Why does eBay allow sellers from China to say their Items are in USA ??

[tcojunkman]

Sure ticks me off when I look for "item location" and see a city inside the USA stated and shipping time is based on that. Then after you buy it you get a shipping update that is weeks away and then find out it is being sent from China !! That should NOT be allowed in my opinion . Its plain DECEITFUL .

[kensgiftshop]

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@tcojunkman wrote:

That should NOT be allowed in my opinion . Its plain DECEITFUL .

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It's not allowed, but China sellers can pretty much do what they want.

You can report the listing for giving the wrong location.

Another thing I've noticed, when they have US Stock, Ships from the US or US seller plastered on their photos, it's usually coming from China.

[myangelandmyprincess]

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@tcojunkman wrote:

Sure ticks me off when I look for "item location" and see a city inside the USA stated and shipping time is based on that. Then after you buy it you get a shipping update that is weeks away and then find out it is being sent from China !! That should NOT be allowed in my opinion . Its plain DECEITFUL .

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Well until a seller does this to buyers eBay doesn't know that they are going to do it...which is true for a lot of scams by buyers and sellers alike.  Until people are affected by it you don't know that's what's going to happen.

[simba6]

There are a lot of very good sellers in China. The problem is there are a lot of bad ones too and eBay does not have the manpower to weed them all out.    Worse yet there are a lot of total scammers selling and never shipping goods.

[tcojunkman]

There used to be a "report seller" link on all items but I don't see it anymore after the recent eBay changes

[wpt05]

@tcojunkman 

Report an issue with a seller | eBay

"Report a seller"  

Online Customer Service - Report an issue with a seller (ebay.com)

"The seller has violated one of eBay’s policies"  

Item location policy | eBay

"A tracking number uploaded after an item has sold must match the shipping location provided in the listing"  

[mr_lincoln]

@tcojunkman  Try the report links in @wpt05  's post.  eBay is explicit on Sellers clearly stating where their items will ship from and there have been MANY complaints just likes yours because of this issue from Sellers in that part of the world.

[wpt05]

@tcojunkman 

If you click on the number to the right of the seller id, this will take you to their feedback screen.  Two lines below their id on the feedback screen you will see the country where they registered their account.  While you are on this screen, click the number to the far right of the word "Negative".  You will be able to see all of the complaints about this seller in the past year. 

By taking these extra steps before purchasing, you may be able to avoid some problems in the future.  

[eburtonlab]

eBay has no way of knowing in advance where a seller intends to ship an item from, though there may be some indications that can be used to make a good guess before buying.

The "US only" item location filter selects items that are listed as being in the United States; however, as you may have seen, not every seller that lists items in the US ships from the US as they should. You can report sellers for item location misrepresentation, but until eBay actually cracks down, your best course of action is to avoid such sellers entirely.

Before ordering you should check the estimated delivery dates -- that is usually a good indication of how far away items actually ship from. Also, going to a seller's profile page or feedback page will tell you where the seller's account was registered. If a seller is registered overseas, that raises the likelihood of an item shipping from outside the US, particularly for multiple quantity commodity items.

Even US-registered sellers may be drop-shipping from overseas, however.

Checking seller feedback will often reveal if there are problems with long shipping times, mistaken/canceled orders or other supply chain warning signs that might indicate you are dealing with a drop-shipping outfit.

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.

eBay seems to have changed some of the search defaults, and "Guaranteed Delivery" options may not always appear when searching. You may be able to edit your search URL and change the ebay.com/sch/ to ebay.com/dsc/ and then you should see the Guaranteed Delivery options when you load the page.

[eburtonlab]

eBay has no way of knowing in advance where a seller intends to ship an item from, though there may be some indications that can be used to make a good guess before buying.

The "US only" item location filter selects items that are listed as being in the United States; however, as you may have seen, not every seller that lists items in the US ships from the US as they should. You can report sellers for item location misrepresentation, but until eBay actually cracks down, your best course of action is to avoid such sellers entirely.

Before ordering you should check the estimated delivery dates -- that is usually a good indication of how far away items actually ship from. Also, going to a seller's profile page or feedback page will tell you where the seller's account was registered. If a seller is registered overseas, that raises the likelihood of an item shipping from outside the US, particularly for multiple quantity commodity items.

Even US-registered sellers may be drop-shipping from overseas, however.

Checking seller feedback will often reveal if there are problems with long shipping times, mistaken/canceled orders or other supply chain warning signs that might indicate you are dealing with a drop-shipping outfit.

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.

eBay seems to have changed some of the search defaults, and "Guaranteed Delivery" options may not always appear when searching. You may be able to edit your search URL and change the ebay.com/sch/ to ebay.com/dsc/ and then you should see the Guaranteed Delivery options when you load the page.

[federal304]

I'm suspecting it is because they have an actual business address on the coast (usually it's NJ and CA I see this or "USA, USA" as location) and they're reaping the rewards for export taxes.

What ticks me off is the "foreign transaction fees" that buyers pay, when the merchandiser* should be required to pay all international charges. If* eBay is actually charging those fees, are they double-dipping(?) but back on-topic, why* is the buyer being charged and why* is it  a separate charge that is not refunded if say, the item is not as described.

One more thing is the shipping time. eBay says it will arrive by ___, __ as a date, but after purchasing it shows a different arrival time, or the item does not arrive in the allotted time and eBay just says, "it shows the item has not been shipped..." or "... the item is said to arrive by ___, __, if not received, then contact the seller/file a claim..."

The whole "reporting" portion of this site has always been a loop of reasons that are not included in the original message guidelines... like reporting fraud, none of the drop down boxes relate to actual fraud, but unrelated things such as "selling digital copies", for which there already is a category. The choice is to do what I just did and post here, then move onto talking to someone from a third-world country who has been contracted for cheap salary in regards to customer service. Lastly would be contacting the office of the president and altogether requires 3+ hours of Your time (in chat and on the phone) and possibly no resolution.

Can we say since about 2007 it seems like "we don't care cause we're making revenue/raking in the bucks by the millions"?

They have made it pretty much impossible for us to buy only from US and eliminate buying c0mmunist. I say, get all other countries off DOT COM, which is American commerce when You click on "US Only". They have their own servers, we should be able to chose to leave their servers and eBay should be able to tell if their contact information is complete.

Yes, a seller and buyer must* have complete contact information and eBay has pretty much eliminated the "request contact information" portion of the help page, seemingly `cause, when You request their contact information and the seller's address is "United states, United states", they have to lose revenue by deactivating the user's account.

[goye]

twocents daily,,,,,, sadden & not surprised again by e b a b y,  after 24+ years of goofing off around here as its only here, where & quite often that certain standards are massaged,  select catered sellers can be, have been & are promoted / pushed / allowed /encouraged to be rule breakers by the big monster in the room. I would not be surprised if the home office is / or has relocated to LV<NV, were certain select retailers are enabled to offer their  special services for any $price$, the ones who coined the phrase of what happen here........oh that been updated to, Oh that doesnt happen here in e b a b y land.

Sadder still is the ones who actually believe the gobbly goop that's burped up round here, is all the flip chart answer givers, those highly versed Shift F5 response givers,  and my favorite still are the script readers who are permitted to only say whats on the script thats in front of them. An experience I'm sure we've all shared.......

My fav before I depart if you've made it this far, I recently received me some 'sit in the corner' time / zero looks, fine / penalty because I would not / did not / cancel select sales to MY REGULAR (years) customer because e b a b y wanted me to charge them, again MY CUSTOMER 17.50 s/h charges for 6 to 8 pieces of paper.

Only kool-aid drinkers can understand / justify / act like & tell me that I was doing or did something wrong because i refused not to Jonestown......

latest trick, advertising off ebay in st ag ram store / sites to make off e BABY pur chases,  I remember when that was what the baddies were punished for......sounds illogical to me, the non kool-aid drinker. How can taking / promoting / encouraging / allowing CUSTOMERS to go off e BABY, be to the betterment of E baby?

Who remembers the old who song 'I CANT EXPLAIN'

and finally, another only on e b a b y can this be logical, left?

How does a seller get 39 negatives & neutrals in a 30 day period and can still get this posted;

• One of eBay's most reputable sellers.
• Consistently delivers outstanding customer service.

Maybe we should be selling the kool-aid here?

24+ years & Ive never gotten anywhere close to 39 bad feedback's in that time, but that just me.

And tell me again how thats building up a new loyal customer base with sellers from where, i'd venture a say, that might not be many American allowed to play here with those stats!

goye 24+ years

[12345jamesstamps]

Interesting subject. If a seller is in China but states a state like California where it is mailed is false...will a tax be charged by the buyer as item is actually coming from China? And, does that tax actually go to who to keep? Got me thinking.

[eburtonlab]

If a seller is in China but states a state like California where it is mailed is false...will a tax be charged by the buyer as item is actually coming from China? And, does that tax actually go to who to keep?

Sales tax depends on the delivery location and goes to that state.

[maxine*j]

How to weed out most of the deceptive sellers who claim otherwise but are actually located in China or dropshipping from China:

On Listing pages:

• Items priced well below brand name items price.
• Items listed by many other sellers using the same photos and prices often.
• 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 Top Rated seller with a feedback percentage below 98.6%
• 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.
• Very high volume sellers who joined after 2010.
• All or most feedback is for Private listings.
• If most of the sellers feedback are for private listings, click on items for sale. If they have hundreds oflistings in many diverse categories, they are likely China based or drop ship from there.
• Those that do not list all items as private, have FB for items in many unrelated categories.
• Feedback numbers that don't add up. Shooting star feedback numbers, but a low number of sales in the last year or 12 months. 
• Neutral and Negative feedback saying items came from China. That took a long time to arrive. Missing items from multiple quantity orders. Poor Quality,  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.

WITH A TIP OF THE HAT TO MUDSHARK, who knows his onions.

[sprinkles91]

some asia based sellers have drop shipping locations in the US. this allows them to use that address even if the item their selling is in asia with them...it is indeed frustrating, but theres nothing we can really do about it as fellow buyers/sellers..