[ROVERNET - UK] Re: Ebay motors - searching sucks!
Geoff Kirkpatrick
britcarnut at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 22 18:57:36 GMT 2008
That's what is so frustrating. That's what I do as well. But for Ebay Motors, the "worldwide" option still seems to leave out many, if not most, of the non-US auctions.
When I get a moment I will do an experiment to demonstrate the problem I noted, and post the results.
Geoff
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Date:
Wed,
20
Feb
2008
20:52:19
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From:
Eric
Russell
<p6rovers at yahoo.com>
Subject:
Re:
[ROVERNET
-
UK]
Ebay
motors
-
searching
sucks!
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I
click
on
"Advanced
Search".
Then
I
scroll
downwards
to
"Location"
and
"Preferred
Location"
and
then
I
select
"Worldwide".
Eric
---
Geoff
Kirkpatrick
<britcarnut at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
I'm
in
the
"I
hate
it"
camp.
Ebay
Motors
seems
to
>
be
set
up
with
a
fundamental
assumption
that
nobody
>
will
want
to
search
for
anything
outside
their
home
>
country.
I've
found
I
can
see
an
auction
on
Ebay
>
France,
for
example,
if
I
go
directly
into
Ebay
>
France.
If
I
try
any
kind
of
search
from
Ebay
USA
>
that
I
can
think
of,
though,
I
cannot
get
that
>
auction
to
appear.
What
that
says
to
me
is
that
>
when
I'm
looking
for,
say,
a
Rover
P5
fuel
pump,
as
>
I
did
recently,
there
are
potentially
auctions
out
>
there
somewhere
on
the
planet
for
a
Rover
P5
fuel
>
pump
that
I
will
never
know
about
unless
I
go
into
>
each
and
every
Ebay
site
worldwide.
>
>
That's
a
pretty
crappy
search
technology,
in
my
>
opinion.
>
>
Geoff
>
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