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Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on May 31, 2017, 04:49 PM:

Do the foreign Ebay sites list different film titles from the domestic site? I see alot of crossover on the domestic site. Is it worth checking all of them?

Posted by Melvin England (Member # 5270) on May 31, 2017, 05:46 PM:

Brad - I would say yes... check them all. Here in the UK we get our British listings, then at the bottom we get a list of "international Sellers" films which are mostly from the States. I assume your system would be similar and some of our UK listings at the bottom of your listings? I have wandered onto the French and Italian Ebay sites and their list of films can be completely different from ours.... and some of the titles can be interesting,too. It is worth taking a look ( Ebay.fr / Ebay.it ) regardless of the language difference.It can be an eye opener sometimes!

Posted by Bernard C. G. Pritchard (Member # 631) on May 31, 2017, 06:03 PM:

Dear Brad,

Yes, I would contend that it is advantageous to search other eBay areas for sought items.

Here in the UK, there are three choices of areas to be searched: UK Only, European Union and Worldwide. These choivces appear as boxes to be ticked, under the 'Item Location' section to the lfet of the listing. By default, if only a few items appear, a further '22 (or whatever number) items found from eBay international sellers' list appears.

Over the years, I have bought a variety of goods from the USA, including a few Super-8 films, but also books, records and even drums and cymbals.

So, Brad, happy worldwide bidding (or buying-it-now)!

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on June 03, 2017, 11:25 AM:

Yes, definitely!

I've noticed that when, for instance, I look up with ask.com "ebay AU' or "ebay UK", and go to the link for that specific site, it will show a lot more listings, and the reason for this is the same as the reason why many of our US auctions don't get seen overseas a lot ... (this is my theory, for the moment) ...

If you don't list foreign shipping quotes, I know for a fact that it won't allow overseas bidding, so I am assuming that ebay then decides, "why show the auction if they can't bid?' and doesn't show them ...

that's my current theory [Smile]

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on June 03, 2017, 03:37 PM:

I think Ebay now make a very strick limitation that if your IP is known from the country where that particular listing will not send (no overseas shipping, selected countries of destination, rtc) you will not be able to see it, until you change your IP. And to change your IP you need to habe a little tech skill.

Btw...checking Ebay.de and Ebay.nl also will give you different types of films.

ps: you will only see "Steiner" or "Stukas" or "Hercules" or those Kung Fu film from Hong Kong in ebay.de

You will only see variois "Tarzan" in ebay.nl.

Cheers,

Posted by Bernard C. G. Pritchard (Member # 631) on June 05, 2017, 04:15 PM:

Thank you, Winbert for that clarification.

Occasionally I have ventured onto the US eBay site, where, as you say, there is a greater selection, since eBay excludes the sales or auctions for lots that are specified by the seller as being available only to the respective home country.

However, I have then discovered some particular thing that I'm after, and have written to the seller politely asking if he or she might kindly consider sending to the UK (and, importantly, also requesting P&P costs).

Sometimes I have then bought things by this means, so it's worth a try, Brad!

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