eBay already allows users to search by Item location, but that information is provided by sellers, and not all sellers ship from the locations they cite as they should.
While a seller's overseas registration location may be a clue to where an item is located, it is not a certainty either way, or necessarily the only indication a buyer might use to gauge how far away an item might ship from.
Many sellers registered overseas do indeed ship from US warehouses. And some US-registered sellers drop-ship their items from overseas, despite what the Item location in the listing says.
Looking at the range of estimated delivery dates can often provide a useful clue as to how far away items are actually shipping from. The farther out the estimated date and the larger the overall range, the more likely an item ships from a far-flung location.
Reading seller feedback comments can often provide useful clues about a seller's performance. References to cancelled orders, late shipments, incorrect orders, and location misrepresentation are worth paying attention to, even if a seller has an otherwise acceptable percentage and rating. While this can be time consuming, if you are interested in finding sellers that ship from close to home, it may be worth your time. You can quickly look through negative or neutral feedback by using the appropriate numbers in the table shown above the feedback comments, rather than having to scroll through pages looking for red donuts.
At one point eBay provided a "guaranteed delivery" filter that only showed listings that could be expected to be received in four days or fewer. While the guarantee was of questionable value, the filter itself was a quick and dirty way to weed out a lot of faraway or generally slow-moving sellers in favor of nearer, faster ones. Sadly, the "guaranteed delivery" filter no longer works.
