AUCTION RESTRICTED: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET

[soy-mocano]

AUCTION RESTRICTED: REQUIREMENTS NOT MET - What does this mean? I just missed an auction, lot #180471277715. Why?

[mario]

I responded to your email. The seller does not ship to your country, and has restricted the auction only to bidders from countries where he ships.

[annabellan2007]

I have the same problem!And not one time!The problem is on the seller shippping my country missing,but on the description write world ship (20$)!
So what is the problem,and why i can't buy the item?

[mario]

I think this is the issue to take with sellers themselves, and subsequently with ebay. I guarantee it's not Gixen imposing any restrictions on anything.

[Gixen]

[nickobec]

As somebody who regularly buys from eBay sites outside .au I will continue to repeat, unless the user specifically states worldwide in the listing, put in a small test bid, well before the auction closes. If your bid get rejected, you can then contact the seller and get put on their buyer exemption list.

As Mario will tell you, eBay are constantly changing how things work.

Early last year I could bid on ebay.co.uk UK only listings but not ebay.com US only listings.

Then it changed overnight, could no longer bid on ebay.co.uk UK only listings.

ATM I can bid on ebay.co.uk europe only, but I test that every time.

[annabellan2007]

Well,i always bid from outside,because in my country not exist ebay!
Just my question is,why when the sellers list miss my country,but in the item description write they ship worldwide ,always never won and again the same:AUCTION RESTRICTED: and bla bla shipping bla bla!
Can you resolve this problem?Or just to bid like usually,2 windows at the last 20 sec!Borring...i don't think gixen is necessary if is need to be front the monitor anytime when my country miss at the sellers list...

[Cupid]

annabellan2007,

There is nothing that you or Gixen can do to place a bid if the seller restricts the places that they will sell to, you will find that your manual bid is blocked by eBay in these circumstances whatever you do. There is no way for you to tell that such a restriction exists without trying to place a bid on the item.

The best advice appears to be to try to place a small initial bid and if that fails contact thhe seller to see if they will change their listing to allow you to bid or add you to the list of buyers that have no restriction on their auctions.
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[annabella2007]

[Cupid]

Anna,

Sometimes you can bid on items that do not explicitly have Internatioanl shiping as part of the listing. However this is not always the case, if the seller sets restrictions (that you can not see) then you are not able to bid.

You should ask the seller to remove the restrictions that prevent you from bidding.

If you do not beleive me, try placing a small intial bid yourself, you will find that in the cases that Gixen can not bid for you, you are not able to bide manually either.
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[nochkin]

[annabella2007]

Well,now i did what u told me,and my bid is confirm even with no shipping for my country(seller description :will ship Europe/worldwide 4.00 to include insurance.)
Now will wait to see the gixen will win this item or not!

BR:annabella

[Cupid]

Yes you can bid even when there is no shipping to your location when the seller has not imposed restrictions. Gixen should also be able to bid in these circumstances.
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[pathranger9]

[mario]

[pathranger9]

Just put a bid on a listing with a small amount with no problem at all, and now i'm being outbid.
just for testing, now i put much more higher for same listing in gixen. i will report to you if same restriction problem occurs

[pathranger9]

i won the listing i use for testing. with this test, i assume that the restriction error purely come from seller restriction set that we cannot identify

[Guest]

ive been using gixen for several years, and i've had this happen before, but since its just happened twice in three days, i noticed it more....

i have had no dealings with the sellers before, and though im bidding from the uk on us items, i have never found this to be a problems, since i frequently bid on items not marked worldwide without a problem. thus- it cant be that, as worldwide or us noly- im still able to bid.

i will email both of the sellers and ask them, as these were two items i really wanted- and bid about $88 on, so could have won- they ended at $35 and $65. i do really want to know for the future.

if its happening this way aruond it may also be happening on items i am selling, and so would like to avoid it both ways.
the only reasons i can think of are that my id is currently private- but since this is recent, does not account for past 'requirements not met'. i have also earned a couple of non payment strikes recently (was ill and couldnt get to a computer). but had none in the past- so again, couldnt be the cause.

advising people to 'bid manually if they suspect' doesnt work, as one has no way of guessing which items may be affected!! also- not everyone can sit beside a computer- or even if they do, can loose out from a slow server (as i tried last week- sever sloooooow for ten mins- no bid went through).

[Cupid]

The advice about biding is not a suggestion to manually snipe, that would not help as you would get blocked in exactly the same way that Gixen does without the oportunity to try to get the restriction removed. The suggestion is to place a manual low bid early, to check that you are able to bid on the item. If you are you can then place a snipe with Gixen for your true maximum, if not you can contact the seller to see if they will raise the restrictions that prevent you from bidding.

The payment strikes are the most likely cause if you are experiencing more of this, sellers can place restrictions on who is able to bid based on the number of non psyment strikes that they have over a period, you can not tell this without trying to place a bid.

The availability of worldwide shipping only affects the visibility of items from satelite sites, it does not affect whether you are able to bid on the item if you do manage to find it, this you already know since you have been able to bid on items without the worldwide shipping option. However there is a seperate restriction that sellers can impose that they will only sell to users registered in their own country, again there is no way for you to know whether that restriction is in place without attempting to place a bid.
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