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Re:Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at... by reaperducer on Monday June 25, 2018 @12:57PM (#17393860)
2. Sell only inside your region

I wish this was possible. Any time I list an item, it doesn't matter if I mark it US shipping only, and no matter how many times I put in the description that I ship US only, I get flooded with people from other countries asking, "How much to ship to {$nation}?"

After a while I got tied of telling them I don't ship to wherever they are, and just told them that international shipping rates are listed in the description. (Which they aren't, just the note saying no international shipping.)

Then I just started ignoring the bombardment.

Then I just stopped listing stuff on eBay.

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Re:Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at... by setquk on Monday June 25, 2018 @01:37PM (#17394164)
There are buyer restrictions you can set up that stop this.
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Re:Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at... by reaperducer on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @12:07PM (#17401750)
As noted in my original comment, it doesn't stop anything at all. You still get foreigners with US accounts asking for things to be shipped overseas.
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