I needed a caliper to do some fine measurements and as part of my search I filtered to US Sellers ONLY. Not because I have anything against foreign sellers but simply because I don't want to have to wait an excessive length of time for delivery.
So, I found one at a good price and under Item Location it said NE United States. I hit the BIN and paid for it. This morning I received an email informing me that it had been shipped. With an estimated delivery of April 28th...?!? Twenty Four Days to get to Arkansas from Nebraska? Pony Express on a dead horse would get it here sooner...
So I had another look at the listing and under Seller Information it says that the seller is located in China. I specified US Sellers only because I didn't want to have to wait more than a week. It's not a matter of simply being impatient; I need this caliper for my job ASAP. So, why is it that the item location is in Nebraska (which, I'm guessing, is why it filtered as a US Seller) but the seller is actually in China?
Either this is an unforeseen loophole that foreign sellers have found that they can use to their advantage or it's OK with eBay because they only care about sales being made and not about customer satisfaction. Because it's now way too late to cancel the transaction I find myself, like it or not, having to wait 24 days for my merchandise to arrive when, if the listing had been honest, I could have avoided it and shopped with an honest seller. Sure, I could go and find and buy another one and then return the Chinese one on the basis of what? That the seller lied about their location? But, why should I have to do anything? Why can't I just specify what I'm looking for and that's exactly what I find (or not)?
In other words, why should I be forced to buy from a foreign seller when I'm supposed to have a choice?
