As I've said before, I've been a VERY good steward of our personal finances over the years. And knowing me like she does (47 years of wedded bliss), she knows I am tight with our money and thus my coins are generally lower end coins. Plus, as she has said many times, she doesn't want to have to deal with disposing of my junk (re, collection), nor does she want our sons to have something else to get rid of once we pass on.
I've had sellers block me because I bought too many things from them. "Too many" being more than one in most cases. If you have unpaid strikes or anything like that, you are not allowed to even place a bid to begin with, so that crosses those off. Try emailing the seller. If there is a message that comes up that tells you you cannot contact the seller, that means they blocked you from communicating with them for whatever reason.
There should be nothing to prevent me from making a bid. However, I have written to the seller. I am a good buyer with very good statistics. If he doesn't respond, it's his loss.
Seller can customize his preferences to best fit his satisfactory pool of intended ebay buuer audience. You most likely have unresolved cases with no payment or return requests/refunds. Many others as well like being a new member or being inactive for certain period of time. Ebay will not be able to hwlp you it is rarely a mistake by any party and your best bet would be to look elsewhere or pm the seller to seduction and pin him into some discounts (odds of that are like winning the lottery gl) Read ebays policy it will help u alot in the future trust me i know
This could happen if the seller, despite having some international sales permitted, has blocked PP payments from non US accounts. It is very easy for clueless new sellers to get their settings wrong, indeed, you now need a degree in ebay to have any idea of all the possible ways to mess things up that new sellers come up with. Here is an utterly obscure but possible route, (not saying this is the case here, and the software may have been changed now but it is an example.) and it involves auctions using the GSP. It was (and may still be) the case that you could not place what could be a winning bid, i.e. one higher than the current high bid without clicking on a link that led to the GSP terms and conditions page, then going back to the confirm bid page. BUT if your bid was going to be a losing bid, in other words, one that would only push up the price without exceeding the winning bid, you would not be directed to the T/C page. Let's say you place a bid that does not beat the current bidder. Then later the current high bidder retracts their bid. You are now the high bidder without having met the requirement of viewing the T/C page and tacitly agreeing to them. The result could be that your bid is rejected at the auction end and it defaults to the next bidder down who satisfies the eligibility requirements. It's beyond obscure, but that's ebay today. It also allows the very smart to find out the high bid level without leaving a trace, since you can establish the level at which your bid would be a winner without ever committing to buy and thus having a bid on record. For USA bidders on US auctions this would involve a couple of other simple steps to set your apparent ship to address as somewhere overseas and it only works for GSP auctions,which you US domestic buyers would not see anyways unless you knew how to look. I remember it when you just listed stuff and sold it and got paid real money.
Jeesh! That sounds horrible. Let me say once again, I have no negatives in my Ebay account. Nothing is unresolved and the only returns , very few in fact, turned out to be fakes/copies, and the seller, once aware, agreed to the returns. The last being so long ago I can't even remember what coin it was. I have purchased a lot of coins. The most recent being just 8 Dec. For some reason, I think there is more going on with these particular sellers. Either the bidding isn't high enough, or like you said, as fairly new sellers, they have some settings messed up. I have sent messages to both, so we'll see if either respond.
I received a response from one of the sellers: I've written again to let him know I have only bid once at the very end of each auction. I asked him again to check his settings. I guess I won't be bidding on any of his coins.
I wonder if and when someone else bids and if it's over your current bid. If you set a maximum higher and then Ebay auto increases it and that counts as a bid each time it does that?
I suppose that's possible. However, if so, isn't the seller hurting him/herself with such a restriction? Well, I don't understand it, but, then again, I am not a seller only a buyer.
