International fees, when i specifically do not want to sell abroad

[spiderman-marvel]

I have had a situation today where i have been charged a fee, plus tax on top of normal fees and tax to send something within the UK.  The address i have to send to is a london registered postal address, but because the buyer is APPARENTLY registered in Australia ( i cannot see this on their ebay account) i have to pay international fees and taxes.  Surely this is wrong!     

International Fee

Charged because the buyer’s registered address is in Australia Final

I state on my listings UK only specifically for reasons of being scammed a few times when sending overseas, and also to STOP these fees and taxes.  But its actually unavoidable!! 

[john1297576 · Accepted solution]

While the address that you will post to is in the UK, the payment I assume came from outside the UK, although if you have Blocked Australia I can't see how they got round the block.

While I will post outside the UK, I did recently have a bid from a Japanese Company based at Heathrow, who bid for Japanese buyers, but purchase is posted to the Company.

Perhaps something similar exists for Australian Buyers.

[spiderman-marvel · Accepted solution]

Thank you. Very strange how they managed to order and get round it

I have triple checked and there is no signs that they are registered in Australia, but only the UK.   So surely if your a UK based seller sending to a UK address then you should NOT be charged an overseas fee and tax, it defeats the object of specifically not wanting to ship abroad

I think this needs to be addressed as a lot of seller's will end up with fee's they do not realise they have had, or do not want

all the best