I still see that option when searching on ebay.de.
Are you signed in? Is your location set correctly?
Any difference if you try another browser?
If you don't see that option on the search results page, try using the Advanced Search page to specify item location.
Are you using a desktop browser?
If I go to the Advanced Search page on ebay.de, this is what I see:
And here is a test search using Denmark as my location and searching the EU:
Yup. I'm on a PC. I've never used a phone for eBay.
Now I can see the Location filter in the Adv. search! I must've overlooked it before.
I don't quite understand why there is both a "Preferred location" and a "Location" option. The first one doesn't seem reliable. When I select EU, I receive a bunch of results with the top ones being from the US. When I select a single country (e.g. Denmark) as "Location", it seems to work, with the Danish results going to the top.
Thank you for showing me, but I still wish it was like before. The "advanced" settings are not even remebered by the system, so you need to select them every single time.
I don't quite understand why there is both a "Preferred location" and a "Location" option.
The first allows you to choose among regions; the second, individual countries. From the ebay.com site:
The first one doesn't seem reliable. When I select EU, I receive a bunch of results with the top ones being from the US.
What are you searching for? Sometimes if there are few or no results, the search will be widened automatically. My test search appears to be finding EU items only.
It is possible that eBay is displaying different options based on actual location. You might try searching on some other EU country eBay sites such as France or Ireland to see if you see additional options there.
Thank you for showing me, but I still wish it was like before.
The option still exists; I do not know why you are not seeing it. Perhaps it might be worth it to try clearing your browser cache and deleting eBay cookies.
The "advanced" settings are not even remebered by the system, so you need to select them every single time.
If you bookmark or save a search with those options selected, using the saved or bookmarked search as a starting point should maintain those settings for further searches without needing to go back to the Advanced Search page.
I understand the distinction between "locations" (meaning region) and "location" (meaning country), but why is one "preferred" and not the other?
Not sure why that particular terminology was chosen, but I think it makes a certain amount of sense to provide an option to limit a search to a region like North America or Europe, and another option to limit the search to a single country. Each has its own particular uses. The regional option appears on the general search page (for me, at least); perhaps when the individual country option was added to the Advanced Search page it made sense to treat it as a separate option and give it a different name.
I get 751 results when searching Sinitta using a Denmark shipping location on ebay.de and limiting the results to EU items:
When I click on your link, I get the samme 99 hits (from the US) as I did before:
