Chinese seller listed as being from France | Community Mentor Help

bensouing · 2024-06-04T12:18:25.724000Z

Hello everyone, I'm worried about something. I bought an item while carefully filtering for the Provenance "France only" idea, to help local businesses and have exchanges in French if needed with the seller. Order placed, and it turns out that Customer Service is in English and that the shipment (long and with no news, unlike the timeframe indicated in the listing) has a Cainiao tracking start and a delivery end by La Poste (which still hasn't received the package after a week even though I'm supposed to get it tomorrow) ... So clearly I bought a product as if I had bought it on AliExpress. Except that on AliExpress, for the same delivery time, I would have paid 3x less ... I wanted to pay a little more for the French locality and therefore fast delivery. On the article page still online, it clearly states Provenance: Faremoutiers, France. Wouldn't that be an abusive and/or misleading practice? If I had wanted to order it myself from China for the same delivery time, I would have paid 3x less ... The amount isn't huge, but on principle I find this really dishonest. Is there any possible recourse with eBay? If this method spreads, we'll really have no way to clearly know where purchases are coming from ...

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