item blew up please help me resolve issue with seller

[fabadelic]

A humidifier blew up with a bang a while after I bought it but the time to report it to eBay was over and the seller has been giving me the run around ever since. I'm very lucky it didn't burn my house down!

Please help thanks

[fabadelic]

Thank you very much for your sage advice wide-world-of-stamps, sandypebbles, and countessalmirena 🙂
I also have equivalent items bought in Red Dot and Reject Shop that interfere with my TV reception. Is that because they're from China peeps?

[fabadelic]

Under Location I only ever choose Australia! So how do these Chinese sellers get away with saying their location is for instance Sydney?

[countessalmirena]

fabadelic, Chinese and other sellers can say that the item location is Sydney when, for example, they use a logistics service specifically purposed for Chinese eBay sellers. (This post - https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Buying/Item-never-received-Refunded-and-item-turns-up-a-month-later... - explains it well.)

[sandypebbles]

You ARE very lucky

And it is also lucky it did not take neighbour's houses with it

Please do not buy electrical items from sellers in China in future, as mentioned they are not to Australian safety standards and are highly dangerous