topic Re: Search by item location : Australia only - Not working in Selling

Search by item location : Australia only - Not working

jm4221 — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 06:48:16 GMT

Hey Guys,

Just Jumped on and doing a few specific searches to see what competitors are selling in the cooler season.

I always tick item location : search australia only.

And have just found that Chinese and UK sellers are coming up in the Australian location only search !!

Can someone confirm im not going mental.

No wonder sales are slow !

Cheers

Re: Search by item location : Australia only - Not working

daniellebradydesigns — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:25:37 GMT

Same thing is happening at my end.

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jillywinkle — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:56:54 GMT

same here

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ledsandmoreleds — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 08:04:17 GMT

Hi,

same here, I have contacted ebay and am waiting on a reply as this disadvantages australian sellers and if it continues for too long I believe ebay should look at a discount on australian sellers monthly store costs as this is not in accordance with ebays own policies.

Re: Search by item location : Australia only - Not working

daniellebradydesigns — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:00:38 GMT

I've conatcted ebay via the live chat, they have escalated the issue, and apparently had no idea it was even a problem. Hopefully they'll fix it soon!

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garrcc — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:41:52 GMT

Yep - same problem - I have been trying to see items for sale internationally - seem to only be able to get Australian sellers only.

Luckily - international buyers were able to see my listings and were able to bid.

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jillywinkle — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:54:47 GMT

it's still broken the australia only button...jilly

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ytwo000 — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:14:12 GMT

still not working..2 days now..quite a few forum topics on this one around the community.

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happyinoz — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:29:45 GMT

Still a problem. Have emailed ebay about the problem. I suggest everyone, who notices the problem, contact ebay.

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jillywinkle — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:16:35 GMT

very not happy jan...i need petrol money... sales have dived over the past week...my traffic reports are pathetic...jilly fix it ebay please. Emailled them...but pfft...

Re: Search by item location : Australia only - Not working

clarry100 — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:31:55 GMT

Just sent an angry-gram to ebay about this.
When I search in our category for Australia-Only there are no Aussie sellers inside the top 100 results. I never found a single one of our listings at all. No wonder sales are way down.

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gelandangan — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:34:37 GMT

Same here.

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clarry100 — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:54:58 GMT

Just now got an answer from ebay support:

"Thanks for contacting eBay about the error you encountered when searching an item within a specific location.

We apologise for any inconvenience this error has caused you. We are fully aware of the situation. We have received the similar reports from other members who are also trying to search items by filtering it by location. This has already been reported to our Technical Team and they are still on the process of fixing this error.

I appreciate your patience on this matter. Have a nice day!

Regards,
Azabelle L.
eBay Customer Support"

Re: Search by item location : Australia only - Not working

maconii — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 05:47:32 GMT

Hey guys, I think eBay finally fixed the issue. It seems to be working fine on my side.

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cash.plus — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 06:01:11 GMT

All's good here too

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clarry100 — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 06:17:22 GMT

Yep all good now.

Just did the same search as earlier when all Chinese sellers showed up in the top 100 results.

Now there are no O/S sellers in the results and our stuff is back inside the top 20 or so where it should be.

So... lets see if sales pick up again now.

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five_eyes — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:59:12 GMT

I have had this problem for 2 days, but it seems to be fixed now.

I could not get Aust only and a search that normally brings about 1200 items was returning about 115,000.

The Ebay IT monkeys definitely hit the jackpot with this effort!

I can just just see them all jumping up & down, screeching madly and hi fiving each other...

Instead of;

(a) only alienating those who want to search only within their own country, or

(b) only alienating those who want to search only overseas,

they managed to screw everybody!

Both here, the US and UK were full of complaints that whichever locations were specified, you only got the alternative & it was impossible to change parameters;

i.e. tick your home country only and you got bazillions of listings world wide, or if you wanted worldwide, you only got your country's listings!

Thank goodness I only buy here and did not have to put up with Ebay scrambling my selling prospects.

I had a number of things on my watch list that ended in the last 2 days and I saw that some of them finished with MUCH lower prices than normal. Maybe people couldn't find them amongst the mass of overseas listings?

And the Oscar goes to... EBAY!!

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clarry100 — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:02:02 GMT

Yeah... we had several auctions running that ended during this period too.
Absolutely ZERO bids on any of them. Unusual!
Lost the $1.50 each insertion fees on all those. Good way to make money for zip!
Has to be due somehow to this search problem.

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phonebite — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 02:53:27 GMT

Significantly less Australian sales but increase in Overseas sales, so it still kind of the same in terms of sales. I hope they fix the Australian seller search and not the overseas one so i can double up my income.

Because I like to take people from other countries JERRRRBSS!