marcn
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posted on March 26, 2004 04:58:54 PM new
I have received 3 emails via "Ask Seller A Question" today all asking if I ship to their location which is in the U.S. I live in the U.S. and all auctions are listed as ship to USA, Canada, Europe and Australasia. They are saying that when they go to bid, they get a pop-up from eBay that says they need to ask for permission to bid first. I have never heard of this.
Anyone else experiencing this?
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stopwhining
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posted on March 26, 2004 05:06:01 PM new
they may want the item shipped to usa location,but they could be in one of the countries not on your list.
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marcn
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posted on March 26, 2004 05:12:04 PM new
All three of the bidders show as registered in the USA. I can understand one, but three all in the same day is very strange!
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fenix03
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posted on March 26, 2004 06:56:07 PM new
Sounds like there is a hitch in the programming giddyup  You might want to clear your settings and then reset them just in case. Three people asked but how many possilbly just moved on.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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sparkz
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posted on March 26, 2004 07:16:08 PM new
They may be testing a new system to block foreign bidders fron USA only auctions and your account was selected for a beta. If so, there's obviously a few bugs to iron out before it's rolled out.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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trai
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posted on March 26, 2004 07:19:51 PM new
sparkz
I do not think Ebay would be that helpful.LOL
Must be a glitch in the system.
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stonecold613
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posted on March 26, 2004 09:30:54 PM new
Sounds like one of two things. Either you accidently made your auction private and need to preapprove your bidders or they are on your blocked bidder list.
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fenix03
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posted on March 26, 2004 10:12:20 PM new
Private auctions do not require preapproval of bidder.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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OhMsLucy
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posted on March 26, 2004 11:29:40 PM new
I think Stone's talking about a pre-approved bidder auction. If anyone has the link to do that I'd sure appreciate it. I searched high and low on eBay the other day and couldn't find it.
Lucy
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sparkz
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posted on March 26, 2004 11:53:07 PM new
Lucy...I need a little practice on making links so let's see if this works:
http://pages.ebay.com/services/buyandsell/biddermanagement.html
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
[ edited by sparkz on Mar 26, 2004 11:53 PM ]
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vvalhalla
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posted on March 27, 2004 12:04:25 AM new
I got the same message when I was bidding too. First bid went in OK but when I bid again there was a warning stating that the seller didn't ship to my country. We both have US addresses..
dd
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marcn
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posted on March 27, 2004 07:03:31 AM new
I just received the 4th notice this morning and below is the text from the email:
I am trying to bid on the above item and they keep putting up a message that you will not ship this item to my location. Is this true? Please let me know as I would really like to bid on this.
This is the item in question:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=2898522520
This is from a regular customer and we are both in the U.S. and the auction is not private. I just sent an email to PS support but don't really expect any kind of useful answer.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on March 27, 2004 07:55:05 AM new
I just bid on that dress, Marc, and there was no problem.
I wonder how your problem bidders are accessing eBay. It can make a difference sometimes if they went to http://www.ebay.com or accessed it through an AOL or Earthlink gateway page.
In this instance, I went directly to the auction to bid.
The browser, strangely enough, may be affecting their ability to access eBay pages. I am getting "Invalid Item" eBay error messages when searching from certain pages in IE for the Mac. I don't get those errors in IE for the PC.
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marcn
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posted on March 27, 2004 08:09:26 AM new
Thanks for checking Fluffy 
I am in the middle of revising all auctions to say "I Ship Worldwide" in hopes this may be part of the problem. eBay has made a ton of changes this week and one of them is bound to be the cause of the problem!
Marc
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vvalhalla
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posted on March 27, 2004 09:24:35 AM new
It's clearly an ebaY glitch, imagine all the bidders just saying screw it and backing out. I know I did the first time I saw it.
dd
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marcn
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posted on March 27, 2004 10:15:59 AM new
I got a response from PS support and they acknowledged that this is a system problem and are working on it aggressively as there have been many reports.
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upriver
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posted on March 27, 2004 02:18:39 PM new
Yeah it's still going on, two bidders just had to ask, obviously an eBay glitch they didn't forsee, apparently Glitch #1,345,897 in the ongoing series.
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glassgrl
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posted on March 27, 2004 02:42:18 PM new
just have to ask...what's with these warped pictures that are now displaying at the top of everybodies auction page? Is it Ebay or the sellers picture?
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