When is ebay going to get rid of Chinese sellers? It is rubbish.

[carolepoppy]

I a so tired of buying from ebay, and getting shoddy goods. The Vacuum cleaner, that blew up in my face. The smart watch  that certainly is not smart. I now try to avoid buying from ebay. Please tell me where my product comes from. I am tired of Chinese rubbish,  and tired of being askec to send a video of my product not working. How on earth can I send a video, of the vacuum that blew up on plugging in? Incidentally,  when I took it to an electrical shop, I was told it was dangerous!!! The smart watch, that loses the information. Ebay, you are killi g your company with this rubbish.

[springyzone]

I agree with janeababe.

There have been dozens of threads on here by people who bought items that were listed as located in Australia, but the sellers lied.

That's the thing-people can lie about item location and get away with it, the way ebay is set up at the moment.

Unfortunately you can't always take every ad at face value.

That's why some boardies here suggest going the extra click and checking out where the seller is registered.

You might look at something that is listed as being in Australia but if the seller is registered in eg China, the odds are it might be shipped from China or else the seller has a warehouse here. But the fact remains, you are giving your custom to someone from China, not to an Australian based seller.

That may or may not matter to some customers but in my opinion the information should always be upfront. Items should not be listed as being here if they are actually overseas at the point of sale.

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As for the Australia only filter or in fact the other filters where you can elect to look at items only within a certain distance from your home. I am glad you have only had positive experiences but I have personally found it varies.

For instance, just say I wanted to look up a fairly common, biggish item such as a table and I chose the 'within 25km ' filter because pick up would be the best option, then ebay would probably do a reasonable job. But if I chose an item that was less common and ebay didn't have much to show me, I have found that, without even a line to separate the lists or a note to say there are items outside my area, it very soon goes into items located elsewhere.

It's been a while sinjce I used the filters but I can remember looking at listings located over 600km away in other states when I asked for about 20-25km radius.

There are also times I have put Australia only and been shown things from USA and UK, which last time I looked, are not located in Australia.

Maybe ebay has improved the filter but it hasn't always been perfect in the past. I'm not taking the mickey. I've been on ebay about 20 years so have had time to come across the occasional glitches.

[repentatleisure1952]

"I am completely, totally and utterly astonished" that you have not replied to the hundreds of other OLD threads on the same subject.

[sandypebbles]

I know which comment is total bleep, and it was not the one from Paddy

And only one comment giving out completely false information 

Seems the only point of your comment is to get people not to check who they are really buying from

[zanadoo_56]

Never buy anything electrical or electronic from China.  I got burned once years ago and never again!

The only stuff I've bought from China these days has been:

# coin and jewellery storage boxes (excellent),

# bed sheets, pillowcases and a doona cover in colours Oz sellers won't stock (very good) and

# papercraft items for cardmaking (a mixed bag - some excellent and some not great but all were dirt cheap so no great loss for the boring stuff).

I've also found some of the Chinese sellers DO have warehouses in Oz (especially for sheets) so delivery has been very fast.  Also, anything coming from Hong Kong can be tracked by Aust Post.

[twyngwyn]

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@lezned-toycollector wrote:

Bwahahahahaha... that's complete and utter **bleep**, and you know it. 

When one uses the search filter, it obliterates unselected/unwanted results - sorry, but that's a fact. It's what the filter is designed to do, and exactly how it functions.

Surely, you jest

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[countessalmirena]

@lezned-toycollector,

To illustrate that the "Australia only" search does not function as you believed it does, here is a link of a saved search which I've just created, for "feather pen", with the following filters: Condition new, Item location Australia Only.

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw=feather+pen&LH_PrefLoc=1&LH_ItemCondition=3

Click onto the first listing that comes up. (You can see in the screenshot above that the link is purple, showing that I've clicked onto it.)

Click onto the seller's feedback percentage.

Lo and behold, you'll see...  

The feedback pecentage of 96.8% belies the "consistently delivers outstanding customer service" accolade, and the "Member since: 30-Aug-09 in China" belies the "Selecting Australia only, completely eliminates ALL items from overseas" search filter expectation that you have.

No Mickey. It's one of the irritating aspects of buying things on eBay. There's simply no foolproof quick easy way of eliminating items being sold by Chinese eBay sellers from a search, and the buyer will need that extra step of checking country of registration for the seller.

If you'd like to know more about how eBay justifies these results with the search filter selected, search for "Just in time fulfilment" on these boards. Or... I'll briefly explain it here. If a Chinese (or other) seller on eBay partners with one of the logistics companies that are offers to eBay sellers in China (through eBay, to make it wonderfully easy for those sellers), so that the goods being sold might be

• on the high seas etc. on their way to Australia
• sometimes stocked in one of the logistics companies' warehouses for the seller
• possibly (who wants to check the manifest?) on their way to Australia
• conceivably / possibly / who knows? in Australia
• being manufactured by the seller or by the factory rushing them out and might then be readied to be despatched on a pallet to Australia
• actually in the warehouse in Australia
• listed and potentially able to be despatched to Australia

... then, under the idea of "Just in time fulfilment", those goods are considered by eBay to be "in Australia" and can be claimed to be "in Australia" under Item Location.

The inadequacy of this model has been highlighted ever since the pandemic, when supply chains and the reliance on parts and items turning up "just in time" have been revealed as completely vulnerable and potentially disastrous.

Many buyers loathe this fishy-wishy-Australiaishy notion of where the goods are, and for those who want to support the local economy and buy Australian, there's just no avoiding the need to check the seller's country of registration and the negative feedback comments over the last 12 months to see if there is a consistent issue about item location.

Yes, padi was 100% correct in what he posted. He is mickeyless; whoever took your mickey, it wasn't he.

[*sons_and_daughters*]

Geez Countess, don't let the truth get in the way of a good story! The blurb from that member was almost believable, except we all know that it's not the case.  I would love Australia Only, to be just that. For me, out of 1,000 results after clicking Australia Only, I might get 15 that are actually genuinely Australian.