getting usa price instead of ca price how do i change this after a purchase

[bonche_2595]

I just purchased jewelry on e bay thinking i would get the us discount price listed but got charged the c  price.  how can this be changed to the us price?

[mudshark61369]

@bonche_2595,

Since you are located in the U.S. if you bought from a listing on ebay.com The U.S. site, that had both  Canadian and U.S. dollar prices, meaning the seller shipped to the U.S., you should have paid in U.S.$. 

If you logged into the Canadian site ebay.ca.com or were somehow redirected to it, to look at the listing, and bought from it, Then the U.S.$ price would not show. 

[bonche_2595]

i must have been switched over i was using the us ebay.  what action can i take to get the us price

[woodland_gnome · Accepted solution]

There is only ONE price for any item bought.  It is in the currency of the site that the listing was set up in by the seller.  A listing set up on ebay.ca will be in CAD, one set up on ebay.com will be in USD.  Any bid or offer you make will be in that currency in the amount you type in, no matter what your intent or how you try to express that intent (not sure whether the server will reject outright or will accept the entry and ignore any extraneous characters you put in to try to change it).

eBay's payment processor will convert your currency into the currency of the listing by selling you the foreign currency at it's current retail "buy rate" (which will be about 3% to 3 1/2% higher than the "mid-market rate" eBay uses to display an "approximate" conversion to the local currency of the site on the listing, search results, My eBay, confirm screens, etc.  The seller must be paid the full amount of the price etc. in the currency s/he set the listing up in. 

[bonche_2595]

do i understand you that ebay wil translate  to us dollars for me at a later date on my paypal account?

[woodland_gnome]

eBay will charge your payment source (PayPal, credit card, debit card) in USD for the amount needed to pay the seller the actual amount owed in CAD.  At least back when eBay was transitioning from most sellers being paid with PayPal to its own "Managed Payments" processing the buy rates of PP and MP were about the same.  You might want to keep your eye peeled during Checkout for any option to bill your funding source in CAD if it has a lower buy rate.