false advertising

[jingellic]

ebay actively supports false advertising in breach of state laws.  For example I purchase an item because it is in my country, I am willing to pay extra for the speed of delivery.  Weeks later it has not arrived.  If I had bought the one advertised correctly as in China I would have had it already and save my dollars.  Any complaints to the vendor results in a broken excuse in Chenglish

[enigmabear]

eBay OZ *might* report such sellers to eBay China who do nothing

Since that is how it has always been,the best buyers can do is to stop supporting these dodgey sellers by not buying from them (and not supporting them)

The feedback page for such sellers shows where they are registered, and more often than not they have hundreds and hundreds of negs for sending from overseas when the ad says 'Aust' (somewhere) as the location and all kinds of excuses in response

Given eBay won't do anything,people need to stop supporting these sellers by not buying from them in the first place

[imastawka]

Did you even bother to read their 500+ negatives where many state the item comes from China?

With 500+ negs and 500+ neutrals I wouldn't have bought from them no matter where

their stock came from.

Buyers must take some responsibility IMO.

[countessalmirena]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

You can check the seller's location by looking at their feedback profile page. Find this by clicking onto the feedback score of the eBay member in question. You'll see something like:

Member since: [date when the person joined eBay] in [country in which the member operates]

(Mine, for instance, says "Member since: 31-May-05 in Australia")

Sometimes the location information is misleading. The seller could have been living in Australia at the time of joining eBay, but is shipping items from China. If you have doubts about a seller, still on that feedback profile page, under Recent feedback ratings, you can click onto their negative feedback for the last 12 months, as it's a link that collates all of the negative feedback for that member over the last 12 months. If you see feedback comments that mention that the item came from China, or that it took a lot longer to arrive than it should have, these are clues that you should heed.

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