Items supposedly located in Australia...

[jun_watarase]

I noticed something interesting just now.

I saw an item that was supposedly located in Darwin, Australia.

The seller had the exact same item in another listing, except that was located in HK.

The Australian listing was 2.5x the price of the HK one but had a suspiciously long shipping time (6-9 days in Australia). In my experience, thats roughly the time it takes to ship from HK to AUS, not within Australia.

Several other HK based sellers were doing the exact same thing with the exact same descriptions (We ONLY ship within Australia, etc).

I'm thinking that non-AUS sellers are faking item locations and shipping from HK anyway to get a bigger profit margin, knowing that buyers are likely to pay more for items located in Australia....

[bayes10]

I actually like these Sellers.

I buy from Australian Sellers expecting an item to come FROM Australia.  i am even willing to pay more for it.  When it does not arrive in the specified time I calim the item as not recieved and DEMAND a refund.  If they delay then simply report them to eBay for a Fraudulent listing.  Beat them at thier own game I say.