mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
Some dropshippers do it, but it isn't a common thing with fragrances, which is some of the items I sell.
Often time it is sellers of items that they regularly carry. They have a vendor they regularly purchase from and they just ran out of stock. When it has items purchased on the listing it is a boost in the search returns. So in an effort to protect that, they just raise the price to a ridiculous amount until they can bring more stock in. Once they get their new stock, they revise the listing to be a normal or acceptable price.
Sellers that do this are not trying to bait someone into purchasing at the extremely high rates, they are trying to protect their placement in the searches. But lets say a buyer does purchase something for $600 that normally sells for $15, the buyer owns the most responsibility in doing that. The seller didn't make them or expect them to purchase the item at that inflated amount. The seller did nothing wrong. The buyer however didn't do their job.
@rolenboy01 wrote:
@llllady wrote:
@rolenboy01 wrote:Why does it matter? You don't like the prices don't buy it.
The OP was not complaining about the prices. The OP simply came here to ask why sellers do this. Fortunately, they were given several good responses.
The reasons are immaterial.
That isn't true. The OP was curious as to why any given seller would do this. It isn't "immaterial" it was simply a question by someone that wanted to UNDERSTAND what would inspire someone to do this. There is nothing "immaterial" about that. Asking question is one of the main ways many of us learn something new. Now of course if learning something doesn't matter, then maybe it would be "immaterial".
