@thebest1lee,
Some of the China based sellers do ship from U.S. warehouses, but since China was all but shut down for the last several months they are empty. Most China based sellers do ship from there, and to find out if they do, check their feedback profile there will be comments saying that. Just click on the numbers of negatives and neutrals they've received, to read only those comments. There are other ways to tell if a sellers will ship from China as well, check the list below.
Remember, keep poking the dragon, and sooner or later you'll get burned.
Indications on listing pages;
- Item location not giving a city or state Ex. Ca. /USA, Many places USA, USA/USA.
- Extended delivery or handling time frames. Especially, from supposed U.S. based sellers.
- Very low prices w/ Free shipping
- American flag symbols and many statements of being a U.S. Seller
- The same photos and listing templates used by many other sellers
- Measurements that are both metric and inches.
- Use of Asian models in photos
- Verbiage in descriptions that do not sound like they were written by a person whose first language is English
On feedback profile pages;
- Country of registration ... sometimes.
- Very high volume seller registered between 2010 and now.
- Feedback percentages below 98.9%
- Neutral and negative feedback sometimes in the hundreds (you can click on those numbers to read only those comments) look for slow shipping, non delivery, partial orders received, and items shipped from China comments, as well as poor quality ones.
- Replies to non positive feedback that indicate English is not the persons first language
- Repetitive replies to non-positive feedback
"THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FOOLPROOF, BECAUSE FOOLS ARE SO DARNED INGENIOUS!" (unknown)
