topic Re: Search filters? by country? in Buying

Search filters? by country?

chris-pgolf — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:51:18 GMT

I'm tired of searching through page after page of items, mostly electronics,that have been flooded with items from from China and Hong Kong.
Is there any way to filter these countries out?

If I want to restrict my search to items available from just the USA, United Kingdom, and Australia,How do I set up the search?
Thanks
Chris

Re: Search filters? by country?

davewil1964 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:09:27 GMT

No idea.

You can restrict your searches to Australia. It's a check box on the left.

This will restrict your searches to Australian sellers only. Depending on the category, there should be plenty of undisclosed TRS dropshippers in that, which will give you a fair cross-section of UK and US listings.

Re: Search filters? by country?

chris-pgolf — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:38:30 GMT

I'm aware of the "Australia only" and "Worldwide" option, I'm trying to find out if there is any way to narrow down the "Worldwide" option to specific countries.

I'm interested browsing quality items from countries where English is the first language and business practices are reasonable.

I could say a few things about the majority of products listed from China, Hong Kong, etc. but I don't want to offend those sellers!

I guess I'm looking for an answer from an eBay moderator to indicate whether it is possible to restrict browsing to specified countries?

Thanks

Chris

Re: Search filters? by country?

davewil1964 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:20:23 GMT

I guess you'll be waiting a while. eBay employees rarely visit the boards.

What you COULD do, though it's a bit of mucking around, is login on the US and UK sites, find what you want then see if they post to Australia.

Other than that I don't think it's possible.

Re: Search filters? by country?

stanthepud — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:35:19 GMT

Totally agree that there should be a filter where buyers can filter out certain countries like China that sell mass rubbish when I am looking for genuine articles. The inability to filter this out has almost stopped me wanting to buy items on ebay. Today there were 1,300 items in the category I was looking, of which only about 100 are genuine and the rest is fake rubbish. Ebay really needs to either take a bit of control of this, or allow buyers to do it themselves.

Re: Search filters? by country?

nouveau_retro — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:55:15 GMT

Even with Australia-only selected, you won't be able to filter out the sellers who list with 'Hong Kong, NSW' as the item location.

Re: Search filters? by country?

extra-keen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:01:38 GMT

You could try logging onto ebay in those countries you want to search.

Re: Search filters? by country?

patchoo78 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:06:45 GMT

It's funny, cos I had the opposite happen to me yesterday.. I was searching for a cheap antenna cable and most of the listings were from Aus..

Re: Search filters? by country?

patchoo78 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:00:30 GMT

Because if I buy it on eBay, I don't actually have to travel to Dick Smiths to buy it.. Bunnings is on the other side of Coffs.

Thought I would have a look online first.. I didn't end up needing one anyway, I found one in the hall cupboard.. I'm a cable hoarder :^O

Re: Search filters? by country?

mclerte — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:35:38 GMT

Hi mate, I have found a nice GreaseMonkey script that does this.

Install Firefox if u don't have it already

Install the Grease Monkey extension

Install the script

To edit the list of countries, you need to edit the script (easy even for non-programmers)

Tools menu > Grease monkey > Manage user scripts (or the like, as my menus are in french)

Funny thing, for me its the opposite, being in AUS, I excluded the UK as they charge too much in postage fees 🙂

Cheers mate

Matt

Re: Search filters? by country?

janeababe — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:51:48 GMT

the only way I can see is:

-advanced search

-Only show items:

-located in: (select country)

Re: Search filters? by country?

davewil1964 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:17:37 GMT

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear thre ead.

Almost.

Re: Search filters? by country?

***super_nova*** — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:35:23 GMT

, I excluded the UK as they charge too much in postage fees 🙂

really? i find that many items can be posted cheaper from UK than within Australia 🙂

Re: Search filters? by country?

thesoulyearns — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:24:56 GMT

the only way I can see is:

.

-advanced search

-Only show items:

-located in: (select country)

Yes, that's how to do it.

Re: Search filters? by country?

janeababe — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:00:37 GMT

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear thre ead.

Almost.

ARGHHHH... i hate when that happens............. X-(

I didnt even notice the topic date of posting....

ok...

...moving right along LOL

Re: Search filters? by country?

2005resurrect — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:48:09 GMT

I've tried that, and it doesn't work for me. Am sick to death of searching for items and having page after page of Asian rubbish block what you want. Ebay should come to the party on this, as they lose business - ie, I just give up and try other ways of buying.

Re: Search filters? by country?

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Re: Search filters? by country?

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Re: Search filters? by country?

davewil1964 — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 06:43:56 GMT

Especially when nothing relevant was added.

Usually there is something relevant to today added.

Re: Search filters? by country?

brerrabbit585 — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 01:10:01 GMT

Well, their username is 2005resurrect. 🙂