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These eBay sellers shouldn't be allowed to post a American flag if they aren't here in America! All these sellers in China and Ukraine should have a symbol! Real big so we know shipping will take a long time!!!! Wake up America
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eburtonlab
Mentor2 years agoThe solution is not for eBay to prevent sellers from displaying flags or requiring others to be displayed; the solution is to stop believing that a seller is located somewhere based only on seeing a particular flag.
Most sellers do not display flags at all, just those that want you to jump to a conclusion from seeing such a flag. Seeing an American flag in a seller's listing should signal you that you should check where the seller's account is actually registered.
The "US only" item location filter selects items that are listed as being in the United States; however, as you may have seen, not every seller that lists items in the US ships from the US as they should. You can report such sellers for item location misrepresentation, but until eBay actually cracks down, your best course of action is to avoid such sellers entirely.
Before ordering you should check the estimated delivery dates -- that is usually a good indication of how far away items actually ship from. Also, going to a seller's profile page or feedback page will tell you where the seller's account was registered. If a seller is registered overseas, that raises the likelihood of an item shipping from outside the US, particularly for multiple quantity commodity items. Checking seller feedback will often reveal if there are problems with long shipping times, canceled orders or other supply chain warning signs.