Ebay please fix: can't log out

Sometime in the not too distant past Ebay removed the link to log out.

Now, it's part of a drop down box under a person's first name.

However, to log out now requires a bunch of stuff to be working properly.
Stuff which might not be working properly.

When that happens, the drop down box does not appear.
Instead, one sees "We're sorry, there was a problem retrieving this information".

Please Ebay, give us a link to log out.

Ebay please fix: stale descriptions

This has been an on and off again problem for some time now, but today it became acute.

Process:
1. sell similar from my current listing
2. modify title, replace pictures, replace text description
3. confirm new listing

Result:
Title changes, pictures change, but the text remains from the prior listing.

This has been very repeatable today.

Selling to Canadians with US addresses, simplified

There are two blocks a seller can establish.
1. An Ebay bid block.
2. A Paypal international payment block.

The Ebay bid block is readily circumvented if the Canadian creates a new Ebay account with  buyer's US address.  This allows the Canadian to bid and win the item.

The payment block will keep the Canadian from paying for the won item, unless the Canadian has established an American Paypal account.  Such a block is not the default.

There's the simple version.

For me, I block the bid, but not the payment. I have made several sales to such people.  Some required a bit of hand holding, but they have all worked out in the end.

Selling to Canadians with US addresses

A lot of sellers don't wish to ship to Canada these days.  The reasons why are not the topic here.

However, a lot of sellers sell to Canadians every day, but they ship to a US address. The seller doesn't even know.  For example, if you're shipping to Pt. Roberts, WA, the buyer is almost certainly a Canadian.

There are levels of difficulty which a seller can establish to defend against selling to Canadians. 

1. Don't specify any Canadian shipping.
   Result: Any Canadian can bid/buy. Seller and the Canadian can figure it out later.

2. Don't specify Canadian shipping, and block bids from buyers whose primary shipping address is in a place I don't ship to.
   Ebay Result:  Default Canadian account is blocked. Canadian has to create a different account with a USA shipping address (and maybe a registration address).

That's where we leave Ebay and move to Paypal.

By default, a seller Paypal account can accept payment from a Canadian Paypal account.

The Canadian with a US address Ebay account can bid, then pay, specifying his US address, usually in a border state where the Canadian will pick the stuff up.

However, a seller who wants to block this technique has a further barrier: configure paypal to refuse payment from a non-US Paypal account.

Paypal will not establish a Paypal account registered to a US address but using a Canadian bank.  However, Canadians can open accounts in the US on US banks, and create a Paypal account associated with that US bank. That's the total solution. A lot of work, but it effectively creates an alter-ego American who does the bidding of the Canadian.

If a seller who want to sell to anyone with a US address, such a seller should avoid blocking payments from Canadian based paypal accounts.

Report This Buyer appears on leave feedback page

 On the leave feedback page, a 3rd option has now appeared (along with "positive" and "I'll leave feedback later").

Clicking the choice yields these sub-choices: 

• Buyer made unreasonable demands.
• Buyer abused a buyer protection program.
• Buyer misused returns.
• Other problems.