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Why is this allowed? In the last month I have ordered from people or companies on eBay and the product comes from Amazon. If I wanted to order from Amazon I would have ordered from them. I'm so tired of this. Why is this allowed?
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inceptions
Mentor1 month agoHi @circle-track
It is not allowed for sellers to dropship from Amazon, but there is no way for eBay to know the seller is doing this unless buyers report it.
You can report the seller here:
https://www.ebay.com/help/action?topicid=4022
circle-track
OP1 month agoThank you. I just reported this seller.
eburtonlab
Mentor1 month ago@circle-track
There are some eBay sellers that sell their own products on both Amazon and eBay, and use Amazon to fulfill orders using Amazon's multi-channel fulfillment; this is allowed by both eBay and Amazon, since the seller owns the product being sold and controls the stock.
There are also some eBay sellers that wait until an item is purchased on eBay, then turn around and place a retail order from Amazon or another retailer and have the item shipped directly to the eBay buyer. This is against eBay's policy, and can be a violation of Amazon's policies if a personal Prime account is used for commercial purposes.
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.