For the last year or so I have been getting messages from eBay asking me to consider using their partner Webinterpret to post my listings on five or six foreign eBay sites with no additional listing fees.
I had a horrible experience with Webinterpret when I tried them about four years ago. At that time I had to pay one listing fee per item per country. In two months I think Webinterpret brought me four international sales (one of which resulted in a return) and 300 listing fees The "interpretations" were worse than what I could have done with Google Translate, and customer service was almost unresponsive. It took me several attempts and one month before they finally closed my account.
A year ago when I saw my first "no additional listing fees" message I called eBay customer service. I was fortunated enough to have my call answered by a representative who was candid enough to tell me immediately that eBay had been getting lots of complaints about Webinterpret and that he personally would recommend that I continue to avoid them.
Has the situation changed for the better in the last year?
