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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2037253, member: 71234&quot;]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&nbsp; to have any idea of all the possible ways to mess things up that new sellers come up with.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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. </p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;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.</p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s beyond obscure, but that&#039;s ebay today.</p><p><br /></p><p>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 <b>ever </b>committing to buy and thus having a bid on record.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember it when you just listed stuff and sold it and got paid real money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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