Excluding countries from search

[campy-sr]

Is there a a way to exclude certain countries from showing in a search. I want to exclude all sellers from China when I'm searching I can only see "US Only", "North America" and "Worldwide" How can I filter out Chinese sellers?

[mudshark61369]

@campy-sr,

Many of us would like an option to filter out Chinese sellers, but there is not a filter that allows you to not see items from specific countries.  Even if there were, because ebay helped many China based sellers register in the U.S. it can be difficult to tell if a seller is actually located in China or drop ships from there.  Below is a list of ways to help determine if a seller is based in China or elsewhere in Asia.

Indications on listing pages;

1. Item location not giving a city or state Ex. Ca. /USA, Many places USA, USA/USA.
2. Extended delivery or handling time frames. Especially, from supposed U.S. based sellers.
3. Very low prices w/ Free shipping
4. American flag symbols and many statements of being a U.S. Seller
5. The same photos and listing templates used by many other sellers
6. Measurements that are both metric and inches.
7. Use of Asian models in photos
8. Verbiage in descriptions that do not sound like they were written by a person whose first language is English

On feedback profile pages;

1. Country of registration ... sometimes.
2. Very high volume seller registered between 2010 and now.
3. Feedback percentages below 98.9%
4. Neutral and negative feedback sometimes in the hundreds  (you can click on those numbers to read only those comments)  look for slow shipping, non delivery,  partial orders received, and items shipped from China comments, as well as poor quality ones.
5. Replies to non positive feedback that indicate English is not the persons first language
6. Repetitive replies to non-positive feedback

[eburtonlab]

In the US at least, when faced with a long list of search results that you want to narrow down to sellers that can ship and deliver quickly, using the "Guaranteed Delivery" filter will often help; very few sellers that ship from overseas qualify. That is a rough filter, though -- many domestic sellers may be filtered out as well.

If no sellers can deliver to your area in four days, try changing your zip code and searching again -- the trick is to find sellers that can reliably deliver somewhere in the US in four days; the actual delivery time to your location is not material as long as that filters out overseas sellers. Just be sure to change your zip code back before you place an order to see the correct shipping calculations.

[toysaver]

I've bought plenty of items listed as coming from the US that are shipped from China to a straw address in the US and then forwarded.   You can tell because the first tracking is from an international shipper.  

Even if you could filter China out they are still there.