Have you tried emailing the seller?
Chuck Norcutt
Martin Walters wrote:
> Question for those of you who are Eb*y sellers, or more experienced than I.
>
> A new experience, twice this week, I have had e-sn*pe bids blocked.
> The message I get is:
>
> eB*ay says seller has blocked you from bidding
> eSn*pe was able to snipe the bid in the time specified. However, eB*y
> indicates that the seller on this auction has listed you as an account
> to block bids. Your bid was rejected.
>
> The only thing I can think of is that these two auctions were from brick
> and mortar stores that would only ship to the US. No mention of not
> accepting international bids (ie, Canada in my case). The "only ship in
> the US" is not a problem as I would use my family Connecticut address,
> though of course they would have no way of knowing that.
>
> These two stores would not know me, so it's nothing personal.
>
> The only things I can think of is that one can block foreign bids, based
> on e-mail addresses (mine is a ".ca", which is clearly not US-based) or
> one can block sniping software.
>
> Now as a buyer only, I have never had to learn about blocking unwanted
> bids, though others have alluded to using it for certain bidders. What's
> going on?
>
> Grateful if someone can enlighten me....
>
> Thanks
> Martin
>
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