How to ELIMINATE Foreign Sellers from Search Results | Buying

dazzledayz · 2013-05-11T07:02:20.999000Z

After the recent changes to eBays search engine it is harder to eliminate overseas products from search results BUT it is not impossible. Just clicking Australia Only does not work - looks like ebay want us to be clicking on foreign listings. They have even removed the item location info they used to give in search results. I got sick of it and I suspect plenty more have too! It took me a while to figure out what to do but here is the trick: In the left hand column near the new (and horrible) price range slider there is a link called "customise". Open it up and go to "Item Location". Select "Australia Only" radio button. Select "Within" checkbox. Select "2000km" from drop down list. For postcode use 5723 which is Coober Pedy in SA. This is the only postcode that works reasonably well as 2000km isn't really enough in Aus. It will however include Perth, Broome, Darwin, Cooktown and Hobart plus all the East Coast. Rough but effective. Better write it down because it WILL NOT be remembered in your next search. You will have to do it each time to narrow your new search. Of course it still won't help with sellers who lie about the item location and there are a few believe me. Here is another tip to get more specific search results: If possible put your search term in quotes like "dolls clothes" for example. Doing this will return only listings that have those 2 words next to each other in that exact order. This will stop eBay returning results for dolls, clothes and clothes dolls. This is a good trick for things like book titles but it can return too few results if not used carefully. Seriously, eBay expects its users to have a degree in computer science these days. Better customer experience my fat aunt!

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