Shipping and Currency Display Enhancements For Search and Listings Pages

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***Shipping and Currency Display Enhancements For Search and Listings Pages*** 

October 31, 2005 | 11:57AM PST/PT

Hi, this is Leigh Goldstein from eBay's Shipping team again. About a month ago, we started showing the shipping cost column by default on search and listings pages to help you shop more efficiently. I mentioned then that we were also working on a project that would show buyers the flat-rate shipping costs that are most relevant to their country location. I’m happy to inform you that this new feature will take effect in the next week or so.

For example, Canadian buyers shopping on ebay.com will see flat-rate shipping costs to Canada, instead of the U.S. domestic shipping costs which display now. Conversely, a buyer in the U.S. will see the flat-rate shipping charges to the U.S. for those items on eBay.com that are listed by international sellers. Listings physically located in other countries will also be denoted by the country name in search results - for example, “From United Kingdom”.

We’ll also be making another change to the way we display international listings that we think you’ll find helpful. On search and browse pages, we’ll show you the item prices for international listings in US dollars (currently prices on these pages are shown in the original listed currency). When a price has been converted from another currency, it will appear in italics.

This has the same effect as selecting “Convert prices to US $” when customizing your search and browse results – we’re just making this the default setting to give you more accurate results when you sort your results by Price. (Please note that item pages themselves will continue to show all prices in the original listed currency along with the converted amount.)

You can opt-out of either of these changes by using the Customize Display link near the top of the search results and listings pages.

Early next year, we will launch a project that will automatically display calculated shipping costs based on the buyer’s location (instead of the current “Calculate” link). Stay tuned!