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Amazon sellers on Ebay
I am tired of undercover Amazon sellers on Ebay. I shop on Ebay because in do not like or deal with anything associated with Amazon. Ebay has got to make sellers clearly post on their selling page that they are a Amazon seller and will be shipping their products from a Amazon logistics center or Amazon deliver service. I also do not like when Ebay sellers do not give proper shipping information and do not give a buyer the option to pick a courier for shipment. The cheapest courier is not the best option for a quick shipment. I will definitely be reducing my shopping on Ebay till this issue with undercover Amazon sellers is taken care of. Because even when ask a Ebay seller if they are associated with Amazon and how they ship their products some will not give a honest answer.
eburtonlab
Mentor1 year agoEbay has got to make sellers clearly post on their selling page that they are a Amazon seller
Even if eBay made that some sort of requirement, not all sellers would comply, simply because some sellers are already violating eBay policy by engaging in retail arbitrage -- waiting for an eBay buyer to make a purchase from the seller, and then turning around and purchasing from Amazon to have the item shipped directly to the buyer.
Sellers that are already violating eBay policy can hardly be expected to voluntarily admit that fact.
So if eBay buyers want to avoid dealing with Amazon at all, those buyers will have to avoid buying from any sellers that are drop-shipping -- within the rules or outside them -- in order to avoid the possibility of receiving packages from Amazon.
It may not be possible to always identify in advance those users 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, use of stock photos, high handling time (not necessarily if they are using Amazon, though), poor feedback received with complaints of delays and wrong items or out of stock cancellations, very odd item selection and/or quantities as if items were chosen at random from a catalog, canned item descriptions scraped from another site, differences between registration location and item location (or vague item location -- like "US, United States"), or inability to answer even basic questions about the items being sold.