Item Location - changing default to Australia Only - Possible?

[naddis01]

Is is possible to change the default search location to Australia Only? I am sick of having to change it everyday and I don't want to have to set up saved searches for every single thing that I might possibly want to search for.

[davewil1964]

For starters, if you search using price + postage - lowest first, the high total prices will fall down the list. The default lists items on eBay Australia (regardless of provenance), then international listings.

If you can't work that out, Gumtree sellers deserve you.

[mox_au]

Well, now it's 7 years old and it still hasn't been rectified. Not that 'australia only' really means anything as 90% of the results you get are from sellers located in china, with an australian ebay store. That's the way it's most profitble for eBay, so that's the way it will stay. 

[mox_au]

That won't help anything. Make a search and set 'australia only'....then make a new search once or twice and have a look again, it will be deselected automatically. That's the way eBay wants it, because there's more chance of you seeing an item that's not going to be available to you with the local search and buying it. They just want as many sales as possible, no matter how they get them.

[mox_au]

The US stuff doesn't even bother me that badly. It's more that I have to wade through 12 pages of items to find a single store that's actually owned and ran by Australians. Almost every item you see that's 'buy it now' is from a seller located in China, that has a store on ebay.com.au

[*tippy*toes*]

And your point is?

[thenordicbear]

ANSWER: 

1. Click on G'day "YourName" drop down button on top left corner.

2. Go into 'Account Settings'.

3. Scroll to the bottom and change "eBay Sites" to your prefered country. 

4. Carry on with happy life and let the cudos rain.

[thenordicbear]

Also add a bookmark to the specific ebay site.
Example: eBay.com.au for Australia

[davewil1964]

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@thenordicbear wrote:

ANSWER: 

1. Click on G'day "YourName" drop down button on top left corner.

2. Go into 'Account Settings'.

3. Scroll to the bottom and change "eBay Sites" to your prefered country. 

4. Carry on with happy life and let the cudos rain.

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Most Australians search on the Australian site, which is all you're solving.

The question was for searches, which is an entirely different issue.

[sashabub]

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@thenordicbear wrote:
Also add a bookmark to the specific ebay site.
Example: eBay.com.au for Australia

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This does not resolve the issue at all.

I've always used Ebay Australia and every single time I do a search it's always Chinese junk that shows up first, regardless.

The only way I can change that is by clicking on the left side panel "Australia only" every single time I search for something.

We should not have to do that. What's the use of shopping Ebay Australia if we get the exact same searches regardless?

I am so sick and tired of Ebay always giving cheap and **bleep**py Chinese options first, pages and pages of darn rubbish.

[padi*0409]

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@sashabub wrote:

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The only way I can change that is by clicking on the left side panel "Australia only" every single time I search for something.

We should not have to do that. What's the use of shopping Ebay Australia if we get the exact same searches regardless?

I am so sick and tired of Ebay always giving cheap and **bleep**py Chinese options first, pages and pages of darn rubbish.

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When you put in "Australia only" that includes any seller who posts to Australia. You have to click on the seller's feedback to see where they are registered. Some Asian sellers do have warehouses here, but a feedback check will often show if they are dropshipping to Australia, also the ETA is often a clue as to whether they are dropshipping.

Not a perfect situation but sellers (particularly Chinese) use the loophole to their advantage, and eBay Australia will not take any action to stop it.