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eBay - Item location affects listing placement?

  • 27-02-2010 12:34pm
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    Shzm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 947 ✭✭✭


    Say i'm browsing ebay.ie for a particular item and for that item there are 20 sellers, 19 from the UK and one from Ireland. Will the Irish seller's item appear at the top of the listings regardless of feedback/top seller status simply because the item is located in Ireland?


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  • #2
    ttm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭ttm


    Shzm wrote: »
    Say i'm browsing ebay.ie for a particular item and for that item there are 20 sellers, 19 from the UK and one from Ireland. Will the Irish seller's item appear at the top of the listings regardless of feedback/top seller status simply because the item is located in Ireland?

    Try making your searches more "intelligent" ;). I'd simply never do a search on a keyword alone unless it was just to see if an item is commonly available before I home in with an advanced search. The crap eBay go on about visability becomes irrelevant if you search a specific eBay domain (,ie,co.uk,com etc) for items that are located in a specific country.

    I know a lot of people search .com and .co.uk first for items but I can't see the point if you can find the item at a good price on .ie, so I have general searches saved for .ie for items in Ireland, in euro, avilable to Ireland, newest listed first, for as an example Computing. Currently that search gives me less than 4,000 items where as Computing on .ie with out the filter returns over 1,000,000 results. So it takes about 5mins each day to check every new item listed in the Computing section in Ireland. But thats just one search in your case you could easily do the same for both .co.uk and .ie

    Watching the items each day as they are listed also means I don't miss stuff thats in the correct section say computing but has a stupid title. Got a great little graphics card I needed for a couple of euro recently as the seller listed the item with a title "Grafic Card" no one else bothered bidding:eek:

    I know that filter is very limiting but its only a starting point and if I do want a specific item I'll change the search criterior quite significantly, but for daily browsing I don't want to see the 50,000 items that have been listed that day on .ie that are actually in HK and China.


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