Why are ebay orders coming from Amazon

Question

I've recently had orders from different sellers come in Amazon packaging... How am I still supporting amazon through its competitor???

I'm ready to stop using ebay because of this... I try to search for used items and from local sellers...

I don't want to completely drop ebay if people can just use amazon shipping. But as far as I can tell, these orders were basically amazon orders with an ebay website.

eburtonlab · Answer

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.

lady_madonna · Answer

Dropshipping, where Ebay sellers fulfill orders directly from a wholesale supplier, is allowed on eBay.

stuff4divas · Answer

@kswalsh86 many sellers list across many online platforms to reach more buyers