OK – no-one has come up with an answer, and when I asked support they just referred me back to this section of the forum.
So I have done a bit of experimentation and I think I now understand what is going on.
In the downloaded spreadsheet which you add your items is a column which defines International Shipping (column S)
Here is what I put in my original attempt at bulk upload. All seemed fine and everything was listed on uk.ebid.net.
04=1.50,eu:04=2.50,oc,as,na,sa.af:
I was only when I corresponded with someone in USA and he said he couldn’t see my listing over there that I started to think something was wrong
So I looked at na.ebid.net and there were all my listing, also on oc.ebid.net as.ebid.net etc – but not af.ebid.net ??
Then I realised that the US guy was looking at us.ebid.net and it slowly started to dawn on me what was going on.
Column S serves a double purpose (as I suspect the postage tick boxes on the manual selling screen do)
It defines how much postage you will charge to each country or continent. But ALSO it defines which ebid SITE the auction is posted to.
It obviously isn’t clever enough to realise that if I post to “na” then I would like my auctions on the us site and the ca site as well as the na site.
So I have tried a few more auctions through the spreadsheet download – this time putting:-
04=1.50,eu,ie,fr:04=2.50,oc,as,na,sa,af,us,au:
in Column S.
I have checked the majority of the xx.ebid.net sites and these auctions are now everywhere I specified (including af – those with sharp eyesight will see that in my original af was preceded by a full stop (period) instead of a comma so the download parser didn’t “see” the af.)
I hope this is all correct – it is just based on some experimentation – and the logic seems to hang together. If anyone knows better please let me know.