Based in Australia, Shipped from China?

[3415len]

Hello,

After purchasing quite a few things from "Australian" sellers recently through eBay, I have noticed that the packages are being sent from China.

How come these sellers are allowed to say their listings are from Australia when the packages come from China? It's obviously a deliberate misconception created to lure more buyers in.

People think they are buying from an Australian dealer when really they are purchasing another poor quality Chinese item.

Is this allowed? If so, why ?

[big*shed]

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@247newdeals wrote:
First you back the practices of dishonest sellers then talk about someone else's character that is the kettle calling the pot black LOL. He/She would not 'dragged' the post up but found it by doing a search yes maybe they should of checked the date and possibly started a new thread. The fact though that a thread from 3 years a go is just a relevant, if not more, now shows how little EBay care and your ranting and raving is a LOT to do with how EBay can continue allowing bad sellers get away, with things like this, and do nothing.

In my eyes ANYTHING done to stop these dishonest sellers is good and hopefully just possibly stop a lot of people getting ripped off. A lot of these sellers are just increasing their rating and a lot are closed after ripping a lot of people off with larger priced items later on. Buyers should not stand for bad seller and it should not matter where they are China Australia or anywhere else.

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please enlighten me as to where or when I have ever backed the practices of dishonest sellers.

I would be very interested to see that, unless you think that because I didn't criticise the sellers who misrepresent item location is me backing them, in which case there is no point even trying to continue with this as that means that because I didn't say something I was actually saying something completely opposite to what I didn't say without saying it.  That is circular thinking at its finest.

When a poster comes here and says they will lie and make a claim of Item Not Received, that is admitting dishonest behaviour.

"In my eyes ANYTHING done to stop these dishonest sellers is good" .  If that involves a buyer behaving dishonestly and then criticising sellers for being dishonest then that is a clear case of the pot calling the kettle black.

For the record, we haven't seen the listings where the item location may or may not have been misrepresented.  I am choosing my words carefully, as I have seen many listings where the item location is Sydney BUT when you read the full item description it states that when the item is out of stock in one location it may be sent from another location/wharehouse.  Might not be ethical to do that but not entirely dishonest UNLESS there were never any items in Sydney in the first place.  No point in commenting about ehtcom's sellers without being able to see the listings they are complaining about.

[ehtcom]

I think you need to keep calm and relax mate.

This is my standard "procedure".

I order an item from an "Australian" based seller. (I like to support local sellers).

I expect it to be posted within Australia.

Item doesn't arrive by stated delivery date.

I contact seller stating item hasn't arrived and ask what post office they used.

They reply saying wait more days. I ask again what post office they used.

Usually a different person replies say wait a few more days. Yet again I ask what post office they used. (Can you see the pattern here?)

I open a dispute claiming item not received. (As I have not received the item)

I go ahead and purchase products again or in a local store, then when the item eventualy arrives, I return it.

If they're too stupid to provide a return address, that's not my problem. I can still sleep at night.

I can tell you one thing for sure. I don't think too many genuine Australian based sellers would be too upset about me doing this.

I don't see why it should be up to me to check the sellers "been a member since" location and feedback just to make sure they really are Australian based. Though that still doesn't gaurantee they are local.

BTW. I have complained to eBay many, many times. I've given up. These low life scum Chinese sellers are infesting Australian eBay like a pox.

[big*shed]

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@ehtcom wrote:

I think you need to keep calm and relax mate.

This is my standard "procedure".

I order an item from an "Australian" based seller. (I like to support local sellers).

I expect it to be posted within Australia.

Item doesn't arrive by stated delivery date.

I contact seller stating item hasn't arrived and ask what post office they used.

They reply saying wait more days. I ask again what post office they used.

Usually a different person replies say wait a few more days. Yet again I ask what post office they used. (Can you see the pattern here?)

I open a dispute claiming item not received. (As I have not received the item)

I go ahead and purchase products again or in a local store, then when the item eventualy arrives, I return it.

If they're too stupid to provide a return address, that's not my problem. I can still sleep at night.

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I think you need to keep calm and relax mate.

I am calm, and relaxed,  and not sure why anyone woud think otherwise.

This is my standard "procedure". . . . .

Thanks for outlining your standard procedure.  It does differ in words and presentation from your original post where you wrote "If they're going to lie about the shipping location so they can charge more, and I pay extra so I can get it sooner, then I'm going to lie about receiving the item if it's shipped from China and make them loose money".  I hope you recognise the significant difference between the two pieces of text.  No mention of lying in your standard procedure.

Had you posted your standard procedure originally, rather than the "I'm going to lie" piece of text, then I would not have taken issue with any of it, and probably would not have even posted on this thread.  Maybe you were not calm when you wrote that, as your use of the words "I'm going to lie" does not truly represent your standard procedure (now that we know it).

[wildwood5012]

Hi

If I buy something from Australia I wish it to be on these shores before I pay.

Too many are taking orders then getting the things sent in.

I do not like that method at all.

Yes it is cheap enough to throw out.  but a lot of $1.00 can mount up and then if take wait time into account your actually losing money.

Remember you look after the pennies the pounds will look after themselves.

[lyndal1838]

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@wildwood5012 wrote:

Hi

If I buy something from Australia I wish it to be on these shores before I pay.

Too many are taking orders then getting the things sent in.

That is dropshipping and is quite OK with ebay.

The listing should state the correct location of the item so you would know that it will take longer to arrive.

The method is fraught with problems for the seller in that the seller takes all the responsibility for the item arriving and being as described but he is dependant on a third party to ship it for him.

[jbmbkb]

i myself like to support local australian ebayers and these days try and buy exclusivley from them ,due to not wanting to wait for items to come from overseas and if theres an issue not wanting to post it back overseas ,if i get an item thats been listed as in australia and gets sent from overseas the seller is guarranteed a neg from me and 1 star all the way for being a liar. regardless of how good the item is. 

[davewil1964]

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@wildwood5012 wrote:

Hi

If I buy something from Australia I wish it to be on these shores before I pay.

Too many are taking orders then getting the things sent in.

I do not like that method at all.

Yes it is cheap enough to throw out.  but a lot of $1.00 can mount up and then if take wait time into account your actually losing money.

Remember you look after the pennies the pounds will look after themselves.

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If you're getting stuff for $1 you can almost guarantee it's coming from China.

Minimum postage within Australia is 70c; FVF 10c; Paypal 33c = $1.13.

Maybe try paying a bit more if you want genuine stuff from Australian sellers.

[justcruising48]

Have you not noticed EBAY LOVE SELLERS IN AUSTRALIA WHO SHIP FROM CHINA!!!!!! On listng an item and putting in the payment options here in Australia there is NOT an option for postage with insurance that would be very common here, but go to the bottom of the post options and they have a tab for shipping from China etc. So THAT is more common for ebay that austpost posting with insurance???? JUST CRAZY!  

[woodduck*2012]

I have had many experiences with Asian Sellers posing as Australian Sellers, its as simple as changing your country in your Ebay account.

I have come across item locations suck as (Shanghi Australia for example), **bleep**.

Yes many asian sellers from HK, China etc are in fact opening accounts from china and stateing that they are Australians in Australia and the products they sell are in for example DARWIN AUSTRALIA.

If the sale price is a few dallars within China price then the item is most lilely in china or other but not australia, the postage and fees would meen a loss to the seller.

Dont bother complaining to Ebay, they dont give a **bleep** as most of these imposters have extremely high sales and ebay takes 9.9% of that so its not in Ebays best interests to enforce the rules.

Bottom line is They are wrecking Ebay for Australian sellers, they probably do the same things in the uk and america.

Check the neg feed back before you by and you will see by the comments of others as to posage time etc.