Item location misrepresentation

[bigdonut]

This has been happening for years.

I started reporting them (Chinese), the more people report the soonier they might do something about it.

KLM Search is useless because they are say they are in Sydney, Darwin, Melbourne and I even seen one the other day at Broome.

Look at the item, Half way down the listing, Right Hand Side there is a Report Button, (Under Ad)  Click it and  Report Category : Listing Practices, Then Reason for report: Other Listing Practises, Then Detailed Listing: Item location misrepresentation.

The More People that do it the better chance something will get done.

If you message ebay they will say that they are warehousing in these cities (Which most are Not) Some are if they have Woolworths pickup but 99% are in Hong Kong and China.

Not only does it have an effect on our business but buyers are getting ........ (Not Happy)

Not only is it coming from overseas but ebay give them up to 30 days or more to deliver the item and what do they give us before we get a defect...

The other issue is Drop downs, when you search an item and it comes up for $1 when infact the battery that runs it is $1 but the item in the search is actually $10... Thus they get first up on the search by price.

If saying you are in Australia (Seller) then you should be liable for all the Consumer laws and paying GST as we are.

Chinese sellers get away with Blue Murder with 20 user names selling the same thing for 1c difference.

If ebay checked they would see that the payment goes back to the same Paypal Account, all they would need to do is cross reference the paypal account to stop it.

And yes my sales have also fallen off a cliff in the past 2 Weeks from 20-30 a day to 1 or 2 sales a day

Ok I have had my 2c Worth

[clubesquire]

I keep saying it and I'll say it again. It's beyond my comprehension why some entrepreneurial investigative reporter, searching for their more than 5 minutes of fame, hasn't drilled down deep into some of the practices I read about here.

I won't dare use the words accurately describing some of the goings on, even if true and I have no reason to doubt that, for fear of someone heading off the see Fleecem and Floggit Solicitors wanting to speak with 'Sue.'

So much seems so wrong. And, I can't see it being so wrong without there being (the next bit in invisible ink) criminal culpability. I'm not saying there is (exculpating myself), but surely I can be forgiven for considering that probability?

We're just sailing along, trying to keep our noses clean, but I must say we're not comfortable here like we were the last time we were involved. There's an unmistakable puplibility about the place, or is just within us, those of us who frequent these forums, which I'd suggest is only a poofteenth of a measure of all eBay sellers?

Honestly, as an ignorant and naive newcomer (returning) we've found eBay to not be a very nice place, even though we've been treated well by eBay. It's just too hard to ignore all the other 'stuff' satelliting about the place. If it smells like an elephant has dumped in your loungeroom the chances are you'll find a whole wall knocked A*** over T**. Even that's okay, because it can be fixed, but some people appear to me to have been irrepairably damaged but some practices and policy under the eBay umbrella, and you can't help but have empathy for them.

Perhaps I'm naive in believing everything I read too, but too much of it has a 'ring of truth' to it and I find it both intimidating and very sad.

Melina.

[woodduck*2012]

Well it is now November 2019 and its worse, so report away all you like, Ebay China owns Ebay Australia. in addition to to this we also now have many Ebay Australia accounts opening up and you guessed it AU STOCK and piles of broken english and neg feedback, in fact if you sound Chinese while reading an item description, then its another Chinese seller but with an Au Ebay account.

[supermussolinibros]

I think the way to get them from now on would be to buy something and leave feedback like "thanks great item and thank you for supporting democracy in hong kong"

China is implementing a social credit system at the moment and feedback like that will affect the social credit standing-may make them think twice about selling to australia and polluting our local listings, may even drive them away out of fear-and they will have only their stupid credit system to thank, maybe if enough people do this on ebay it may overload their pathetic social credit system

[padi*0409]

"think the way to get them from now on would be to buy something and leave feedback like "thanks great item and thank you for supporting democracy in hong kong"

As I said in my other post, that feedback would be instantly removed if the seller complained to eBay, and you could possibly get sanctioned for violating feedback policies.