False item location

[mum020]

I wanted to buy my items from Canada and so I set my search for that. It is important to me to do this.  I found a really nice dress but then I noticed that the same dress being sold from a seller that I knew was based in China. I checked the location and most all I looked at listed either Canada, China or based in China. I would like to know why when you set your search for items from Canada it still gives you China based items.

[reallynicestamps]

More often in the US than in Canada, some overseas sellers actually warehouse their products in the USA and ship from there.

This both speeds up delivery and removes the question of duty on imported goods, since applicable duty was paid at the border already.

And of course, if what you want to avoid is goods MADE in China, that information should be under Item Specifics-> Place of Manufacture and could offered by sellers anywhere in the world.

Since the advantage of Chinese goods is often that they are cheap, there is the strategy of changing your default Search to Highest Price +Shipping and drilling down through products offered by Western sellers to the price point you prefer.  This is usually faster than slogging up through a swamp of misdescribed, poorly made, and overseas products.