[ROVERNET - UK] Re: Ebay motors - searching sucks!

[Geoff Kirkpatrick]

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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Message: 
4
Date: 
Wed, 
20 
Feb 
2008 
20:52:19 
-0800 
(PST)
From: 
Eric 
Russell 
<p6rovers at yahoo.com>
Subject: 
Re: 
[ROVERNET 
- 
UK] 
Ebay 
motors 
- 
searching 
sucks!
To: 
rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com
Message-ID: 
<135983.55340.qm at web34312.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: 
text/plain; 
charset=iso-8859-1

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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