ebay sellers--beware of the auto opt-in to global shipping program

[clay]

I just logged into ebay, and was presented with something along the lines of an updated user agreement. Tons of 'small print' that I didn't really read, but upon clicking 'accept', I saw that the page title temporarily showed something including "Global Shipping Program". Huh, that's weird. So I went into my seller prefs and saw that my Global Shipping Program was "opted in". Bull Sh!t, Ebay. Stop trying to pull this crap. And now I can't opt out since it's been less than 24 hours since I opted in.

I swear, what is their deal? They keep pulling this crap and hoping we won't notice.

[Harbourmaster]

Where exactly do you see this???

I just listed something for sale today, it's the first thing I have put on eBay since the middle of 2012 and there are certainly a lot of changes since the last time I created a listing.

I did have to accept some update but don't see anything about "Global Shipping"

[pRICE cUBE]

Thanks for the heads up. I will look for it.

[Jack D.]

Same problem in this older thread http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1608802 with instructions on how to fix it from Hal:

[Black]

So people are being quasi-tricked into opting in, rather than eBay unilaterally changing your settings?

[clay]

Black wrote:
So people are being quasi-tricked into opting in, rather than eBay unilaterally changing your settings?

yup

[richorlin]

What's the big deal? The Global Shipping Program just makes it easier to ship internationally to many countries. You just ship to a US gateway and pay domestic shipping rates. It doesn't cost anything extra, nor is there a monthly service fee. Plus, you can choose not to list it globally when you create your listing.
It's a good deal for sellers. You no longer have to try and figure out import fees, int'l shipping rates, etc. It covers quite a number of countries and the one that it doesn't ship to, well, I wouldn't want to ship to them anyway because of the risk.