I tried listing my location as just United States as I listed something last night.
NO GO. Ebay auto listed my state and city. The only thing eBay let me leave out was my zipcode.
If you check eBay policy on this topic "Sellers Location" eBay states quite clearly that they require the seller sell's from their address on file with eBay.
The only thing I can see to eliminate this living in one state and shipping from another hassle would be to change the ship-from address on the listing page as you create the auction.
Well I tried this way before I started asking questions here because it seemed quite simple right?
Regardless where my registered address is, I'll just change the item location while creating my listing.
As soon as I clicked list my item I get MC999. Now all my auction listings get removed ( all 4 of em, I only get 5/month) and I get the typical MC999 message stating they need to confirm my identity and to call them right away or risk suspension.
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I had them call me. The customer service representative I got was an easy going guy and said he just needs to verify some additional information and everything should be fine. It consisted of whats your address, whats your phone number listed on your account, is this number a land-line or a cell phone. After answering the questions he placed me on hold while transferring me to Trust & Safety. The information he wanted was certainly not "additional information" . It is all the information originally provided to open the account.
Trust and safety finally comes on and after identifying myself again, asks me all the same questions and when I asked what I did wrong when listing my last item (playing innocent newbie) Trust & Safety says: there seems to be some confusion about your location but hold on a minute while I keep reading my screen and get caught up with whats noted here.
At this point I didn't want to bring up the item location being different from my registered address on the last item I listed which might cause them to dig deeper.
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Now she (T&S) asks me where I'm calling from. I said from home. Shes says where is that? I gave her my registered address. She asks if she calls me at this number am I there to answer the phone. I said yes. She said OK I need you to hang up your phone and I'll call you back right away. I hang up, she calls, I pick up and she identifies herself and then says OK I can get your account reactivated and you can retrieve your cancelled auctions under Unsold and then you can hit relist and your auctions will show up again. Any listing fee's on your auctions have been refunded to your account and new fees will be applied when you relist.
When I went to relist the last listing that started all this was not there.
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I recreated the last listing but definitely DID NOT change the item location again.
I don't know what else to do but wait until my accounts mature a year or so and then maybe try it again.
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I know full-time RV owners sell on eBay and they mail from where ever they happen to be when the auction ends.
I guess they just leave their registered city and state showing and if a buyer asks about shipping from ?????? instead of what showed on the listing page the seller tells them the full-time traveling story and they aren't in any one place for very long. It is what it is !!
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