Is it common practice

[bella_again]

For sellers to say the location is Australia for an item when in fact they are in the US? or do they only have to list where the item is?

Item location: NSW, Australia
Posts to: Australia

I only discovered they were in fact in the US upon recieving the email. Not that that is a huge problem as long as the item comes from where it claims to be.

[phorum_junkie*]

I have ids registered in both the UK and Aus, I don't sell most of the time using the UK id but if and when I do the item location will reflect which country the item is in.

Of course if I used an old template and forgot to change the item location it would be a listing policy violation but it would in no way mean you were going to receive a fake item.

It is usually done to increase visibiity and/or to disguise the fact that a return may be more expensive so not worth disputing. For those reasons you should certainly trash the description star (mine included if I have made a mistake lol) even if everything else is OK.

[corgidogz06]

In all my listings I show the item location as China. Then in the body of the listing I say that I design the items in Australia and they are manufactured in China and sent direct. I don't think I can be any clearer than this. However, I have received emails from people asking how long delivery from Australia would take.