Re postage, you’re not restricted on service. If you want paypal protection then you have to use a signed for service but that’s just obvious, you need to be able to prove the item got there. But you can use a budget courier. The “fees for postage” is a response to the old trick of charging a low price and a massive postage charge to avoid fees on the sale price so it’s hard to argue with.
There’s an option to turn off overseas bidding btw (I turned it on one time, forgetting that my account is pre-co.uk so it counts as a US account; when I ban overseas bidders, it bans the UK :lol:)
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Add to that I have been charged twice for the same item
How? If you cancel a highest bid then you still get charged for that highest bid (again, it’s a fee avoidance avoider) but you don’t also get charged for the winning bid- you get charged once for whatever’s highest.
If you cancel an auction entirely, you only get charged if you used a “my fault” option ie “no longer available”- if it’s a “seller didn’t pay” cancellation you get your fees back.