.com versus .co.uk

[salfordguy502]

Hi if im using ebay.co.uk can the whole world see it or do i need to be on ebay.com thank you

[martin2001]

I don't know if you need both. I did a search  (in US on ebay.com) for one of your titles:

Calvin Klein Jeans Shorts waist 30 size FREE p&p

It did show up normally, the only one (obviously only yours matches the exact wording)

I do lot of searches and there is always a lot of sellers from UK. I doubt that all of them list on both uk and com sites.

[aqeeqsouq]

@salfordguy502 

Actually, your listings will showing to anyone in the world if they are searching at ebay.co.uk , and if you stated at your listings that you ship to the buyers countries.
But if you want your listings showing at both ebay websites (ebay.com & ebay.co.uk), you need to enable the "International Site Visibility" feature for each of your listings, it's cost £0.30 for each listings, this feature will maximise your listings visibility in search results on eBay.com and eBay.ca .

[salfordguy502]

Hi thank you that was very helpful

[salfordguy502]

Thank you for doing that , its helpful to me and proves a point.

[aqeeqsouq]

@salfordguy502 

You welcome.

Good Luck..

[dhbookds]

ut if you want your listings showing at both ebay websites (ebay.com & ebay.co.uk), you need to enable the "International Site Visibility" feature for each of your listings, it's cost £0.30 for each listings, this feature will maximise your listings visibility in search results on eBay.com and eBay.ca .

I'm not sure what that international visibility thing is......but if I do a search here on .com, I find the op's items:

[pjcdn2005]

@aqeeqsouq 

@salfordguy502 

That isn't necessarily true.  IF the seller pays the international visibility fee (didn't realize that was still available) they are guaranteed that their listing will show up on the other site next to the domestic sellers items.  But that doesn't mean that it is always necessary to pay that fee.  Depending on the item and how many results there are for items listed directly on .com,  a UK listing may or may not show up on .com.  eBay doesn't give hard and fast rules as to when a listing will and will not show on .com.

I do think that when a sellers uses the GSP, their listings are more likely to show on international sites so that could be why the op's listings are easy to find on .com.

I used to list items on .ca and on .com that were popular on the UK site and for a while I did pay the .30 fee for the international visibility option for the UK.  But after experimenting, many of my items were found in search on the UK whether or not I paid the extra fee so I stopped using that option.   That was many years ago but just though I would share my experience.

[aqeeqsouq]

@dhbookds 

if you searched the OP's items at ebay.com and the items showed up in the result, that means the OP already enabled the "International Site Visibility" feature, because if he didn't enable the feature, the items will not showing at search result.

I have 2 items listed on ebay.co.uk , i have enabled "International Site Visibility" feature for one of the 2 listings, and the other one not been enabled, i will put both listings links down below and try to search them at ebay.com:

- "International Site Visibility" enabled listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/165630425936

- "International Site Visibility" Not been enabled listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/165372468983

[dhbookds]

@salfordguy502 

So have you enabled International Site Visibility? 

[aqeeqsouq]

@dhbookds 

I have enabled International Site Visibility for some of my listings, not all.

[dhbookds]

@aqeeqsouq   Sorry, I was asking the OP if he had enabled it........

years ago, when I did international shipping......my impression was the same as pjcdn2005,    but don't know how much has changed since then.......

[aqeeqsouq]

@dhbookds 

Yes it was, but early of this year, ebay changed that and listings stopped showing at other ebay sites unless you enable International Site Visibility for each listing, except the Canadian ebay website, the listings will showing up if you enable the International Site Visibility or not.

[robxznyc]

I asked a similar question a few days ago without getting any answer. As I ship to the UK, will my eBay US listings show up on eBay UK without the international site (UK) option turned on in each listing?

[dhbookds]

@robxznyc 

I changed my shipping location to the UK and did a search there for one of your items: