China sellers on eBay

[porkchopper2013]

I’m **bleep** that we allow them to sale on here. When people like myself go to buy something it says it will arrive in 3-7 days but after it is shipped the arrival time changes to 25 days. This should be for US and that’s it. 

[mrdutch1001]

eBay is a GLOBAL selling venue, same as most similar online selling venues. Don't like it? best to go look for a USA only site for USA only sellers that provides same/similar/good traffic ...and good luck with that!

[mudshark61369]

@porkchopper2013,

Because ebay helped some chinese sellers start businesses in the U.S. it can be hard to try and filter them out even using the U.S. only option. The best way to try and avoid them is to check feedback profiles and listings carefully before buying. 

Below is a list of things I use to ferret out chinese sellers masquerading as U.S. ones.

Indications on listing pages;

1. Item location not giving a city or state Ex. Ca. /USA, Many places USA, USA/USA.
2. Extended delivery or handling time frames. Especially, from supposed U.S. based sellers.
3. American flag symbols and many statements of being a U.S. Seller
4. Very low prices w/ Free shipping
5. The same photos and listing templates used by many other sellers
6. Measurements that are both metric and inches.
7. Use of Asian models in photos
8. Verbiage in descriptions that do not sound like they were written by a person whose first language is English

On feedback profile pages;

1. Country of registration ... sometimes.
2. Very high volume seller registered between 2010 and now.
3. Feedback percentages below 98.9%  Some can be higher because chinese sellers often have a few accounts they can switch between.
   
4. Neutral and negative feedback sometimes in the hundreds  (you can click on those numbers to read only those comments)  look for slow shipping, non delivery,  partial orders received, use of fake tracking numbers, items shipped from China comments, as well as the poor quality ones.
5. Very high feedback number, but only a few hundred items sold in the last 12 months.  The seller probably switches between accounts, when one gets too many negatives.
6. Replies to non positive feedback that indicate English is not the persons first language
7. Repetitive replies to non-positive feedback

[eburtonlab]

In the US at least, when faced with a long list of search results that you want to narrow down to sellers that can ship and deliver quickly, using the "Guaranteed Delivery" filter will often help; very few sellers that ship from overseas qualify. That is a rough filter, though -- many domestic sellers may be filtered out as well.

If no sellers can deliver to your area in four days, try changing your zip code and searching again -- the trick is to find sellers that can reliably deliver somewhere in the US in four days; the actual delivery time to your location is not material as long as it filters out overseas sellers. Just be sure to change your zip code back before you place an order to see the correct shipping calculations.

[eburtonlab]

In the US at least, when faced with a long list of search results that you want to narrow down to sellers that can ship and deliver quickly, using the "Guaranteed Delivery" filter will often help; very few sellers that ship from overseas qualify. That is a rough filter, though -- many domestic sellers may be filtered out as well.

If no sellers can deliver to your area in four days, try changing your zip code and searching again -- the trick is to find sellers that can reliably deliver somewhere in the US in four days; the actual delivery time to your location is not material as long as it filters out overseas sellers. Just be sure to change your zip code back before you place an order to see the correct shipping calculations.

[tigercatt-16]

“.....we allow them to sale (sic) on here.”

Who’s “we”? 
We have nothing to say about it.  Unless you run Ebay it’s not your place to decide who to “allow” to do business on here.

I think, sometimes, this type of attitude is why Americans get a bad reputation around the world.  We can be quite arrogant and high handed at times.

Hopefully you can put the good advice of the other posters to use.