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#1 Eric P

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Posted 28 January 2025 - 09:20 PM

I’ve used Buyee for a few years but recently it seems that most of the ads are flagged “You cannot bid on this auction at the present time”

 

Are you Zenmarket users having the same issue?

 

 



#2 Esso2112

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Posted 28 January 2025 - 10:55 PM

Regarding Zenmarket, I’ve had a few blocked that have puzzled me a bit.  I was able to get some of them unblocked, but not all.  Sometimes it seems to be related to international shipping, others not dealing with proxy bidders.  The proxy ones never get unblocked.  

So far, requesting an item to be unblocked only cost me (or saved me money) on an Astro-physics 155 that someone else bought for a great Buy It Now price while I was waiting on the unblock request to go through. 



#3 RichA

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Posted 29 January 2025 - 12:17 AM

I’ve used Buyee for a few years but recently it seems that most of the ads are flagged “You cannot bid on this auction at the present time”

 

Are you Zenmarket users having the same issue?

It's a crap site.  They block URLs too.



#4 YourNotSirius

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Posted 01 February 2025 - 09:45 AM

We tried to snoop around it a few times. Highly invasive scripts. Set off security on all of our systems. Also, does not like VPNs at all. Very suspicious and risky site at best. I suspect it will fail in the near future.

 

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