Chinese Drop-shipped Products Being Listed as 'In North America'...

This really needs to start being something Ebay punishes sellers for. When you buy something listed as being in 'North America' or in "United States", you are probably paying more in shipping to get it quicker. Instead, you are, more and more paying both US and Chinese subsidised shipping and still waiting weeks for it to arrive.

This is FRAUD.

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Posted 2 years ago·Last reply 2 years ago

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tobaccocardyahoo

·2 years ago

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Fulfillment of seller owned merchandise from fulfillment warehouses in the US is not dropshipping.

Many Chinese sellers are having their high volume products warehoused in the US, some their own warehouse, others shared.

You may or may not receive the item more quickly from one of these fulfillment houses than when shipped from China. I get some shipments from China faster than some US shipments from Ebay sellers.

One expects to pay more when the sellers costs are higher, but it is not always the case.

If you choose to compete with Chinese sellers, you have to have a strategy and appropriate cost structure. If you lack one, all you can do is complain about how they do business. And you will because their cost structure is low and their profit expectations on each sales are low.

I order low cost items where I am not concerned with delivery time that I can treat as disposable from Chinese sellers on Ebay and they treat me well.

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OP2 years ago

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All I'm saying is that to claim an item is IN THE US and have it coming from overseas IS FRAUD. And above a certain level, this should end a sellers 'journey' PERIOD.

mudshark61369

·2 years ago

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@artphotodude,

Apparently you are not checking seller's feedback profile pages before buying from them. One you bought from in the last month has a 98.1% rating but has received 21,127 negatives in the last year. Others you've bought from are registered in China.

Many China based sellers registered in the U.S. meaning their listings show up when choosing U.S. or North America, and often they are drop shipping from huge chinese owned warehouses in the U.S., that may not have all of the items the seller lists, so an item is then shipped from China. One way to avoid some of them is not to use Price: lowest or Best Match as your search results sort.

Because it is not always easy to tell where a seller or their items are coming from, I've developed a list of things I look for to weed them out.

On Listing pages:

Items priced well below brand name items prices, and available from many sellers, often using the same photos & descriptions.
An item location address that does not give a city and state Ex: USA / United States - New Jersey / USA ...
The use of U.S. flag symbols and several mentions of being a U.S. seller.
Item descriptions that have wording in them that doesn't seem like it was written by a person whose first language is English.
A High volume seller with a feedback percentage below 98.6%
Very high volume sellers whose last 12 months of feedback is low, Usually a China based seller with more than one account.
Item titles giving a brand name, and photos showing a brand name label, but in the Item Specifics it says Brand: Unknown.
Items that don't have a recognizable Brand Name.
The use of metric and standard measurements.
Photos with Asian models in them.

On a Feedback profile page:

The seller's country of registry, sometimes.
All or most feedback is for Private listings.
Neutral and Negative feedback saying items came from China. That took a long time to arrive. Missing items from multiple quantity orders. Cancelled purchases. Poor communications. (click on the numbers of neutral and negative feedback received, to read only those comments).
Responses to non positive feedback written by someone whose first language does not appear to be English.

It may take a little time to use the above lists, but after awhile it becomes second nature, and in the long run can save time and possibly money.

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OP2 years ago

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It makes Ebay look BAD when a seller with that many negatives is allowed to continue selling. They abetting fraud.

bonjourami

·2 years ago

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A good idea is to always check the estimated date of arrival, that will tell the story. Ebay doesnt do anything in regard to sellers in China.

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OP2 years ago

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Sellers are either correctly, or incorrectly identifying themselves, and Ebay is either promoting a culture of trust - or it isn't. 10 years ago, Chinese sellers would take a strike for any claims they had to deal with, now they can just pretend to be here??!?!? So much for reliable trade.