Here’s a little search engine that frequent eBay buyers might find useful. Just punch in your zip code and what you are searching for and Flippity spits back the eBay results in a much more user friend format than eBay itself returns them in.
Once there, you have the option to refine your search with parameters like distance, buy it now only and by category. Here’s a sample search I did for a book I wanted to get for my Mom, Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris. You will need to click it to see it in greater detail.
The only problem is that I cannot see this actually being useful. It only sorts the listings by where the seller is, not whether the seller is offering local pick-up or not. Unless you really care about an item shipping from a local location, I don’t really see the point in sorting by local listings. But I’ve never shopped eBay locally, always on a Global scale, so maybe this fills a need others have.
Either way, it’s a slick little bit of code I wanted to point out to you in case you’d find it useful.
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Hi Hillary,
Since you mentioned you cannot see the locality being useful, I wanted to chime in and say that in my experience, the majority of sellers don't refuse local pickup.
It's easy for me to filter by listings that have “local pickup” enabled, but I believe that there are many sellers who don't voluntarily check that option in their listings and yet would allow for local pickup, and so it would falsely eliminate many sellers.
I'm open to any feedback.
Seller: If you specify no pick-up do you offer it anyway? Really like to hear you weigh in here.
Understood. My thinking is that if it actually becomes a problem, I'll hear from somebody, and so far nobody's complained.
you won't hear a complaint here.
For every 10K we do on ebay global I can, and do, 100K local .
so…… I'd be for ebay snapping this up and getting it finetuned as fast as possible, a great alternative/addition to google merchant center for many, many buyers.
Just today, had a large sale to local buyer who found us on ebay, and has become a good long-term customer.
Since ebay's leaning towards “professional sellers” on their platform, I can't imagine privacy issues for a biz. If selling from a basement or garage, I can see that though.
I understand flippity maps local listings. I couldn't see anywhere where it mentions the pickup policy of these listings… did I miss something?
That's actually what we were discussing, Vince. The system (at present) “assumes” all sellers will take pick-up if asked.
I
went to site, it offers to “map local eBay listings!”
I mapped locals, I see no indication of pickup conditions noted.
any info is in the listins…
in my mind the system assumes nothing… but point the way, i'm listening.
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