I had a look at what it is on mine and saw it is set to what they call a default setting.
I can't find any information on what that is, but it seems to be items from anywhere at all in the world.
I don't think mine has ever been set as 500 km from home.
One of the problems on ebay (or in my opinion it is) is that you can't tick one of their distance options and set it as your default. You can certainly choose a distance option (or Australia only) and it might work for that item but then as soon as you look up something else, back it goes to a worldwide search.
Rocki*1 is correct, the distance setting isn't working properly.
I tried mine out at 25km from home. It got the first item right, but by the third, I had an item from interstate and soon after, some from China!
I realise that sometimes there may not be anything within 25km or only one or two things, but surely ebay could draw a line underneath them , with a caption-here are some listings from further away.
If I specify items within 25km, I am really not interested in being shown things from China.
