Ebay are irritating Morons.

[Dave]

......So I just bought a little mikro canadian, and wanted a kydex sheath, to use it as a necker.

I find this kydex sheath on ebay.com, I click on buy it now, and i get the message;

We are sorry but the item you selected may not be purchased due to Seller shipping restrictions, country specific import/export or other relevant restrictions.
{e45114-778539x} Error code: 70226 70205

I contact the seller, who reports it to ebay and asks me to try to buy it again, and it still won't let me buy it now, and instead i get this message:

Dear Buyer
To prevent the circumvention of the eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie Weapon and Knives policy, it is not possible for you to bid on, or buy this item.
Thank you for your understanding.
eBay Trust & Safety
{e45123-651407x}

Im not buying a knife from the USA, but so what if I was? Who the hell are ebay to tell me I can't buy a blooming penknife from abroad?!

Morons.

 

[ozzy1977]

Its ebays game and they make the rules which you have agreed to, cant see why you are complaining.

 

[Dave]

Its ebays game and they make the rules which you have agreed to, cant see why you are complaining.

Well obviously Im complaining because I cannot buy a kydex sheath.

Can you show me where Ebay says i can't buy a kydex sheath then, as you seem to know the rules?!

 

[Mesquite]

You have a PM Dave

 

[Mesquite]

As a thought seeing as you're in communication with the seller why not buy direct from him and pay via Paypal.

It'll save the seller his ebay fees and you'll still get your sheath

 

[Dave]

As a thought seeing as you're in communication with the seller why not buy direct from him and pay via Paypal.

It'll save the seller his ebay fees and you'll still get your sheath

Yes, he offered to send me a private paypal invoice Steve, and asked for my email address, but ebay kept blocking me sending my email address to him.

No biggy. Just winds me up having to deal with a load of unnecessary obstacles before my morning coffee!!!!

 

[dwardo]

Its probably due to an algorithm making decisions rather than a human being, saves money = more money for ebay shareholders.
Stick em and ask one of the many on here to knock you one up

 

[Hedgecrafter]

When you want to send someone an email address on eBay you can just write it as
Myname at yahoo dot com

And it will work.

 

[Mesquite]

Yes, he offered to send me a private paypal invoice Steve, and asked for my email address, but ebay kept blocking me sending my email address to him.

Break the email down into gaps and spell out the @ symbol i.e. Joe dot Bloggs at yahoo dot com

 

[Dave]

Well hes knocking em out for £13 delivered from the states. I doubt anyone could match that?

Im sure your right. It will be some automated thing.

 

[Dave]

Break the email down into gaps and spell out the @ symbol i.e. Joe dot Bloggs at yahoo dot com

They must be onto that as it doesnt work either.

 

[sandbender]

They must be onto that as it doesnt work either.

Yes they are irritating morons.

Can you not simply email him direct, he can then send you a paypal invoice bypassing the ebay side of things?

 

[Coldfeet]

No, Ebay wont allow you to send what it considers an email address within messages; you can try to spell things, or break the address over two or more messages, that tends to work - I have had similar issues in the past, and one of the reasons why I dislike using ebay to sell items.

 

[Dave]

Yes they are irritating morons.

Can you not simply email him direct, he can then send you a paypal invoice bypassing the ebay side of things?

No unfortunately can't do that either.

 

[Hedgecrafter]

No unfortunately can't do that either.

When you want to send someone an email address on eBay you can just write it as
Myname at yahoo dot com

And it will work.

Did you miss this post?

I do it all the time.

 

[Dave]

Did you miss this post?

I do it all the time.

No i responded to it in post 11. Tried it. Didn't work.

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

write it on a piece of paper. take a piccy and attach the photo to the message

 

[Dave]

write it on a piece of paper. take a piccy and attach the photo to the message

LOL> nice idea, but a bridge too far. You never know, he may get it sorted on his end and send me a message when its daytime over there.

 

[Graham_S]

I can't even get stuff sent out to Saudi.
Since I've got a UK account I can't buy blades etc even if I'm not sending them to the UK.
Very irritating.

 

[Corso]

Who the hell are ebay to tell me I can't buy a blooming penknife from abroad?!

They are the company your using to broker the deal - unfortunatly they can do what they like.


email the seller and private buy...

just be grateful they havn't used thier influence at paypal to stop it being a payment method