My Rock and Mineral offerings are not receiving any views and are buried in listings from China

[crisdafish]

How do Chinese and Indian Sellers do it? My listings of Spheres, Towers, Specimen pieces and Crystals are surrounded by offering from sellers overseas that offer ridiculously low prices on pieces that seem un-natural, gigantic or just plain fake looking. How do successful Rock and Mineral sellers get around these people and get noticed? How do they offer pounds of material from the other side of the planet for free shipping? Also, I see a lot of ads that are from China in the details but come from Chino, California is there a connection there? Any help will be appreciated.

[miyasamaco]

As someone who deals with mining sources for those items in both countries, it seems like those listings are from the source or a large trading firm that can offer low prices. Their shipping costs are also low.

eBay is allowing them to flood the joint because they only want quantity for their cut of the sale (this is the case with all categories). I do better selling crystal products via social media. As for a California location, many China based suppliers have warehouse operations in the USA.