I'm located in Thessaloniki, Greece, and have been using AS for the past three years or so without any problem. I frequently snipe items in the UK, Germany and the US. However, some time last week there seems to have been some sort of - I don't know - policy change coming from somewhere, causing me to lose one auction after the other. If I bid on an item in the UK and the seller hasn't specified in the listing that he will ship outside the UK, then my snipes come back as 'blocked by seller.' This is true even when the seller and I have communicated and agreed on shipping costs - something I always do as a matter of course. This 'blocked by seller' thing is creating problems for both me as a buyer(!!) and for the seller, because in nearly every case mine would have been the winning bid. (Plus, after all the emailing back and forth to sellers, it makes me seem like a real time-waster if it looks like I haven't bid, after-all - and makes sellers even more reluctant in the future to ship to Greece).
The weird thing is, when I DON'T use AS, I'm able to place my bids manually, regardless of a listing's stated shipping conditions.
So...who's causing this new problem? Ebay? Auction Sniper? What's the solution? Do I have to give up on using Auction Sniper if I want to continue to buy from most sellers on ebay?
Hopefully, someone can help. Thanks in advance!
Elizavet
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