le 12-08-2015 10:40
Hello,
I would like to change my default language to English. I lived in France for several years and I believe I registered on Ebay while in France which is why it comes up in French. But I prefer it to be in English. How do I change that?
Thanks,
Lisa
Bonjour freya,
Il me semble que le demandeur aimerait que le langage utilisé sur eBay.fr soit transcrit en Anglais....
Mais...
- c'est impossible....
Le fait de modifier son adresse... ne changera pas le système de eBay qui fait qu'ebay.fr.... est en Français et le reste...
Les sites utilisant un double langage sont ebay.ca (canada) ainsi que ebay.be (belgique)... les autres sont en une seule et unique langue...
D'autre part, il doit certainement savoir qu'en allant sur eBay.com ou Uk etc.... il verrra des annonces en anglais.... mais ce n'est pas ce qu'il demande...
😉
Hi there,
In order to change the default language on the account it's necessary to change the registration site of your account.
If you'd like to do this, you need to:
1. Click the My eBay link at the top of the page.
2. From the Account tab, click "Addresses."
3. Click "Change" to the right of the Registration address section. You may be asked to sign in.
4. On the eBay Change Registration Information page, click "change" your Country (to UK or US)
5. Select your country from the drop-down menu and click "Submit."
6. Edit the rest of your address and phone number information as needed and click "Save."
7. Review your changes. If you need to make any corrections, click the browser's back arrow to return to the entry page.
8. Finalise your changes and click "Submit."
Hope that helps.
Thanks,
Freya
eBay.fr
In fact you are registered as a spanish member not even french or english.
The point that you could have misunderstood is that you can log to any ebay website with a single login information.
Coming in France automatic location process made by web browers link you by default to ebay.fr so... it speaks french.
But enforcing in the URL zone of your brrowser to "https://ebay.co.uk" and it will speak english, in the same way enforcing to ebay.es and it will speak spanish. Just add the link to your bookmark.
The sole limitation is that logging to other website than ebay.fr, and you can't see advertisements of french sellers who are not entitled to international operations, so in this specific case you must log to ebay.fr and learn a little pieces of french.
If you want to void some issues in my opinion the good rule to follow is to make the main address (which identify you) match the ebay account type : If your main address is recorded in spain, ebay account regsitration should be spanish, BUT you can add many alternate delivery address (to be not confused with the main address) so you can enter your french address and select it when you buy.
Supposing you still have an home in Spain, you could simply just act as a spanish member as before through ebay.es, just adding a delivery address in France. If you sell some items located in France, when creating the advertisement don't forget to modify the "item location" to France rather than Spain with will pop pup by default.
Limitations if you are a seller :
- using your spanish account on ebay.es, if you do not comply with Ebay International Seller conditions... and your advertisement may not be visible on ebay.fr (or elsewhere)
- Also you can create delivery addresses in paypal account, this need a synchronzation process with ebay book addresses, and this operation is not simple. So the workaround is to create a secondary paypal account with your french address, and to link it to your ebay account. I suppose you have a french bank account with a french Bank Card which will match the main address reccorded in your new paypal account.