"How can you find out where a buyer is located? Their bid sometimes doesn't say."
You can't. eBay does not give the buyer's mailing address to the seller until the buyer's payment has been confirmed.
"I sell in the USA only and I tell buyers in my listings and also I block out other areas to ship in the ebay where to ship section, I still get people trying to buy from all over the world."
My eBay selling ID also does not ship anything outside the USA. Sometimes the shipping address that eBay provides is in places within the United States, such as Delaware, Oregon, some addresses in Florida, and most recently, Glendale Heights, Illinois. Thus, you see, my selling ID is still mailing her sold items within the United States of America.
If a buyer in Italy or Russia has decided to pay his/her own money to a company located in New Castle, Delaware, who will then forward that eBay purchase to him/her in Europe, it is none of my business. All I need to do is mail the eBay purchase to the address that eBay gives to me, in New Castle, Delaware.
By the way, I have never, ever, had a problem with any of those sales or the delivery addresses. Oh, sure, I might have to pay eBay an additional 1.65% of the buyer's total payment, but I generally sell low-to-mid priced products, and the few extra cents to eBay do not really hurt me. One other little detail: that 1.65% "international fee" is not charged when an item is mailed to eBay's International Shipping hub in Glendale Heights, Illinois.
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