Thank you for your suggestion.
We agree with you. To put it crudely, "beggars should not be choosers". However, buyers who list specific locations probably realise that they are severely limiting their options. Some, I believe have little choice. They may not have much time to travel long distances, due to family, work or study commitments or other limitations.
Actually, in our guidelines, we do encourage members to indicate as much details as possible including the areas they are willing to deal in. This is so that readers can quickly see and decide whether they want to deal. That will reduce the number of enquiries by posts or PMs.
Wouldn't it be a bigger waste of time for several individual sellers to PM a buyer only to find out that he will only deal in a location too far away? Or if the enquiries are made via posts, that one thread will keep showing up in the 'New Posts' results. Both of these also increase forum space and bandwidth.
Whether a WTB thread specifics a location or not, a willing seller would probably open it at least once. The difference is the amount of responses generated whether privately or publicly.
Buyers will relax their demands if they really want the item, but are not getting responses. Sellers can still offer their item on the condition that the buyer is willing to change the location.
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