ITEM ORIGIN - We prefilled the country of origin for you | Seller Central

wellingnorth · 2025-12-13T11:00:25.803000Z

Just went to edit an old notice and noticed this statement in the ITEM ORIGIN section: Note that although this is on the 'edit listing' page th,e change had already been made on the live listing, so it's not like ebay are asking for approval before doing this. The particularly unfortunate thing is that the country chosen is wrong and I can see no basis for it picking the country in the item description or title! For me the main issue here beyond the basic inaccuracy is that this will have an impact on US buyers. As I understand it US buyers are shown an expected amount of duty to pay based on the country of origin in the listing and clearly if the country is wrong this amount will be wrong. Personally where I do not know the country of origin I leave it blank and it should stay blank. Really the only time this seems justified at all is if there is an explicit statement 'made in X' in the item description or title, but as we know even that is not necessarily the item origin for customs purposes. I feel like ebay should really just leave this field for sellers to edit themselves.

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