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razorrescue · Active contributor Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 5

Firstly my apologies if this has been asked before - I can't find it anywhere.

I'm using 2.6.1 and have a number of searches set up to use eBay.com to search and to show items located in any country.

The eBay user ID I have is Australian and there are many results from eBay.com that are not appearing in the search results as the item is not available to Australia.

I have a US mate who will forward things to me or even bid for me but I'm not even seeing them Crying or Very sad

Is there any way of overcoming this?

AuctionSieve is VERY cool BTW Very Happy

razorrescue · Active contributor Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 5

No thoughts or suggestions?

Help, anybody!

chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

I don't have any answers, but Nev (the AS developer) sometimes is away from the forum for a week or two, and then answers a whole bunch of questions at one time.

nev · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:46 pm Post subject:

Yep - just got back from a holiday. Will hopefully get some time to look at it this week.

razorrescue · Active contributor Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 5

Great - hope you had a great holiday Nev - message me if you want more information and examples

nev · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:19 am Post subject:

Hmm, well as far as I can tell, AuctionSieve is returning the same results as the eBay advanced search pages.

And in the case of going to ebay.com.au and selecting 'Available to' 'Any country' it still only returns the same results as if you didn't select it at all!

If you select 'Located in' 'Any country' it seems to work.

What are your settings, what are you expecting and what are you getting?

razorrescue · Active contributor Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 5

nev · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:45 am Post subject:

Yeah - send me some of your searches.
Also, you can zip up your entire AuctionSieve folder and email it to me if you want.
Data folder is here:
http://www.auctionsieve.com/support/faq/#backup_windows
http://www.auctionsieve.com/support/faq/#backup_mac

wickmesh · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:24 pm Post subject:

As I've posted about elsewhere, this is ebay filtering the data you see. I guess they've done it so the "average user" doesn't see 1000s of results they're unlikely to buy in a foreign land.

For the power users like us lot, it's a pain because as you say, sometimes great things are missed. It's a pain in the backside for collectors!

The only way I have of even partly dealing with it is to do the same search on (almost) every ebay site - which thankfully AS makes possible, but unfortunately all the searches make it a little time consuming. The problem is that AS needs to log in to each site to make the search, which gives ebay your geographical location and then enables them to start filtering the search data...

(A bigger problem I'm finding is that ebay is blocking comms with certain international sellers, this makes me really angry when there is something I want to buy!)