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Overseas bidders on Uk auctions

Twice in the past few weeks, I have created a UK auction on Ebay, but overseas buyers have managed to bid.

Yesterday, I did another, and this morning I have an overseas bidder. I have checked, and the auction says UK only and no international shipping option.

Have I missed something, or is anyone else seeing this ?
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever :D

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  • theonlywayisup
    theonlywayisup Posts: 16,032 Forumite
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    Twice in the past few weeks, I have created a UK auction on Ebay, but overseas buyers have managed to bid.

    Yesterday, I did another, and this morning I have an overseas bidder. I have checked, and the auction says UK only and no international shipping option.

    Have I missed something, or is anyone else seeing this ?

    Check your settings against the two on the postage sticky.
  • charlies_mum
    charlies_mum Posts: 8,120 Forumite
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    I don't want to change my site preferences, as I do usually offer overseas posting, but due to the size & weight this particular item is for the UK only.
    You're only young once, but you can be immature forever :D
  • oldone_2
    oldone_2 Posts: 974 Forumite
    Twice in the past few weeks, I have created a UK auction on Ebay, but overseas buyers have managed to bid.

    Yesterday, I did another, and this morning I have an overseas bidder. I have checked, and the auction says UK only and no international shipping option.

    Have I missed something, or is anyone else seeing this ?

    I have had this happen twice in the past two weeks, and have put it down to one of the regular e-Bay glitches.My site site preferences are set to exclude certain areas of the world including Italy.

    The Italian bidder won, so I decided to honour the auction. When I went to send an invoice, there was an e-Bay message saying words to the effect that the winner was from an area I did not deliver to and did I want to proceed.
  • theonlywayisup
    theonlywayisup Posts: 16,032 Forumite
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    I don't want to change my site preferences, as I do usually offer overseas posting, but due to the size & weight this particular item is for the UK only.

    You can change it for that listing if you change those preferences from within the listing.
  • charlies_mum
    charlies_mum Posts: 8,120 Forumite
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    oldone wrote: »
    I have had this happen twice in the past two weeks, and have put it down to one of the regular e-Bay glitches.My site site preferences are set to exclude certain areas of the world including Italy.

    The Italian bidder won, so I decided to honour the auction. When I went to send an invoice, there was an e-Bay message saying words to the effect that the winner was from an area I did not deliver to and did I want to proceed.

    Glad it's not just me. Thought I was going mad. My buyer is going to be very unhappy as she did bid previously and I had to cancel her bid and relist.

    Will give Ebay a call in a min and see what they say.
    You're only young once, but you can be immature forever :D
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