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@Anonymouswrote:

I still don't see why the pages cannot be set up by ebay to show 'item location' and 'seller registered in' on the same page

 

 

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It should actually be pretty easy to flag internationally registered sellers in search results, which would eliminate the rigamarole of opening a listing in order to open a seller's profile and check (it may not take long to do it once, but when you're searching for an item where location is an important factor, it's common to need to check through several, and even more difficult if the buyer is using a mobile to search. As much as mobiles seem a poor choice to use for shopping, it's largely to do with the fact that the app developers don't design them well enough and / or with end users in mind, and it does seem to be the way a significant percentage of consumers want to shop, so function should have followed trend by now, ideally). 

I suspect, though, if eBay did make the change onsite, the sellers who are determined to misrepresent item location would find a way around that, too, making it even more difficult for people to discern the liklihood of an item actually located in Aus, so it would be more useful as an optional third party plugin. 

There are some common giveaways that can be seen in search results, but they're obviously assumptions based on appearances and certainly not 100% reliable (then again, seller location vs item location isn't a 100% reliable indicator, either); eg you can usually skip over all the $1 free post stuff, sellers with around 5k+ FB and less that 99% as that can indicate common delivery problems / delays due to shipping outside of Oz, AU in the user name seems to be a lot more common with international sellers than Australian ones, (at least in the categories I search most often, since they tend to have identical or similar names across most sites and differentiate them by country like that), certain types of composite photos are more commonly used by international sellers (I mean the grid ones that just show products, sometimes 12+ in the one gallery image, all in equal size so you can't really get a good look at the items and need to open the listing, other sellers tend to like to highlight one product in a larger size and use some smaller pics to show that there are more options).