topic Re: Buying Australian items in Selling

Buying Australian items

juliejaffa74 — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 05:49:29 GMT

I have found that if I am looking for say brooches, if I just put in brooches after about 4 listting the rest are from China etc. If I put in Brooches Australia it takes over 20 listings before I get listings from China etc. Why? No wonder our sales are down we hardly get a look in before stuff from overseas takes over.

Re: Buying Australian items

curraone — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 05:55:20 GMT

The best you can do is use the menu on the left and choose located in Australia. Even then, you still have to weed out the international sellers.

People have been complaining about this for some time - ebay program does not seem to be able to understand that some buyers just want to search for australian items from austalian sellers located in Australia.

Re: Buying Australian items

homedecorau — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 06:26:59 GMT

People have been complaining about this for some time - ebay program does not seem to be able to understand that some buyers just want to search for australian items from austalian sellers located in Australia.

They don't understand or they just don't care...

Re: Buying Australian items

kopenhagen5 — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 06:46:09 GMT

Try refining searches to something like 2000 klms from a postcode in Sydney.

(sorry Perth)

It eliminates all the Chinese listing as being in Darwin.

Re: Buying Australian items

jaffajulie1974 — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 05:24:02 GMT

Thanks, I had forgotten about using distances from a postcode works much better for getting to Austraian buyers. Obviously don't buy much on Ebay. Use it to see what is for sale more to get a rough idea of what to sell my items for.

Re: Buying Australian items

springyzone — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 07:43:11 GMT

Try refining searches to something like 2000 klms from a postcode in Sydney.

(sorry Perth)

It eliminates all the Chinese listing as being in Darwin

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A couple of weeks back, I did a search where I ticked to look at items within 50 km of my postcode and it showed some local items but my jaw dropped because under the aussie items, it went on to show stuff in UK and brazenly listed it as thousands of kms away.

I am at a loss to know why on earth th system would even bother showing them to me> I was sitting fuming at the computer, muttering "That's a bit more than 50 km, isn't it?"

Re: Buying Australian items

clarry100 — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:00:14 GMT

If I'm looking to eliminate Chinese sellers but still include most Aussie sellres I use Innamincka, 5731 and the 2000klm distance.

Innamincka is pretty near the geographical centre of AU.

And 2,000 klm gets most (but not all) other areas of AU.

Re: Buying Australian items

clarry100 — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:37:41 GMT

Actually Oodnadatta, 5734 is probably a better choice as it catches Brisbane, Perth and Hobart just inside the 2000km. It cuts out just a little bit of the far north-west coast of WA. This will catch the majority of AU based sellers.

Re: Buying Australian items

*tippy*toes* — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 12:43:20 GMT

Oodnadatta is also the hottest place in the country. A bit of Sunday night useless trivia.

Re: Buying Australian items

imastawka — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 12:47:31 GMT

I thought Marble Bar was the hottest place in Australia

Re: Buying Australian items

padi*0409 — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 12:53:52 GMT

Dashed hot here yesterday Tippy, maybe it was an Oodnadatta front that went through our south west.................(if I'm within that 2000 Klms)

Rain today rain tomorrow YAY. more trivia................

Edit. G'day Stalks. Marble Bar regularly gets to around 50deg, dunno about Oodnadatta though.

Re: Buying Australian items

*tippy*toes* — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:35:57 GMT

Oodnadatta holds the record of the hottest recorded temp anywhere in Australia (unless something has changed in the last couple of years - don't have time to google and check at the moment).

Re: Buying Australian items

kopenhagen5 — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 22:15:04 GMT

The national record is 50.7C, which was set at Oodnadatta in South Australia in January 1960.