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The town of Mortlake has more ebay sellers than residents!
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glentek:
I was searching for some items on ebay with location set to Australia only. I noticed a lot of sellers located in Mortlake, only a hundred km from me. Fast delivery assured!
Looking at their About page lists them as China. Imagine my surprise.
If you search for items located 2km from Mortlake, you get hundreds of hits.
Mortlake has a population of 1400. I wonder if they know how popular the town is with the Chinese.
tom66:
I've often received items quickly from these sellers.  I suspect they are drop-shipping, no way the item could be in my hands economically within 3-4 days otherwise.
SeanB:
Probably there is a PO box rental there that is cheap, and does not care about them actually having multiple boxes, or even being local. Might even have a single large house or barn they rent that acts as warehouse, filled to the brim, and then they work nights filling orders, and taking the next morning to the post before the first collection, then sleep the day till the last delivery arrives to fill it again.
VK3DRB:
According to the ABS, there are no Mandarin speakers in Mortlake and no-one there is born in China. If an eBay product from Mortlake has its details in Chinglish (ie: poor spelling, poor grammar, lack of plurals or no sensible description), don't buy from them. Another red flag (excuse the pun) is the shipping time.
Someone:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on January 06, 2023, 10:25:12 am ---According to the ABS, there are no Mandarin speakers in Mortlake and no-one there is born in China.
--- End quote ---
ABS says otherwise:
https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL21767
so the ABS finds people in Mortlake (VIC) who recognize their Chinese heritage (Ancestry multi response, ANCP) and speak mandarin at home (Language used at home, LANP). Which is a much stronger indicator than "mandarin speaker" as people could well be fluent/conversational/functional communicators in mandarin yet not speak it at home (or not tick those boxes on the census).

There could well be people born in China living there but hidden by the ABS data borging:
https://www.abs.gov.au/census/guide-census-data/census-methodology/2021/how-data-processed
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