eBay

beshoshow · ‎11-02-2019

It’s been happening so often now.

Sellers from China are providing fake tracking numbers while holding our money for 1-2 months.

Since ebay is not doing anything other than refunding the money after months of wait, law makers need to investigate this issue and impose new regulations to protect U.S. consumers.

richard1rst · ‎11-02-2019

Old joke:

Guy walks into a doctor's office, raises his arm above his head and says "Doc, it hurts when I do this"

The Doctor says "Then don't do that"

Same principal here.

I can not teach anybody anything
I can only make them think
Socrates

ed8108 · ‎11-02-2019

New regulations should result in more taxation in order to implement those regulations.

Consumer self protection chose your seller wisely.

beshoshow · ‎11-03-2019

Thanks for your input.
Not sure what you mean by more tax, especially if the delivery is to a state that has no sales/use tax.
Moreover, sometimes purchases (small or big) are made based on availability rather than price.
I personally, usually try local sellers in ebay and other platforms before going overseas.

As for choosing sellers wisely, the sellers had over 98% rating. One seller plummeted down to around 50% within 1 week after making the purchase. I still couldn’t file a dispute until the fake tracking showed delivered to a different state and the seller stopped responding.

In my opinion, Ebay should impose a hefty fine on obvious repeated deceptive transactions (Maybe % of buy price), specifically from China (never had any problems with US, Canada or UK sellers) and require such sellers to have business license to use the platform. This would make it easier to ban fraud sellers without being able to come back with a new user name.
It is clear that most of the fraud activities are coming from that region. Whether it is happening because of poverty or some sort of organized economy crimes, they need to be stopped and ebay holds a big responsibility towards this.

daveroo · ‎11-03-2019

The Chinese are providing tracking numbers used by the Chinese Postal System.

Those numbers mean nothing to the USPS.

IDK whether you can get any results by going to the Chinese Postal System.

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dblendeavors · ‎11-03-2019

I've noticed the same thing, the only answer is to understand the culture of communist China, I research Chinese sellers the best I can by looking at their seller ratings and reviews, there are some who are very good and many that are very-very bad, I never expect a tracking number to actualy work or depend on an item to be shipped quickly, in the end I'm just happy if I eventualy get what was advertised.

no_zero369 · ‎11-03-2019

@ed8108 wrote:

Consumer self protection chose your seller wisely.

Why do something for yourself when you can abdicate all responsibility to someone else? And so what if it creates another government agency to handle such things? After all look how effective the FTC has been at regulating and stopping robo callers?

Forget that old phrase caveat emptor, that even sounds old and we all know if it ain't new it is square!

dasarock · ‎11-04-2019

@daveroo wrote:
The Chinese are providing tracking numbers used by the Chinese Postal System.
Those numbers mean nothing to the USPS.
IDK whether you can get any results by going to the Chinese Postal System.

google international mail tracking, or parcel or package. there are multiple sites that track carrier services from all areas of the globe. several prominent to all asia, all Africa, all Europe. once you find which service and carrier covers your item tracking number, then you can usually get tracking info from them at least thru the u.s. customs clearance stage, and many delcon contries will track thru to delivery.

duluthus · ‎11-11-2019

I guess that joke means don't buy anything on eBay. Let see how that works out for Ebay.

duluthus · ‎11-11-2019

This is happening with UPS tracking numbers shipped from US origins to US destinations by off-shore sellers. UPS is culpable in this by allowing their digital systems to be phished. In may case the tracking number matched a destination in my zip code. Too much of a coincidence to believe that the scammers did not have inside information from UPS (tracking numbers). UPS and EBay can ignore this at their own peril. Search on the Community for fake tracking numbers yields over 1000 threads.