How does ebay work out the radius (eg. <100km) of your search for items?

[orabrush]

It seems to me they take the postcode of where you are and the postcode of the seller's item and they most find the most obscure point of the suburb or a neighboring postcode  & then pretend a helicopter flies directly to the most obscure point of the other seller's postcode and that's the distance.

is it meant to be using some sort of road distance or gps?

[lyndal1838]

Don't even try to work it out....it usually doesn't work correctly anyway.

[kopenhagen5]

I sometimes select within 50 klms and get something from interstate showing.

Perhaps when listed without postcode it tries to match the suburb wording and finds similar.

[esayaf]

With a piece of string with tin cans tied on the ends

[shepherdsrule]

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@esayaf wrote:
With a piece of string with tin cans tied on the ends

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No that is not how they measure distance, that is how eBay communicate

[esayaf]

It's how they do both. Due to productivity gain requirements

[orabrush]

Usually it is 100km radius and then it gives you something at least 250km.

Ive noticed international sales popping up as well.

[kopenhagen5]

Yeah i think it is when no postcode is entered in a listing and the search program tries to match by words of location.