Buyer From China

[snoopdad40]

I do not ship international, so why are buyers that reside in China, but use a U.S. address allowed to bid on my items.  Can I cancel their bid and give the runner up (Who lives in the U.S.) a second chance offer?

[snoopdad40]

Yup, crooked internal works and that's **bleep**.

[snoopdad40]

Thank you Jamie as your comment is much appreciated.

[slippinjimmy]

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@snoopdad40 wrote:

My buyer has a US address and even though I do not sell internationally, EBay has charged me $3.34 Because the buyer has a Chinese address, pffft!  Wonder how many people they're capping that fee from?

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@snoopdad40 wrote:

Wonder how many people they're capping that fee from?

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Capping? is that some sort of slang? Never mind, I consulted the urban slang dictionary.

The fee is clearly show on the fee schedule page, NOTHING about eBay's fees are hidden, none of them are stated incorrectly, none of them are applied incorrectly.

Now about the International fee itself, it is something devised by Visa and MasterCard, it is the standard applied by ALL credit card issuers in all of their merchant agreements.

In the late 1970's when I had my first merchant accounts, If a buyer walking into my B&M store and used a foreign credit card I as the merchant would pay a higher transaction percentage than a customer using a domestic credit card. The worst was Amex they had VERY high standard rates PLUS potential surcharges like the International fee. You are probably not aware but in the normal world merchants have to pay higher rates when customers use loyalty/points credit cards.

The eBay system of across the board single processing rate with only rare surcharges is not a bad deal. The 1.65% International Fee is probably a bit high, I recall at PayPal it used to be 1.5% (probably gone up).

You realize that eBay gets to keep a cut of the action, a SPIF (found in the really old urban dictionary) of that 1.65%, something else you can be outraged about I suppose.

[member0852]

I'm dealing with a very similar situation right now, I guess we are both in for a learning experience.  My gut tells me that this is a high risk sale but for some reason this community responds to my concerns with "it is your responsibility to send it, why are you questioning it, it's shady if you don't".  Meanwhile, there are dozens of other posts about being scammed with fake returns and non-received claims where this community ALSO regularly comments about how poor the seller's protection is.