Has anybody 'moved' their ebay account from the UK to the US
 

I'm what I consider to be a casual ebayer but I've been on there for quite a while and obviously would like to move my feedback and all that over.

So, has anybody 'moved' their account to the US? My understanding is that you mainly change your address, is that it? Anything to be aware of?

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Can be done - you can sign into eBay USA with your UK credentials and just update your address and location. Do the same with your credit cards in PayPal (though I think you will need your UK bank details on hand to be able to do this, if memory doesn't deal me a dog turd.)

Actually for a while, when I still had a UK bank account with money in it and a valid switch card, I ordered items of eBay USA, paid via PayPal with my Brit debit card and had it shipped to me. It was only recently when I bought a new keyboard for $800.00 I had to change my PayPal account to have my US credit card info.

True to form, I've used 500 words when 5 will do. Yes, you can do it and very easily. You will get all your notifications from eBay UK though for some reason, but via 'My eBay' everything appears in $ and not £.

Hope that helped :)

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I did. I emailed ebay customer services and they sorted it.

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I did it from Australia to France if that's any help.

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Thanks all, that suggests that there is *one* easy thing on this move...

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Somehow, eBay and PayPal never quite caught up with me: to buyers it shows my actual current location but it still "translates" everything into GBP and gives me UK options by default. Annoying.

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Actually, you saying that reminds me that paypal.com.au never really went well with ebay.fr, even though i updated everything. There was stuff I couldn't buy on ebay.fr as it still had me as being Australian even though the addresses etc were set to France.

Ended up creating a new paypal account in France.

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It can't seem to handle a US address and a UK bank account/debit/credit card. Or have things changed?

I can't use my US bank details because they're shared with my spouse in a joint account and she's already registered on eBay. When I try to register it to me it gets refused.

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Can't you do it all through a credit card if you have one in your name?

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I emailed ebay and changed mine but I also get notifications from ebay.co.uk
It's a nuisance seeing things in pounds but you only get this when you click through your emails. Has anybody sorted this one?

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I think the thing that might be throwing it is the PayPal part, maybe not the eBay part, but that's just a stab in the dark. I said it was annoying but it's not really annoying enough for me to have bothered hassling customer service about it. I can still buy stuff from my local market and my buyers still see the right place, so...

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i think i moved my location from UK to us ON EBAY and had no issues with ebay BUT i had to close my uk paypal and reopen a US paypal (used same uk email address tho lol) as they were unable to change my location and i didnt want wrong addresses involved anywhere.

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How many other people initially thought '$800 for a keyboard???????'.

Only to re-think 'oh they mean a musical piano type keyboard thingy'. Well I hope that is what they mean!

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Well, some of us use $300 keyboards on our computers...

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I bet nobody uses an $800 one though!

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Depends on the exchange rate - there is (or at least used to be) a UK-made ergonomic one that is close to $800. Only keyboard I know of that you can rent for a trial period.

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I still get that, sometimes. Seems to depend, in part, on whether I'm looking at the US or the UK site, but it's not consistent. I just live with it.

Yep, same for me. Fortunately, I already had a US paypal account, so I just told ebay to use that one.

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+1 on the above approach

Except...

I had a credit Sterling balance on the UK Paypal account which prevented a simple change. Had to set up a new US Paypal account then transfer the balance across by converting to USD and paying myself.

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Yes, it is a musical one - and believe it or not $800.00 was a good deal. I took it for granted that people would know that, but I should have been clearer :).

I wouldn't spend $50.00 on a computer keyboard, but you don't even want to know the prices of some of the musical ones I am eyeing up :eek:

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Guess it depends on how much time you spend in front of a keyboard, but trust me, a good keyboard is worth the money if you work with computers a lot.

Mind you, I pretty much have to use specific ergonomic keyboards (proper ones, not what MS and the likes think is an ergonomic keyboard) for various reasons anyway.

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You are, of course, correct but my work with computers usually extends to not much more than time wasted in front of You Tube and Flight Simulator!

I can see how my wrists would feel the effects of a cheap keyboard if I did spend more time actually typing though, if I have to type a lot in work I feel it. I certainly feel it after playing piano for a few hours, but I guess those keyboards are as ergonomic as they are going to get . . .

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I have a question for any seasoned Ebay/Paypal users here. :thumbsup:

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.:confused:

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I'm pretty sure I've seen those labels on eBay items I have bought out here - either ones you buy or print yourself.

Check out the USPS website - I bet there's something in there about it.

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try stamps.com as well.

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I changed the address over myself in 'My eBay' section and linked it with my new US Paypal account. It was annoying for the first few months showing prices in GBP, I contacted eBay customer service about it several times, but they had no idea how to fix this. Fortunately after a few months for unknown reasons it changed to USD, and I haven't had this problem since.

eBay US has some information about online postage, hope this helps:

http://pages.ebay.com/usps/shippingitems/labels.html

Most of the major US Mail carriers have postage you can buy through their websites, so you don't have to stand in a queue for ages.

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Yes, you can purchase postage at any level you want (service, signature required, insurance etc) on line. If you do this in any volume, you'll want to print onto sticky-backed paper. This works for any eBay or PayPal initiated sale - I suppose you could do it for other stuff as well. You may also use UPS from within PayPal, but unless you have a specific need, eg heavy/large package to move fast, USPS is generally cheaper.

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No, there's that oled one for a grand... :D

I just reopened a paypal account in the US because they couldn't move it...very annoying.

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Hi, I have stumbled accros this website and was wondering if you could help me. I have a aussie ebay account and would like it to be changes to a US ebay account as it is much cheaper for lisiting fees on the usa site for usa account holders. Do I need a usa address for this? Is this possible to change my current aussie account .
Also to have a usa paypal account do i need a usa bank account or usa address?

thanks

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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

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I haven't read all the posts here, but my 2 cents worth,

Changed EBay over, but still get some UK references sent to me via email.

Couldn't do it with Paypal so I shut my account down and opened a new one.

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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.

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I just got this problem, trying to bid on a collectible WWII bayonet. It wouldn't let me because of the ebay.co.uk knives policy.

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.

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http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Category:Banking-USA

Tack it to the end of that page as a Misc to banking perhaps?

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Yes, you can print your labels/postage at home, and then schedule a pick up from home (for free) so that you don't even have to take it and drop it at the post office. Saved me a load of time cos our nearest post office is quite a way away...we have a thousand nail salons and donut shops within 50' of our front door, but have to cross time zones to a post office:frown:

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All I did was change my address to my new us one and it seems to be working fine!

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Excellent! This means we can test the hypothesis. If you don't mind, try bidding on a knife or bayonet (if you want to be extra safe, pick a rare, expensive, one with a reserve price like item # 360320593195 and just bid 99 cents or something - there's no way you'd get stuck winning the auction).

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.