Question About Buying Off Of Foreign Ebay Sites- IronPatch?

[diggummup]

I have bids on 4 items from ebay.de (Germany) from the same seller. When I click on the listings from "my ebay" (US) I get 0 items for sale (see pic). Is this because he isn't a US seller? "My ebay" shows my bids for the items but I cannot go to his ebay page and access his items for sale/auction from my own ebay page. I can go to his ebay page but it says the same thing as the screenshot I posted, 0 items for sale. I can find him manually by going to ebay.de and doing a search by seller name. I just find it ridiculous that I cannot access his items from my ebay even though I have bids in on them. Anybody else ever dealt with this? Is this normal? IronPatch maybe, I know you've mentioned ebay Germany recently.



PS- I erased certain parts of my screenshot for anonymity.

 

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[Iron Patch]

Yes, totally normal. Up until not that long ago it was only the UK that would interact the way you are asking about, but now there seems to be a few more countries that they now made that type of connection to, but obviously Germany is not one of them.

 

[diggummup]

Yes, totally normal. Up until not that long ago it was only the UK that would interact the way you are asking about, but now there seems to be a few more countries that they now made that type of connection to, but obviously Germany is not one of them.

Thanks. Good to know. I figured if anyone would know, it would be you.

 

[diggummup]

What about payment methods. I noticed many German sellers don't accept paypal and only accept bank transfers. This would rule out buyer protection, wouldn't it? Have you ever bought items using a bank transfer versus paypal?

 

[Iron Patch]

What about payment methods. I noticed many German sellers don't accept paypal and only accept bank transfers. This would rule out buyer protection, wouldn't it? Have you ever bought items using a bank transfer versus paypal?

You could still file an ebay claim, which is basically the same thing.... he would have to provide the tracking.

I can't stand bank transfers and thankfully it's a pretty rare thing for me to have to do... really never. It's got to be a damn good deal fro me to bother as it's about $35 fee for me, or maybe even more now. Even some that don't list Paypal, always ask and explain that a transfer is expensive and you'd pay the Paypal fee. Some do have a PP account, or access to one, but are just too cheap to put it in. Most won't, but some do so worth a try. A couple months back I mailed out a money order and a few days later he changes the invoice to include PP.... which of course didn't help then.

 

[diggummup]

Thanks IP, I'll look into it.