Okay. Does anyone else have issues with situations like this, or is it just me??

[gator08041971]

You search for an item.  You find a seller or 3 that have them available, one happens to be in your same state even!

Decent price, looks to be what you want, etc.

You order it, but note there is a 4 day wait to ship.  Well, alright, that can't be a bad thing right?

Several days go by, no updates to your order at all, no tracking.  Then suddenly, it shows up as shipped!  Then a moment later it shows up as delivered!

But it gets better!

You go to get your package finally, and low and behold, it came from AMAZON.  O_o

I was soooo **bleep** today when I saw that.

Here's my take:

Why can't people who want to use Amazon fulfillment, or whatever the hell it is that eBay allows, SAY THAT THEY USE THEM IN THE LISTING????

I would not have purchased the item, had I known up front.  So in that regard, I feel cheated.  Not to mention, I could have just bought it on Amazon myself and probably got it sooner!

Ugh.

Is it just me?

/rant

[kensgiftshop]

Guess it was the last seller that left feedback, the one dropshipping from Amazon.

[gator08041971]

@kensgiftshop 

Yeah.

Fairly new seller as well.

And the item was about 4 bucks cheaper on Amazon. lol

Here's some math:

So they sell it to me, I pay 10.34 with tax, right?

So they get:

9.75

- .30 cents for being under 10 dollars  ACTUALLY, that is wrong, the order is over 10! So .40!

- 13.25% of 10.34= $1.37

So 9.75 - .40 - 1.37 = $7.98

Now to buy the lid on Amazon:

Price for same exact lid pack and brand:

6.69

If they paid tax:

7.09

That means they made between .89 to 1.29!!!

What a waste of time!!  Its beyond aggravating!  ARRRG

Anyway.  For all their effort they make about a buck or so per sale doing this?

[eburtonlab]

The folks that are violating eBay policy by engaging in retail arbitrage are not likely to cooperate by voluntarily advertising that they are doing so.

Even if all the legitimate sellers that use Fulfillment By Amazon to ship items they already own cooperate and indicate that in their listings, buyers that want to avoid getting deliveries from Amazon will still need to take some active steps to ensure that they are not purchasing from sellers that use Amazon to deliver their items. This will be the case regardless of whatever new policy eBay implements, since sellers that are already choosing to violate one policy will not think twice about violating another.

Signs that a seller may be drop-shipping items from a retail site such as Amazon:

Examining seller feedback closely can often provide indications of that, as can noticing certain aspects of the seller's items for sale -- such as a limited assortment of multiple quantity listings that appear to have been copied at random from a catalog or other site, use of stock images, and free shipping of bulky items where it is not likely that an individual could pay for postage and still make money on the sale.

[ryry-jj]

Or it could also be where the seller has their inventory as they sell across many platforms.  In this case Amazon is doing the shipping for him, not necessarily drop shipping....although if this was true, I don't understand the 4 day lead time it took to process his own order/inventory

[simba6]

Sellers can drop ship but have to use a real drop shipping service.  They can't just pass it off to another retailer.  Some buyers seeing they could get it for less will file a not as described case and return it.  So, all around it's a bad idea.

[gator08041971]

Update

The seller got a few points in my book.  Their reply to my inquiry about it was very professional and provided and explanation.  They sell on both platforms and were out of stock at the time I ordered so used their Amazon stock to fulfill my order.

hmm

Interesting anyway.  But they were very polite and cordial, more than I probably was, though I wasn't too bad in the message to them as I made it sound here I suppose.  lol

Anyway.  Not sure how I feel about it now.   But wanted to update.

[fab_finds4u]

You should check prices on both sites before you buy if you are trying to get the lowest price.

And for some reason if you didn't  do that then that's  on you.

You shouldn't care if it was delivered in a blue van, brown truck, white truck, or by horse and buggy as long as you got what you ordered and it was delivered on time.

[ahkh-3423]

Are you still facing this issue?

[barbz40]

I always look on Amazon first for what I want... then ebay.

[worldwide_ship]

Ahhh dropshipping from Amazon... the good old days 😊. I thought ebay and amazon cracked down on that but I guess not. Does ebay consider Amazon logistics a valid tracking number now?

[albertabrightalberta]

What I haven't been able to figure out is how some (disallowed) dropshippers do it. 

There is an item I purchase fairly regularly. I always check Amazon first but usually end up buying from various sellers on ebay as the price is less than on Amazon. Yet the delivery comes from Amazon (with the dreaded gift receipt). 

How do they do it? They're charging less on ebay than on Amazon yet buying it from Amazon, presumably at the higher price.

[eburtonlab]

How do they do it? They're charging less on ebay than on Amazon yet buying it from Amazon, presumably at the higher price.

A new seller, just starting out, might be willing to lose some money to build up a reputation for quickly delivering items. Maybe... if the prices are very close.

Or prices may have changed faster than the seller accounted for, and the seller suddenly finds that it costs more money to deliver what was advertised. Or a seller that finds an item is out of stock might try to fulfill an order through Amazon to avoid a defect or a negative. If that were the case, I would expect the seller to immediately raise prices or change the listings to "out of stock" after completing the sale rather than leaving the listings unchanged.

One other possibility occurs to me, though: triangulation fraud. In other words, the Amazon order may be being paid for using a stolen credit card.