where are the cars on Ebay?

[Hans Efde]

Does anyone know what's going on on Ebay? There are hardly any cars for sale. Has Ebay quadrupled the fees or has the car market just collapsed? Is there a more popular website these days? I also check Piston heads regularly which has plenty of cars for sale, but normally there are 4 or 5 pages with kitcars on Ebay. Now there is nothing.

[Stuart]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Cars-/9801/i. ... kw=kit+car

4-pages and 175 cars, granted a few aren't kit cars, not sure how that compares to at other times. Gumtree perhaps has more these days, friends cars have sold very quickly on there.

[Hans Efde]

No can't see them anymore. Apparently Ebay blocks ads "UK only" for foreign viewers since a few days. Even if I change my postage address to UK it won't work.

[manifold]

Hi Hans.....

Have you tried searching on EBAY via a UK based proxy? At least that way you might be able to get the item number.

All the kids at school use proxys to get round the school/router forbidden site lists...

Whatever you do though, dont ever log in to one of your online services via one though....including this forum.

[Hans Efde]

Hi David,
I think it's a sort of error. It's not in Ebay's interest to block ads from outside viewers (nor in the interest of the sellers). I can still see all the car ads on German Ebay. I know the proxy thing. I am using Greasemonkey for the Top Gear site. But I can't imagine doing this on Ebay.

[Hans Efde]

Problem solved. It was a cookie problem. Deleted the Firefox cookies and everything worked again.