@1guldenvijftig wrote:
Seller Member pretends to be local in whatever country you live in.
Delivery times are accordingly slow.
They string you along when making queries.
Don't be fooled.
This seller is on my "never buy from again" list.
It is a problem on ebay for quite a few buyers, going by the number of complaints on the messageboards.
I don't mind buying from China occasionally (though never for electricals) but all I ask for is honest listings and if it says the item is in Australia, then it jolly well should be.
The delivery date can be a dead give away. If you're buying something supposedly in Australia and delivery is a month off, that says it all. Take that as your warning. A month? It's overseas.
I realise a lot of buyers don't read feedback & they don't go hunting to track down the location of the seller. They read the ad, look at the delivery date & price & that is it. I would also suspect that, for many buyers, a feedback score that is in the 90's probably looks pretty good at first glance. In just about any other circumstance, a score of 97% would be considered quite high.
It's a good idea though to quickly click into the negative feedback for a seller before you buy, just to see if there is a trend & what the problems seem to be.
If you buy something though and delivery hasn't happened by the due date, open an item not received case. Give it a few days' grace, but don't be strung along.
As for your other purchases, I would consider myself reasonably honest but I would not have refunded the sellers for those items you mentioned. Two broken generators that the seller did not want back & that you used for parts to make one working generator is not cheating the seller. For a lot of others without the knowhow, it would just have meant 2 big items for the hard rubbish collection.
And a lamp that didn't work for ages then after a slap slowly started to work-that's a dodgy lamp & I don't know how happy I would be to keep using it, especially if it came direct from China.
