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Yeah, I've gotten burned by this. We bought some wooden toys for a friend's child that said they'd be shipped from Poland, assuming they were made in Poland at
by tablespoon 4y ago
Yeah, I've gotten burned by this. We bought some wooden toys for a friend's child that said they'd be shipped from Poland, assuming they were made in Poland at least.
It turned out the toys were made in China, and they even shipped them in the retail packaging (which was nowhere to be seen in the listing's pictures).
Everything else I've gotten there has been basically someone with a decal machine making custom decals or applying a customization to a (likely) mass produced product.
- shrikant 4y agoThis happened to me last week, but with Wayfair instead. We ordered something from Wayfair by a seller called "Williston Forge", and the item that arrived was in packaging branded as "VASAGLE". I looked up the corresponding VASAGLE item and the exact same thing was available on Amazon for one-third of the price. I ended up returning the Wayfair SKU and getting the Amazon one instead. Something about the branding just screams Alibaba drop-shipper to me, but the product itself was fine so I stuck with it. Left a (politely worded) bad review on the Wayfair SKU page, and surprise surprise, it's not been approved for display. Since then, I've also been wary of stuff on Wayfair.
- wmeredith 4y agoWayfair is notorious for hawking goods under faux brand names that can be had for cheaper elsewhere.
- hgsgm 4y agoIs a vendor obligated to charge a price similar to another vendor? Wayfair did the work to show you a product you couldn't find elsewhere first, and charged you a price you found fair.
- the_doctah 4y agoReport it. If they claimed anything otherwise, that's fraud.
- hgsgm 4y agoThat's the xenophobia tax -- pay extra for a preferred country name on the label.