Stop Vendors From China Who Ship From States In Searches

[vital5757]

Anyone else frustrated by the insistent China listings that come up even when you choose US Only for item location? I don't care where they ship from. I don't trust the vendors period. But, I get 3 or 4 pages seller in China. ebay change the search parameters. A US only search should mean US item location AND US vendors.

[lady_madonna]

When you are searching for an item, always check the seller's feedback profile page to find out where the seller is located.

[mudshark61369]

@vital5757,

Because ebay helped many China based sellers register in the U.S. it can be hard to tell where they are actually located or ship from. As madonna wrote checking each seller's feedback profile before buying from them, may tell you if they are registered in China but not always.  Not using Price: lowest first, my help reduce the number of chinese sellers in a search.

Below is a list of the things I look for to weed out chinese sellers or drop shippers.

Indications on listing pages;

1. Item location not giving a city or state Ex: Ca. /USA, Many places/USA, USA/USA.
   
2. Extended delivery or handling time frames. Especially, from supposed U.S. based sellers.
3. Very low prices w/ Free shipping
4. American flag symbols and many statements of being a U.S. Seller
5. The same photos and listing templates used by many other sellers
6. Measurements that are both metric and inches.
7. Use of Asian models in photos
8. Verbiage in descriptions that do not sound like they were written by a person whose first language is English
9. Brand named items in photos and titles, but in the item specifics they are listed as Unbranded.

On feedback profile pages;

1. Country of registration ... sometimes.
2. Very high volume seller registered between 2010 and now.
3. Feedback percentages below 98.9%
4. 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, use of fake tracking numbers, items shipped from China comments, as well as the poor quality ones.
5. Very high feedback number, but only a few hundred items sold in the last 12 months.  The seller probably switches between accounts, when one gets too many negatives.
6. Replies to non positive feedback that indicate English is not the persons first language
7. Repetitive replies to non-positive feedback

[eburtonlab]

@vital5757 

A US only search should mean US item location AND US vendors.

eBay only provides a way to search by item location, not seller location. And the item location information is provided by the seller. eBay has no way to know in advance where the seller might ship from. Unless other buyers provide feedback, it is hard to know if a seller registered overseas is shipping from a US warehouse or not. And some sellers registered in the US may in fact drop-ship from overseas warehouses as well.

In the US at least, when faced with a long list of search results that you want to narrow down to sellers that can ship and deliver quickly, using the "Guaranteed Delivery" filter will often help; very few sellers that ship from overseas qualify. That is a rough filter, though -- many domestic sellers may be filtered out as well.

If no sellers can deliver to your area in four days, try changing your zip code and searching again -- the trick is to find sellers that can reliably deliver somewhere in the US in four days; the actual delivery time to your location is not material as long as it filters out sellers shipping from overseas. Just be sure to change your zip code back before you place an order to see the correct shipping calculations.

[eburtonlab]

In the US at least, when faced with a long list of search results that you want to narrow down to sellers that can ship and deliver quickly, using the "Guaranteed Delivery" filter will often help; very few sellers that ship from overseas qualify. That is a rough filter, though -- many domestic sellers may be filtered out as well.

If no sellers can deliver to your area in four days, try changing your zip code and searching again -- the trick is to find sellers that can reliably deliver somewhere in the US in four days; the actual delivery time to your location is not material as long as it filters out sellers shipping from overseas. Just be sure to change your zip code back before you place an order to see the correct shipping calculations.

[divwido]

While I agree with you wholeheatedly, eBay will not get rid of them.  And they will not go away until they  stop selling.  People are cheap, so they keep buying.

But I do think that eBay should change how those listings come up.  Now, if you look to the right of the listing, it will say China Seller, so just check that before we buy.

[gpsworld1]

So you want eBay to help you discriminate based on the nationality of the seller?

[vital5757]

EBay is consciously playing games. They know these sellers are by and large dishonest and they still will not include a search parameter for VENDOR VENDOR VENDOR location. Not just item location.

I DO NOT BUY FROM COMMUNIST CHINA SELLERS PERIOD. WAREHOUSES IN THE USA OR NOT.  If that offends anyone it really is too bad. These sellers are not cooperative and they do not sell quality items.  Stop with the woke garbage. I'm not impressed.

[thebbwminilover]

Ditto, none of the filters work, advanced search settings do not work to limit visibility of US Only Seller items, still China, Thailand Global Seller/items show up.  Definitely buy American but it's more a preference of buying from those actually based in NA/US.  Everything is made in China for now!