Posting abroad via a third party courier | Postage

the_book_seekers · 2026-04-12T12:59:31.697000Z

I haven't done this for a while and just want to check something. I'm UK only for posting but someone from China has won an auction. I thought my settings would prevent this, but at some point ebay seems to have changed their rules. I seem to remember having a country blocked stopped anyone registered in that country from buying, now it seems the rule seems to be anyone with their primary postage address in that country is blocked. Meaning buyers can change their primary postage address to get round UK only posting. Am I correct in this and when was this changed if I am? Also I seem to remember a buyer purchasing from abroad generated a long number/reference within the address - I can't remember what it was called. I'm not seeing this with this purchase - I have the address of the third party courier to post to, but it appears as a regular UK address with nothing added. Has ebay stopped issuing these things or should there be something?

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