How To Sell on eBay Internationally:
1. Scroll down to the International Postage section within the Sell Your Item page. Click on the drop down menu and choose Flat: Same Cost To All Buyers which will show the international posting options.
2. Choose to post your items to Worldwide Destinations or Custom Locations. e.g sell your items on eBay to European buyers. Choose Custom Locations from the drop down box and tick all the boxes in the second column.
3. Add the postage charge for the item.
4. If you then decide that you want to also sell to buyers further afield such as in the USA, Canada, Asia, Australia and Japan but want to charge a higher postage cost, click on Offer Additional Service then choose Custom Location again, and repeat the same process but this time tick all the other boxes for the countries you want to sell on eBay to.
5. eBay users in other countries will now be able to view your items on their own eBay site.
Please note that there is an exception to this! Buy It Now items will not show up on eBay.com (the US site) unless buyers change their default search option to show International Listings. Some buyers will do this and others will not, so if you really want to get your listings shown on eBay.com and you are selling at a fixed price, it is wise to run a separate listing specifically from eBay.com to ensure visibility.
Following on from this, you can go one step further and actually list your products individually on each eBay site in the language of the site! So, for example, if you want to list your items on eBay France, then you first need to get your listing translated in to French. There are free services that do this such as www.freetranslation.com who do also offer a paid service. Just a word of advice: the free services are not always completely accurate, so your listing could end up not making sense when translated. It is better to use a paid service to ensure your listings are correct from the start! Then simply log in to ebay.fr with your usual eBay ID and password and list your item in the usual way. It is fairly easy to find your way around the sites even though they are in a different language as most links are in the same place as on eBay UK.
The advantage of listing your items individually on foreign sites in the language of the country is that you are literally speaking their language! Although English is very widely spoken in other countries, most foreign buyers will prefer to read a listing in their own language, which in turn will entice them to buy. Ultimately, this way you will make even more sales. There are lots of countries you can sell on eBay to. Try Germany, Italy, France, USA, Australia and Canada and watch your sales triple!
by Amanda O'Brien - 4th June 2009
