Ebay buyer to block

I sold a $10 gold liberty on Ebay, the buyers address was in Oregon, However he emailed me telling me I need to forward it to Japan. Paypal said it wont qualify for seller protection, so I cancelled it.

He just gave me a negative saying I cancelled because gold went up $25.00

The coin is still listed for the original price it was listed at 2 weeks ago.
his ID ma_da47
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Does PayPal seller protection extend to APO addresses?

 

You can select to exclude international shipping in your listings and mention it in your item description, just in case. It's not worth the bother of stuff like this.

 

As long as the APO Address is a Confirmed PayPal address for the buyer, there shouldn't be any problem.

 

yes

 

It was a weird situation. His ebay account was a U.S. address, however the payment came from a unregistered address in Japan.

 

A lot of times people in other countries get a US postal address (Forget the exact name of it) so you can still send it to a foreign country with the same pricing and policies of shipping it within the US. Any problems from US to Japan would be on him. Or this could be some sort of scam or identity theft. Stick with your gut in the end.

 

Nothing made sense, he wanted everything done in a hurry, and there was little communication. to many red flags

 

People in Japan use Seikaimon, a proxy service for international eBay transactions. A buyer with an FPO/APO may have a US address and a different one for their post abroad at a base, but it should essentially be the same and secure service sent through USPS, just need to fill in an exta long form. FPO/APO are the only foreign addressing I allow and consider it a service to foreign service personnel who request it. I would shoot the seller an eBay message and ask them to reconfirm the address, try to glean what's going on before just blocking them. It's hard for people abroad to do business and use services we take for advantage here. Just saying, it may not be a hijacked account and worth exploring. But perhaps, with the bum-rush he was giving you, it may have been suspect and worth the cancellation after all. I would consult eBay customer service and implore them to remove that negative.

 

Thanks for the info about APO addresses, good to know the sellers are covered, I had no idea.

 

Congratulations for being no fool.

I would certainly expect eBay to remove a negative under these circumstances, but there's no telling what they'll actually do. It's worth asking. If it happens again, you might want to contact eBay customer service before canceling anything. They'd probably take care of things for you.

 

How can they leave neg for a coin they never technically bought or received?

 

Oh, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to leave a neg on a transaction that was never completed:

• The seller tried to change the terms after you won the auction.
• The seller said he'd rather not let the item go at that price.
• The seller said it would be a few weeks before he could deliver (without mentioning this in the auction description).
• The seller started harassing you.

Of course, it would also perfectly reasonable for a seller to leave negative feedback for a buyer who didn't pay, or tried to get the seller to violate Seller Protection terms -- but eBay put a stop to that years ago. After all, they wouldn't want to scare off those "buyers".

 

You should be able to write to ebay and write a formal complain about this matter.

 

No

 

I believe they May. Have a policy about changing the address with a private email. It goes against a base policy to change your address from your PayPal address

 

In the past ebay has denied the seller protection in cases where the seller shipped to the buyers listed address and the buyer had the post office forward it to a different address. Even thought the seller shipped to the listed address ebay said it wasn't delivered to that address.