Why is fraud allowed on ebay

[murra.clark]

Why is it when you purchase an item from a Seller who states the item is located in Australia, and you the buyer are also in AUstralia too, and the item is getting posted via Australia Post Parcel Post the seller states either (A) Sorry No Tracking, (B) Tracking Costs a fee. YET ALL Australia post Parcel posts has FREE tracking as part of the service. Then to add more fraud the item arrives with China Customs tag and arrival stamps showing item came through Victorias main airport where as the seller is supposedly posting from New South Wales

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[padi*0409]

It's a common tactic by Asian sellers to claim they have a warehouse in Australia and post from there, when they often (nearly always) post from their own country. eBay Oz will claim it's eBay China's problem and neither of them will do anything about it.

The best way you can check for this is to go to the seller's feedback page and look at where they are registered, and check feedback for any comments saying they post from Asia.

Edit to add.   The best warehouse location I saw recently was Uluru.......................

[daydreams_12]

Yes, and the warehouse front door was just near a B I G rock!!! LOL

[spoltzs]

Sadly ebay don’t seem to give a damn about its customers anymore. They allow fakes on the site as well and don’t do anything about it either.

[padi*0409]

Up until that location daydreams, I thought Darwin and FNQ were bad but Uluru really takes the cake......... unfortunately buyers still get taken in by the whole location misrepresentation scam.

spoltzs  

The fake side of things is a bit different in that eBay can/will only act if the items are reported by members and there is proof that the item is fake. Caveat emptor on high end items are too cheap to be true.

[enigmabear]

Ebay don't care

Buyers could put a stop to these 'sellers' by not insisting on buying buying buying from those who are registered in China and whose feedback is full of red dots saying items were sent from China and not Australia as advertised 

Because people choose to keep buying in the above situations, the sellers keep on doing the same thing over and over

[c_mount]

Because this corporation is rotten to the core. Fraudsters help fraudsters. Look at the damn fees we have to pay for a start!

[4channel]

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@c_mount wrote:
Because this corporation is rotten to the core. Fraudsters help fraudsters. Look at the damn fees we have to pay for a start!

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Most of what you say c_mount  I agree with. I would hope that ebay would restore itself to it's former glory and look at a long term approach to things. Gettinmg rid of Global Shipping would be a fantastic move.  Also the fee structure could possibly be looked at too. But the GSP is going to be the killer in the long term as it's already causing a migration to Amazon and other sites.

Just today an item arrived in the mail from the US by the trusty USPS. $22.23 post. Took less thn 2 weeks. Cost me half the price of Global Shipping, and no damage by the mandatory unpacking and triple handing as per what it would have been had it been sent via GSP.