recently I've been searching for some coins on eBay through the respective country domains and noticed that they don't always show up on other domains, although I've been able to buy them anyway. I'm not sure if anybody has experienced this before but does that mean that those sellers were originally not international sellers but still could go through with an international sale without having to register for that international sellers thing and fulfilling all those criteria e.g. at least 10 feedback as seller locally, blah blah blah....? the reason I'm asking this is because I'd be much better off selling this way. it seems that the locals have no appreciation for foreign coins whatsoever, through months of trying to sell.
It's a matter of search options. Are you selecting search filters for all items on ebay.com or worldwide? Also, are you searching within a specific category? Not all country's ebay sites match up and you will not see their coins in the "coins and paper money" category or any specific ones below that. If the item is not available for you to purchase due to location, it will say so when you click on it and then give you the option of viewing the listing anyway.
I search dominantly through the Singapore domain, filters set to worldwide, but after finding certain sellers' listings through other domains, I couldn't find them when visiting their stores via my domain. I think most people might have observed this thing with listings not always showing up on other domains, but some of the sellers were shown to not offer international postage when they expressed themselves very willing anyway, so this got me wonderig
You're definitely better off selling your foreign coins internationally. When I finally opened up my listings to overseas bidders I started selling more for a lot more prices. You shouldn't have to list on the other domains though. It should just show up if you select international shipping as an option. You just have to make sure all the correct boxes are checked or unchecked so you aren't unintentionally excluding anyone, and turn the global shipping program off too.
until I get 10 sales locally though that would be impossible. I was wondering if I could still legitimately sell my listed coins to an international customer who finds my listing on the Singapore domain only after I publicize my eBay shop somehow. some of the sellers I've been buying from recently actually are willing to post internationally but it's just that it doesn't state so. can you guess which smart aleck let go of a few rare mintmarks for 30 USD? yours truly.... I'm still kicking myself for doing that now.
Wouldn't you want the global shipping thing on? I haven't used it yet myself, but this is confusing lol
You want to enable international shipping, but you don't want to use eBay's branded Global Shipping Program. It is designed for large, hard-to-ship items (like a lamp for example) and makes no sense for coins. They'll charge someone like $25 for you to ship your coin to them. It was a problem for me a few months ago because it automatically turned on, someone in Germany won my auction and then immediately got mad and left negative feedback because he saw the global shipping price. But it sounds like the OP is in Singapore so I don't know if they have something similar. OP, if you are having trouble getting your ten local sales, maybe you should sell something else just to get your numbers up. DVDs, CDs, anything you have sitting around. I had a lot more than ten sales before I started selling internationally.
