Important question

[rodgen42]

Dearest all,

I listed a product in my eBay store Germany and whenever I sold it I purchased it from the same distributor who was selling in Amazon. In fact in prior, I asked through email from distributor in Amazon if I could list/ dropship his product in my eBay store account Germany but distributor of the product did not forbid me and not encourage me to do.

But suddenly after two months the distributor has complained through a lawyer against me and charged me to pay 5000 euro for the damage. While the cost of the product is 31 euro. The product distributor lawyer gives me deadline up to 18 September, 2024 to make decisions.

I need you all give me your professional feedback and thoughts.

Once again dearest community colleagues please share with me your possible suggestions. 

Eagerly waiting to your reply

best regards 

MYS

Germany 

[u2_vintage]

If there are messages through eBay take a screenshot of them, it might be useful to you, because it seems like this is some kind of scam.

[fab_finds4u]

When you buy something on Amazon you can have it mailed to a different address, like when you are buying a gift for someone, and  I believe this is OK by Amazon.

But it is not OK for eBay sellers to use Amazon to dropship a product they list for sale on eBay.

eBay's dropshipping policy forbids you to dropship from a retail business like Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot, Temu, etc.  Sellers must purchase from a wholesale distributor if you dropship.

Sorry I can't help you with the threats you received. You should seek the advice of an attorney.

[house*of*paws]

I was under the impression that Amazon did NOT want members to use their Prime accounts to purchase items and have them shipped as a ‘gift’ AFTER they have ‘sold’ these items on another selling venue.  [This is admittedly hearsay information.]

[kensgiftshop]

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@rodgen42 wrote:

share with me your possible suggestions. 

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Stop dropshipping from Amazon, which is a policy violation.

[fab_finds4u]

You are correct.

I was speaking from the position that a non eBay item can be purchased and sent as a gift.

It is against both eBay and Amazon policy that what the OP is doing is against policy but I was commenting only on eBay policy.  What happens on Amazon is Amazon's problem and for them to deal with it. 😄

[kathiec]

@rodgen42 

You've posted this in the US forums. None of us have any knowledge of German laws that might pertain to this. You'll get more informed opinions if you post in the eBay Germany Community:

https://community.ebay.de/

[rodgen42]

Thank you so much for your message. It is highly apprciated. 

[ces_shopping_center]

Hello have a nice day. I think this is why we should not work with other platforms. eBay is the best platform of all. Very helpful to us in all the ways. They do everything to help us. So may suggest in here, try to contact the seller first. Then ask for the problem and getting a fair solution for the matter. You can ask what my fault is and why should I pay the price that i didn't do.
Best regards.
Hope you will away form this matter soon..

[ryry-jj]

No idea what you would do in Germany, but in the US, you mostly likely would contact an attorney to have them respond to it.  And most times it would end there with you paying your attorney's fee for the letter...it's all in the letterhead, you must now play the game.

Or call their bluff and assume it wasn't a real "attorney" that contacted you in the first place...do you know for sure?

As others have said, stay away from drop shipping unless you are a fully authorized distributor for the wholesaler.  Which, BTW, is very difficult to do these days.

[janet9988]

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@ces_shopping_center wrote:

Hello have a nice day. I think this is why we should not work with other platforms. eBay is the best platform of all. Very helpful to us in all the ways. They do everything to help us. So may suggest in here, try to contact the seller first. Then ask for the problem and getting a fair solution for the matter. You can ask what my fault is and why should I pay the price that i didn't do.
Best regards.
Hope you will away form this matter soon..

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Why should the seller contact a seller in this case?