Seller location showing

[forapersona1]

Years ago when setting up my selling account, (this is account for forum use), I set my location as UK, United Kingdom and for years it was shown as this and when listing new items that is what appears on my listings.

Also when viewing my own listings on my computer at home the location is shown as UK, United Kingdom.

However I was at a friends house the other day and was showing them an item I had listed. I used advanced search on their account and typed in my seller account name and I found that all of my listings were showing my location as the town I live in. 

I don't want my town location showing on my listings and after endless trawling through menus I can't find a way to remove this. How do I go about removing the town location from my listings?

[ile136yz]

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@forapersona1 wrote:

Years ago when setting up my selling account, (this is account for forum use), I set my location as UK, United Kingdom and for years it was shown as this and when listing new items that is what appears on my listings.

Also when viewing my own listings on my computer at home the location is shown as UK, United Kingdom.

However I was at a friends house the other day and was showing them an item I had listed. I used advanced search on their account and typed in my seller account name and I found that all of my listings were showing my location as the town I live in. 

I don't want my town location showing on my listings and after endless trawling through menus I can't find a way to remove this. How do I go about removing the town location from my listings?

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I use 'Lancashire' as the item location.  It will show Lancashire, United Kingdom on the Seller's Advert.

To alter the Location   -

Go to the listings page,   

Press Edit on the items you need to alter.  Roll down the drop-down menu until you see Item Location near the bottom of list - enter in your location.

[forapersona1]

Thanks for that ile136yz that does indeed work on doing listings individually.

I've gone into settings but can't find a solution to making all current and future listings just show UK. I'm guessing it's going by my post code and adding the town. Anyone know if I can set this to permanently just show UK without having to do it individually every time I list something?

[thepillenwerfer]

I've certainly seen locations on listing pages when browsing and very useful it is too if you're looking for something you know you'll have to collect and aren't wasting time opening listings for things that are at the other end of the country.

I don't really see how it's a problem to you as I wouldn't like to try to find somebody who calls themselves forapersona1 on e-Bay in, say, Reading.  Even people who do use their real names are pretty safe as there's no knowing if some one with malicious intent has got the right Fred Bloggs in a particular town.  OK, you may have a problem if you've got an unusual name like Scorpion d'Rooftrouser.

[ile136yz]

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@forapersona1 wrote:

Thanks for that ile136yz that does indeed work on doing listings individually.

I've gone into settings but can't find a solution to making all current and future listings just show UK. I'm guessing it's going by my post code and adding the town. Anyone know if I can set this to permanently just show UK without having to do it individually every time I list something?

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On your Manage Listing page for Bulk Editing.

Go to the top of the page & tick the box below (Edit in Blue), it will let you choose items selected or all your listings. 

Edit the location as shown in my last message.

NB. You can Edit your listings this way for different reasons.

[*vyolla*]

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@forapersona1 wrote:

I've gone into settings but can't find a solution to making all current and future listings just show UK.

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I don't believe that you can just have a country as your location on a listing, it would be the town/city that you're on followed by UK.

I don't get why you're seeing having your town on your listings as a problem?

Nobody can Google your eBay name and find out where you live just from that info. 

[poshboutique2]

Is this on the sellers hub or can you do it without being on the sellers hub page?

[lucy_farmer]

'....if you've got an unusual name like Scorpion d'Rooftrouser.'

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😂😂😂

I remember going to school with him......  he was known as 'Nippy Pants' ...

[450-262541]

Not that long ago I clicked onto the location town in a sellers listings and was presented with a Google Steetview image of the outside of their house! I think they've stopped that now but needless to say I altered all my listings immediately to somewhere far away 😃

As long as the addresses you have on your account :

https://accountsettings.ebay.co.uk/uas/addresses

are all genuine and correct you can make the postcode and/or town/county on your listings anywhere in the country that you want and ebay will neither know nor care. If the postcode doesn't really match your town or county, ebay will publically dispay the location that the postcode corresponds to.

Obviously you can't offer Collection in Person if you do that, because that relies on searches for nearby items, but I'm sure that if you have a legitimate security concern that you might not want to air in a public forum then you aren't likely to do that anyway 😉

[jckl1957]

You can only use bulk edit when in seller's hub.

Click on 'switch to all new selling view' from your Ebay page.

I like the 'old fashioned' Ebay pages so only use seller hub when I relist or otherwise need to use the bulk edit.

[thepillenwerfer]

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@450-262541 wrote:

As long as the addresses you have on your account :

https://accountsettings.ebay.co.uk/uas/addresses

are all genuine and correct you can make the postcode and/or town/county on your listings anywhere in the country that you want and ebay will neither know nor care.

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If e-Bay don't care why do they have a Policy saying item locations must be accurate: https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/listing-policies/item-location-policy?id=4244&st=3&pos=3&query=...

[jckl1957]

Clearly, Ebay take this quite seriously and infringement of this policy is one of the reasons that sellers can be reported.  As usual, this is all in the User Agreement which everyone who uses the site tacitly agrees to follow.

What is the policy?

• Clear and accurate information about where the item is located, including the postal code, city and country where the item will post from, must be included in listings
• Item location information must be consistent across all areas of the listing including title, description and item specifics
• A tracking number uploaded after an item has sold must match the delivery location provided in the listing

Activity on eBay is required to follow this policy, the eBay User Agreement and all applicable laws, as well as respect the rights of third parties. If it doesn’t, eBay may take action consistent with applicable laws and the eBay User Agreement, and may even be legally required to do so. Such actions may include, as an example only: Removing the listing or other content, issuing a warning, restricting activity or account suspension.

[450-262541]

Oh!

Fair enough then, that part of what I said wasn't correct advice - I hadn't read that before.

As I read it, as long as the locations aren't so far apart that it would impact postage charges or delivery times I don't see a problem.

I'm reading that lot as really more to try and stop sellers in China claiming that they are in the UK than what I've done myself.

Regardless, I'm not advocating abusing that policy, I'm protecting my privacy.

Ebay and my buyers have accurate info on my location, and that is as it should be so I'm fine with it, but as far as I'm concerned it isn't the business of anyone and everyone with an internet connection

[gjalp]

I find it useful. I have buyers that buy from me because Im ‘local’ (so they tell me).  I post everything out but sometimes its a few streets away or on the outskirts or next town/village over. 

[450-262541]

This discussion has prompted me to dig into it a bit further, and it appears to me that, as far as the location that appears on the listing goes, they don't compel you to enter a postcode at all. You can't just have 'UK' as the OP said was once possible, but you can just have your town, or if that is too specific ( as in the OP's case) just your county. Actually it just requires an area, so I suppose you could say eg 'Scotland' and as long as it wasn't different from your real reported location, I don't think anyone would ever have cause to have an issue with that.