My items being sold outside of eBay by other sellers?

[4-stars]

I've been having buyers requesting that I not include an invoice with my item when shipping. By accident I included an invoice to find out my item was sold through Amazon and drop shipped to another customer other than the buyer.

How is this possible? 

Is this a real thing?

please help me to understand how this is being done.

[inhawaii]

Good question mam.  I been "thinking about it" for years.

Honestly ebay is just a side job for me.  Sometimes i have a hard time keeping up just with ebay.

Maybe when i retire from my main job?

[inhawaii]

I'm amazed that people pay $40 for mine. At $40 i'm making a nice profit.  I can't imagine someone paying $96 for the same item.

[animal-house-8]

I sell antiques and collectible kinda stuff and generally will only ship overseas thru the global shipping program which really jacks the price up for the buyer. But I am surprised how many of my listing are listed overseas in different venues. I've seen my stuff listed word by word picture by picture copy of what I sell on ebay and the people will have a U.S. address they have the item shipped to and then it get forwarded from there. This is great they still pay the price I want to get so I see no harm in it. I would gladly sell to anyone and really do not care how much they sell it for anywhere.  I'm kinda wondering what would be the best way of  getting more people in do this.

[kim_y_buran]

Did you get the price that you wanted?  Then what do you care what happens to your product next?  If someone is able to exploit some inefficiency and squeeze a few more bucks out it - more power to them.

[mam98031]

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@inhawaii wrote:

Good question mam.  I been "thinking about it" for years.

Honestly ebay is just a side job for me.  Sometimes i have a hard time keeping up just with ebay.

Maybe when i retire from my main job?

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Why years????  Seems like a pretty easy decision to me.  I don't see why it is complicated at all.

[inhawaii]

How about this explnation ...... I'M LAZY!  😃

[4-stars]

Yes, I put a packing slip in the box as I usually do and the buyer wanted to know how I shipped the item when they purchased it from Amazon.
It just sound so unethical, but looking at all the responses, I guess it is more common than I am aware.
I've been selling collectibles on ebay for over 20 years and never considered other options.
I guess I need to branch out, maybe when I am no longer hauling a full time job.
Thanks,

[city*satins]

You seem to know what you're doing and do it well.

[atikovi]

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@4-stars wrote:

By accident I included an invoice to find out my item was sold through Amazon and drop shipped to another customer other than the buyer.

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I don't see how this is possible. You're supposed to ship to the person that bought it, not to another customer other than the buyer to be covered by Paypal.

[sin-n-dex]

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@membersinceaug2001 wrote:

Amazon buyers will pay more for items than ebay buyers.

I've heard so many times that a lot of Amazon shoppers don't even price compare anywhere else, just order everything from there.

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I think my stamp supplies got drop shipped from China. Supposedly they were shipped with Canada Post, but the last order took 3 weeks to arrive (and showed up while I was in New Zealand, but the river gave details on the delivery date). The current order is showing a date of Feb 10, so I can't complain yet... but supposedly it shipped with Canada Post on the 18t of Jan.

I'm giving up on waiting... first I sent my partner to Hamilton (50 miles away) to try and stop at the stamp shop, but he closed early and we missed out. Tonight I ordered some supplies from a Hong Kong seller on eBay (for slightly less than the river).

I don't even care if they're coming from Asia... they're for putting stamps in that will be sold on eBay to stamp collectors. I don't need anything brilliant here. I recycle anything I can. But I would like to know what's going on when my stuff is showing shipped by Canada Post for days on end and not arriving.

C.

[mschacha]

At checkout the buyer puts in the address of his customer and then pays for the item. So it looks like his customer bought it from you when he actually purchased it from you.

[membersinceaug2001]

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@4-stars wrote:
Yes, I put a packing slip in the box as I usually do and the buyer wanted to know how I shipped the item when they purchased it from Amazon.
It just sound so unethical, but looking at all the responses, I guess it is more common than I am aware.
I've been selling collectibles on ebay for over 20 years and never considered other options.
I guess I need to branch out, maybe when I am no longer hauling a full time job.
Thanks,

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I run into drop-ship sellers here on ebay for nearly every new item I search for.  Read thru sellers feedbacks usually a giveaway.  Also titles are exactly the same when searching Google.

There are programs being sold that set sellers up for drop-shipping.  Young people today go for this.

[atikovi]

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@mschacha wrote:
At checkout the buyer puts in the address of his customer and then pays for the item. So it looks like his customer bought it from you when he actually purchased it from you.

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Again, how is this possible? Buyer pays with Paypal and seller is supposed to ship to buyer's Paypal address. What do you mean,  "the buyer puts in the address of his customer"? No smart seller would ship to that address and lose seller protection.

[dirk12955]

One of my best customers re-sells my stuff on Amazon.

I have no plans or desire to sell on the river.

[penguins_dont_fly]

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@atikovi wrote:

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@mschacha wrote:
At checkout the buyer puts in the address of his customer and then pays for the item. So it looks like his customer bought it from you when he actually purchased it from you.

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Again, how is this possible? Buyer pays with Paypal and seller is supposed to ship to buyer's Paypal address. What do you mean,  "the buyer puts in the address of his customer"? No smart seller would ship to that address and lose seller protection.

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Buyers can have multiple names and addresses. On both eBay and PayPal.

I can buy something and ship it to my mother in Florida, my brother in New Jersey or my aunt Matilda in Timbuktu.

When you checkout and add a name and address, or choose a saved address, that name and address is transferred to PayPal as the ship-to address.

There should NEVER be a discrepancy between the eBay ship-to and the PayPal ship-to....they are always the same (unless manually changed by the seller)

The address on the order on eBay is the address on the order on PayPal. There is no such thing as the "PayPal Address".