Bidding on item from outside U.K.

[337alexander]

Hi ,

I have been buying on eBay for years without any problems at all even though my primary residence is in France I have had things delivered to my parents U.K. address and picked them up as and when . Yesterday I tried to bid on an item where the seller stipulated that there was only U.K. delivery and all attempts to bid were blocked . This has never happened before so I want to know what has changed in eBay policy ..... 

Kind regards 

Liz

[red_magpie · Accepted solution]

Nothing has changed.

EBay enables sellers to block bids from bidders registered in countries to which they don't deliver.

You're registered in France, and this seller clearly doesn't deliver to France.

The scheme doesn't allow for the situation where a buyer may have a secondary delivery address in another country.

All you can do is contact the seller and see whether they're willing to deliver it to your parents' address. It's possible that the seller has also blocked messages from blocked bidders, in which case you won't be able to do this.

[337alexander · Accepted solution]

Thanks for that .

Just checked my settings and my parents address is my eBay primary address so don’t quite know what’s going on there but I’ll confirm with sellers in future .

Also using a U.K. VPN so eBay wouldn’t know where I was .....

Kind regards
Liz

Sent from my iPad

[plpmr · Accepted solution]

Using VPN on any site where ID etc is a necessary security measure will cause problems.