SCAM - Chinese sellers misrepresenting item location - Equick

[offroad7400]

So here is the latest 'SCAM' many Chinese sellers are now using in their listings to convince you to buy from them as their stock is supposedly located in Australia and you will get the goods quicker.

'AU STOCK' is big and bold in their listing heading.

In fact the item is in China and they use a re-fullfilment service called Equick.cn who consolidate many sellers parcels on a daily basis and ship them to Sydney. Equick then despatch them using Australia Post from their warehouse in Botany.

Around 4-5 days after you make your purchase you finally receive the tracking advice from Australia Post, which makes you think the items are in Australia, but in fact they have not even left China.  Around 10-14 days later you finally receive the goods.

This activity is clearly misleading and a breach of eBay's 'misrepresenting item location' rules and needs to be stopped.

[*tippy*toes*]

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@huntervalleymowing wrote:
Ebay is as shonky as there sellers

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Yet you are still buying. Out of your last 15 feedback received, 10 were from China. The remaining 5 from Australia. Most had dreadful feedback, including the Aussie sellers. 

If you think eBay is that shonky, go elsewhere, or stop buying cheap rubbish from China. You only have yourself to blame.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@huntervalleymowing wrote:
Ebay is as shonky as there sellers

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I’m going to give you the benefit of doubt and point out your error.

You have made a spelling mistake that affects the interpretation of your comment.

You either meant ”eBay is as shonky as their sellers” OR “eBay is as shonky as these sellers”.

Now, if it is the first misspelling then I must say that is a very broad statement that tarnishes all sellers.  Hardly a statement or position that can be verified as you are saying that all sellers are shonky when this is clearly not true.

If it is the second misspelling then that would be open for debate.  The Chinese sellers who deliberately game the system and state item location in Australia but send items from China are indeed guilty of behaving in a shonky way.

However many Chinese sellers do have stock in Australia.  If you check these listings carefully you might find a statement in the description saying something like “items may be supplied from our o/s warehouses depending on local availability”.  If they openly state this then it is hardly shonky, it is a prudent business policy i.e. supply items from alternate location to fulfil orders.  They can’t help it if buyers don’t read descriptions and complain later about orders being filled from o/s warehouse.

You obviously have an axe to grind, so I’ll leave it at that and offer this last one piece of advice:

DO NOT trust spell checkers, you need to check your spelling to ensure the correct there, their, they’re is being used and make sure of the exact word you are wanting to use when the word you want to use starts with “th”

[imastawka]

                  

[south.coffee]

At a guess I would say less than 5% of Chinese sellers use a local fulfillment warehouse.  50% would be using a 4PL logistics service for consolidation to overseas postal services local gateway.  The rest would be using China Post seamail which is subsidised by the Chinese Government.

Changes for incoming mail start 1 July 2020 when Australia Post can self declare the delivery costs of inbound international bulky letters and small packets which will effect China Post with possibly increased postage cost for Chinese sellers.  However the Chinese Government might subsidise any postage increases...

http://news.upu.int/no_cache/nd/upu-member-countries-reach-unanimous-agreement-on-postal-remuneratio...

[danthony1967]

This is still going on in 2020.

[trishm1964]

Hi yes, it's still going on. When you look at the item, it'll say Australia Stock and the location will be somewhere in Australia. It's easy to check though, just click onto their Feedback Profile and the country listed there will be China. 

[kerathe_74]

Where did you leave the negative comment? On their Facebook page?!

[tazzieterror]

You've replied to a six year old message, FYI.

Offroad7400 is still active on this forum so you might actually get a reply, but it pays to check the dates of topics and messages you're replying to.

[offroad7400]

Thanks for responding to my 6 year old thread and thanks for reading the... 11 pages thus far. Pity my brains cells don't go back that far to recall if or where I left negative feedback for that original seller.

Item misrepresentation is alive and well and expanding day by day.

[italo5]

Has there been an official response from ebay regarding this issue? How can we put pressure on ebay to change its ways?

This is clearly tax avoidance and misrepresentation of goods sold. Both of which is illegal in Australia but ebay clearly is aiding and abetting these practices.

Like to hear what we can do or who to write to get this practice changed.