I recall that eBay used to include the zip code or state of a person submitting an offer to the seller. Have they stopped providing this information? I looked at the messages that were sent to me regarding the offers and found only the buyers' user names and feedback scores. When I click on their usernames, it only shows when they registered and that they are located in the United States. So not helpful.
I often receive lowball offers on items that are expensive to ship due to being very bulky or heavy. I might be willing to accept such an offer from a person who lives in a nearby state but not from someone 3000 miles away. I wish eBay would stop making annoying changes. It seems that they don't care much about sellers. Please don't tell me to just charge enough for shipping to cover a long distance buyer. Obviously, I have already set my shipping rate with this in mind. The issue is when a buyer sends such a low offer that it would be worthwhile to accept it only if I can ship the item for much less than I charged. I wonder if eBay considers this discriminatory. It is certainly not. It makes perfect sense that a seller would accept a lower offer from buyers to whom they can ship less expensively.
