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Gator08041971 • Volunteer Community Mentor 2024
If you want an item, find sellers that ship using eIS, ebay International Shipping. Those are sellers who don't ship directly to buyers in other countries but are willing to sell to international buyers.
For the sellers, it's domestic (within the US) shipping and ebay handles the forwarding to buyers' countries.
As a buyer, it'll cost you more but you'll be able to make purchases from sellers who don't ship internationally.
But keep in mind that even sellers who use eIS may not ship to you if they see your feedback (left for others) before your purchase. Sellers can block any user for any reason or for no reason. No one can force a seller to sell to someone they don't want to sell to.
@stainlessenginecovers wrote:
@house*of*paws wrote:I’m wondering whether messages from buyers in countries the seller has blocked are even delivered to the seller. 🤔
No, they are not blocked.
I think that type of block differs from BBLs because there are some sellers who are willing to make exceptions to their shipping policies for buyers who contact them asking to purchase and for shipping prices.
Prior to eIS, I had a blurb in my listings describing my domestic shipping only but offering international buyers to contact me if they were interested in my item(s).
In such instances, I "vetted" the buyers and the risk I was taking and would decide whether to add them to my buyer exemption list. But I wouldn't have exempted a buyer who left 4 positive feedbacks out of 20 feedbacks left though.
Just a couple things to add:
I don't sell to international buyers (my choice). I prefer to support other buyers in my country first. That said, occasionally some buy using a forwarder, but there is no way to tell till after the sale is done.
My preferences regarding buyers have any buyer that is located in a country other than the US blocked. Meaning they cannot message me, even if they tried. It also means they cannot directly bid or buy my items. However as mentioned above, using an account that shows as US and a forwarding address gets some buyers past my block.
That all said.
You have left 20 feedbacks for others. Of those, 4 were Green, but even then, 2 of those were laced with complaints. So 18 disparaging feedbacks out of 20.
This is not a great look for a buyer. It means you are far more likely to leave only negative feedback, (considering your received/left ratio of 90/20)
Many sellers would automatically block a buyer with those stats. Why have the headache or the worry?
And as others have pointed out, the item in question might be restricted to your country.
I'm sorry you can't find the item you want where you are. But putting it on the sellers because they can't or won't respond to you isn't going to be solved here. And eBay isn't going to force the sellers to communicate with you.
Good luck though.
