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Can anyone tell me How to change the currency?
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Can anyone tell me How to change the currency?
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoIf you are trying to set up a listing you go to the eBay site for the country that uses the currency you want the item to sell for and set it up there.
If you are buying you cannot change the currency of the listing. Here on ebay.com most of the listings will be denominated in USD (US Dollars, displayed by ebay.com as "US $"), and those that aren't will have an "approximate"* conversion to USD under the actual price/bid in the currency of the listing or, on some pages, INSTEAD OF the actual price (this is the default setting on search results). Be aware that any bid/offer you make must be in the currency of the listing and when you pay the seller must be paid the full price in the currency of the listing (eBay's payment processing contractor will convert your currency to the currency of the listing, but see below).
If you go to ebay.co.uk (or similar for your home country's eBay site, e.g. ebay.com.au, ebay.ca, etc.; see the other post for how to find it) you will likely find something similar but reversed: a higher percentage of listings in GBP (Great Britain Pounds, displayed by ebay.co.uk as "£") or EUR or CAD or AUD or whatever and some approximate* conversion display of those that aren't to that site's currency.
*Be aware the "approximate" in this case means ALWAYS too low: they are calculated using readily accessible "mid-market rate" quotes (an average of wholesale buy and sell rates of several large banks) while someone with funds in the approximately-converted-to currency (USD on ebay.com, GBP on ebay.co.uk) will have to pay someone their retail "buy rate" to pay the seller the correct price in the currency of listing; figure about 4% higher if you let eBay checkout do the converting.
comics-scifi-collectibles
Mentor2 years ago@1542.86 This is eBay.com the US site so we only use $ here.
What country are you located in? There may be an eBay site for your country.
Scroll down to the bottom right of the home page and hover over the US flag then you will see links for other eBay sites.