If the buyer lives in another country than the ones that are listed, then yes. If I buy something on Ebay Germany and no other country than Germany is listed, then the seller is allowed to raise shipping costs if the buyer lives outside Germany, like me in Belgium. But on the auction that Jeff won is clearly written that shipping costs to the USA are 5 USD and for worldwide shipping it´s also 5 USD ... as far as I see it the seller has not legal base to raise his shipping costs :-)