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Customers need to know who is the carrier for the item that they bought.
I've shopped on Ebay for over 10 years. The problem is the sellers do not clearly say who the carrier is that is delivering the item I bought. Some items come from Walmart or Amazon or it could say " standard Shipping" or "qtracking". don't know what that is. I had items shipped to other states says it was delivered I don't life in that state. Ebay you need to do a better job with the sellers and the delivery services need to be over hauled. Stop with A.I.
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eburtonlab
MentorSep 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM · Edited@joneus.1ioe2n0sb
Some sellers do state which specific shipping carrier is used. The problem is that not all sellers are entirely truthful about the information they provide. And sellers that are violating eBay and Amazon or Walmart policy by drop-shipping via retail have good reason to hide that fact from eBay and their buyers.
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.