@botak_us wrote:
Someone just clarified, he is a "retail arbitrage" not a "drop shipper". He bought my item and had me ship it to his buyer's address". In this case, I am his drop-shipper. Am I confusing?
Well, yes; you are not his drop shipper because you have no arrangement with him to do so. You are selling items yourself, directly to your buyers, and he just happens to be the buyer of one (or more) of them. He is entitled to have the item(s) sent to someone else for whatever reason, as long as he provides their Ship To address with the payment. You are doing nothing wrong; you're just not a drop shipper in this scenario.
He is practicing retail arbitrage, selling items he does not actually have and then scrambling to buy them from someplace when a sale occurs. You are not his drop shipper, because you have no items held in reserve for him to claim when a sale of his occurs.
From what you are describing in your original post, it may be that he has an actual drop shipper arrangement with some company in China, but that they are failing to ship an item of his, so he is trying to fulfill his order by buying it from someone else (you, in this case). In an emergency, you do what you have to do to deliver to the buyer, but he should not be doing that as a standard practice for his business, if that is what is happening here.
