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International ebay question

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I live in the UK, as such I like NTSC games which I buy on international ebays usually using a proxy bidder.

Sometimes I use proxy buyers and ask them to bid on my behalf when the item is only available locally to another country.

In the past 2 years I've had a Canadian guy I use state to put his address as a delivery address on my account, then checkout using his address rather than my own. This would give me control over what is bought and when its sent to me to the UK. Since I don't really want to pay $20 everytime I buy something and the taxes are a bit much as well. Paypal is not a thing with ebay anymore so there is only the delivery address set by my account details.

Has anyone done this?

I have an international family in the Philippines, USA, Canada, Japan.. I'm covered with global reach. If I can I will just stock pile stuff at their homes and get it when I visit.


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What is the question here?
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I guess the question is "does anyone else hoard stuff at other people's houses". My answer is no, but I did have to get the damned Genesis Mini 2 rerouted.
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GaijinPunch wrote:What is the question here?
Using a secondary (offshore) ebay delivery address to avoid taxes and to bundle stuff into 1 big package when its ready to be sent to your native homeland address.

I can do it on amazon, my son is in FL USA. I can go to amazon.com, select my sons address and he gets it 2 days later.

Same sort of thing really, just on ebay.

As I use a ebay proxy bidder currently, I get them to bid on my behalf. But if I used a secondary address using my own account, I would have complete control of the bids then use the secondary address for delivery. I wouldn't need to email/chat back and forth. I googled this shit and it comes up with all sorts of scenarios that are unrelated to my question.

So my question is if I have a secondary offshore address on my account and I bid on an item overseas that only ships to its native country, will my account show up any red flags that I am not native to that country even though I am using an address native to that country.
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neorichieb1971 wrote: So my question is if I have a secondary offshore address on my account and I bid on an item overseas that only ships to its native country, will my account show up any red flags that I am not native to that country even though I am using an address native to that country.
If the account was created with a US address (and is the primary address), it should not be restricted from bidding on non-international shippable items, even if you have a secondary address in UK. However, I don't believe you will be able to switch to the secondary address on such auctions/items at checkout, as the seller is only willing to ship locally (in the US), and even if you could, the seller would likely cancel the transaction if you change to international shipping.
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