Default setting

[dougle2525]

Hi       Can some one tell me how i set the item location default to UK only.   Its driving me round the bend to keep changing it.

Thanks

[insidethe93]

If selling or buying, log into your account to have your selling item attached to your location or to see delivery info for your location.

Go to "Account Settings" (under your profile or account menu when you click very top left corner "Hi [name]!" a short drop-down menu appears).

Select "Addresses" and make sure your primary shipping/delivery address is correctly set to your UK home or preferred location.

You might well be asked to log in again in order to access anything under Account Settings even if you already seem to be logged in. I was when I tried this just now. It's an eBay security precaution.

You can't set UK as default for searches. I recall once that a post here explained that's because foreign sellers not just domestic ones can sponsor adverts so eBay understandably doesn't want to let you limit your search. I've also read a post here which suggested manually changing your seach to a distance of your location so as to limit searches to within these shores (roughly).

[lucy_farmer]

I set search to 'nearest first'..... then at least (most of) the stuff from China ends up last.

[cyclingjason090]

You can set the app to uk only 

[insidethe93]

I realise I should've clarified - laptops and PCs. Yes I'd heard that about the app but I don't have the app so I wasn't going to say something I couldn't check for myself. I reckoned someone who knew for sure would mention it but I couldn't say that in case no one did. Thanks for mentioning it.

[suelel1968]

@dougle2525  Me to! It's not so much that it can't be done as you have to do it every time. If you search for the same collectable over and over you can set up the search, but for random stuff, it's very annoying. I asked on the weekly call a while back and the answer was, "No" you cannot set your own default search location to UK.

[wolofkib]

I wanted to limit my ad-hoc searches to UK only and spoke to Ebay Help.  They claimed that once you've manually set it to 'UK Only' then that setting is saved and used from then on.  Utter rubbish in my experience.

[fotherbale]

UK only will continue to be set as long as you move from one page to another in that search, or if you start a subsequent search using different search terms using the same window/tab on your browser.  If you start another search in a new window or tab, it will revert to the ebay 'default' search.

It is annoying to have to keep selecting 'UK only' on searches, but it has been this way a long time, and ebay have never shown any inclination to change it (possibly because they allow sellers the world over to pay for international visibilty, which means their listings will be shown to buyers in the countries they select regardless of whether or not they have selected to search 'worldwide'.  They can only remove them if they physically restrict their own searches to their own country only).

[wolofkib]

That makes perfect sense thanks.  It explains how the Helpdesk was able to claim that there is a "UK Only" setting when the reality is that most people will start a new tab and be reset to "Global" and require a manual setting to get UK only every time.