08-03-2021 07:41 AM
Hello everyone,
does anyone know how may I change the currency?
I want to see for example in Euro not in USD or in other currency
Many thanks in advance for your support and assistance 🙂
08-03-2021 07:56 AM - edited 08-03-2021 08:15 AM
For the below directed to UK users, substitute as appropriate an EU country with an eBay site (go to the ebay.com homepage--click the eBay logo at top right of this page--scroll to the bottom right of the page, click the US flag and you get a box of links to the various eBay country sites; ebay.ie is handy if English is your best European language):
Somehow you navigated across the broad Atlantic 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 and in My eBay). 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 (PayPal and other payment methods 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 you will likely find something similar but reversed: a higher percentage of listings in GBP (Great Britain Pounds, displayed by ebay.co.uk as "£") and some approximate* conversion display of those that aren't to GBP. Keep an eye on your address bar 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; if PayPal does the conversion (and the new checkout popups on ebay.com seem to have done away with the ability to have PayPal bill your credit card in the currency of the listing, thus paying your credit card's possibly lower buy rate) its buy rate is 3% above mid-market at the time of payment (I think it calculates them once a day).
ETA: Since Romania doesn't have an eBay website, this--ebay.com-- is your home site where you are registered. But you are not restricted to buying here. Your ebay.com login credentials are good at most of the international eBay sites, just be sure the item ships to your location and you can pay in one of the options in the Shipping and Payments tab of the listing's main page.
08-03-2021 08:56 AM
Thank you for reply woodland_gnome,
but I really do not understand what to do.....I do not have Ebay sign on the right but on the left, it doesn't let me make any scroll and no US flag then...
Understand though that there is no Ebay Romania and that I am staying on Ebay US platform.
Pay Pall is ok for payments, but I wanted to evaluate in EUR or RON sometimes, not to try to find currency convertor all the time...
Many thanks for your time and assistance, very much appreciated 🙂
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