Recently bought some stuff.....

[saarzi]

I recently bought about 50 items from Ebay - all cost $1 - $2 - all random, mostly Chinese, sellers.

I have received about 30 so far. 10 out of 30 items were defective, broken, or so poorly made they were unusuable.

I knew to expect **bleep** from Chinese sellers, but wow. A return rate of 1 in 3??  Goes to show how many buyers dont do anything about defect / broken items and dont ask for their money back, - if they did, these sellers just wouldnt be around.   Yet smaller sellers who sell more expensive items have a higher chance of buyers opening a return request, and so are more likely to be penalised than larger sellers.

Just another indication of how Ebays systems arent working for sellers OR buyers.

[joethenuts]

FOR A REFUND HOW much would it cost the buyer to send back to china an article that you paid $1  OR $2  FOR

[saarzi]

I wouldnt know. Due to Ebays policies, Ive never met a Chinese seller who required an item to be returned to them for a refund. Ive also never met a buyer who was forced by Ebay to return an Item for a refund.

[*sparklz*]

ebay would not refund me till I had returned the item.

Paypal will not refund unless you can prove the item was posted back to the seller.

I would say that was a forced return to get your money back and as it should be.

[phorum_junkie*]

Are you sure those plant seeds are allowed? If you have purchased them and they have come through customs undetected then you could be in a load of trouble, it isn't illegal to post them to Australia but it may very well be illegal to order and receive them. I hope the contents were correctly dieclared on the custom's form.

[saarzi]

Goodness.

Only SOME commerially packed seeds are prohibited. Most, are not. 

You dont even need a permit to import the vast majority of them. 

Feel free to google Dept. Agriculture, every law and regulation is written on there in very easy to understand format. There arent many prohibited seeds and they are in a neat little table (or three) for you. Most are actually due to contamination levels, not the seeds themselves (but there are lists for both). I have a company that regularly imports seeds now .. Completely different regulations for commercial loads or personal use imports.

Ohh, and ALL imports to Australia need to be correctly declared AND labelled,  not just seeds...