eBay systems are in place to protect their cash cows dishonest practices. You filter by item location to Australia and from the items main page you will not see their location. Side note the distance for me said on one item 720km and that’s still in Australia. You can actually see the sellers location if you click on the seller (it’s somewhat buried)
I purchased an item advertised as being an Aussie seller only after transaction completed did I realise it was Chinese because of the 2 month estimated delivery date. Unfortunately the sellers software mark’s it as posted immediately. I contacted the seller straight away and asked them to cancel it, it was a Saturday night and they responded next morning saying it’s already posted. Being a tracked item eBay will not allow a dispute to be raised until delivered.
Negative feedback is of no use either for two reasons:
1. They just close shop and reopen if too much negative feedback is received
2. eBay protects them, I once received a fake item, I reported and won and received a refund. Instead of name calling or being nasty my feedback left was “item was not genuine as advertised”. eBay pulled the feedback down to which I did contact customer service and they responded with that it would have been harmful.

The onus is on us to either boycott eBay or just be more patient when buying, looking at feedback and confirming their point of origin.

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