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.

[pjcdn2005]

It isn’t supposed to show you a listing if the location is in China and you  specified Canada only.  The exception is if there are only a few items in that search in Canada, there will be another section below the Canadian items for ‘international sellers’.  It is easy to miss that there is an added international section..it may look like all one section.

Could  you give an example of a search that you are doing that is showing you results for other countries?

[tyler@ebay]

A member should be accurately representing where their items are located.

While some sellers do have inventory in multiple locations, I'd be happy to take a look into it further if you'll send me a private message with some specific examples. 

Thanks!

[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.