How to Find a Seller on eBay (2026): 7 Fast Methods

Most people looking for an eBay seller are in one of two situations. You bought something good and want to find that seller again, or you sell on eBay yourself and want a closer look at a competitor's store. eBay spreads seller search across a few places, and the fastest route depends on what you already know: the exact user ID, a store name, a past order or a single listing.

Quick answer: On desktop, open eBay's Advanced Search, scroll to Sellers, tick "Only show items from", choose "Specific sellers (enter sellers' user IDs)" and type the user ID. If you know the exact user ID, ebay.com/usr/ followed by that ID takes you straight to the seller's page. If you are studying a competitor to find products worth selling, Ecomli's Product Hunting takes that seller's sold history and matches the items to Amazon or AliExpress suppliers.

7 ways to find a seller on eBay

Each method below starts from a different piece of information. Pick the one that matches what you have, and you will usually reach the seller in under a minute.

Method 1: Advanced Search's Sellers filter

Advanced Search is the most flexible option, and it is the only one that lets you combine a seller with filters for price, condition, location and sold items. On desktop:

1. Select Advanced next to the search button at the top of eBay, or go to the Advanced Search page directly.
2. If you only want part of the seller's range, type a keyword in "Enter keywords or item number", for example "camera".
3. Scroll to Sellers, tick "Only show items from" and choose "Specific sellers (enter sellers' user IDs)". Leave it on Include and type the user ID. You can enter several sellers separated by a comma or a space.
4. Select Search. The results show that seller's listings, and you can sort them by price, newest or best match.

Two settings on the same page are worth knowing. Switching the seller option to Exclude hides a seller from your results, which helps when one big store floods a search. Ticking Sold items under "Search Including" shows what the seller has actually sold, and eBay's standard sold and completed listings search covers listings that sold in the previous 90 days. Our guide to eBay Advanced Search covers the rest of the page, and our explainer on eBay's Cassini search engine covers how results are ordered.

Method 2: Go straight to the profile or Store URL

If you know the exact user ID, type ebay.com/usr/ followed by the ID into your browser. For a seller with an eBay Store, ebay.com/str/ followed by the Store name opens the storefront. The seller's page shows their positive feedback percentage, items sold and followers, with links to contact or save the seller.

A Store name and a user ID are not always the same, so if one URL fails, try the other or fall back to Method 6.

Method 3: Click the seller's name on any listing

Every listing has a seller information block with the seller's name, their positive feedback percentage and the number of ratings. Next to it you will find Visit store, Seller's other items, Message seller and Save seller. If you found one product and want the rest of the range, Seller's other items or Visit store is the quickest path.

Method 4: Check your purchase history

For a seller you have bought from, open Purchase history in My eBay. eBay keeps your orders from the past 7 years there. The page opens on your recent orders, and the "See orders from" menu at the top lets you pick an earlier year. Next to each order, the More actions menu includes Contact seller, so you can message them even if you no longer remember their user ID.

Method 5: Open your Saved Sellers

If you tapped Save seller on a listing or storefront, the seller sits in Saved Sellers in My eBay. It is the fastest way back to stores you check often, whether you like their stock or you are keeping an eye on a rival. To remove one, select the blue heart next to their name.

Method 6: Use the Find stores tab

Advanced Search has a Stores section with two tabs, Items in stores and Find stores. Use Find stores when you remember part of a Store name but not the user ID. It only covers sellers who run an eBay Store, so a casual seller without a Store will not appear there.

Method 7: Search Google with site:

When eBay's search keeps missing, Google can match a store name or a phrase from a seller's listings. Search for site:ebay.com/str "store name" to look through Store pages, or site:ebay.com "phrase from the listing" to catch an item you remember. Google's index lags behind eBay and misses pages, so treat this as a backup rather than your first move.

How to find a seller on the eBay app

On a phone, the quickest route goes through a listing. Open any item from the seller, scroll to the seller information and tap their name to open their page. From there you can browse their items or save the seller. The ebay.com/usr/ and ebay.com/str/ addresses also work in your phone's browser, and a seller you saved on desktop shows up under your saved sellers on the same account.

For anything beyond a quick look, desktop is easier. Advanced Search's seller and sold-item filters are simpler to use on a large screen, and competitor research means comparing several stores at once.

What to check once you find the seller

Finding the store is quick. Deciding whether to buy from it, or whether it is worth studying as a competitor, takes a closer look:

• Feedback percentage and rating count. Both appear in the seller block on every listing. A high percentage from a large number of ratings says more than the same percentage from a handful.
• Items sold and followers. The seller's page shows both, and together they give a rough sense of how much volume the store moves.
• Recent feedback comments. Read the latest few. They show how the seller handles late parcels and returns today, not years ago.
• Return policy and item location. Both sit on each listing and affect how long delivery takes and what a return costs you.

If you sell on eBay and are sizing up rivals, our guide to eBay seller performance metrics explains the numbers eBay uses to rate stores, including your own.

Which method suits you

The right method depends on why you are looking.

• You want to buy from a seller again. Start with Purchase history or Saved Sellers. Both work without remembering the user ID.
• You know the name. Type the profile or Store URL, and use Find stores or a Google site search if the name is only half right.
• You found one item and want the rest. Use Seller's other items or Visit store on that listing.
• You are researching a competitor. Use Advanced Search with the seller's user ID and Sold items ticked, then follow the steps in the next section.

One tool does not suit single-seller research. eBay's Product research in Seller Hub covers up to 3 years of sales data, but its filters work on product codes, price, format, condition, buyer and seller location and marketplace, not on an individual seller. To see what one competitor sells, you need Advanced Search's sold items or a tool that reads a seller's sold history directly. Our roundup of Terapeak alternatives compares the options, and the best eBay seller tools hub covers the wider toolkit.

From finding a seller to finding products: competitor research

For a shopper, finding the seller is the end of the job. For a seller, it is the start. The store itself is not the useful part. What matters is which specific items in it keep selling, and whether you can source them at a price that leaves a margin.

You can do a good share of this by hand:

1. Run Advanced Search with the competitor's user ID and Sold items ticked.
2. Sort by the most recently ended and note the items that appear again and again. Those repeats are your shortlist of proven demand from the last 90 days.
3. For each item, find a supplier, match the exact product and note the cost.
4. Check the margin after eBay's fees. In most categories that means a 13.6% final value fee on the total sale up to $7,500 per item, plus $0.30 per order of $10 or less, or $0.40 per order above that. Our eBay profit calculator does the arithmetic.

Steps 1 and 2 take minutes. Steps 3 and 4 take hours across dozens of products, and that is where most product research stalls before it produces a single listing. A clear eBay product research method helps you narrow the list first, and a plain eBay listing scraper can collect titles and prices. Neither matches each winner to a supplier, and that match is the step that lets you list.

How to do this in Ecomli

Ecomli is a non-API browser extension for eBay dropshippers. It works through the eBay seller account already signed in to your desktop Chrome browser, so there is no API connection to authorize. It covers the supplier matching and listing steps that slow the manual method down:

1. Find the competitor. Use any method above and copy the seller's user ID.
2. Research them with Product Hunting. Point it at that eBay seller's sold history or current listings, and it matches the products to Amazon or AliExpress suppliers. Filter by price, keywords, reviews and ratings, Amazon FBA or AliExpress Choice. Rows that Safety Shield flags for brand or restricted-item risk are blocked. You can save and resume a hunt or export it as a CSV. A match is a starting point, not proof that an item will be profitable for you.
3. Send picks to Create Listings. Send your picks straight from the hunt, or use Clone to hand a matched competitor listing to the lister. Ecomli prices each item with your markup (AliExpress items from the exact variant and delivery cost), writes optional AI titles and descriptions from the supplier's product facts, applies your description template, runs Safety Shield and duplicate checks, and fills in eBay's listing form in your own seller session, up to 10 listings at a time.
4. Keep listings in line with Stock Monitoring. It checks supplier stock and prices for your Ecomli listings and updates the eBay price and quantity, or ends out-of-stock items, by your rules. Our guide to repricing to protect your margin goes further on setting those rules.
5. Handle orders within your limits. Starter uses manual ordering. On Pro, Basic Auto Ordering means you click Auto Order and Ecomli places the supplier order in your own browser. On Scale, once you turn it on, Advanced Auto Ordering runs on Ecomli's servers and places the supplier order for new eBay orders without a click, as long as each order is within your buying limits (a maximum purchase price and a maximum loss).

Most of these tasks run in your desktop browser while it is open, and orders outside your buying limits still need you. Starter is $29 a month with a 7-day money-back guarantee on your first payment, and the pricing page shows what Pro and Scale add. If you are coming from another tool, our comparison of AutoDS alternatives sets the options side by side.

As your catalog grows, keep an eye on your account's capacity. Our guide to raising your eBay selling limits explains how limits work, and the Seller Hub guide shows where to track them.

Frequently asked questions

How can I find a seller on eBay?

The most reliable way is Advanced Search: scroll to Sellers, tick "Only show items from", choose "Specific sellers" and enter the user ID. If you know the exact ID, typing ebay.com/usr/ followed by it opens the seller's page directly. For a seller you bought from, check Purchase history in My eBay, which keeps your orders from the past 7 years.

Can you search for a seller on eBay by name?

Yes, but eBay's seller filter works on the user ID, not a display name. If you know the Store name instead, try ebay.com/str/ followed by the name, use the Find stores tab in Advanced Search, or search Google for site:ebay.com/str "store name".

How do I find a seller I bought from before?

Open Purchase history in My eBay. It opens on recent orders, and the "See orders from" menu lets you choose an earlier year, going back 7 years. The More actions menu next to each order includes Contact seller.

How do I see what an eBay seller has sold?

In Advanced Search, enter the seller's user ID under Sellers and tick Sold items under "Search Including". eBay's standard sold listings search covers listings that sold in the previous 90 days. eBay's Product research tool goes back 3 years but cannot filter by an individual seller.

How do I find a seller on the eBay app?

Open any listing from that seller, scroll to the seller information and tap their name. That opens their page, where you can browse their items or save the seller. The ebay.com/usr/ address also works in your phone's browser.

How do I contact a seller on eBay?

On a listing, select Message seller in the seller information block. For an item you already bought, go to Purchase history, open the More actions menu next to the order and select Contact seller. Messages go through eBay's own Messages system.

Why can't I find a seller on eBay?

The most common reason is searching by a Store name when the filter needs the user ID, or the other way round. Advanced Search also shows only listings that match your settings, so a seller with no active listings returns nothing unless you tick Sold items. A seller may also have changed their user ID or closed the account, in which case Purchase history is the most reliable record of who you bought from.

Sources

• eBay: Advanced search and the Advanced Search page (Sellers, Find stores and Sold items options)
• eBay: Your purchase history
• eBay: Saved searches and Saved Sellers
• eBay: Contacting a seller
• eBay: Product research
• eBay: Selling fees

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