How good would it be if ebay had a map system to tell you roughly where the item was.

[markw645]

Maps?

[falconsportspack]

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@digital*ghost wrote:

I can see the value in a feature like that for pick-up items, but eBay would have to get their item locations right first. 

At the moment, postcodes that cover several suburbs have only one default area that eBay will use as the item location, often several km's away from the actual location. 

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That's like where I live out here in the middle of north central Victoria. I'm in the main town of our postcode & where the Post Office is, But the postcode covers 15 different locations around the town, with the most distant location being 26 kms from town.

[davewil1964]

I have mobile internet. My IP changes every time I login.

using the sellers' declared location would probably be more accurate.

[markw645]

Hey Atlas, you obviously know where every town, suburb and street is in Australia so you don't need the map. I do and a built in map would be handy, gumtree have it. Somethings you buy on ebay are say $10 and would take 2 hours and $50 in petrol to pick them up.

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

Why can't you look up your own map when you know the item location?   Why do you need to see the item location anyway?

I have heard of buyers who need their hands held to complete a transaction, but that is ridiculous.

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[lyndal1838]

I know Sydney well enough to know if I am close enough to pick up an item, having lived here for 66 years and been a courier for 20 years.

If it is not in suburban Sydney I would not even be thinking of picking it up so I really do not care where it is.

I buy on line because I want the item deliverd to me.....I dont want to be running all over the place to pick things up.