Item not in Uk like stated

continualdiamond

My OH bought and paid for a FM Transmitter for his ipod on the 22nd Jan.

He hasn't received it so i sent them an email (yes i can have access to the ebay account, its shared, so please lets not get into that discussion again).

Anyway haven't heard back, so thought id check out the sellers recent feedback. OH didn't think to check sellers feedback as it stands at 70276.

Well to my surprise every negative or netural 99% of the time mentions poor service regarding these FM transmitter because its posted from Germany and not the UK like the item location states.

So im guessing OH's is on the way from Germany as well.

Are sellers allowed to do this, just lie about where an item is located??

This is why people buy items, thinking it will arrive fairly quickly. If you knew it was coming from Germany you'd obviously be prepared to wait longer.

nick_fury

yup i too have been noticing this alot lately. I dont think it is allowed but ebay dont seem to do /be able to do anything about this.

continualdiamond

Well maybe they will if the seller continues to get bad feedback because of it.

kevinyork

Its rife on eBay. Mainly with China/Hong Kong sellers.

I received an item that took 2 weeks from China where the seller said they were in Manchester and would be using 1st class post. Similarly any negative feedback said the same about them (only realised later as their percentage was 99%)

I reported it to ebay who's advice was 'to use the feedback system to leave an appropriate comment and rating'. Despite evidence in the form of an email and an envelope showing the customs sticker on it and postmark eBay were not bothered in the slightest.

Ive mentioned this issue on the forum here before and the response was 'who cares, as long as the item is good value etc etc.' so Ive given up. I just doubly check everything about a listing now including the actual feedback left.

frivolous_fay

continualdiamond wrote: »

Well maybe they will if the seller continues to get bad feedback because of it.

Maybe they will if some people report it Button's at the bottom of the listing. It's called location misrepresentation.

eyelinerprincess

kevinyork wrote: »

Its rife on eBay. Mainly with China/Hong Kong sellers.

I received an item that took 2 weeks from China where the seller said they were in Manchester and would be using 1st class post. Similarly any negative feedback said the same about them (only realised later as their percentage was 99%)

Sounds similar to a problem I'm having atm, feedback stands at 99.6% and seller is a powerseller, but any negs are for delivery time being slow (2 weeks+) and now I'm getting slight anxious, especially since the items I bought the day before got her Tues & Wed.

frivolous_fay

Could someone report Howardz for cookie stuffing please, my email isn't working.

peter_the_piper

frivolous_fay wrote: »

Could someone report Howardz for cookie stuffing please, my email isn't working.

Why report someone for filling biscuits:eek:? And how would you know?
Seriously, I've been on the net years and this phrase is new to me. What is "Cookie Stuffing"?

frivolous_fay

See that red X that looks like a pic? Its a neaky way of hiding a link in your post to generate so-called clicks, and revenue. You'll see that all the other posts have the same X in them.

I'm not an expert but this may help.

http://www.benedelman.org/cookiestuffing/

soolin

Thanks Fay I missed that one, they should have all gone from my boards now.

peter_the_piper

Didn't even see the X's, maybe the Noscript on Firefox was stopping it.