Looking for the link to buy from oversees Seller

[bavarian32]

Hi to all, 

years ago I found a link on the Ebay Forum that a seller who is located overseas and 'normally' does not post to australia. However when the person adds that link it makes an exception.

What I wanted to know is does anyone know if I buy something from German Ebay and pay via Paypal and then let it send to germany to the address of my parents is the link still available or can one just bid on an overseas item even that the seller specifies not posting overseas.

Any help I really appreciated.

thank you.

[lyndal1838]

If yu want to buy from ebay Germany and have the item delivered to an address in Germany just add that address as the delivery address before you buy.   The seller will never see any other address so you should not be blocked from bidding.

If you are blocked you could contact the seller and aske them to make an exception for you so you can bid.

Just be sure that the seller does accept paypal.....German sellers do not have to accept it.

[digupatin]

 Options.

Email seller and ask if they'll post item to Australia. Many sellers will be happy to come to an agreement.

Buy item and give your parent's Gemany address as delivery point.

Use a parcel forwarding service based in Germany.

[bavarian32]

hi and thank you for the reply.

when you say If you are blocked you could contact the seller and aske them to make an exception for you so you can bid.

How can the seller make the exception?

But I will try with changing the address first, hopefully it will work.

thanks for that 🙂

[lyndal1838]

Sellers have many options in their settings including blocking buyers from locations they do not post to.

They can also override these setting on request if they want to without allowing a free for all....they jut allow your ID to buy from them.

Definitely try the change of delivery address first though....it saves plenty of hassles.

[hus2385]

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@bavarian32 wrote:

hi and thank you for the reply.

when you say If you are blocked you could contact the seller and aske them to make an exception for you so you can bid.

How can the seller make the exception?

But I will try with changing the address first, hopefully it will work.

thanks for that 🙂

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If you email them prior and come to an agreement to ship they can adjust their settings to allow shipping to Australia. I have done so on a few occasions via sellers using the method lyndal explained, however once it did not "take" for some reason and I missed out on a winning bid as it would not accept it (I usually bid within the last 20secs of an auctions end)

The seller explained afterwards that the 'exclusion provision' does not always function properly - so you might be better off using your German address to be certain.

[phorum_junkie*]

They do not have to specifically unblock buyers from Australia, add ing a buyer's id to their exemption list will ovwerride all blocks.

The easiest, least complicated way is to add tyhe German address to your delivery addresses, select it as primary, go in and bid on the item on the German site, go through checkout with the German address displayed then once payment is completed go back into your ebay delivery addresses and re mark your normal address as the primary delivery address.

There is no need to contact anyone and the whole thng will go through automatically.