Has anybody 'moved' their ebay account from the UK to the US
Jun 2nd 2010, 4:44 pm
#31
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Re: Has anybody 'moved' their ebay account from the UK to the US
PayPal requires that you close your existing account and re-open a new one in the other country. They don't allow you to simply switch your account's registered country, apparently due to legal constraints and financial regulations.
You could just open a new account without closing the old one, but that's technically against PayPal's Terms of Service. Each person is only permitted to have one personal and one business account.
Your eBay account can be switched over to another country easily, no problem. I've done that twice myself.
You could just open a new account without closing the old one, but that's technically against PayPal's Terms of Service. Each person is only permitted to have one personal and one business account.
Your eBay account can be switched over to another country easily, no problem. I've done that twice myself.
Last edited by MidnightLight; Jun 2nd 2010 at 4:48 pm.
Nov 18th 2010, 8:46 pm
#32
Joined: Jan 2008
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Re: Has anybody 'moved' their ebay account from the UK to the US
I had issues with eBay/Paypal after the move. Changing your address won't do it. You need to sort out the fact that Paypal has your 'billing currency' as GBP. Also you may have issues with eBay thinking you are still in the UK.
I did the eBay live chat thing to sort out everything so that ALL settings in eBay recognised me as fully 'US-ready'.
For Paypal, you can change your billing currency via the link on ebay as described here:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/bill...rency.html#how
I did the eBay live chat thing to sort out everything so that ALL settings in eBay recognised me as fully 'US-ready'.
For Paypal, you can change your billing currency via the link on ebay as described here:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/bill...rency.html#how
I spent 1 hour and 46 minutes on live chat with a muppet, before I turned up your post. Changing the billing currency appears to be the key - it sets the "registration site" field in the back end of your account records to whatever country's currency you select and it appears to be this field that ebay uses when deciding to apply regional policies, not your address or the fact that your account is linked to a US paypal account.
So, I followed your instructions and that fixed it. No thanks to the ebay muppet.
I believe that this step may be the definitive step in properly porting an ebay account from the UK to another country. Might be worth sticking it in one of the wiki pages, if anybody can think of an appropriate place.
Nov 18th 2010, 10:46 pm
#33
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Location: MA, USA
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Re: Has anybody 'moved' their ebay account from the UK to the US
Tack it to the end of that page as a Misc to banking perhaps?
Nov 19th 2010, 8:14 pm
#34
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Re: Has anybody 'moved' their ebay account from the UK to the US
I have a question for any seasoned Ebay/Paypal users here. 
In the UK we have the Online Royal Mail postage thingymajig, where you can purchase stamps online in the form of a barcode label, stick into onto your parcel and then just drop it off at the post office. No need to queue up for ages.
I'm a regular Ebay user and this is the method I've been using for quite a few years.
I was wondering if the postal service in the States has a similar kind of service.
In the UK we have the Online Royal Mail postage thingymajig, where you can purchase stamps online in the form of a barcode label, stick into onto your parcel and then just drop it off at the post office. No need to queue up for ages.
I'm a regular Ebay user and this is the method I've been using for quite a few years.
I was wondering if the postal service in the States has a similar kind of service.
Nov 19th 2010, 11:50 pm
#35
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Re: Has anybody 'moved' their ebay account from the UK to the US
All I did was change my address to my new us one and it seems to be working fine!
Nov 20th 2010, 12:02 am
#36
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 7,605
Re: Has anybody 'moved' their ebay account from the UK to the US
If my theory is correct, ebay will block you from bidding, citing the ebay.co.uk knives policy.
Then follow BG36's instructions and try again. If it lets you, then the hypothesis has not been falsified.
