I'm looking for some spare parts for my laptop and it's impossible to search for articles being sold within the EU. I've tried going on ebay.ie, ebay.it, ebay.de as well as ebay.fr.
I go to the advanced search. On ebay.ie, I click "European Union" under the tab "Item Location" and despite my filter, the search results show articles being sold from China and the United States. On ebay.it I click "Unione Europea" under "Provenienza", and the results return articles sold from "Stati Uniti". If I change to "Europea Continentale", it instead shows me results being sold from "Cina". On ebay.de, I click "Europäische Union" or "Kontinentaleuropa" under the tab "Artikelstandort" and it shows me results from "Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika" or "China", respectively. You get the point.
If I change it to search for a specific country, like choosing "Litauen" in the dropdown menu next to "Standort" on ebay.de however, it actually shows me articles being sold from Lithuania. For you non German speakers, it's the equivalent of going to ebay.ie and choosing "Lithuania" in the dropdown menu next to "Location" under the tab "Item location".
I'm looking for small spare parts for my laptop and my country applies heavy tariffs to goods imported from outside the EU. I don't want to order anything from the US or China. I want to order from Germany, Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, Lithuania, or any other country in the European Union. The option to search for articles sold within the EU is there, why isn't it working? I've had this problem for years.
