For anyone in the future. The seller got in contact with ebay,
apparently the reason they gave was one of the box dimensions exceeded
their export limit by 2 inches. Doesn't sound like the seller will get
the item back nor the money, its awful.
I followed up with ebay and they say its because the seller may have
used a USPS tracking number instead of a ebay one (I'm not sure how the
GSP works on the seller side). So I don't know if the item was
mislabelled or the wrong tracking was assigned...
Same thing happened to me today. I got a refund out of the blue saying
"Cannot be exported". It was for a 40+ year old Atari 800 (8-bit)
computer. Value was 100 USD. I've been a ebay member for 20+ years,
never seen this before. Whats going on?