Anyone else fed up with drop shippers?

[marinermikes]

I don't know about everyone else but I'm tired of buying items here only to have them delivered from Amazon. It happened three times to me in the last month. If I wanted to buy from Amazon I would open a account.

One other seller never shipped the item. Never contacted me. I clicked did not receive my item. Immediately got a response from eBay and a note supposedly from the seller. Sorry our manufacturer can no longer supply us with this item and a instant refund notice that my refund should be in my account in a couple of days. So now I don't have my item or my money and I can not leave feedback because eBay deleted the sale like it never happened!

I also now have a item that I bought that I needed right away. I bought from this seller because of the estimated delivery time. Needed it right away. Guess what delivery is suppose to be in two days and there is still no tracking info. It's going to be the same thing.

If I sold a item that I didn't have and the buyer had to file a complaint to get action do you think eBay would treat me the same way?

[mam98031 · Accepted solution]

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@marinermikes wrote:

I did not find it cheaper some where else. I would never do that!  I paid for the first item and it came no problem. Just didn't like the fact that it came from Amazon. The next two items both came late. I don't make a big deal about that. I'm a seller here to and I understand but to take four to five days to get it in the mail isn't right. The last item never came. The reason the seller gave was out of stock. I did get my money back. I just checked. But I can't leave feedback and the item is no longer in my purchase list. I can't get away with it.

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Go find the email you got when that last seller issued the cancellation.  It should tell you the reason they chose.  If it was for a buyer requested it, that would be why you can't leave FB.  You need to contact Ebay and tell them that the seller improperly used the cancellation process which is a violation.  

You can see these on your Purchase history, just click the Show Hidden Items.

[moondogblues]

Drop shippers (esp from Amazon) used to irk me a lot. Now that hubs and I have been house bound for over three months I accept it for what it is. We get all our food on-line. I wouldn't care if they drop shipped from the Space Station as long as we still get to eat.

[moondogblues]

I just want to make a few points that no one has brought up. 1. Mail all over the world is messed up right now. 2. Some countries right now are not shipping anything and that's why some out of stocks are happening. 3. The Post Office is also having problems with sick employees and are short staffed.

My last point...I am so grateful that 95% of my orders are being fulfilled. The other 5% I can deal with.

[stuff_from_dylan]

Like it or not, the only way to avoid dropshippers is to price match your item with other websites. For whatever reasons you hold reservations against Amazon, Walmart or whatever that website may be, if you buy from the place with the higher price, it may just be simply dropshipped from the cheapest one. 

[evry1nositswindy]

@mam98031 

Your feedback statement is wrong.  I had a buyer cancel an order right after purchase. Nothing was shipped.  I got feedback from them this week.  It is a positive but says I returned them.  There was no return!  Look at my fb and see.

[bcharmah]

I recently purchased an item (it was a Sunday). The listing said to allow 3 business days for shipping. No problem. However, on Tuesday, I get a message from the seller that said this:  "Please note that your order was handed over to the carrier however, I got an update that the package was lost in transit by the courier."  I thought this was odd, since I had not received any notice that the item ever shipped, and it's extremely unlikely that a "carrier" would "update" a shipper about a lost item after only one business day.

What probably happened, is the seller (upon reading all the negative feedback) uses Amazon for their inventory, then if the item is out of stock (as with my item), instead of admitting this, the seller claims it was lost in transit. Many, many buyers have had the same issue with this seller. Even if the item does arrive, it arrives from Amazon as a "gift." 

I pressed the seller for tracking information. I was given a bogus tracking number from Blue Care Express. It was "expired." 

It's not about the item in this case. I can always find another. It's discovering this shady (and apparently against the rules) practice of using Amazon as inventory, making a profit off of it, and lying to the buyers. 

I also discovered the seller is in the UK, and listed the item as being in Sacramento. Another clue that they are drop-shipping. All of their inventory (over 4000 items) appears to be Amazon items, only at a slightly higher price. 

[randomcat2003]

Drop shipping will be the death of ebay, and maybe thats what they want. The infiltration of amazon on ebay makes me sick. If i want to support amazon I would buy from amazon. I come to ebay to get away from the overlords of amazon. Now when I buy something from ebay and its shipped from amazon I will immediately give them a 1 star negative rating regardless if the item is perfect. NO AMAZON THIS IS EBAY!!!

[kh-vince]

Hi everyone,

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

Thank you for understanding.