topic Re: sellers in Buying

sellers

paulc2984 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:41:04 GMT

Ebay should do more to stop scammers like when they say that they are in Australia and they are not.

Re: sellers

sandypebbles — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:50:50 GMT

You will need to tell eBay

Or look at the feedback for who you are buying from before buying

Buyers should also stop supporting dodgy scammers and take some responsibility for their own choices

The last seller who left you feedback has 32 negs in the past month alone but you bought from them anyway

And just looking at random sellers who have left feedback for you

Many with neg after neg for being dodgy

Buyers can stop helping dodgy sellers stay in business

Takes less time to look at feedback before buying than it does posting here, telling other members what eBay 'should do'

Of course they should do more

But just because a dodgy seller has something listed on the site does not mean anyone has to make the choice to buy from them

Re: sellers

*casey* — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:34:39 GMT

"Ebay should do more to stop scammers"

Yes indeed they should.

I've reported 15 seller accounts as hijacked - all very obvious.

They're just the tip of the iceburg but I'm wasting my time reporting more , with eBay ignoring my reports.

Hundreds of thousands of items involved.

Offers sent out within 5 minutes of EVERY item I've looked at.

Re: sellers

*casey* — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 04:12:10 GMT

So BUYER BEWARE

All seller IDs are registered in Italy. They are the real account holders

All feedback in Italian until recently, now in English.

All items showing as location (somewhere) in Australia.

All items shown on sites like AliExpress, Shein, Temu, Amazon etc

NONE of the items have been listed by the REAL account holders

Some of the sellers have had as many as 12,000 items listed on their account

Here's a small example of what to look out for.

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw=%22Dog+Cave+Shelter+Detachable+Large+Dog+Bed+House+Washable+Cat+House+Nest+Comforta%22&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_odkw=Dog+Cave+Shelter+Detachable+Large+Dog+Bed+House+Washable+Cat+House+Nest+Comforta&_osacat=0

Re: sellers

*casey* — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 05:13:51 GMT

Hundreds of thousands of items involved.

Some of the sellers have had as many as ~~12,000~~ 14,000 items listed on their account

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_trksid=p3692&_ssn=fass7328

Re: sellers

springyzone — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:50:20 GMT

Casey, you are a marvel. It is just a shame ebay does not employ you as I do believe your skills could improve that site very quickly.

The link you showed is a real worry.

I decided to click on a few of the ads.

I know that in here, we tend to say buyer beware etc etc & check out the sellers, but I am not sure that your average ebay buyer could pick up on some of these. They would not be at fault.

For starters, when I click on your link, no seller names are visible, just the item title and photo. And as the prices are not all identical, it just comes across as a lot of different sellers with the same product.

So when you do click into an ad, some of the seller names are English sounding (others aren't) but yes, all registered in italy.

And many carrying the usual ebay spiel about being one of ebay's most reputable sellers.

The ones I looked at all show the product as located in Australia. And the feedback % isn't necessarily low. In one case it was 100% and in others, 98-99%.

So a buyer's only hint may be that the item is listed as manufactured in China so you might wonder-why on Earth is a seller registered in Italy listing Chinese things warehoused in Australia?

I don't think your average buyer would see any red flags on some of these ads.

But for sure, once you reported the ads to ebay, ebay should have been able to pick up enough to at least be suspicious.

Re: sellers

*casey* — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:54:30 GMT

"For starters, when I click on your link, no seller names are visible, just the item title and photo"

You may need to customise the search. They're all different selling IDs registered in Italy.

Most of them have had thousands of items listed on their account.

Some of the (hundreds of thousands) ads show a different name in the description which is

completely different to the real owner's ID or the real owner's shop name.

I haven't reported the individual ads due to the vast amount.

I reported the user IDs days ago. 15 so far and there's many more.

I can assure eBay that none of the 14,000 items listed on the (one) account in my last post

or the 13,000 items listed on the following one (or any of the others) are listed by Italian sellers, selling items from China, are warehoused at Perth GPO !

"Located in: Perth GPO, WA, Australia"

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?item=405811323102&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197&_ssn=dibes_10

Re: sellers

springyzone — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:25:50 GMT

@*casey* wrote:
"For starters, when I click on your link, no seller names are visible, just the item title and photo"

You may need to customise the search. They're all different selling IDs registered in Italy.

Don't worry, I know how to get into it, but my thoughts were that the generic page is what a lot of buyers are going to see on ebay, a lot of the time. And when you see this sort of page, it just looks like a lot of different sellers.

Most of them have had thousands of items listed on their account.

Some of the (hundreds of thousands) ads show a different name in the description which is

completely different to the real owner's ID or the real owner's shop name.

Yes, I noticed that on some of the ones I clicked into.

I haven't reported the individual ads due to the vast amount.

I reported the user IDs days ago. 15 so far and there's many more.

I can assure eBay that none of the 14,000 items listed on the (one) account in my last post

or the 13,000 items listed on the following one (or any of the others) are listed by Italian sellers, selling items from China, are warehoused at Perth GPO !

"Located in: Perth GPO, WA, Australia"

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?item=405811323102&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197&_ssn=dibes_10

You would think ebay could do a basic check after your report.
The red flag for me as a customer would be, as you say, Italian registered seller suddenly listing items from China, located in Australia. I always check seller location before I buy on ebay.
But I think for a lot of casual buyers, they don't even realise that information is available or that it is different to item location. I didn't realise that myself, for a long time, till I started reading these boards. I used to sell way back in the early days and back then, 90% of the stuff was located in Australia (international sales were listed under Australian based items) and sellers always were located with their item, it wasn't an issue.

Even the sudden rise to incredible volumes of listed items should be enough to alert ebay to a possible problem. I can't understand why they can't flag some of these problems when you obviously have, without access to all their resources.
You've done great work but it must be frustrating to have it ignored.