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chimaeramm
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APO addresses

May 15, 2007 1:16 PM
I have searched under APO and military adresses and came up empty, so I thought I'd post here.
It is astounding to me that after all the years that eBay has been in business, it is still impossible for a service member from the United States Armed Forces to be able to use this site and accurately enter his or her APO address as it is issued.
It shows a disregard for the people in uniform. With all the upgrades and software changes they have made, why have they ignored this problem? Not only does the automated address system not accept AP as a valid State/Province, but it will not accept my phone number as a valid 10 digit code, even though it is a CA area code. If there is any way you can show me how to register my APO address as it is issued by the government on their website, I would greatly appreciate it and pass it along to others.
Thanks for your time.
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kenkaru
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May 27, 2007 4:08 AM
I am also frustrated with this oversight on ebay's behalf. I used to use eBay a lot but now I use Amazon most of the time since I can't register my proper APO address nor can I enter it as a shipping location. If I buy something on ebay, I have to go through a tedious process of emails to make sure the buyer will ship to my APO and not the address I have listed on ebay. I'm surprised there are not more complaints about this issue.
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ash550029
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Jun 10, 2007 5:31 AM
I can give you the instructions for setting up APO for paypal, Ebay is supposed to work the same way. Several members do have their addresses listed as APO's, so there must be a way to make it work, just not sure what it is.

If this doesn't work for you, you might try live help, found on the home page upper right corner.

Here's how to set up a paypal account with an APO/FPO address.

To change your address to a military address, please follow the
instructions below:

1. Click Link or copy and paste the entire link into the address bar

2. Click the 'Add' button

3. Type your new street address in the address boxes provided

· When entering the zip code, either a 5 or 9 digit zip may be entered

· Enter APO or FPO for the City (Note: you may only have one of these three letter combinations in the City field)

· For the State field select one of the following:
· Armed Forces Africa - AE
· Armed Forces Americas - AA (except Canada)
· Armed Forces Canada - AE
· Armed Forces Europe - AE
· Armed Forces Pacific - AP
· Armed Forces Middle East - AE

4. Click the 'Save' button

5. A new address has now been successfully added

· If this is the home address, press the 'Make Home' button

· If this is not the home address, but it is associated with a credit card in the account, click Link or copy and paste the link into your address bar to update the credit card with
this address

To remove the old address:

1. Select the address to be removed

2. Click the 'Remove' button

Please note: If a credit card is registered that is associated with the old address, you must first change the billing address associated with the credit card registered, before the address can be removed.
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egypt4ever
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Sep 11, 2007 2:25 AM
I too have experienced the same difficulties with APO addresses and EBay. PayPal will take the APO adresses very easily, but PayPal will not recognize the "creative" way EBay has me enter my APO address, in fact EBay treats APO/FPO as a COUNTRY other than the United States. All they have to do is add AA, AE, and AP to the list of the 50 states, territories, and CANADIAN PROVINCES to fix this. It appears that those of stationed overseas protecting our way of life have NO VALUE as respected members of the EBay community.
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mrhodesm
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Sep 18, 2007 10:24 PM
I was able to change PayPal to APO however ebay is still a problem. I can not register my APO address on ebay. I am in APO AE and many sites which do not support APO addresses will let it go in as New York in the state block. This is not the case on ebay. This is not good business for ebay not to support APO address.

Get a clue ebay, an APO address is a US address!
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hithere234
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Sep 20, 2007 1:41 AM
chimaeramm and the others,
Go to the site map on ebay and in the middle column scroll down to change registration address link>
On this page click the change countries> scroll up APO/FPO
Choose this option as it is for you .
This is for eBay.
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kaviar_kouture
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Oct 7, 2007 2:03 PM
You can change the country to APO AE via the registration page!
I have a Q that is a bit off of the subject....

Has anyone ever tried to bid on an item only to have e-Bay ask you to verify your telephone number, then when you enter it they say the system is down?
I have an APO address but a DE telephone number and none of the numbskulls at e-Bay customer serice seem to understand this. So now I can't bid, sell or do anything without getting a pin number from the automated system that cant dial my number.
Has anyone else experienced this????
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bs_kwaj
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Nov 30, 2007 1:23 PM
As one of the posters said above, you can change your address to APO or FPO.

What I did was register with a fake address. I found a city, state, and zip code that matched each other. I registered. Then I went to the Site Map, a link at the bottom of the page. From there you go to the Change Registration Information link. There you can select a link to Change Country. In there is an APO/FPO option. I selected that and then was able to change the whole address to my normal APO, AP address.

What a stupid process, eh?
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bjmsam
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Jan 26, 2008 9:13 AM
My APO address suddenly stopped working at checkout. At the (1) Review Your Purchase stage, it says "State - The state/province field is invalid" and refuses to continue. Boo!
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yihuakehrer
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Jun 1, 2008 3:20 AM
Actually you can change your ebay registration address to APO address. all you need to do is choose the other country option,then you can find APO or other military address in there.

good luck!;)
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evanhandy
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Jun 3, 2008 6:57 PM
Success! Success! Success!

I fought this issue for a couple hours this afternoon and finally figured it out this evening.

I got around the eBay/PayPal APO compatibility by following these steps:

1. I set my PayPal "Street address" to my normal APO address with APO as the city, AA as the state, and the United States as the country.

2. I changed my eBay country of registration from APO/FPO to the United States.

3. I changed my eBay registration address to my mother's address in Washington State.

4. I changed my primary eBay shipping address to my mother's address in Washington State.

(Basically, I removed all reference to APO from my eBay profile)

5. I was then able to use the "Link your account to PayPal" option on one of the eBay screens. That added my PayPal APO address (see step 1 above) to eBay as an available shipping address.

6. Back in eBay, on the "Update Shipping Addresses" page, my APO address was then available with the note "This address is linked from your PayPal account". Clicking on "Make primary" I was able to set my APO as my primary eBay address.

After that, everything worked smoothly, since my APO address from my PayPal account had been set as my primary eBay shipping address.

I hope that somebody with the same frustration I had with PayPal's address verification (g*d-damned eBay/PayPal cost me two hours of my life) will be able to follow what I did and save him- or herself a lot of hassle.

-Evan
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akised3220
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Sep 4, 2008 10:44 PM
Thank you so much for posting this Evan, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now. Thanks again!
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speckhard11
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Oct 12, 2008 1:49 PM
cheers helped me very much with paypal
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citadel149
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Oct 20, 2008 11:50 AM
When editing shipping addy in Ebay the FIRST FIELD is Country/Region. That is where you change from United States to APO/FPO. Once you do that it will recognize APO as city, AE as state and zip will be the 5-digit zip.
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ms.limited
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Dec 13, 2008 2:44 PM
Thank you so much for posting this, I've been trying to find solution for a few days nowhank you so much for a few days now.happy.gif

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
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