Major eBay Glitch: Overseas buyers can buy non-overseas auctions
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cheap to ship overseas.
They are in France, I'm in the U.S. I haven't heard from them for
over 2 days. First of all, overseas buyers should not be able to buy
items that do not have overseas shipping listed as an option. I
thought this was obvious, but now it seems the eBay website allows
them to. Second, there is no more customer support links
that have live help available even after searching for 20 minutes and
going through all the processes. Just
five days ago there was.
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Kris Baker
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>I just had a buyer purchase a large book that I knew would not be
> cheap to ship overseas.
> They are in France, I'm in the U.S. I haven't heard from them for
> over 2 days. First of all, overseas buyers should not be able to buy
> items that do not have overseas shipping listed as an option. I
> thought this was obvious, but now it seems the eBay website allows
> them to. Second, there is no more customer support links
> that have live help available even after searching for 20 minutes and
> going through all the processes. Just
> five days ago there was.
Good God, man. Haven't you learned to use eBay yet?
"Ships to" does NOT mean "can't bid".
Kris
Lumpy
> First of all, overseas buyers should not be able to buy
> items that do not have overseas shipping listed as an option.
I can make that happen for you.
From now on, you are no longer allowed to
buy items that do not have overseas shipping
listed as an option.
Glad I could help.
Lumpy
In Your Ears for 40 Something Years
www.LumpyMusic.com
rjn
> First of all, overseas buyers should not be able to buy
> items that do not have overseas shipping listed as an option.
There are three separate things you need to do to forestall
undesired foreign sales. Sounds like you only did one,
and as you discovered, it by itself is not sufficient.
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Lumpy
> There are three separate things you need to do to forestall
1) don't drop your bombs while you're parked
2) once you run off the deck, go hide below
3) find the hot chicks at the next port
Pogonip
Isn't the Forestall a ship or an admiral or something?
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Kris Baker
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> Lumpy wrote:
>> rjn wrote:
>>
>>> There are three separate things you need to do to forestall
>>
>> 1) don't drop your bombs while you're parked
>> 2) once you run off the deck, go hide below
>> 3) find the hot chicks at the next port
>>
>>
>> Lumpy
>>
>> In Your Ears for 40 Something Years
>> www.LumpyMusic.com
>
> Isn't the Forestall a ship or an admiral or something?
> --
> Joanne
The first two. Actually, the third, too. We toured it in
New Orleans a few years ago. It *was* something.
We even got to ride the elevator that takes the jets
from the deck to the hangar.
Kris
Jim Menning
> that have live help available even after searching for 20 minutes and
> going through all the processes.
Took me less than a minute to find this:
https://cschatlb-na.corp.ebay.com/chat.asp?profile=15
Pogonip
You certainly wouldn't want American Navy jets to have to walk up
stairs, now would you?
Kris Baker
> Kris Baker wrote:
>> "Pogonip" <nob...@nowhere.org> wrote in message
>> news:499e066c$1...@news.bnb-lp.com...
>>> Lumpy wrote:
>>>> rjn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There are three separate things you need to do to forestall
>>>>
>>>> 1) don't drop your bombs while you're parked
>>>> 2) once you run off the deck, go hide below
>>>> 3) find the hot chicks at the next port
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lumpy
>>>>
>>>> In Your Ears for 40 Something Years
>>>> www.LumpyMusic.com
>>>
>>> Isn't the Forestall a ship or an admiral or something?
>>> --
>>> Joanne
>>
>> The first two. Actually, the third, too. We toured it in
>> New Orleans a few years ago. It *was* something.
>> We even got to ride the elevator that takes the jets
>> from the deck to the hangar.
>>
>> Kris
>
> You certainly wouldn't want American Navy jets to have to walk up stairs,
> now would you?
> --
> Joanne
!!!
Damn.
Ya got me there.
Kris
Let me think about this for a week.....
Lumpy
rjn wrote:
> > > There are three separate things you need to do to forestall
Lump:
> > 1) don't drop your bombs while you're parked
> > 2) once you run off the deck, go hide below
> > 3) find the hot chicks at the next port
Pogo:
> Isn't the Forestall a ship or an admiral or something?
It's an aircraft carrier that former Captain McCain
had a little incident on.
Pogonip
IIRC, he missed the elevator?
BrotherBart
>
> ...that former Captain McCain
> had a little incident on.
>
>
That is a description of every piece of Navy equipment he ever got his
hands on.
edward ohare
>I just had a buyer purchase a large book that I knew would not be
>cheap to ship overseas.
>They are in France, I'm in the U.S. I haven't heard from them for
>over 2 days. First of all, overseas buyers should not be able to buy
>items that do not have overseas shipping listed as an option. I
>thought this was obvious, but now it seems the eBay website allows
>them to. Second, there is no more customer support links
>that have live help available even after searching for 20 minutes and
>going through all the processes. Just
>five days ago there was.
There's a box for "block bidders registered in countries I don't ship
to". Check the box
or...
list that you ship everywhere, use calculated shipping, and let the
shipping calculator discourage them.
Brainstormer
I needed to do.
EbayAdvice
Brainfarter says...
>
>Thanks for the help. I was able to do what
>I needed to do.
To get a clue?
JC Dill
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_mccain_crash_five_planes_did_he.html
The reports blaming McCain for the Forrestal accident are hoaxes. I
didn't support or vote for McCain for 1001 other reasons - I don't need
to believe hoax stories because the true ones were bad enough.
jc
Lumpy
> The reports blaming McCain for the Forrestal accident are hoaxes.
I don't blame him for the Forrestal accident.
But he lied about how after HIS plane was struck
by the rocket, he remained on deck
and helped fight the fire and pulled other
sailors to safety.
I don't care what some blog somewhere says.
And I care even less what his "biographer"
has to say about whatever McCain told him.
Even the site you refer to describes and agrees
with the "power lines in the Spain" incident.
So despite him clowning around with a multi million
dollar aircraft over a foreign country, taking out
their power lines and returning to the carrier trailing
pieces of that power line, and with a damaged airplane,
"McCain's detractors should scratch that "crash" off their list."
I hear he was at the head of his class
at the Naval Academy.
BrotherBart
>
> I hear he was at the head of his class
> at the Naval Academy.
>
No. No. No. It said he "gave" head to his class at the Naval Academy.
Pogonip
Not to the class, to his instructors.
Lumpy
Lumpy wrote:
> > > I hear he was at the head of his class
> > > at the Naval Academy.
Bart:
> > No. No. No. It said he "gave" head to his class at the Naval
> > Academy.
Pogo:
> Not to the class, to his instructors.
He's a rebel, by golly.
Pogonip
You mean "maverick" right?
rjn
> There's a box for "block bidders registered in countries I don't ship
> to". Check the box
Yep. That's step #2.
#3 is to have some listing terms.
Even The Don, who normally advocates fewer terms, has
something like "no foreign shipments or trans-shipments".
This is to aid the CSR when a faker slips through the block.
> list that you ship everywhere, use calculated shipping, and let the
> shipping calculator discourage them.
That won't block a winning bid or BIN, and is apt to
earn you a quick neg and a swift kick in the DSRs,
which will take some effort to reverse.
Save the $3,456,712.13 S&H quote for the email replies
to the export begging Messages, as Lumpy does.
JC Dill
> Even the site you refer to describes and agrees
> with the "power lines in the Spain" incident.
> So despite him clowning around with a multi million
> dollar aircraft over a foreign country, taking out
> their power lines and returning to the carrier trailing
> pieces of that power line, and with a damaged airplane,
> "McCain's detractors should scratch that "crash" off their list."
It was damaged, not crashed. It's a matter of degree.
Like I said, the truth is bad enough - no need to embellish it.
Embellishing the truth leaves me with a suspicion for everything else in
the story, and everything else from the same source(s).
jc
Kris Baker
news:gnnfuv$3m9$1...@reader.motzarella.org...
Maybe the Air Force has higher standards than the Navy,
but I worked with pilots for almost 30 years....and one
who damaged or lost an aircraft, pretty much lost his
career. Yet McCain had that happen four times, before
he went down and became a POW. Maybe it's because
his Dad was the boss?
Even the test pilots I worked with (one was an astronaut),
looked down on show-boaters. We drummed them out
quickly, sometimes demoted them, and their OERs
always suffered.
Kris
JC Dill
> Maybe the Air Force has higher standards than the Navy,
> but I worked with pilots for almost 30 years....and one
> who damaged or lost an aircraft, pretty much lost his
> career. Yet McCain had that happen four times,
Three times (two crashes, and "daredevil clowning").
The Forrestal incident wasn't a crash and wasn't McCain's fault and no
airman would have been blamed or held back because of that incident. It
was caused by 2 skipped safety procedures (ground crew errors) plus a
weird electrical issue which together triggered the spark that fired the
rocket (on a plane on the other side of the carrier) that started the
fire on the Forrestal. The "fifth time" was when he was shot down over
Vietnam.
> before
> he went down and became a POW. Maybe it's because
> his Dad was the boss?
Could be.
> Even the test pilots I worked with (one was an astronaut),
> looked down on show-boaters. We drummed them out
> quickly, sometimes demoted them, and their OERs
> always suffered.
The most damning incident was #2, when he took out the power lines. #1
was in advanced flight training and it is quite suspicious that he was
allowed to continue as a pilot after that incident, but there's really
no excuse to let him continue after a SECOND incident! IMHO #3 was
truly not his fault - why would he risk his life to bail out and let his
plane crash (with xmas presents on board) if the plane didn't have a
mechanical problem as he said? #4 was the Forrestal - also not his
fault, and #5 was Vietname, also not his fault.
jc
Kris Baker
> Kris Baker wrote:
>
>> Maybe the Air Force has higher standards than the Navy,
>> but I worked with pilots for almost 30 years....and one
>> who damaged or lost an aircraft, pretty much lost his
>> career. Yet McCain had that happen four times,
>
> Three times (two crashes, and "daredevil clowning").
OK, I'll give you that. It'd still have been a career-
burner if it had been anyone else.
Kris
Lumpy
> > He's a rebel, by golly.
Pogo:
> You mean "maverick" right?
Yeah, thanks. I forget things quickly.
It's hard work. I learn things, then I forget them.
I'm a forgetter.
Lumpy
> > Even the site you refer to describes and agrees
> > with the "power lines in the Spain" incident.
> > So despite him clowning around with a multi million
> > dollar aircraft over a foreign country, taking out
> > their power lines and returning to the carrier trailing
> > pieces of that power line, and with a damaged airplane,
> > "McCain's detractors should scratch that "crash" off their list."
JC Dill:
> It was damaged, not crashed. It's a matter of degree.
Ok. A couple of million dollars in damage.
International military/state dept feather soothing.
All of that after he crashed into...oops, he
clowned into the power lines.
edward ohare
wrote:
>edward ohare <edward_oh...@nospam.yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
>> list that you ship everywhere, use calculated shipping, and let the
>> shipping calculator discourage them.
>
>That won't block a winning bid or BIN, and is apt to
>earn you a quick neg and a swift kick in the DSRs,
>which will take some effort to reverse.
Ummm... that was more of a joke than anything else considering what I
said first **does** block bidders but.... since I started listed
limited locations outside the US... Australia, UK, Canada, **with**
calculated shipping, I don't get asked anymore to ship cheap items
outside the US.
JC Dill
Correct. That's why I said there's no point in embellishing the truth -
the truth alone is damning enough!
jc
Ignoramus13847
><paramind...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1dfba577-8a71-4e20...@r37g2000prr.googlegroups.com...
>> cheap to ship overseas.
>> They are in France, I'm in the U.S. I haven't heard from them for
>> over 2 days. First of all, overseas buyers should not be able to buy
>> items that do not have overseas shipping listed as an option. I
>> thought this was obvious, but now it seems the eBay website allows
>> them to. Second, there is no more customer support links
>> that have live help available even after searching for 20 minutes and
>> going through all the processes. Just
>> five days ago there was.
>
>
> "Ships to" does NOT mean "can't bid".
>
I have an option selected in my profile, that sayd "block bidders from
countries where I do not ship".
Despite that, once in a while such bidders successfully bid on my
items.
i
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