26-09-2025 1:24 PM
Some sellers are advertising 1-2 Day deliveries to entice customers to buy from them. Just like, you may have noticed How the price changes when you select certain option, you realise price has changed, the original price which was cheaper is no more. You never find that cheaper option again. a Total Scam! Ebay must know this.
On aliExpress its more pronounced. Elderly people would not realise the price has changed and carry on with the purchase.
As far as this 1-2 day delivery claim. Either they are dropshippers or choosing cheaper option to post, in which case actual delivery will be 2-3 weeks time.
I would say when you buy leave a note to seller that, if its not delivered by the date they guaranteed, cancel order and refund money. And report it to EBAY.
Their excuse is we will get in touch with courier etc etc please give us some time. Beware, this is only a ploy.
My biggest worry is auto price change. They headline a price , a cheaper one, then you find there is nothing there for that actual price. So its misleading and kind of theft thru the backdoor.
It worries me because lot of elderly customers are duped.
What do you think? I think start a campaign to educate people.
26-09-2025 1:39 PM
I think this is a difficult time to start this campaign because eBay has a long-running glitch with the delivery times it is displaying. For instance my Items are 3-day dispatch, but eBay advertises 'arrives in 2-3 days'. As long as eBay is being so inaccurate it is difficult to separate their misleading claims from those of the unscrupulous Drop-shippers you are describing here.
26-09-2025 6:17 PM
Well as I understand it late delivery allows buyer to open a not as described case with seller having to pay for return.
Could prove rather expensive for sellers if buyers used this.