> So, if I understand your first two points
> correctly, you will never have problem with
> someone from US but only from other country ?

I think that what is more the point is: Although 
you can get problems from ANY bidder, those 
problems are inevitably easier to sort out if the 
bidder is domestic. For example: A bounced check 
from another country can be as much as 2 1/2 
times the cost *to the seller* than a domestic 
bounced check. (I don't know about another other 
countries, but in the US the person trying to 
*cash* the check also gets charged fines if the 
check bounces - not just the person who wrote 
said check.) Then it takes longer to get sent 
back.

Not to mention, why should the *seller* have to 
research a way to be able to accept an 
international payment? That's another thing 
sellers don't want to deal with.

In the end, the arguments of an international 
bidder don't have any standing *at all*. A seller 
does NOT need a good reason to not want to ship 
internationally. And a responsible bidder 
respects the seller's wishes.

All said, I think it is *completely* wrong to 
assume a seller doesn't mean it when an auction 
says "seller will not ship internationally". It 
doesn't matter if that is the default setting on 
the auction. If the bidder hasn't *asked* the 
seller *in advance*, then they're bidding 
irresponsibly.

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac