Domestic Sorting and Bidding

[jokatayhun]

Just a suggestion to Ebay. I would like a sort option to view items that are located domestically. I prefer to do business within the US borders. I dont want to bid and buy items from China, India etc. I understand sellers here in US could be obtaining their supply from overseas and I dont think we can avoind that totally without contacting sellers individually. But I would like my money to go to someone or some company that at least has a base of opertaions here. Currently it seems I have to open each listing to see where it is going to ship from. I feel like that should be a sort option when refining my search.

[duchess-at-speakeasy]

You can sort by distance from your zip code (or any zip code), up to 2000 miles. Other than listings with "free shipping," you should be able to tell by the shipping and handling amount how far away the item location is.

Of course, many Chinese sellers specify a warehouse location in California. For those, you'll have to examine the seller's profile/feedback page to see the registration country. I would hope you always review that information anyway so it's not an extra effort.

~~C~~

[tarpedge]

I dont want to bid and buy items from China, India etc.

You can filter search results to "item location" within the US.

But you cannot filter by seller location: A seller located outside the US can still have items shipped from within the US.

[frogpants1701]

This is already a thing. I use it all the time. Just click the US ONLY checkbox when searching.

[takikawa4]

But, again, that is for ITEM location only and not seller location.

[femmefan1946]

@takikawa4

There are two basic reasons for preferring to buy domestically.

• Avoiding long transit times and possible import fees.
• Keeping jobs in-country.

Both are valid, but it is probably worth noting that if an 'international' seller is shipping from the USA, then some jobs (in the warehouse and its shipping department) are in the USA.

BTW, a fairly large number of us Canadian sellers are close enough to the border that we can ship from USPS post offices.

And then there is this:  http://globalnews.ca/news/3299221/asylum-seekers-us-canada-border-laws/

[jesslikesfoxes1978]

I totally agree with your comment, however, sometimes this is totally impractical.  I recently wanted to buy a maternity gadget and I needed the item urgently so, for obvious reasons, I filtered by UK (where I'm located).  I got 380 listings, so refined by price, to filter out the cheap **bleep**, leaving 143 results, or 3 pages.

The first actual UK seller who didn't have bad feedback for fradulently claiming item location in the UK but actually shipping from overseas was....

DING! DING! DING!

Listing 120 🙄

Therefore, while your comment about checking feedback etc is right on, "it's not extra effort" just doesn't ring true.  That's a lot of extra effot, clicking "open in new tab" on 120 sellers, then clicking "negative feedback" to verify that, yep, this is another Chinese seller who says it'll be with you in 2 days, when actually it takes more than 2 weeks.

The only acceptable workaround is for Ebay to add a tick box and dropdown for seller location, to the existing search result refinement options for "Seller". 

Sadly, they appear to be too busy counting the listing fees from these hordes of fraudulent sellers to actually protect us buyers….

[jrinam]

in the past, U.S. or north america would limit it to those perameters but is meaningless today. same with distance. chineese sellers have items 'claimed' to be in many U.S. locations and where it actually ships from could be any one of the warehouses or directly from china. some U.S. sellers are dropshipping also, so ordering from the next town over could easily by traveling the entire continent. this is easy enough to avoid by spending endless hours searching threw the miscategorized items, multiple item listings and outright scams until you have the item you want, then check feedback, read the neg. comments, check sellers location and thoroughly read item description to see IF your actually getting what you think your getting. after searching all of this and finding one you trust, it is simple. just click 'buy it now' and you should have your item in a few days, or 6 weeks!  happy hunting!!

[southern*sweet*tea]

Set your search to US, and then distance nearest.

Unless you live near a major port city, this will weed out all of the hidden overseas items, and it's a good way to keep it as local as possible online.

[ed8108]

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jesslikesfoxes1978 wrote

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Sadly, they appear to be too busy counting the listing fees from these hordes of fraudulent sellers to actually protect us buyers….

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In order to foster a favorable buyer perception of the ebay marketplace.  

I would suggest Ebay consider increasing penalties upon sellers who intentionaly  misrepresent.

[castlemagicmemories]

US only can bring up listings that say US only but the seller is located in, and ships from, China.  You can check the seller profile page with their preliminary feedback and it will show where they are registered, US or China.