Originally Posted by
CliffordK
Left hand column has various ways to improve searches. I'll click on "Item Location Worldwide". This will bring up more sales. This still limits based on shipping location. If you really wish to go full rogue, try some of the European websites:
https://www.ebay.it/
https://www.ebay.fr/
https://www.ebay.de/
https://www.ebay.co.uk/
https://www.ebay.com.au/
You may have to talk to sellers directly about shipping quotes. But, you often get different search results. But, this will help when searching for large purchases of items that are rare in the USA.
So, this is another thing I've noticed and I used it to help a fellow BF'er out tonight. They needed an obscure French piece of hardware. I know I have one somewhere but I hit eBay.com to search in French and English and came up short. Then I hit eBay.fr and searched with French terms to find it, saw someone was showing up there via UK which I didn't see on US eBay.com when I searched in French and in English.
For S&G, I yoinked the item# out of the eBay.fr auction URL and pasted it into US eBay.com and ... sure enough, there's the item, it was purchase-able through US eBay.com site, and at a cheaper price than the last one I found and bought for myself, so I was able to hook another forum member up with a cheaper price than I could offer.