Buying from New Zealand

[pucciplan]

Hi - I have been a regular buyer on International ebay (I live in New Zealand).  Just recently, I have noticed an enormous increase in sellers who state We do not send to New Zealand, when previously they were quite content to send to NZ.  Is anyone able to tell me just why the situation has changed?  Is there now some deterrent to sellers supplying NZ?  I know that our Govt has recently introduced GST payments at a lower theshold, charged at source; there is an option for these charges to be absorbed by the seller, but only some will do this.  I am rather baffled and have had to cross these sellers off my list, when it appears that they are perfectly happy to send items to politically unstable countries.

I'd love to hear from anyone who can unravel this for me.

Many thanks

[clute21]

Ebay are stopping sellers setting options for postage to,

Albania, Armenia, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Republic of, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Polynesia, Haiti, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mauritania, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Western Samoa, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turks and Caicos Islands, Venezuela, Zimbabwe"
Also heard Canada blocked.

Buyers seeing This seller does not send to.

Amazon have their own restrictions and some items not available USA to UK.

I expected this when whole fleets of aircraft were being parked up on a main airport runways.