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Sellers in China
Summary: The discussion, initiated by mad_mazda, appears to center around the topic of sellers in China. However, all related posts and responses contain 'None' as their content, providing no additional details or insights into the conversation's specifics or conclusions. Multiple participants (davewil1964, twyngwyn, sandypebbles, sugar249, love_of_cars, springyzone, procontechnology-au, and kh-federico) took part in the thread, yet none contributed any message content.
When is Ebay going to step up and stop sellers located in China from coming into the feed of a search when you Click AUSTRALIA ONLY, I have to check every seller before I purchase an item, I want to support Australian Businesses not China, this is really out of hand and it is getting to the stage where other platforms are looking pretty good, Amazon, Catch, plenty of choices, and sad to say been on Ebay since 1998 and have seen it turn to a **bleep** pile it is becoming now, Hopefully someone in Ebay itself reads these messages and takes some appropriate action, and stopping the people who say are Aussie sellers and located in China stopped!!
kh-federico
·9 months agoHi everyone,
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eBay moderation
procontechnology-au
·9 months agoYES, I have wondered the same thing myself! The thing seems to be that they look for only EXACT matches for the term you are searching for them instead of looking for AUSTRALIAN SELLERS with near matches they list EXACT MATCHES of international sellers. THIS IS UNFAIR TO AUSTRALIAN SELLERS such as myself who use multiple listing and have PART MATCHES in the TITLE... I may have exact matches in the PART NO. but EBAY doesn't look at this! PLEASE EBAY give us AUSTRALIAN SELLERS ONLY not this rubbish where chinese sellers who often "play" the search system are give A FAIR GO!!!!
twyngwyn
·9 months agoAustralia Only gives you items that are available for Aussies to buy, not necessarily Aussie sellers.
This thread is from 2023, so a mod will be along shortly, to close it
springyzone
·3 years agoI've been on ebay (under other ID's) for a long time too and I suspect 'Australia only' is a bit of a hangover from the old days. Back then, if an item was advertised as from an aussie location, then the seller was from here too. You could pretty much count on the fact that the country any item was coming from was also the country of the seller, even for international sales. It was all clear.
But nowadays, so many Chinese sellers have warehouses here or else list their items as being located here, so they come up on the searches.
I think a lot depends on what items you are looking to buy. If it is small, mass produced stuff, then you'll get flooded with listings from Chinese sellers. It's still a good site for finding just about anything but yes, you have to check where the seller is located. I can't see ebay doing much about it as it brings in the revenue and I actually think they are trying to squeeze out the occasional, amateur seller.
love_of_cars
·3 years agoNothing will change in regards to this.
- If it is set to sell to buyers in Australia then it will show up in 'Australian' search results.
- The amount of money in fees generated by Chinese sellers is far too high to remove from listings for eBay as a company.
- If fees from Chinese sellers reduce because they block their listings as you would like then fees will just go up for everyone as they have to maintain their income as a company and Chinese sellers are a big part of it with their tens of thousands of feedbacks.
A catch-22 situation for eBay.
sugar249
·3 years agoNot sure if the ones you quote are as squeeky clean as you think.
sandypebbles
·3 years agoWhen will buyers stop keeping such sellers in business and then complain about it?
No, eBay staff do not read here
You could care who you are buying from and check the seller’s feedback
Or learn how the search function actually works
Or leave deceptive sellers neg feedback
You have many feedbacks from sellers in China you have chosen to buy from
You don’t get to support them and then complain you are supporting them
twyngwyn
·3 years agoEbay Aust might read the messages, but, sadly never respond.....when you check Aust only, you get all sellers that will post to Australia....always check a seller's feedback for where they are registered...good luck!
davewil1964
·3 years agoPlenty of Chinese sellers claiming to be in Australia on Amazon.
It is a function of how eBay works - if an item is listed on the .au site, the listing will show under Australia only.