@contessa35 wrote:
Is any more yet known about what is causing the vanishing of the UK as a destination for eBay International Shipping (the replacement for the Global Shipping Program in the US) items in several categories in the US? As a UK-based buyer, it's very disappointing to see lovely items effectively unavailable from excellent sellers I've previously used, who would ship to me if they could - plus pretty well every other seller in the categories of interest who is based in the US too. The majority of US sellers are auto-enrolled in EIS and it often happens without their knowledge, but for those who value EIS and are already aware of the the issue, there's little they can do, as sellers have no control over it and if they don't want to revert to using other shippers, that's that. Often even bidding/offering/buying is blocked by eBay on the first attempt at doing it anyway, so there's no option to even negotiate a different method of shipping if time is short, and sellers who are willing sometimes can't find a way to do it in time (or at all) in any case.
To recap, for listings in affected categories, the UK is not in the list of countries shipped to, even if it's supposed to be worldwide, is not on the list of countries excluded, nor on the country selection list, leaving sellers unable to add the UK back in.
The categories of concern to me that are affected in this way are Dolls & Bears and Toys & Hobbies (what we know on eBay UK as Toys & Games).
Hi contessa35, thanks for your post.
I am still working on it, and I will let you know once I have an update on this, but don't worry as we are still reviwing this.
Thank you,
Marco
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