Fraudulent seller

Question

I purchased an item I checked the tracking the tracking says it was shipped to a different address than mine.

The tracking says to enter your information I entered mine it says incorrect that means that it was shipped someplace else from the very start.

I tried to explain this to eBay but they accept the tracking information as if it is tracking it is shipped regardless of who it was shipped to but it was not shipped to me.

So now according to eBay I'm supposed to accept that I'm going to be ripped off because they don't check their sellers

eburtonlab · Answer

Check your order details to make sure the correct address appears there. That is the address the seller is required to ship to.

Contact the shipping service to determine if the tracking number you received was for a package that was addressed to you.

Good advice for dealing with false tracking:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Buying/I-tried-contacting-seller-i-tried-contacting-fedex-i-tried/m-p/...

What kind of feedback does your seller have?

You can avoid many fake tracking issues by choosing to only do business with experienced sellers that have a proven track record of delivering similar items as seen by examining the seller's feedback page, and by avoiding inexperienced sellers, sellers with patterns of negative feedback indicating serious problems, or sellers with large gaps in the selling history or recent drastic changes of seller behavior.