eBay and International buyers

[Lady_Disdain]

Is anyone else outside the US having problems with eBay?

For a while now, eBay doesn't show me item marked "shipped worldwide". However, if I ask it to show me items that ship to the US, suddenly I can see the worldwide shipping, too. This is ridiculously frustrating. Until yesterday, I could get around it by changing the shipping location on the listings page but that button disappeared. I want my Ulli fix!

 

[mochiko42]

I've been having the same problem for months. It's been very frustrating. (Sorry, no idea how to fix it, either.)

 

[Lady_Disdain]

I gave in and I used an American address in my profile (actually, not an American address but my own address with an American city and State). Curiously, I can leave the shipping address pointing to me as long as the contact address is in the US.

I feel rather yucky doing this, though.

 

[Marlow]

Same problem in europe.

And - for example Tan - in the shop "0 items" !!!

If I go on feedback I see there are items - problem with asian shops esp. Thailand!!

I left Ebay - will not use it again for a while.

I want to decide what I buy and not this f***ing company!!

 

[JewelFreak]

I had that problem too on a site I check once in a while. I thought they had quit or something. Boy, am I dumb. Glad to know what it is, though it makes eBay not worth the little I used it anyway.

--- Laurie

 

[Lady_Disdain]

Yeah, I am no fan of eBay either. Other than Uli and one or two other stone vendors, I don't go there.

I do think it is terrible for the vendors, though. I would not be happy if my listings didn't show up to a significant number of potential buyers because the platform is badly implemented. I wonder if any of them felt their sales go down.

 

[Marlow]

Is there a problem with Uli and ebay?? Can you see his listed gems?? I can talk to him .

He has exclusions for some countries ( Germany - and I understand why!! )!

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I think it is unbelievable that there is censorship by Ebay!! It is o.k. if a vendor kicks some customers out - to many returns or no payment.

But the vendor pays for it and we want the whole worldwide offered gems ( f. example a Mahenge) and not only europe and USA/CDN and Australia!!!

 

[Marlow]

I send Uli a Mail!

 

[Lady_Disdain]

The problem isn't with Uli, specifically. It is with buyers outside the US and vendors that say the ship worldwide. Unless I rig my profile, I can't see anything Uli, Brad, Dan, AmericanThai, Gemnut, etc list (and, no, I am not on their black list*), even though they all ship to me. As soon as I set my profile to the US, I can see things again.

I don't think it is a question of censorship (that wouldn't make a lot of sense) but of badly implemented algorithms.

*ok, I think AmericanThai may have black listed me many years ago but let's not go into that.

 

[mochiko42]

The problem isn't with Uli, specifically. It is with buyers outside the US and vendors that say the ship worldwide. Unless I rig my profile, I can't see anything Uli, Brad, Dan, AmericanThai, Gemnut, etc list (and, no, I am not on their black list*), even though they all ship to me. As soon as I set my profile to the US, I can see things again.

I don't think it is a question of censorship (that wouldn't make a lot of sense) but of badly implemented algorithms.

*ok, I think AmericanThai may have black listed me many years ago but let's not go into that.

+1 eg. For Jeff Davies, Tan, and others, the default store listings shows up as no listings when my "ships to" is set to Hong Kong, but when I change it to "US" on the drop down menu I can then see all the listings. Jeff and Tan do offer worldwide shipping (have bought from them before) so I should be able to see his listings even if my shipping address is outside the United States...

 

[Marlow]

Uli told me that he can't see his listed gems too.

If he talks to Ebay they can't help - nice people, nice answers but no solution.

A computer problem for such a long time?? I don' t know???

 

[Lady_Disdain]

The problem isn't with Uli, specifically. It is with buyers outside the US and vendors that say the ship worldwide. Unless I rig my profile, I can't see anything Uli, Brad, Dan, AmericanThai, Gemnut, etc list (and, no, I am not on their black list*), even though they all ship to me. As soon as I set my profile to the US, I can see things again.

I don't think it is a question of censorship (that wouldn't make a lot of sense) but of badly implemented algorithms.

*ok, I think AmericanThai may have black listed me many years ago but let's not go into that.

+1 eg. For Jeff Davies, Tan, and others, the default store listings shows up as no listings when my "ships to" is set to Hong Kong, but when I change it to "US" on the drop down menu I can then see all the listings. Jeff and Tan do offer worldwide shipping (have bought from them before) so I should be able to see his listings even if my shipping address is outside the United States...

That drop down menu was not there yesterday. At least, not for me.