amazon package

Question

I order from ebay specifically to avoid ordering from amazon, but it comes from an amazon worker with amazon packaging. Why is this like this?

eburtonlab · Answer

@gremano0

It may not be possible to always identify in advance those sellers who drop-ship, but it is possible to identify some common characteristics of illicit retail drop-shippers or other under-performing sellers, and thus avoid the worst of them.

Often they can be spotted by a combination of low feedback number, free shipping of heavy items where it would not be profitable to use retail shipping, use of stock photos, high handling time (not necessarily if they are using Amazon or Walmart, though), poor feedback received with complaints of delays and wrong items or out of stock cancellations, very odd item selection and/or quantities like items were chosen at random from a catalog, canned item descriptions scraped from another site that exactly match many other similar listings, differences between registration location on the feedback page and item location (or vague item location -- like "US, United States"), or inability to answer even basic questions about the items being sold.

jacbarcollectibles · Answer

Some eBay sellers are also Amazon sellers. So they use the Amazon fulfillment service to ship their eBay items. This is allowed by eBay and Amazon. What would not be allowed by either company is if the seller sold you the item and then found a seller on Amazon to ship the item to you. You would know if this happened because there would be a gift receipt in the package.