Lisa , I know what you are saying but a lot of that is cos members dont keep their info up to date search engines are only as good as the info thats in putted ... the distance calculator works on postcodes , for example the postcode I have in ebay is for my postal address ...which is approx 28 km from my actual address , so I myself throw their calculations out unless I manually change the postcode adress as the location on one id and approx 3500km difference on the other ...it will auto matically take my registered address .... a lot of people dont update the full information when they move , ebay do not use there own distance calculator program they use Australia posts I think it is, but nevertheless whatever program it is , its only as good as the info its fed , and either way as I said in the above post its only a starting filter point not the bea all end all