CHINA BRUSHING SCAM- Item delivered to wrong address SCAM | Buying

jforre61388y5g · 2023-02-21T08:08:13.509000Z

So I have purchased 3 items from China all from different sellers but of different items to create a set for resale (toy figures). Every one of them shows tracking shipped to different states and no replies from sellers. That tracking is not not your item, in the BRUSHING scam sellers from China send trinket garbage to Ali Express customers (a website created for FRAUD) with that tracking number, confusing the customer as they did not order a "hair tie" or like I myself encountered "paper thin oven mitt." They do this to have the recipient contact the sender to offer personal information to steal identities or credit card information as most people here tend to be honest, unlike these repugnant sellers. I spoke with my local USPS who says they have hundreds of these little bags of garbage trinkets which they hesitate to deliver but the postmaster says they must be mailed as shipping is paid for. I understand the return address is "1 2 3 Sesame Street." Note these Sellers all have low positive feedback and a plethora of similar model products at fair cost (actual price compared to our way over-inflated prices of items "MADE IN CHINA.") This appears to be straight up FRAUD. Basically a seller in China has his friends create fake feedback by purchasing product that was never shipped to them, leaving positive FB to give the perception of a genuine seller, then listing product that looks real but is not (a lot of copy and paste stock photos, or photos belonging to someone else). They apparently float and steal buyers money and although buyer can be refunded through the eBay buyer protections I imagine eBay cannot actually retrieve those funds and is unable to prosecute perps as they are not held to US laws. I have contacted customer service and filed formal complaints expecting sellers to be taken offline they still exist. I dealt with another seller with the same issue 2 years ago expecting this to be a one-off accident but this is prevalent. I feel bad buyers are probably reading this because they have encountered the same issue, I would just like to say the only way to stop this is to stop buying goods from China. There are also masked entities that say product in US with seller address in CA, NY or NJ for example, then you receive an international tracking number. Not all sellers are fake and not all goods are bad but BEWARE as there are so many today that are not even real and I did not even receive a knockoff, nothing, nada, no item whatsover. Why eBay continues to allow this confuses me as they lose final value fees when they refund buyers. Must be more to this than meets the eye. Be Well

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