If by "int'l trading" you're referred to 45 countries covered by paypal, I've nothing to say - it'll doesn't matter anyway...

But if you want to improve it to be real-worldwide, like, say, amazon, here my suggestions:

1. set eBay's seller's account
2. accept buyer's credit card payment to be directly credited to the seller's account

those will eliminate the time-wasting caused by third party money transfer and may multiply the eBay's transactions.

bsubejo lol
You want to make it easier for all those cc scammers?
Where are you from? Oh, Indonesia?

Yes marnotom, an eBay "seller's (and buyer's) account" would serve the same function as a PayPal account, only...

1. it will applied only ONE RULE - if eBay accept you then it will accept your transaction (vise-versa)
2. it is already has all the auction datas and the member's cv (and their attitude) so you don't have to type everything all over again
3. we only have to sign-up once and
4. the buyers need only click one button to pay.

The recent situation of all of that, I think, is a "bottle-neck".

I was bid some stuffs because the eBay pages give me the impression that I can use paypal, apparently not - which I found out only when I'm already won some items and proceeding the payment, "fortunately" my sellers accept other paying methods, problem is either it is very costly or time-consuming or both (not only for me, for the sellers too).

Tim:

I presume you are referring to Americans selling internationally, since the rest of the world doesn't seem to have this problem like US sellers do .... as least as presented by those who post to this forum.

1. You have to deal with their fear of international selling ....maybe education on how it is not any more difficult than domestic selling. Americans seem to think that they are far more likely to get cheated by an international buyer than a US buyer ... this is just not true.

2. You have to deal with their insecurity ... Paypal is a good tool, but US Sellers want an iron-clad guarantee that payment will be returned to the buyer, by Paypal, for any reason. They can have this within the US. Non-US sellers don't have this security blanket and don't seem to have the number of problems that US sellers do.

In summary, I think you can encourage international sales by US sellers through (1) education and (2) dealing with the two tiered Paypal security blanket, make it exactly the same for both domestic and international sales.

Paypal is a good tool, but US Sellers want an iron-clad guarantee that payment will be returned to the buyer

Hi from Germany.

I can't understand why I'm not automatically a verified Paypal member when I'm a verified eBay member already. Ebay has checked my ID card (live, at the eBay University at Nuremberg this year), so what more does Paypal need to get me verified? And don't tell me I could get myself verified at Paypal, too. I know that. But now that Paypal is an eBay company, I would wish a Paypal account that is automatically verified with eBay verification, and insolubly attached to the one selling account you verified. That would create more trust. (Of course you should be able to have more than one account.)

Another topic:

For sellers in any country, it would be very educating to show them on an easy-to-understand page how simple it actually is to fill in a customs declaration form. I know from eBay Germany's boards that many people who have never done this before fear a lot of paperwork - which simply isn't true. So maybe you should show how easy it is, using the USPS forms as an example. (Maybe USPS will assist you there.)

With the introduction of Paypal in continental Europe, international trading has become quite easy, and I would sure appreciate it if more US sellers would ship internationally, and I'd sure buy more if this was offered in their auctions. I stopped asking questions to sellers who ship "US only", but simply don't buy there. That's sad, because I missed some items I really wanted.

I mentioned this suggestion on the other thread, too, but I don't know if the two of you are comparing notes or not, so I'll suggest it again.

EBay has put in place the capability of blocking all international bids for those who wish to sell only within the US.

Now how about doing a favor for those of us who DO sell internationally, as well? At the same time making it easier for international buyers to find our auctions. A poster named Pierre suggested a few years back that it would be nice to have a world globe icon on the auctions of those who welcome international bids.

And if you want to go one step beyond that, how about making that a gold globe or some such to indicate that we not only sell internationally but also accept PayPal from international bidders?
Laurie