Filtering out China - Trade retaliation

[frankg2225]

I would like to see Ebay Sellers have to compulsorily have to list the Country of Origin of a Product. China has just blacklisted Barley imports & Beef from Australia due to the Australian government seeking an international investigation in Covid-19 origins in China. I want to retaliate against China, denying my trade to China in Ebay by  filtering out China Sellers and goods.

[hevvyhevvy]

imastawka - Thank you, that's very helpful. I hadn't yet thought to try that.

lyndal1838 - Yes, that true. Part of my issue with that filter is that it is a product location filter and not a business location filter, but I don't expect ebay to change that, it's just functionality I wish they had.  I'm quite tired of item locations being misrepresented, and the inevitable feedback extortion that occurs when I complain about unreasonable and excessive delays...even before covid19. I just wish there was an easier way to avoid such things besides having to make a shortlist of sellers and suss them out individually.  Ebay is supposed to be easy.

[davewil1964]

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@hevvyhevvy wrote:

imastawka - Thank you, that's very helpful. I hadn't yet thought to try that.

lyndal1838 - Yes, that true. Part of my issue with that filter is that it is a product location filter and not a business location filter, but I don't expect ebay to change that, it's just functionality I wish they had.  I'm quite tired of item locations being misrepresented, and the inevitable feedback extortion that occurs when I complain about unreasonable and excessive delays...even before covid19. I just wish there was an easier way to avoid such things besides having to make a shortlist of sellers and suss them out individually.  Ebay is supposed to be easy.

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It's ONE click to the feedback page, which a prudent buyer would be looking at anyway

[hevvyhevvy]

Yes mate, one click for each and 20 open tabs. I would hope that people are using feedback to help decide who to buy from, except feedback is less reliable when sellers pay buyers to change those negatives into glowing positives.
Personally I just wish for an easier way to filter out overseas businesses so I can safely deal with businesses working under the same set of laws.

[tazzieterror]

It takes me no more than 10 seconds to view and evaluate a seller's feedback record, and the number of revised feedback is right there on display. For instance, I can see that 11 of yours have been revised.

It's hardly a burden, even for 20 tabs.

[padi*0409]

The "private listings" would have me hitting the back-button tazzie............

[hevvyhevvy]

Yes well I guess we're all after something different. Good call with the revised feedback, there's nothing wrong with that if you're working for it and not paying for it.
And FYI private listings were set that way years ago when buyer usernames were still visible to the public. I was doing it for buyer privacy, I guess it's not needed anymore. I should probably get to changing those.
Thanks for the tip mate.

[countessalmirena]

Well... I will admit that it becomes tedious when it's a case of clicking from the search results, if the search results go over several pages. Click onto the listing, click onto the feedback page, click the 🔙 button twice, click onto the next listing, etc., etc.

When the search results display quite a few listings that I can recognise are Chinese, I can copy-paste the seller names into an advanced search to exclude them from the search result. That results of course in a shorter list (for the meantime, until the sellers move to new usernames, for instance). There are usually still some Chinese sellers in the results, but any whittling down is welcome.

To be able to filter out sellers based on country of registration would be even more welcome, but of course it's not going to happen and there's no use any of us sobbing hysterically and drumming our feet on the floor about it, darn it! (For that matter, being able to filter out dropshippers would be nice... but I can whistle until the marine cows come home for that to happen.)

[padi*0409]

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@hevvyhevvy wrote:

And FYI private listings were set that way years ago when buyer usernames were still visible to the public. I was doing it for buyer privacy, I guess it's not needed anymore. I should probably get to changing those.
Thanks for the tip mate.

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A lot of buyers see that as a way to camouflage completed listings because you can't see what the feedback relates to. I know you don't do auctions, but with them it can easily be used to hide shill-bidding. The main reason for "private listings" was for expensive items or items of a personal nature.

[tazzieterror]

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@hevvyhevvy wrote:
Yes well I guess we're all after something different. Good call with the revised feedback, there's nothing wrong with that if you're working for it and not paying for it.
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Yes I agree, and 1 revised out of every 1000 sales is nothing I'd worry about as a buyer - if I came across as judging your 11 it was not my intention.