Anyone else in Australia had an absolute gutfull of sellers located in China, faking being here?

[satisfaction4you]

You know the ones i mean. Those decietful and lying sneaks that put our flag up in thier ad thumbnail.

The same mongrels that show up in Australia only searches?

Those time wasting folks who claim the stock is in a SYDNEY warehouse and it will arrive fast.

The same folks who put a tracking number on that PROVES it has to come from China first.

The sellers who are even the most sneaky , well they know not to do what i just said because they will get busted.

So what they do is provide an Australia post tracking number as late as they can, then YOU wait, wait, wait a bunch more.

Finally the item shows up at the senders post office in Sydney, (AFTER A PLANE OR BOAT RIDE FROM CHINA) usually about a fortnight or more after YOU PAID for it, whereby it then commences it's Autralian leg of it's journey........

.........generally taking ANOTHER week, thanks to the COVID situation.

So by the time you recieve it, because of the lies, you end up waiting about 3-4 weeks, sometimes more  for an item LISTED AS IN AUSTRALIA..

You know the ones i mean, the ones that don't even have it in the Australian mail until AFTER it was supposed to arrive at your home?

That's bad enough i guess. BUT what really, really irritates me is the fact that despite EBAY CLEARLY BEING AWARE of it,

NOTHING IS DONE ABOUT IT?

IN summary..... some sellers are DISHONEST AND CANNOT BE TRUSTED, EBAY is either unwilling or INCAPABLE of fixing the

problem at this time?

BE VERY SURE TO READ ALL NEGATIVE FEEDBACK ON YOUR SELLER BEFORE YOU BUY........

Because in the end that is the only chance you have, everyone else involved is making money off you and couldn't care less it seems?

[repentatleisure1952]

Are you saying that you have not looked at feedback before you have purchased?

This shows where the seller is registered & enables me to decide if I wish to buy from China or not.

The last seller you negged clearly shows as being in China & the other negs were avilable for you to see prior to your purchase.

I think there are many who have "had an absolute gutfull"...I'm not one of them & regard it as a minor issue.

[daydreams_12]

During this pandemic many of us have waited 3-4 weeks and more for items that have 100% been in Australia.  One I had was 6 weeks from SA to NSW. 

Not everything is down to sellers claiming goods to be in Aust when not.  I always check feedback and where sellers are registered before purchase.  If that is too hard or time consuming, it is a risk you take.

[springyzone]

You're not on your own, it is a common issue and it riles a lot of people, including me.

I can't say I have ever been caught out as such. I once bought a book that clearly showed the seller to be registered in Australia and I believe he definitely was. However, he was obviously drop shipping as it was a month's delivery time frame and the stamped date on the aussie parcel shows it was posted only a couple of days before I received it.

I knew though before I ordered because the feedback was packed with comments from customers who were suspicious.

Had I been able to find the title elsewhere, I would have bought from a different seller.

The thing I don't like about it is the dishonesty. I don't mind making an occasional purchase from China (depending on what the product is). I sometimes don't mind waiting longer for an item to arrive if it is coming from overseas. All I ask from sellers is honesty.

My main suggestion to you would be to do as I do, play it to the letter of the law with such sellers.

If you buy from someone who is claiming their items are in Australia but you have grave doubts because the seller is registered in another country, then look at the delivery date and if it a month or so out, you'll know the seller is lying. Look elsewhere.

If on the other hand the delivery date is only a week or so off & you order, if it doesn't arrive by then, go straight into an item not received claim. Immediately. If it is not in the Australian mail by the ETA, then get your money back pronto.

It may well arrive a couple of weeks later. If it has come from China or elsewhere, too bad. I don't normally say that but my view is if a seller is blatantly dishonest, then getting stung and losing money may give them a wake up call to at least get the ETA right.

[darrylgama]

Yes, this has been going on for years, i remember when their location was listed as "Darwin", now they are using suburbs of Sydney to trick us. The question is what is being done about it, does ebay even care to address this problem.."address", see what i did there.

[davewil1964]

If you had read any of the many posts on this, you would already know that eBay Australia cannot address this. Unless they cut off eBay China, which is unlikely.

What you, and anybody else, can do is your due diligence.

[silver-fox-bullion]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

If you had read any of the many posts on this, you would already know that eBay Australia cannot address this. Unless they cut off eBay China, which is unlikely.

What you, and anybody else, can do is your due diligence.

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There is a quick easy way for ebay to fix this issue and THAT they display the sellers location of registion on the actual listings a couple lines of coding would stop the hidding.   They can slip it under the item location claim.   

[silver-fox-bullion]

Or they add a flag system next to the users name.   again a few lines of coding to put a flag next to every user name on ebay.   Again easy to do and ebay just have to link it back to the country of regisition

[lyndal1838]

I suppose if the buyer is too lazy to click on the seller's profile that is a good way to get the easily found information.

[countessalmirena]

This is a practice that persists only because Australian buyers continue to make it a worthwhile practice.

Do what I do. As a general rule, don't buy from sellers who are registered in China. (Click onto their feedback percentage, and you'll end up on the seller's feedback profile page where you can see in which country the seller was registered.)

Don't buy based on a price that is so far short of RRP that it cannot possibly be a genuine item being sold by a genuine authorised seller of that item. In the immortal words of Confusionus (who I just made up), "He who buys very cheaply pays the remainder in regret."

Buy Australian.