@pikabo-icu wrote:There are many sites that are shopping search engines that link items from all over the net.
There are also international shopping sites that allow buyers to buy through them from sellers that don't ship internationally (like me). Those are legit- they basically facilitate international buyers in purchasing & receiving items that they otherwise could not..
We've had numerous freight-forwarder purchases, especially during the lockdown. As best I can recall, they've all been decent deals with no issues. One order was lost by the freight-forwarder, but that's between the buyer and the forwarder -- I've got delivery confirmation to the forwarder and that's all I need.
The other customer we see from time to time will use us as a fulfillment source. One customer this past week purchased almost $200 in product, to be sent to 8 different addresses. No complaints, no returns (yet). What I found most interesting, because I just had to know if we were under-priced, is that we were the top selling price for that product (unintentionally, we'd posted new inventory with last year's prices). BUT, we were also the highest feedback (over 20K) and longest on-site (boss first started selling on eBay in 2007, about 10yrs after I started my first ID). And the purchases were made over a number of days, so clearly the middleman/buyer approved of our next-day shipping.
We see these customers all year round, and I've seen them since I started working for this company 8yrs ago. We make our margins, and then some, and have few issues, so we don't really mind working with them. A few have even asked us to let them know when we get similar inventory -- so we explain how to do a Saved Search or how to Save a Seller, since we're not really set up to track requests (yet) and I'm not sure how eBay might perceive us telling contacting buyers, outside of an active transaction, to tell them we have more of something available.
-Bob.
