE]

I don't see how its any different than shipping international otherwise, other than it creates the opportunity for the shipping center to screw up your package or damage the merchandise. If a buyer is going to be dishonest about receiving a package or the condition of the contents, they're going to do it regardless of if you ship it directly or eBay's contractor ships it to them.

 

[Kovorkian]

[quote name='kodave']I don't see how its any different than shipping international otherwise, other than it creates the opportunity for the shipping center to screw up your package or damage the merchandise. If a buyer is going to be dishonest about receiving a package or the condition of the contents, they're going to do it regardless of if you ship it directly or eBay's contractor ships it to them.[/QUOTE]

I was referring to the them opening domestic only to international shipping, Aside from customs, there are reasons why people do not ship internationally.