ebay seller warning re: international shipping

[disneysteve]

ebay has changed a setting that all sellers need to be aware of. I just discovered it this morning.

When you create a listing, there used to be a check box in the shipping section if you wanted to offer international shipping.
That check box is gone. The DEFAULT is now to use the Global Shipping program. You might be fine with that as it definitely has some advantages and makes shipping internationally super easy as ebay handles everything on their end with the added cost, customs forms, etc.

If you don't want to have international shipping, you need to go into your user settings and turn off that default. Turning it off will not change existing listings. You need to go to the Seller Hub and individually change each listing to turn off international shipping.

I currently have 50 listings so I've had to go into every one of them to turn it off as I do not want to ship internationally for various reasons.

[jenn_jenn]

Thanks for the warning! I haven’t sold anything on eBay in at least 10 years but just set aside some things to sell soon. I wouldn’t have known to do this otherwise.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Not pertaining to international shipping but this was the closest eBay thread that I could find without creating more clutter by creating a new thread so to piggy back on this thread my question is does anyone use the feature "promote item?" And is it worth it? And what exactly does it entail. I'm guessing when someone searches for an item and if my item resembles the search that my item takes precedence over an unpromoted item.