@*loosegravel*, I do feel compassion for you. I have also been in situations, both on eBay and elsewhere, when I would really like to have some features that the site owners have not implemented etc.
However, I clearly understand that in some of those situations I am in the minority. I would put it in simple words. eBay is making money on the market volume. I suspect that the volume mostly comes from people whose wishes and preferences differ from yours or mine. I.e., most people just do not care about the seller's location as much as you do. I think eBay has calculated that if you (and all those other people with that sort of preferences) stop using eBay because of the lack of that functionality, eBay will not lose more money than it would have to spend to support such functionality.
They make their decisions based on the logic of the market, not on compassion towards you, or me, or whoever.
