Bids from countries I don't ship to?

[3islanders]

I offered shipping only to Canada and USA.
I got a bid from a profile in China.
I've dug through past questions on here, (didn't find anything more recent than 2014), followed the instructions to "set buyer requirements"... exclude primary address in countries I don't ship to, apply to current and future listings etc. ... nothing changed on the listing.
So I had to edit the specific listing manually, and blocked other continents.
Now the "buyer requirements" page has de-selected the "primary address in countries I don't ship to" again.
Now what?
How do I get a blanket exclusion or do I have to go through each listing? How come the buyer requirement page went back to its previous setting?

[3islanders]

And wondering if I should cancel the bid or wait and hope someone outbids them.

...ugh, AND, now that I've added exclusions, I see that 2 of the bidders are from excluded countries.

[msau4301]

I have many times seen bids coming in from China, Thailand, Russian Federation & other places I don't ship to currently and several times/most times these bidders have won the address did end up being in the US. (Another case of needless worrying!). Just because it shows the bidders location, doesn't always mean that is where it is to be shipped to....especially in cases (like mine and possibly yours!?) where I do not ship to all international destinations. If you show shipping to Canada and US only (as I have done for these past couple of weirder-than-normal years) I don't think bidders can get through unless they have an alternate address (forwarding location) in Canada or the US.

[marnotom!]

Just to clarify my comments, buyer requirements and exclusion lists are for shipping locations, not for the buyer's country of registration.  Your bidders located in countries where you don't ship may have a shipping address set up in the United States or Canada, where you do ship.  You can't block bidders based on their registration location, you can only block shipping locations.

[3islanders]

I cancelled a Hong Kong bid, revised the listings with an exclusion list for only North America, and hours later the Hong Kong bidder has been able to bid again. What the ****??

[marnotom!]

Not really answering your question here, but isn’t it possible that this bidder could have a forwarding service based in Canada or the United States as their “primary shipping address”?

[3islanders]

How would you know? When the profile says they're in China or Hong Kong, odds are they are (?), so how would you know whether you should cancel the bid? If I'd known I had to set up exclusions (which I have added now), the system wouldn't have let them bid.... should it...?

[marnotom!]

You could message the bidder to find out.  My understanding from a number of years ago, though, is that if you really have set your buyer requirements to block bids from bidders with primary shipping addresses outside of your "ship to" locations, then this buyer has set up their primary shipping address to meet your requirements and throwing up a bunch of locations on your exclusion list isn't going to prevent them from bidding.

Really, your goal should be to help this bidder purchase your item in a manner that conforms to your terms of sale.  They're driving up the bidding of your item, after all.  If you don't get a response to your message or the response is unsatisfactory, that would be the cue to cancel the bid.

[femmefan1946]

Are you using the older Advanced/Business form?

Or the latest pail of carp?

[3islanders]

I guess the older one?, it's the one that gives you a popup wanting you to switch to the advanced form; I click "stay on my eBay".

[clemowbooks]

The newest one is about half a screen long and has a lot of popups. It was designed for phones. The Advanced/Business one was designed for computers and requires scrolling down but there are dropdown menus instead of popups.