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@digital*ghost wrote:

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I find this quite interesting to be honest. I know it's come from Tim Davies, who is generally a reliable source, but I question it because if I - as an Australian seller - list on any international site, I automatically agree (via eBay's own terms and conditions) to comply with that site's T&C's, whether they are the same or differ from eBay AU's.

 

If a Chinese seller has carte blanche to list on any site and not comply with that site's policies, either I can do the same, or the Chinese are getting special treatment.

 

I feel fairly certain it's not the former, because you can bet your life if I listed something on the US site and breached one (or more) of their policies, I'd face the consequences if reported / caught, and if it's the latter, I would personally prefer a better explanation than what amounts to "it's internal policy to give them that special treatment".

 

 

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I agree with you there DG and I'm quite sure that anybody who lists internationally has to agree with the policies that exist withing the country of listing. Its the application of those policies that appears lax.

When I spoke with Tim personally about this last year he seemd to indicate that the problem was more to do with ebay.CN than anything else. They are none too good at upholding their own policies and simply fail to act on any member reports from other countries unless they are a "large" breach of the rules (eg I'm quite sure they would act if something like guns and/or drugs were involved). They are more interested in the $$$ than anything else (as is always the case in the Chinese culture). So they will avoid doing anything that may impact on that income. And I would guess that ebay global HQ would also be interested in the income being generated by ebay.CN and are probably lax about enforcing them to do so too for this very same reason.

So it was pretty much Tim's opinion that this kind of thing will continue into the foreseeable future unless something major changes with internal ebay global policy and governance. So what I took away from the discussion was that I would be wasting my time to even report things like location misrepresentation by CN sellers as its unlikely to be acted upon by ebay.CN.

Especially if the evidence is a bit dodgy like them claiming they have an AU based warehouse. But if you order an item from them it will come in 6-weeks (if at all) emblazened with CN postmarks. Of course then they will just claim that the AU warehouse was out of stock so we sent it direct from our Chinese supplier on this occasion. So its pretty hard to beat it really.