Ebay for India, is now broken as hell - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Raj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2018, 03:44:22 pm
content: its's broken since today morning. Basically, what they've done is, searching for stuff on ebay via Indian Ip address, Impossible...Here's an example of problem-this listing is from seller 'satisfy electronics'-Quoteif you click on see other items, on the same page, i'm getting zero results-(Screenshot A)Then, if I click on 'worldwide' button in left column, in the same page, I get 1,382 results, as of posting of this topic. (screenshot B)Now if I search for arduino, you'd expect for the above listing to show up, But guess what, I get only listings of some sensors and motor drivers, 98 in total. None of them is actual arduino.HOW DO I FIX THIS FOR MYSELFI can't buy stuff, that the seller is ready to ship to me, and I am ready to pay for but aren't made known to me at all

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2018, 04:07:50 pm
content: Quote from: Raj on December 31, 2018, 03:44:22 pmVote for new government maybe ?As I read recently, your gov took really hard action against online shopping companies, especially owned by foreigner like Amazon and etc, cmiiw.

author: Raj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2018, 04:11:45 pm
content: ebay wasn't one of them,plus I can still buy the above mentioned...,it doesn't exclude my country.Do know that,they closed ebay.in and ebay singapore is to handle everything for us, from now on.Funny that, all the listing links that I've bookmark, works as I used, one of the, 'now hidden' product link to buy me some drill bits, this morning.Current ruling party is loosing everywhere btw. rockstar he was, a looser he is, he is Modi.

author: JackJones
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2018, 04:16:33 pm
content: Ebay does weird things like that. For example the .com link lists 15 218 items for sale on that particular seller. If you change the domain to .ie, the seller magically has only 11,796 items, even with worldwide item location enabled.

author: Raj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2018, 04:18:06 pm
content: Feels worse than ra*e (not that I know what it feels like. Lol)

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2018, 04:21:16 pm
content: Quote from: Raj on December 31, 2018, 04:11:45 pmHave you tried thru VPN ? Hit directly to US or Canada eBay and see if its different ?

author: Raj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2018, 04:29:40 pm
content: funny enough, using tor, I get 1368 results instead of 98( I can' afford a vpnSo I use tor instead. funny that I don't do anything even remotely interesting to the government, but if they get to know that I use them, they'll give it to me in the @$$)

author: Raj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2018, 05:42:53 pm
content: Lol, looking at other forms, someone mentioned a tool for searching all of eBay. (http://globalesearch.com) let's see how good it is. Edit, doesn't even give a single result.Also, someone over there, says, he noticed, Safari users good higher priced listings than the rest of us sane guys.I need to confirm that, myself.

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2018, 05:51:14 pm
content: Quote from: BravoV on December 31, 2018, 04:07:50 pmI love to blame governments as much as the next guy but I cannot see how the government of India has anything to do with this.It seems eBay sold their business in India over a year ago. Seehttps://community.ebay.in/t5/Selling-on-eBay-India/eBay-India-sold-out-to-Flipkart-com-What-will-happen-to-existing/td-p/155484So you are accessing (USA, worldwide) ebay.com from India and eBay, for whatever reasons, chooses to filter the results shown. It would be interesting to know the why and how. Maybe eBay agreed to clip its service in India. If the Indian government wanted they could just block it altogether.In the meanwhile you can try to get around it by VPN, TOR, or desktop remote control.With all the new dumb European laws many American sites choose to not serve European IPs so I find a lot of blocked content. Sometimes I get around the block by using the remote desktop of my wife's family in the US. I do not have enough need for purchasing VPN service but I have thought of setting up a VPN server in a computer in America and that way get around the block. Then I am too lazy to look into it seriously. Then I think maybe a router with VPN server might work because that way the computer does not have to be running. Maybe I will look into this idea.

author: Raj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 15, 2019, 05:31:47 pm
content: Apparently, it has gotten worse...The page to an item in my cart, shows up as missing (the oled, in this example)But if you change the country from the domain name, it shows up correctly.It also shows up, if you use tor/vpn.If you use a phone to view it, at-least, it'll tell you what the thing was but says, it's been removed or is not available.Maybe this has to do something with seller being on vacation.link for reference sake-https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-3-SPI-Serial-128X64-OLED-LCD-Display-Screen-Module-For-Arduino-White/182260427207

author: station240
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 16, 2019, 07:21:39 pm
content: Quote from: Raj on February 15, 2019, 05:31:47 pmI see this,"Estimated between Fri. Mar. 22 and Tue. Apr. 30This item has an extended handling time and a delivery estimate greater than 23 business days."This is not normal for chinese sellers, many of them are either still on holiday, or haven't dealt with their backlog of orders and items that need reslisting or restocking.I think this is just the different ebay sites treating items with long delivery times differently, eg hide them instead of placing a warning.