Buying from china on e bay
Buying from china on e bay
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Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Thursday 14th April 2022
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Ordered some new hinges for the toilet seat, e bay were the cheapest, should have checked supplier, it was Chinese company.

Getting inundated with e mails, scams I suppose, new version of software for e mail, others too, dunno what they are for I just delete them.

Never again will I order from e bay and Chinese supplier, lesson learnt, annoyed with myself.

jondude

2,441 posts

246 months

Thursday 14th April 2022
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Annoying - be careful if in anger you turn to Amazon, incredibly many Chinese sellers using US/UK style names ot an agent here to appear home made goods being sold but no, is Made in China.

Got caught out a lot with this when buying masks or gifts for people.

Rollin

6,331 posts

274 months

Thursday 14th April 2022
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I buy lots of stuff on ebay from China and have never had any issues you describe.
Was it a long established seller?

Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Thursday 14th April 2022
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E customer, 9700 , 99.1% in reviews. Only when I placed order and saw the Chinese characters that i realised.

In any case will not buy from Russia or any country that refuses to criticise Russia for the Ukraine war.

Timothy Bucktu

16,952 posts

229 months

Thursday 14th April 2022
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Seems strange. I've bought 100's of items from Chinese sellers on eBay Aliexpress and Banggood...never had a dodgy email afterwards. I use Hotmail mind, their spam file is pretty good. My spam folder is full of, well, spam.

MattsCar

2,393 posts

134 months

Thursday 14th April 2022
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To avoid being duped in to buying from chinese eBay sellers that claim they are UK based, view "business information" at the bottom of the item details page. smile

Mercdriver

Original Poster:

3,000 posts

62 months

Thursday 14th April 2022
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Thanks Matt, will do

Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Saturday 16th April 2022
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Parts arrived today, much sooner than predicted, well made, well packaged and great delivery.

However had another two e mails from someone in China!

Spare tyre

12,546 posts

159 months

Saturday 16th April 2022
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How’d they get your email, surely it goes via ebay

Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Saturday 16th April 2022
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It is on e bay, received e mails from supplier to say it was on its way, then delivery company advised eta.

Finally supplier advised it had been delivered.

Cannot complain about supplier’s service, items and service excellent but unwanted e mails are pita.

Sky recognises them straight to scam folder.

Condi

20,318 posts

200 months

Saturday 16th April 2022
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Mercdriver said:
It is on e bay, received e mails from supplier to say it was on its way, then delivery company advised eta.

Finally supplier advised it had been delivered.

Cannot complain about supplier’s service, items and service excellent but unwanted e mails are pita.

Sky recognises them straight to scam folder.
Seems an odd complaint. Most/all shops online email you to say it's on it's way and then delivered.

If you're really lucky you get one set of emails from the shop you bought from, and a second set of almost identical emails from the courier company telling you the same information! hehe

mgtony

4,211 posts

219 months

Saturday 16th April 2022
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Thanks for lifting the lid on this...

How do you know the random emails are due to your Ebay purchase? If you had bought cheap items from a UK seller, do you not think they would have still been manufactured in China??

Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Saturday 16th April 2022
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They have only started since I placed the order on e bay.

Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Saturday 16th April 2022
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Gumtree are worse, put an advert on there and you get a phone call within a minute.

I must be on their blacklist, they have stopped calling, believe me I do not take prisoners for scammers they take all the abuse I can give them. If the phone call is suspect I talk like an elderly person and string them along until it comes down to the point of asking for money, then I give them abuse at full volume, does the trick apparently cos they hang up!

ARHarh

4,892 posts

136 months

Sunday 17th April 2022
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A lot of the cheaper suppliers on ebay are china based with warehouses in the UK. You can see from their address, and the fact that they respond to emails out of UK normal hours. I have never had trouble with these UK based china suppliers so have no issue with them.

I do always set the location to UK only in ebay before searching as it cuts down on delivery time.


IAmTheWalrus

1,054 posts

73 months

Sunday 17th April 2022
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I've bought hundreds of things from China, never had an issue. Just don't appreciate how long it takes for delivery. Amusingly fastest delivery from China was around two weeks and if I order something from a town one hours drive away in the UK through MyHermes that takes one week..

nicanary

11,284 posts

175 months

Sunday 17th April 2022
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I keep thinking this thread is about porcelain.

Mercdriver

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3,000 posts

62 months

Sunday 17th April 2022
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nicanary said:
I keep thinking this thread is about porcelain.
Clever post, so clever I do not understand what you mean, please explain

nicanary

11,284 posts

175 months

Sunday 17th April 2022
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Mercdriver said:
nicanary said:
I keep thinking this thread is about porcelain.
Clever post, so clever I do not understand what you mean, please explain
Sorry, just being pedantic. China is a proper noun, should be a capital C. china is for teacups.