"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?

[beaches6]

I have been a buyer on ebay since 2008 and have over 900 purchases all with positive feedbacks.

I too am very frustrated by the vast amount of chinese companies making false claims about where the goods will be shipped from. It is getting so bad now i am seriously considering closing my ebay account.

Ebay semm to be happy with this deception and do nothing.

I always now message the seller before purchading and ask directly if they are a UK company or a chinese company with a warehouse in UK.

If the reply is the latter ornot forthcoming then i dont usr them and block them.

If they say they are a UK company then it turns out they are not then i insist on a paid returns label and a full refund explaining their fraudulent practice and informing them that i will be further action. 9 times out of ten they refund imediately. Without argument.

EBAY GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND STOP THIS PRACTICE.

I have bought from china and been willing to wait but only for certain things and always with a company who openly says they are chinese and openly tells you that it will take two months and it has been suc essful every time.

I will not however stand for being taken for an idiot by these other unscrupulose companies even if the goods that arrive are satisfactory, i will always challenge and return as a matter of principle

[nigel_paul_wright7557]

Bought some transistors after selecting UK only.

Seems they are now going to take a month to arrive due to being in Hong Kong.

While it serves me right for not checking delivery times it also shows up ebay for false listings.

Is ebay really that desperate for sales ?

[bits_n_bobs_heaven]

"UK Only" location filter now includes China

It does make you wonder whether another country might have a large financial stake in eBay.

Chinese Sellers signing up on eBay.co.uk and using UK addresses / Chinese Sellers signing up on eBay.co.uk

Obviously another script error / glitch............🙄🙄🤐.

[wyntersemporium]

I had one a few weeks ago, stated UK and would arrive in 2 days,as said uk seller. Arrived two weeks later with a uk white label and I carefully peeled it off to reveal a Chinese address.

if I want to buy from China I buy from AliExpress usually. 

[bennotbill]

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@wyntersemporium wrote:

if I want to buy from China I buy from AliExpress usually

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Exactly as I do. The more honest direct route at usually a much lower price than the  UK China based sellers on eBay.

[nigel_paul_wright7557]

Its long over due for ebay to fix this.

Despite clicking "UK only" I still find I am buying from Hong Kong !

Then the item take 3-4 weeks t oarrive which is useless.

The only way around currently is to view delivery times, if its more than 4 days then its likely not from UK.

[anlong-7911]

I regularly complain and my complaints are now include Cr** etc 

KEEP ON COMPLAINING

Trouble is all they want is the money

[zeranis]

I just had to report 2 sellers. I wanted 2 items for gifts quickly, I ticked UK only and up came Manchester. The items were guaranteed for 3 day delivery. Neither came and so, contacted both sellers who tried to tell me that it takes 5-10 days. I argued back...dont be ridiculous, Manchester is only 3 hours away from me.

I then decided to click on their names and....it says based in China. I have no problem in buying from China when I have time to wait but, to see a listing that clearly states Manchester and they are lying about their location and delivery times, it really gets to me.

Something has to be done about this I mean how would it be if we all lied about our location and delivery times, we wouldn't get any returning customers would we. How do they also get away with it when, opening an account in UK, you have to give a UK phone number and UK bank account.

My partner who comes from Dublin tried to open an account here when he moved across but at the start they would not allow it as he did not have an English bank account or English phone number, now thankfully he has. So, how does China get away with saying they are in Manchester, delivery in 3 days when the reality is a month.

[nigel_paul_wright7557]

I tend to look at delivery times and if its more than a couple of days it is most likely coming from China.

If its junk send it back.

[serap-9555]

A bit horrifying that this issue has persisted for the 4 years after this issue was brought up here.

I want to buy something and I'm rather tired of thousands of Chinese Hong Kong based sellers clogging up the first 10 pages of searches.

At no point will I be happy with waiting over a month for an order because some Hong Kong seller lied about being in the UK and lied about delivery times.

I added a few UK based clothes items in my ebay basket, only to check them and find they're all in China.

There is no way to omit these sellers from which i will never willingly buy.

This is a class case of false advertising, its a lie.

[r3n3g4d3m4st3r]

Except for doing the click and collect filter of course. Only UK based sellers are filtered, even if the items are shown as UK based.

I have mentioned this numerous times in this thread...

Once you filter by click and collect, you are not obliged to use the click and collect. It's just an easy way to filter out Chinese sellers.

[serap-9555]

I'm not obliged to fiddle about with searches in order to avoid sellers that shouldn't be on .co.uk

The issue is eBay sponsors the Chinese sellers and floods all searches with them,

You can mention click n collect trick as much as you want, it is not a fix and it doesn't solve the problem

[biscaynebabyboat]

Agreed. A recent purchase from there had missing parts. The suggestion was for me to source them locally in return for a paltry refund. 
Never again - if possible. 

[m-uk765]

So why can't eBay provide another filter instead of pulling the wool over buyers eyes?

it's a false declaration.

[wrighmar_phqzue695]

That's shocking, especially for people who want to buy British, we need to
build up our manufacturing

[toolboss15]

I gave up on eBay just over a year ago, bad categories changes, stupid defaults on searching the cut-out majority of items that are good potential listings. Counterfeit goods have been increasing and more poor listing practices from some sellers and so on.

Better and safer on many other platforms now. So eBay is a dead duck which is a shame as used to be good a few years back or so.

[bitlogic]

> That's shocking, especially for people who want to buy British, we need to
> build up our manufacturing

Way too late for that I am afraid. There is not a lot left.
We [UKGov] have sold off / privitised almost all mass manufacturing.
Healthcare [NHS] is no approx 60% run by private companies.
The UK National grid is 75% foreign owned.
London Internet Exchange [handles 70% of UK/EU financial traffic] stand on land at Canary Wharf that is actually owned by Qatar.

The Brits have been far too complacent / apathetic for far too long and did not stand up and fight against their own government selling the country down the river.

We now have a PM who is an investment banker and one of the richest people in the UK

Who do you think MP's represent? Its certainly not working people - its shareholders and millionaires.

Time for the peasants to pick up their pitch forks and fight back.

Its either that or accept we have been made fools of and go quietly shrugging our shoulders mouthing 'musn't grumble'

[theelench]

"The Brits have been far too complacent / apathetic for far too long....."

Not entirely their fault IMO.  Since the 80s / 90s  high unemployment, growing employment insecurity, low wages and so many in employment having their contracts' protection T&C's watered down has seen ever increasing numbers pushed into minimum wage employment or becoming JAMies (Just About Managing, probably by increasing their debt levels).

Many could see what was happening, but did not dare speak out or take action.

Strikers are routinely represented as "greedy", whatever they are taking action against.  Free speech / opposition becomes more difficult as the "profit above everything" ethos spreads its tentacles everywhere and any other consideration made out to be laughable.

You only have to look at the reactions on here to the RM strikes to see how short term gain trumps longer term security is seen by many.  

[bitlogic]

OK, not entirely!

But it's a slippery slope we have been heading down and in one direction only...

[theelench]

I entirely agree with you.  

Even those who haven't yet started sliding down the slippery slope will find themselves pulled towards it as the general level of prosperity declines.

To quote Eleanor Roosevelt (who was possibly quoting someone else) "We're all better off, when we're ALL better off".