tooltimes
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posted on September 24, 2002 05:53:20 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1769193772
Location HK
Country United States
Obviously in Hong Kong as most of seller's other auctions correctly state in the COUNTRY section at top of auction info.
Sellers has a few auctions with the US as the country location.
I don't think it was a simple mistake but a deliberate way to deceive buyers. The only hint of the auction being based in HK or Hong Kong is the seller's country of Hong Kong in his feedback rating box.
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twelvepole
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posted on September 24, 2002 06:14:40 PM
LOL, well he must be doing something right, only 9 negs with over 2400 feedbacks.
Greened eyed monster of jealousy rearing its ugly head here?
I think there are quite a few sellers here with less than 2400 feedbacks and more than 9 negs...
Ain't Life Grand... 
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thchaser200
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posted on September 24, 2002 06:25:01 PM
He does have a good rating, I wish all criminals had that rating.
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tooltimes
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posted on September 24, 2002 07:25:04 PM
So it's okay to be deceivious if you have decent feedback? It's okay to cheat the IRS if you go to church every Sunday?
This seller has 100+ auctions currentlt running and decides to make a few very of them misleading to possibly gain a competitive edge over the honest sellers. More and more sellers have figured out that ebay no longer actively pursues violators of it's rules and are carefully exploiting the rules to their advantage.
But that's okay because no one gives him bad feedback.
[ edited by tooltimes on Sep 24, 2002 08:44 PM ]
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Libra63
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posted on September 24, 2002 07:39:02 PM
I had a buyer from the UK who had a United States in her feedback box. I sent her item to her brother in New York and from there he sent it to her. I didn't get feed back for about 2 1/2 months as he was probably holding it for her purchases. I bet they didn't have to pay customs and if they did it was probably custom free because it was from her brother. I also had another buyer that was from another country, but had an American Checking account out of a bank in New York. So it might be the same with your HK buyer.
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stonecold613
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posted on September 24, 2002 08:53:59 PM
Another typical powersellers can get away with anything listing.
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twelvepole
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posted on September 24, 2002 08:59:25 PM
ebay Powersellers:
As the pillars of our community, PowerSellers are committed to upholding and embracing the core community values that are the very foundation of eBay. They are exemplary members who are held to the highest standards of professionalism, having achieved and maintained a 98% positive feedback rating and an excellent sales performance record.
Ain't Life Grand...
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tooltimes
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posted on September 24, 2002 09:04:23 PM
So it might be the same with your HK buyer.
The HK seller has 90% of his auctions that say HK - HK and 10% say HK - United States. All auctions are almost the same including a $12 Air Mail fee. Would the US based auctions have the same $12 Air Mail fee as the HK auctions?
I had a Canadian bidder win an auction of mine a month ago. I had it clearly stated at both the beginning and end of my auction description that the auction was for US bidders only and no Canadian or international bidders please. No word from the bidder in respondence to my email so 10 days after the auction closed I more closely checked out his zip code info and in his feedback box it said 'Canada'. He had bid on and won several thousand dollars of sports memoribila recently yet was selling 49 cent books and $1 hockey cards. I wrote to him about the total lack of correspondence and the Canada reference on his feedback box. He said he was an American living in Canada and he would pay the $140 with a check drawn on a US bank and had a relative with a Michigan address where I should mail the item. I said that was fine but he really should have writen before he bid to explain his special circumstances. He said he didn't feel the need to do so. I'm very certain that he is a Canadian that bids on US auctions that say "US Bidders Only" to avoid the Canadian exclusion. I checked out many of the auctions that he had won and many did indeed say "US Bidders Only".
So he had found a way to circumvent his Canadian bidder wanting to bid on US auctions only status. Nothing wrong with that other than not notifying the seller before he bid and not writing after he won the auction.
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slabholder
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posted on September 24, 2002 11:44:20 PM
Tooltimes, I agree with you. The seller in question is being dishonest regarding his location, Country. Last time I checked the World Atlas, Hong Kong was still in Eastern Asia, bordering China.
twelvepole: Great feedback doesn't necessarily factor in honesty. A thief can easily move stolen merchandise on ebay and have thousands of positive comments.
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twelvepole
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posted on September 24, 2002 11:55:40 PM
I can agree to that, and in this case Honesty is in the eye of the beholder.
I would rather buy from your "crook" with that feedback rating, than a supposed "honest" seller that has less of a good feedback rating, because after all who is the presumed crook. 
Ain't Life Grand...
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tooltimes
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posted on September 25, 2002 12:02:21 AM
I wouldn't use the word crook but it is being deceptive when you consider the vast majority of his auctions are properly listed - countrywise.
Most sellers are always looking for ways to gain an edge over their competition, not matter how slight.
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austbounty
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posted on September 25, 2002 05:07:21 AM
It couldn'be getting him too many lookers because I was the 91st click on the andale counter at the bottom.
But a buyer may find themselves with an import duty/tax to pay!!
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RB
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posted on September 25, 2002 06:32:42 AM
This person has learned how to anticipate - something that most Americans haven't figured out how to do yet.
This person probably realizes that the way things are going now, Hong Kong will eventually be part of the United States
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stopwhining
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posted on September 25, 2002 07:01:55 AM
hong kong was an english colony ,now it is part of china.
if he said country=china,he may get less interest.
this could be an american expatriate living and working in hong kong?
as long as he is delivering his goods on time as described,does it matter??
or should i say,is it a big deal??
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