International Sellers

[goodiesinaus]

What is with all the international sellers posing as Australian locals? I purposely set out to buy from Australia to support Australian sellers and after buying, I find out they are international sellers that take ages to post from their apparent local location. Clearly the item is being shipped internationally and the money is going overseas. How do we filter out international sellers? It it so bad lately that after years of only being with eBay, I made an Amazon account and bought my first item. This has to stop or I'll be ditching eBay altogether. 

Is anyone else having this issue?

[repentatleisure1952]

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@the-other-burt65 wrote:

You missed the point that even if they are sending from China, the delivery time is virtually the same as if they were sent from Australia...

China prices are normally inflated to cover some of the postage costs and yes, they can use Toll as well to get items here in a day... What? You don't think China and Japan have commercial delivery deals going on?

But you are here just to argue, not to learn, so I don't really see the point of this...

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Yep, those millions of $0.99 items from China based sellers have been "inflated to cover some of the postage costs".

"they can use Toll to get items here in a day".

How do you know they are using Toll?

I think you have brought a knife to a gun fight.

[domino-710]

You call that a knife. 🤣

[sugar249]

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@the-other-burt65 wrote:

You missed the point that even if they are sending from China, the delivery time is virtually the same as if they were sent from Australia...

China prices are normally inflated to cover some of the postage costs and yes, they can use Toll as well to get items here in a day... What? You don't think China and Japan have commercial delivery deals going on?

But you are here just to argue, not to learn, so I don't really see the point of this...

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Not here to argue,  just highlight facts, which I gather you aren't aware of.

Toll be it Japanese still need to charge commercial rates even if slightly lower.  Although not sure qwhy you think a Japanese company will transport items for nothing for china.  But thats another story.

China Post are highly subsidised by the government to give virtually free postage for these sellers,  thats why they can send 99 cent items and still make money,  if they were using Toll that wouldnt be the case.

[the-other-burt65]

I rest my case... 😂

Thanks for proving my point..

Now, where is that ignore button?!? 🦄

[padi*0409]

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@the-other-burt65 wrote:

Thanks for proving my point..

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And the point was what ?

That Toll is not a Chinese company ? ...................proven.

Or that the Chinese government does not subsidise postage (along with using "slave labour" to manufacture exports) ? ................so there's no way in the world that they're going to use an international courier company for a 99 cent item with "free postage".

Take the tin-foil hat off and embrace reality.

[goodiesinaus]

I sell more there so it's irrelevant. There's more competition on eBay so rhe exposure means norhing. The bottom line is everything. eBay has been rubbish for more than a decade. Ir used to be great during their humble beginnings.   

[davewil1964]

What case?

What point?

Haven't seen any of either from you

[goodiesinaus]

They are not cheap and I certainly don't use them because of that. I use them for conenience. I can get cheaper here but mostly I can't be **bleep**d getting in the car for one thing. But eBat has become boring and too much work. The search results return the same rubbish over and over again that I can usually find at some $2 shop or a market. Most of the so called cheap stuff don't last so you have to keep buying them. You look for authentic stuff but they're usually knockoffs. Ebay was better when it was more like gumtree.

[springyzone]

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@the-other-burt65 wrote:

What you are saying is true, but unless Australian start to stick together as a country and open new factories to produce something, instead of continually selling the little one we got left to overseas investors. Giving away mining royalty to overseas investor is also not helping a single bit.

The future is grim!

A complete lack of production in Australia and an unbelievable level of greed are the result of where we are now...

China, on the other hand, has a massive level of production (that it is getting better and better by the minute) and competitive prices... That's why they are doing so well and why Ebay and other like Amazon do sell so much..

Just because an Australian is selling Chinese goods in Australia, it doesn't change the end result. That is not how a successful economy is built or works...

I'll let you do the maths...

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I blame the greed of our government for a lot of this.

I believe the Chinese government, on the other hand, is deliberately subsidising their industry by providing virtually free postage in order to achieve economic domination on a worldwide scale, and they are succeeding.

While we freely sell off our land, our industries, even our ports.

I don't know what the solution is, but I do think supporting Australian based sellers is a start.

[the-other-burt65]

I agree. It would be nice to buy Australia made products sold by Australian citizen...

But as the OP did mention, in particular on this platform, it is not that easy..