Gaming eBay

[len4jdk]

I have seen vendors from China doing this before and I am so fed up I want to call it to someone's attention and ask to see if anything can be done about it. We have a vendor that claims products are located in US. They have a US address and they use a US shipping point. They take your money then they ship (now 2-weeks) claiming it is USPS first class and then it takes weeks to get here. This happened to me earlier this year and now again> Due to the current medical crisis (avoid those key words!) shipping is destroyed from China.

I purchase a lot of things directly from China (Alibaba) and I have to use "Express" and pay a lot more if I want to see my purchase soon.

Anyway so now it's been a long time and I still don't have the items that were supposedly already in US (California) but it won't show up until the shipment has been received at the supposed US "Warehouse" where it is finally shipped USPS using the label they generated weeks ago as part of their fraudulent scam.

 The tracking information shows this clearly. 

Frankly I am tired of these Chinese vendors playing this trick and there is no way to actually figure out what they are doing unless you actually order things from them. 

For items supposedly in US it takes weeks to arrive and is taking so long now due to current crisis that they are being discovered readily.

 When these vendors are paying eBay a lot of money every month because they sell so much I doubt that anything will ever be done to these scam artists.

I will be happy to name some vendors and item numbers I am very angry about this. The reason I only now order from vendors with products in the US is to avoid this very same shipping problem due to current crisis and yet they find  a way to trick you using this FRAUD.  

[eburtonlab]

The "US only" item location filter selects items that are listed as being in the United States; however, as you have seen, not every seller that lists items in the US ships from the US as they should.

You can report listings for location misrepresentation, but you are generally better off avoiding such sellers entirely whenever possible. eBay may take action against sellers that repeatedly provide misleading information about where their items ship from, but that is little consolation if you are stuck waiting for an item to arrive from overseas that was supposed to ship from nearby.

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 is currently registered; if you go to the seller's current listings ("items for sale") and scroll down on the left side of the page, under "Seller information" you can check where the account was originally registered, I believe.

Although some overseas sellers do use US warehouses to ship their items (and some US-registered sellers may employ overseas drop-shippers), if a seller is registered overseas, that raises the likelihood of an item shipping from outside the US, particularly for multiple quantity commodity items. Checking seller feedback will often reveal if there are problems with long shipping times, canceled orders or other supply chain warning signs.

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 overseas sellers. Just be sure to change your zip code back before you place an order to see the correct shipping calculations.