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mac_omega

·Mar 31, 2024

Hi all,

Japanese sellers have been flooding ebay with hundreds (and more) listings with recent or semi-vintage Omegas lately. A stupid seller put up roughly about 5000 listings yesterday evening at one time but thats not ebough.
He listed the same watches multiple times and to top this he asked for insane prices 🤦 🤬
I don´t have the time and mood to wade through thousands of Japanese listings of watches which I am not interested in at all.
I would like to block these listings but did not find any options in the ebay search settings to block a certain country.
Does anybody know how to proceed?
Thanks for any good advice.

 

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Davidt

·Mar 31, 2024

I’ve seen the exact same thing in the last 24 hours and have previously tried to find a way to exclude things from my saved eBay searches rather than just include criteria. I couldn’t find anyway of doing so but hopefully someone chimes in…

 

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Dsloan

·Mar 31, 2024

I saw that! There were 2020 Tokyo speedmasters listed for like $17K!

I just have new listing alerts set up for the things I'm hunting... Helps weed out old listings and see if new deals have popped up. Not sure how to do what you're asking other than to search by lowest price or other priorities in your hunt.

 

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watched

·Mar 31, 2024

I have also searched several times to find a way to exclude these Japanese sellers on Ebay. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find anything in my settings. Very annoying, so hopefully someone on OF has the solution.

 

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Tony C.

·Mar 31, 2024·Ωf Jury member

Erich – just use the advanced search function, and restrict the sellers' location...

 

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paddymoran

·Mar 31, 2024

Based on the specific issue described, you could add a “Max Price” filter to exclude these items from your search results.

 

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redpcar

·Mar 31, 2024

You can remove a seller from your search. If he uses a unique word on each of his listings, you can also remove them that way. For instance, I had a seller who always used "job" in his title. Just did a simple -job and never saw him again.

 

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apsm100

·Mar 31, 2024·Noob taxpayer

I use my own app for eBay searches nowadays, but there are other eBay search apps (that do global searches too) that have blocked seller/country features. I really don't know how one could use the stock eBay app for daily searches.

There are some great listings that come from Japan (especially for lenses), but for my watch searches I block the country as new sellers pop up everyday.

 

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josiahg52

·Mar 31, 2024

I think the advanced search also allows you to exclude a seller or sellers.

 

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Meme-Dweller

·Mar 31, 2024

Been happening for years and it's annoying. They're using bots to repost listings from Rakuten, Rakuma, Mercari, etc then adding a couple hundred dollars on top of the price to ship it to you. It's much cheaper to buy it yourself off those Japanese marketplaces through a proxy service.

 

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dsio

·Mar 31, 2024·Ash @ ΩF

This seller actually has several different accounts posting the same stuff, but they all appear to contain the text in the description “we are located in japan”

So if you click the “include description” button in your search, which I always do, then add the following:

-"we are located in japan"

It will exclude that phrase in any listing, which removes all of his accounts from your search.

 

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mac_omega

·Apr 1, 2024

So it seems there is no option to generally exclude "Japan" and I must smart them out by excluding certain sellers and exclude phrases like
"we are located in japan" as @dsio suggested.
Thank you all for your good advice.

 

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mac_omega

·Apr 1, 2024

Tony C.

Erich – just use the advanced search function, and restrict the sellers' location...

Yes, Tony I knew these options but I want to find worldwide listings except from Japan. And there is no option to exclude a single country...

 

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sheepdoll

·Apr 1, 2024

I usually do north America only to exclude India and China. Sorry UK and Australia.

I think eBay likes it when sellers flood the searches as it makes it look there there is more than there really is.

Have to do specific searches with narrow focus if I want to search worldwide.

Russia seems to be geoblocked here. Stuff from Finland came from latvia, and I have got "Finnish" stuff from Moscow. I would not be surprised if some of this may be a gray area.

I think they really do not care.