Sometimes there are very simple reasons why is it better to use UK or USA account rather than lets say Latvian account.
The main countries that had ebay established a long time ago like UK USA etc they have much more freedom and the services and possibilities of these countries ebay and paypal accounts are much bigger.
For example
Having Latvian paypal account you can not withdraw more than ~400GBP to you credit card in one day.
Also they convert the currency to Latvian currency under awful rates! One withdraw action costs 2euros - for just this move. Also at the end you lose around 2-2.5% of total withdrawn amount because of paypal currency exchange rates.
And the main thing - you can not choose what currency to withdraw the money in.
So at the end you are out of the pocket for some round sum...
Also there are more issues not to mention here, but people are trying to use what is better for them, not just because they want to hide something or that they like that.
I would like to use the country that i am no account too, but it too expensive and too limited services here, so isnt it better to establish a long time UK account with free of any limits services? Quote:
Originally Posted by GrannyT I do a lot of business with the US but I list on the UK board and select International Visibility. Can only say it works for me.
I do not understand why more people do not try to establish trading partners in the countries they want to sell in rather than use VPN or VPS. One slip can bring the whole thing down.
I have recently started something similar with a seller from China. She was selling on the UK board and now she has stopped and sends product to me and I sell it. She makes money because of the savings in postage etc, I make money because stock costs me nothing and everybody is happy. It's all about doing business and making money
I should say though that there is nothing ⊗⊗⊗⊗ or vero in what we are doing. It's only doing a little bit right now but has huge potential as we get comfortable with each other.
I think once you start playing with the electronic hiding of IPs you are putting another risk factor into the equation, and god knows there are enough already. | |