Flaky eBay buyers

[SoCal250]

Do any of you who sell on eBay ever have someone bid on something, win the item, and then ask that the sale be cancelled? It seems to happen every so often but is happening a little more frequently. These flake-out buyers are always overseas. I'm wondering if it's some sort of scam attempt or if they're just too dense to read the listing.

I had one today who placed a bid on an auction several days ago, won the auction, but instead of paying he asked for me to cancel the sale because the shipping was too expensive. Kind of odd since the shipping cost is clearly stated in the listing.

[1976RD400C]

I just had one that bid at the last second and won the auction. Never heard anything again from them, sent an invoice, Ebay contacted them, had to wait 4 days and then offered the item to the next highest bidder. I don't see any way to give them negative feedback but explained what they did in positive feedback. Their address was CA.

[RDnuTZ]

My stated shipping policy is I only ship to continental 48 United States. You can also state any bidder with less than "x" number of positive feedbacks must contact you before bidding or they will be cancelled.

[quocle603]

Thats why I call it fleabay.

Don't get me wrong, I've accidentally purchased something impulsively without doing all my homework and asked to cancel before but not at that frequency.

[m in sc]

My stated shipping policy is I only ship to continental 48 United States. You can also state any bidder with less than "x" number of positive feedbacks must contact you before bidding or they will be cancelled.

same here. not worth the hassle to ship overseas thru ebay .. especially w rd parts. I sell very, very little on ebay but when i do its us only