Hi Listees and Collectors, A long time ago, eBay gave you more options for filtering a seller's location in the results.
Now, you can search the US, North America, Worldwide, or within a specified mile-radius distance. You no longer have an option to search by country or to easily exclude China from results. Or....do you? I used to like searching just European dealers, but if you try that now, your only option is to select "worldwide" and wade through a ton of Chinese listings. I found a way around this by deconstructing the URL of a given set of search results. Let's try it. I searched for "meteorite" with "US Only" selected for the item location. The URL of the results is : https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=meteorite&_sacat=0&rt=nc&_odkw=meteorite+-tektite&_osacat=0&_sop=10&LH_PrefLoc=1&LH_All=1 A lot of junk there that is not of interest to us. But, notice the string of characters "PrefLoc" - this stuck out to me. PREFerred LOCation methinks. The value is set to "=1", so I started changing this number. Apparently, the following numbers are valid : 0 = no change? 1 = US 2 = Worldwide 3 = North America 4 = no change? 5 = EU 6 = China 7+ = error Changing the "=1" to "=5" brings back only items located in Europe with no Chinese listings! Any number higher that 6 results in an "invalid item location" error. Enjoy! ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
