Drop Shipping Douches

[computer_dilo]

Anyone else sick to death of all the drop shipping clowns on eBay lately? Pretending to be in Australia but just buying cheapo Chinese stuff and getting it shipped from China to Australia! Then waiting weeks to not get it delivered and looking at fake tracking notices that tell you a pick up has been requested that goes nowhere for weeks.

I've had it with this garbage. I pay straight away. I expect reasonable service (why would you expect great service these days unless you are ordering from Australian companies like Central Coast Coffee which have my delivery packed and shipped to me in 2 days).

Really don't want to be bothered even looking at things on here anymore!!

[sandypebbles]

I don't support these sellers, so I don't have the issue

The estimated delivery date is shown before buying

The feedback says to avoid the seller, and feedback is usually in the toilet 

The photos are almost always blatantly obvious they are drop shipping (often lifted from Amazon)

Can't see you having left any negs on this account recently 

What are some of the item numbers in question?

[padi*0409]

The 3 sellers that you've bought from in the past year have feedback in the gutter (one is registered in China) and all the negs showed mostly late/no arrivals or cheaply made goods, and yet you still bought from them.

Did you actually read their feedback before using them ?

[springyzone]

I don't buy a lot on ebay but haven't had that trouble, although I often read of others who have.

I've found what works for me is to check out the details about a seller before I buy. 

Their feedback plus the details about where they are registered.

But probably one of the big things is to look carefully at what is being sold. A lot of the obviously mass produced, cheap stuff is going to be Chinese made no matter where the seller is located.

I often do best with small to medium sized Australian sellers where the photos look to be taken by the seller.

And these days, I expect my goods at or close to the expected arrival date as advertised. If an item didn't arrive in time, there is no way I'd be waiting weeks. A few extra days is fine, but you need to open a claim for an item not received within 30 days of the expected arrival and that's what I'd be doing.

I think you're right in that I have read that customers these days expect very fast service, wherever they buy from.  On the whole, I would expect something bought in Australia to arrive in metro areas within 7-10 days.

I doubt most people use ebay any more for most of their online shopping but when you do use ebay, the key toa  good experience is to really check over the seller carefully first and re-read the ad, try to get a feel for the type of selelr and product.

[computer_dilo]

I did read the feedback at the time. Either it seemed OK or the bad feedback I should have paid attention to was obfuscated in a sea of other feedback. I guess I need to be more vigilant but to be honest - if I have to be extremely vigilant with a certain platform why bother using it!?

[sandypebbles]

Not obfuscated at all

It says right at the top how many negs they have in the past 1 months/6 months/12 months

Clearly broken down

You can click on the reds to show only the negs

Very simple

Saves far more time than not looking

Just as it says at the very top of the feedback page where they are registered

Why bother being vigilant?

Sorry, it should go without saying

So you avoid being scammed

So you avoid supporting scammers

So you save time

Because you should care about who you are buying from, and it should be worth a few seconds of your time to care

The seller you bought from starting with J

shows they are registered in China

Shows they have 89 negs

Shows horrid feedback % of 97.4 for a high volume seller

Nothing 'ok' about them

[domino-710]

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@computer_dilo wrote:

I did read the feedback at the time. Either it seemed OK or the bad feedback I should have paid attention to was obfuscated in a sea of other feedback. I guess I need to be more vigilant but to be honest - if I have to be extremely vigilant with a certain platform why bother using it!?

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Good grief.

[countessalmirena]

I buy from all over the internet and from many parts of the world. Due diligence is needed, irrespective of whether it’s from eBay or elsewhere… because as the world has opened up and we see global availability, hustlers and scammers see a global field of potential victims.

eBay is one of the safer platforms – as long as you use the available tools.

I should also mention that I avoid Chinese unbranded rubbish or fakes, whether the seller is in Australia drop-shipping or the seller is in China. China is not the only source of this stuff, but it’s by far the most ubiquitous. It doesn’t take much to weed out the most obvious on eBay, although it could certainly be easier if eBay enabled an extra search filter or so.

On a bit of a side note … I no longer buy from several well-known Australian brands that have their goods manufactured in China – not because they’re manufactured in China (Chinese factories under contract to good brands are perfectly capable of manufacturing to a very high standard), but because they’re manufactured to fail and be unrepairable.

[lezned-toycollector]

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@computer_dilo wrote:

I did read the feedback at the time. Either it seemed OK or the bad feedback I should have paid attention to was obfuscated in a sea of other feedback. I guess I need to be more vigilant but to be honest - if I have to be extremely vigilant with a certain platform why bother using it!?

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Yep... why, pray tell, should you have to even care where you send your money. It's not like there's any possibility of ever being scammed, ripped off or duped in this day and age.