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What to do about sellers who are not honest about item location?
I pick items that have a shorter shipping distance in the hopes they arrive sooner, but sometimes I get sellers who end up shipping from much further away. I suspect there are many sellers using this deception because they have no inventory. Does ebay allow this?
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krazzykats
Mentor3 weeks agoNot really, but it's hard to enforce it.
eburtonlab
Mentor3 weeks ago@tseller0
Probably the best way to deal with sellers that misrepresent item location is to avoid them whenever possible. The "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.
Before ordering you should check the estimated delivery dates -- that is a good indication of how far away items actually ship from. Generic shipping options or DHL may be a sign of an international shipment. Also, going to a seller's profile page or feedback page will tell you where the seller's account was registered. Although some overseas sellers do use US warehouses to ship their items (and some registered US-sellers may employ drop-shippers), 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 closely will often reveal if there are problems with long shipping times, canceled orders or other supply chain warning signs, particularly if buyers that encounter problems with drop-shippers leave feedback indicating that.