UK seller is actually based in China

[metro1100]

There are far too many seller purporting to be based in the UK but are actually from China. This is infuritating, especially if you have applied a filter to display only sellers in the UK. At these current times, shipping from China will take 4 weeks minimum. Ebay should make an effort to stop the abuse of this practice from China.

[pixiesen2012]

the search criteria is for ITEM location

sellers who have a UK distribution point can state UK as the item location as the item is sent there first and then to the buyer

if you wish to avoid buying from these sellers you need to check the seller location before you buy,

to see the seller location go to their feedback profile page by clicking on the number in breackets next to their ID,

you should be looking at a sellers feedback profile before you buy anything, as that is what feedback is for, to be read before purchase so that you can decide whether you want to buy from that person.

if an item location is stated as UK and the item is sent directly to you, without going to the UK distribution point, you can report the seller for item location misrepresentation:-

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Announcements/IMPORTANT-ACTION-FOR-ITEM-LOCATION-MISREPRESENTATION-P...