Item location option removed or doesn't work | Buying

binsley7 · 2023-09-04T10:22:35.469000Z

This topic was being discussed quite vigorously but the moderator abruptly ended the discussion, so I have to start a new one. I'm British but live in the EU. There used to be an option to limit searches to, for example, EU. That disappeared from ebay.co.uk and I now have to wade through listings which are useless to me because of postage and/or customs charges; eg from the US and the UK (since Brexit, that is now one of the worst places for me to buy from). Advanced Search only gives me the option to select from a specific Country, not a Region. As per the advice from the previous thread, I tried different ebay sites. ebay.com doesn't give the option of Europe or the EU. ebay.de AND ebay.ie both CLAIM to be able to limit the search to Europe, but neither of them work. I'm still flooded with useless listings from the US and China. What triggered this awful change of policy from ebay? Brexit?! or simply a desire to maximise throughput by showing as many listings as possible. If so, in my case at least, it's backfired. Due to the difficulty in searching, I very rarely buy through any ebay site nowadays. It's always cheaper, sometimes faster, and often easier to buy from aliexpress instead.

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