Why are the pricing on all the items now showing in US Dollars,how can i change it over to GBP ?

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for some strange reason,all the watched items,as well as all others are now showing in US Dollars,how can i change them to British GBP ? my location is in the U.K and i haven't accessed E bay from outside of my region, so why have i got this anomaly,as it's really annoying to figure out what the real boots on the ground price is for any intended purchase. HELP,,, anyone? please, Thanks in advance.

eburtonlab · Accepted Answer

You are registered in the UK, but you are currently signed in to the US ebay.com site where prices are shown in dollars.

You may have followed a bad link or used a bookmark that did not redirect properly. Or possibly a problem with a saved search is directing you here.

Sign out of ebay.com and delete your ebay.com cookies. If you use your browser's autocomplete feature, you may want to delete your history to prevent your browser from suggesting ebay.com based on past browsing.

Sign back in to eBay UK here:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/

eyepoppingbabe · Answer

Thank you for that rapid response, very helpful, i shall try those suggestions, Best regards, Bless

woodland_gnome · Answer

Somehow you navigated across the broad Atlantic (or Pacific, or 49th Parallel, or Rio Grande, or whatever) to ebay.com (the primarily US site). Here 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 back across the big water to ebay.co.uk (or similar for your home country's eBay site, e.g. ebay.com.au, ebay.ca, etc.) you will likely find something similar but reversed: a higher percentage of listings in GBP (Great Britain Pounds, displayed by ebay.co.uk as "Â£") and some approximate* conversion display of those that aren't to GBP. Keep an eye on your address bar, especially when you are asked to login, so you don't accidentally emigrate here again.

*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 3% to 3.5% higher if you let eBay checkout do the converting.