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Seller location discrepancy.
How/why can a seller's location on the auction page say (for example) Located in: Orlando Florida. But if you go check out their feedback page it says Member since: Sep-01-16 in China. (Just an example). There are many others.
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barbieboomer-2007
OP3 years agoI just get so tired of the ones who say the US, yet the items are literally taking
a slow boat from China. I want to buy US. I even choose US only for my searches
and still get stuff from China.
eburtonlab
Mentor3 years agoThe "US only" item location filter selects items that are listed as being in the United States; however, as you 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.
When faced with a long list of search results that you want to narrow down to sellers that can ship 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.
eBay seems to have changed some of the search defaults, and "Guaranteed Delivery" options may not always appear when searching. You may be able to edit your search URL and change the ebay.com/sch/ to ebay.com/dsc/ and then you should see the Guaranteed Delivery options when you load the page.
barbieboomer-2007
OP3 years agoIt would be a full-time job to report all the sellers who say they are located in the US yet says they are in Japan, Indonesia, China etc. I don't want a job. Thanks for the info.
shipscript
·3 years ago@barbieboomer-2007
Regardless of whether the seller lives in the US or China, the "item location" is the critical attribute. If the item does not ship from the address shown in the listing, the seller is in violation of eBay policy. You can report the item you received. You can also open a "not as described" return request if the item location was misrepresented.
All listings include a report option.
When reporting the listing, select these options:
1. Listing practices
2. Other listing practices
3. Item location misrepresentation
4. "Continue" to open Comment box.
eburtonlab
Mentor3 years agoIt would be a full-time job to report all the sellers who say they are located in the US
Avoiding those sellers, rather than reporting, is likely the better option, particularly if you are in a hurry.
Save the reporting for the most egregious cases.
kensgiftshop
·3 years agoA lot of sellers from China dropship their items from warehouses located in the US.
eburtonlab
Mentor3 years agoIt is possible that the seller is registered in one location but ships from a warehouse in another location as indicated in the listing.
But it is also possible that the seller may actually be shipping from overseas in violation of eBay policy.