Caught an eBayer dropshipping

[traditonalproducts]

Purchased 2 wheels for my lawnmower last Saturday. The Amazon package arrived Thursday. Item was packed and delivered by Amazon.  Filed a complaint. In addition their eBay site states no returns. OK right.. Amazing how these individuals keep selling on eBay but I guess its hard to monitor 1000's of eBay sites unless one files a complaint. Good luck out there. 

[gurlcat]

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@ajs_coins_and_alchemy wrote:

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@gurlcat wrote:

It's always clear to me when it's a recycled box or direct from Amazon.  -They always use boxes many times too large for one thing.  

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This is sooooooo true. 

I re-use Amazon boxes, but I'm NEVER shipping a tiny little item in a box that could fit a darn refrigerator.

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So that wastefulness is one example of how they are environmentally irresponsible, and that's just one example of the multitude of personal reasons I don't do business with that company, and don't want to be tricked into it.  I'm not at all the tree-hugging, protest-marching type, but I don't know, I just think there' s a limit to how much evil a corporation should have ignored by the general public, which have plenty of other options to spend their dollars on.  Yet I hear people say "You can get those on Amazon" and it's like "Amazon" has replaced the word "online".  I find that disturbing.  

[ajs_coins_and_alchemy]

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@gurlcat wrote:

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@ajs_coins_and_alchemy wrote:

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@gurlcat wrote:

It's always clear to me when it's a recycled box or direct from Amazon.  -They always use boxes many times too large for one thing.  

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This is sooooooo true. 

I re-use Amazon boxes, but I'm NEVER shipping a tiny little item in a box that could fit a darn refrigerator.

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So that wastefulness is one example of how they are environmentally irresponsible, and that's just one example of the multitude of personal reasons I don't do business with that company, and don't want to be tricked into it.  I'm not at all the tree-hugging, protest-marching type, but I don't know, I just think there' s a limit to how much evil a corporation should have ignored by the general public, which have plenty of other options to spend their dollars on.  Yet I hear people say "You can get those on Amazon" and it's like "Amazon" has replaced the word "online".  I find that disturbing.  

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Hmm... tell me how you really feel about Amazon 😂

Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't do a whole lot of business on Amazon. I haven't cut off the Prime Membership b/c the Prime Video & Prime Music makes it very worthwhile in addition to the items I get here and there. My family uses or benefits from my Prime Membership for buying stuff more than I do.  I buy more on eBay because I can burn up a lot of the eBay CC Credits I get. Even if I pay a little more I like to cash in my points whenever possible ... but there are things I'm pretty much stuck getting on Amazon. Like certain food products that are only available seasonally in stores I need to order on Amazon to get year round, and even if they are/were available on eBay I can't imagine I would ever trust it. I get it directly from the source on Amazon.

[rugerskick]

Yeah they do seem to sometimes mis-pick a really big box for a smaller item.  I wonder if they wind up running out of certain sizes and going to larger boxes.

[inhawaii]

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@jg.mason wrote:

I had an Amazon seller dropship my order from Walmart and I'll tell you I was FIRED up.

Because I didn't also check Walmart's price before I ordered it from Amazon.

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So you're seller should have told you...

"Sir, why are you buying that from me? You know you can get that cheaper from Wal-Mart?"

[a_c_green]

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@rugerskick wrote:

Yeah they do seem to sometimes mis-pick a really big box for a smaller item.  I wonder if they wind up running out of certain sizes and going to larger boxes.

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Definitely better than running out of certain sizes and going to smaller boxes. 😁

I know Amazon used to be really sloppy with their packaging (we've all had the classic experience of one item and one air pillow bouncing around in a gymnasium-sized box), but in our own experience with frequent deliveries they do seem to be reining in the excess a little more these days. We get lots more items in heat-sealed padded envelopes than we used to, and their boxes are now covered in bragging about how recycled/recyclable they are. 

In fact, when I receive an eBay purchase in someone else's recycled Amazon box, that's where I often see wild over-packaging of a small purchase in a humongous box, obviously the only one the seller had on hand that day. I appreciate the ones who know how to cut down an oversize box to something suitable for the item to be shipped.

[adamcartwright]

@b86fiero 

I don't understand why you penalized Amazon.

An eBay seller may have violated eBay policy by purchasing an item on Amazon and having it shipped to you.

Amazon fulfilled the order.  Why blame Amazon?

[gurlcat]

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@adamcartwright wrote:

@b86fiero 

I don't understand why you penalized Amazon.

An eBay seller may have violated eBay policy by purchasing an item on Amazon and having it shipped to you.

Amazon fulfilled the order.  Why blame Amazon?

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Yeah, poor, POOR Amazon.  Downtrodden, oppressed, underdog Amazon.  🤣

[mam98031]

@jg.mason 

I had something similar happen to me as well.  The seller I purchased from has Walmart ship the item directly to me.  However for the item I purchased, it was not cheaper for me to buy from Walmart, so I actually save money with the Ebay seller, clearly they were getting a wholesale rate low enough that they could still offer me a price that I could not beat by going directly to Walmart.

[mam98031]

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@adamcartwright wrote:

@b86fiero 

I don't understand why you penalized Amazon.

An eBay seller may have violated eBay policy by purchasing an item on Amazon and having it shipped to you.

Amazon fulfilled the order.  Why blame Amazon?

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Or it could be the seller has stock they own held at a FBA site owned by Amazon.  The seller pays Amazon to hold their inventory and ship it as they instruct them to do.

[jg.mason]

Let me simplify this for you. I was fired up at    myself    for not checking the price at walmart before I bought it at amazon. See if I would have also checked walmart I would have seen the cheaper price and bought it from them.

[jg.mason]

That sounds like a win for everyone, seller makes some money, Ebay makes some money and you got a good deal.

[traditonalproducts]

I don't like using amazon. I like eBay and support this platform because I sell on it.

[traditonalproducts]

TBA tracking number is a Amazon tracking number. Amazon was the carrier. You say no shipping or delivery updates but they uploaded the TBA number? They did their job, they uploaded the tracking number. If eBay's tracking integration failed that's eBay's fault or Amazon's fault not the seller. TBA is a legit number, just sounds like eBay's integrated services failed to communicate between the servers.

OK, how would I have known that the TBA # is an Amazon tracking number?  Maybe eBay's integrated services did fail. I don't order off of Amazon.

No return address? Uhh its fulfilled by Amazon. Its coming from an Amazon warehouse. You don't need a return address. Why do you feel that YOU need the seller's return address?

I don't need the sellers address. Never said I did, it was a point considering the rest of the parts I purchased did not come form Amazon nor any other platform and had return addresses plus was able to track the shipments.

You would've gotten a hit for not uploading the tracking. This seller uploaded tracking.

As stated I have no idea what a TBA # relates to.  I don't use Amazon. 

Nothing you've stated is any evidence of  a violation of eBay policy .

How do you know? Are you the seller or work for eBay? Maybe there is a violation maybe not. 

 I would just mind your own business and not buy from this seller if their practices upset you so much

NOTED!

[itsjustasprain]

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@traditonalproducts wrote:

OK, how would I have known that the TBA # is an Amazon tracking number?

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Google is your friend. Amazon themselves explain it this way: 'Logistics tracking assigns a Transportation Booking Number - otherwise known as a TBA - to each shipment. The TBA shipping number tracks the progress of the shipment from the warehouse to the delivery address.'

Amazon does their own shipping so you are not going to see a tracking number from USPS or FedEx or UPS.

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@traditonalproducts wrote:

Nothing you've stated is any evidence of  a violation of eBay policy .

How do you know? Are you the seller or work for eBay? Maybe there is a violation maybe not. 

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You do not have to work for Ebay to know their policies. It would probably help your complaint if you pointed out what policy you think is being violated. Either copy-and-paste it in here or at least post a link to it.

[mam98031]

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@jg.mason wrote:

Let me simplify this for you. I was fired up at    myself    for not checking the price at walmart before I bought it at amazon. See if I would have also checked walmart I would have seen the cheaper price and bought it from them.

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Not necessarily, at least not in my experience when a similar thing happened to me.