"UK Only" location filter now includes China

[fire_alarms]

I am finding that it is now  impossible to filter the loation of the products that I want to buy

I click on the "UK only" filter but then I have to go through 1000s of listings that are located  in China but claim to be in the UK.

This is making for a very bad buying experience and is putting me off even trying to find products on this site.

Am  I wasting my time complaing to the site administrator or should I just shop elsewhere?

[b59car]

I'm just going to stop using ebay its getting beyond the joke I advise otherd to do the same until they sort it out

[lupo-store]

Looks like eBay FINALLY clamping down on this!

https://abpost.ebay.cn/logistics/169?fbclid=IwAR00zhjqUVzYUdB1etH4I02WMLfg_8cYNES5c3i4kUJknuQEapkVgX...

Notice on the special governance action of the fake overseas warehouse on the eBay platform

Release time: 2019-08-22 11:15:36

The eBay platform has been continuously improving the buyer's comprehensive buying experience. While attracting and retaining more buyers to use eBay shopping, it also actively helps sellers to expand the scale of cross-border e-commerce business.

Since the beginning of this year, the platform has introduced a number of new logistics policies, which have set new requirements for the service levels of various logistics channels, including direct sales and overseas warehouses. Judging from the overall policy operation situation, the effect is good. While effectively improving the buyer's purchasing experience, it also maintains a fair and orderly market competition environment.

Recently, we have received a large number of buyer complaints and feedback from some seller groups. In some regional markets, there are still a large number of fake overseas warehouse businesses, which seriously harm the interests of buyers and form unfairness for compliance sellers. competition. In view of this, eBay recently launched a special overseas warehouse management action, and targeted the severely punitive measures for the settlement of a number of fake overseas warehouse accounts . In the future, the platform will continue to carry out several similar special governance actions, resolutely eliminate all categories within the regional markets, and the fake overseas warehouse products in each price segment will be dealt with immediately upon discovery and will not be tolerated. For the fake overseas warehouse behavior, the platform will resolutely achieve zero tolerance .

Let us join hands to create a fair and orderly market competition environment, and deliver more and better quality goods to buyers all over the world through more convenient and faster logistics solutions.

[faith256]

I have this problem as well, and everytime I have bought from China, the item takes months to arrive and is usually the wrong size or inferior quality, I cba to buy anything from China anymore.

[smiller299]

It's very simple.

You don't want Chinese sellers even after choosing UK only?

Simply choose "click & collect" for delivery option.

To be able to use click and collect the item MUST already be in the UK, Argos for example will not accept ebay packages shipped from overseas.

They made that part of their deal with eBay as they don't want the hassle of stuff turning up way late or potential charges for them from HRMC of import duty because technically the package is being sent to them and not you.

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@faith256 wrote:

I have this problem as well, and everytime I have bought from China, the item takes months to arrive and is usually the wrong size or inferior quality, I cba to buy anything from China anymore.

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Job done.

[bigjohn1965andrea]

ignorant **bleep**

[wyntersemporium]

I'm getting USA & Australia in with UK only.

[lightblueberet]

".....ignorant **bleep**....."

Your response to this thread is of zero value and, in any event, the responder you're referring to is unlikely to see it as he/she posted way back in August 2016 ! ! !

[paul0458]

firstly, you are wrong as people do look on here at comments.  secondly why is this peson ignorant. - because they choose not to wan to look at inferior quality products that take ages to arrive?  A great many of us don't..

[gallovidian]

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@lupo-store wrote:

Recently, we have received a large number of buyer complaints and feedback from some seller groups.

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I think they repeat themselves. The logical explanation for so many people on threads like this, who claim to have frequently suffered from misdeclaration of  item location, haven't left feedback for it, is that the buyer complaints are actually seller complaints.

The feedback left for sellers with "UK stock" in their titles, many of them very large indeed,  is often in the 98% to 99.5% range - i.e. not good, but if people shop for low price, low quality is to be expected. But it is very rare for more than a small fraction of the disappointed ½% to 2% to be for delivery from overseas when it should be from the UK. Getting those negs removed? Sometimes they are sellers who aren't getting other inappropriate feedback removed which they easily could.

I make no claim to exceptional buying skills, although of course there are common-sense  signs most buyers look for. So I can't see why other people should often be deceived over item location, or often have items take months to come (legitimately or not) from China, when neither has ever happened to me. I go in no fear that it will, but if it does, I know how to very effectively deal with it, in ways that make it impossible for a seller to make this a regular business practice.

I'd call the hundreds of thousands of positive feedbacks a far from negligible  lot of buyer opinion. Make no mistake, the enemy of sellers who campaign against Chinese sellers is not those who  claim to hold  their items in the UK and don't. It is those who claim it and do.

[kh-enas]

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[lightblueberet]

".....firstly you are wrong....."

To agree, or disagree as the case may be, with any responder on these boards is allowed, and perfectly acceptable !

Personal attacks are not !

[gallovidian]

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@lightblueberet wrote:

".....ignorant **bleep**....."

Your response to this thread is of zero value and, in any event, the responder you're referring to is unlikely to see it as he/she posted way back in August 2016 ! ! !

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As much as zero? It was an attack on a highly regarded and sensible regular poster, with no content whatever except the venom.

[gallovidian]

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@running_grannie wrote:

Hmmmm, I see your problem. You'd like cheapo price, delivered to your door, with all the assurances that everything's hunky-dory and all's well with the world. Sorry to say but it just ain't that easy when buying online.  

You'd probably be best served by going to a real B&M shop .... looking at the items you seek .... assuring yourself they are what you want .... then paying at the till and getting some sort of 'guarantee' before toddling off home happy and secure.

eBay / B&M shop? B&M shop / eBay? Can't have it both ways. Tough ol' life, innit?

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Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

[r3n3g4d3m4st3r]

Another one recently:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254319457773

Item tracked from Bejing.

[gallovidian]

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@r3n3g4d3m4st3r wrote:

Another one recently:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/_________________________

Item tracked from Bejing.

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Well that's one...   Yet again we see what side of this issue the violations of the board rules come from.

[gallovidian]

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@b59car wrote:

I'm just going to stop using ebay its getting beyond the joke I advise otherd to do the same until they sort it out

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Any time soon? It's been three months today.

[paul0458]

There are lots of companies and private individuals selling good quality goods on ebay at fair prices and that's what I go for.  I do not want to have to trawl through chinese rubbish.   

[gallovidian]

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@paul0458 wrote:

There are lots of companies and private individuals selling good quality goods on ebay at fair prices and that's what I go for.  I do not want to have to trawl through chinese rubbish.   

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Here is a search for "UK stock", which almost always means a Chise registered seller. For the sellers of the  first 100 items out of 1.194,946, I don't see feedback under 97.5%.  How much weight to you attach to what the people who left those millions of feedbacks want?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=UK+stock&rt=nc&_dmd=1

[r3n3g4d3m4st3r]

It's not a problem with UK Stock from offshore companies. That is pefectly acceptable.

The problem is marking as UK stock but then shipping from China. That isn't acceptable.

[paul0458]

I have been in dispute with two chinese companies both of whom sold really poor quality and small fitting garments.  I could not give fedback as I was negotiaqting for a refund.  once received I could not go on and give feedback.  I presume other people have had the same problems.