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Setting buying options defaults

jhs46 — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:38:06 GMT

Hello everyone...

I've been eBaying for 16 years and witnessed what was a fantastic site fiddled with, messed about with and 'improved' over the interveningyears. It was perfectly good in the first place.

Now, its latest 'improvement' is to have set the search crieria to the 'world'. I don't want to buy from the world: I want to buy as locally as possible. Does anyone know how I can set my own default search criteria to the UK only, instead of having to type it in for each and every flipping search? It doesn't appear as an option to set as standard.

Any help gladly received - thank you.

Jude

Re: Setting buying options defaults

corred — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:43:02 GMT

@jhs46

No....eBay is a GLOBAL site....you can only seeitems AVAILABLE to the UK

Even the serach filter only allows you to filter to goods located in the UK

Yu have never had the option to search UK only sellers in the 22 years I have been on eBay

Re: Setting buying options defaults

pixiesen2012 — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:45:11 GMT

you don't have to type anything,

you just need to tick a box, hardly labour intensive!

overseas sellers pay to have their items shown on ebay UK so ebay would be in breach of contract if they allowed UK only as the default

if you only want items listed as in the UK (this doesn't stop overseas sellers with UK distribution points) you just need to tick the UK only box in the left hand column

Re: Setting buying options defaults

jhs46 — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:52:04 GMT

You're right, of course: it's not labour intensive! Just annoying. I see that in the drop-down box of options when searching, even the 'Nearest' option has now vanished. I just hoped I could maybe set this as a permanent personal default without ticking boxes every time I search for an item. Even changing the item search in the same session. Hey ho....

Re: Setting buying options defaults

pixiesen2012 — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:59:13 GMT

what device/browser are you using?

as the drop down still contains nearest first etc. this hasn't been removed

Re: Setting buying options defaults

jhs46 — Fri, 01 May 2020 13:05:52 GMT

Oh! Well, that would be good news indeed. I access eBay via google chrome. Not sure the browser would make any difference to that drop-down, would it? I'll go onto the site now and see if it's there again. Thank you pixies. 🙂

Re: Setting buying options defaults

jhs46 — Fri, 01 May 2020 13:07:16 GMT

AAAAH! It had dropped off the bottom of the slider on the list. Still there - hoorah! Thanks very much again 🙂

Re: Setting buying options defaults

pixiesen2012 — Fri, 01 May 2020 13:14:25 GMT

the browser does make a difference as ebay no longer works with some older browsers and things aren't shown properly when those are used.