New twist on an old post

[olive*drab]

Three bidders, two new last month.

Three different user IDs.

ALL the same shipping address.

Two with the same shipping name.

Two of the users outbid the other.

They all paid promptly.

Two left me the same message about removing papers from quilt blocks, which there are not any.

I've been a seller for 12 years, and have never seen anything so odd.

What is this?

[Anonymous]

"Removing papers" could refer to not including an invoice.

Different names with same address - is the address a re-shipper?

[olive*drab]

I took the removing papers, like in paper pieced quilt, but my blocks have no paper. I don't know what they mean, Also it is very possible that it's a re-shipper, because they have broken language and distinct names, that makes sense, I guess, but is this acceptable? My post office thinks I'm nuts.

[olive*drab]

bigger.fish I bet you are right, because I only ship to United States, and now it kinda all makes sense. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Why wouldn't it be acceptable? I get a lot of business from buyers using re-shippers, and I get plenty of requests to remove papers and invoices from people purchasing as gifts or using me as a drop-shipper to fill an order when they ran out of stock.

Why would your post office have anything to say about it? I don't get it. You say hello, give them a package with a label, they scan it and give you a receipt, say have a nice day, end of transaction. I've never had a PO employee scrutinize the details who I'm shipping to and noticing if I ship to the same address multiple times or that it's the same address with a different name.

[a_c_green]

I agree that it sounds like a reshipper, given two different accounts sharing the same address.

The only exception to that in my own experience was when I had two different buyers bidding on stuff from me who both, as it turned out, worked for the same Hollywood movie prop house. (Fortunately they were never bidding against each other within the same auction. )

[olive*drab]

I live in a small town, the PO is people I know, they just heckle me about sending everything to the same address, not a big deal. I have never had this happen before in almost 13 years, and all of a sudden three in one week, that's why I was skeptical. Now I get it, thanks for your help.

[olive*drab]

Wow. It just all seemed so weird to me that they all 3 lived together, two were the same person, and they were bidding against the other. Just something totally new to me. 😉

[tiramisu41]

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@olive*drab wrote:
Wow. It just all seemed so weird to me that they all 3 lived together, two were the same person, and they were bidding against the other. Just something totally new to me. 😉

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Long shot, but maybe the person is a newbie and doesn't understand how proxy bidding works and was afraid that they'd lose out on the item, so kept raising their bid by using two IDs to do so instead of just making a high bid initially that would increment automatically?

Or maybe, one person discovered the other really liked the thing you had on offer and decided to buy it for them.  Original bidder may have no idea he/she was bidding against someone else in the same household.  Another "stretch" but it could have happened...

[olive*drab]

I'm not sure what is going on, could be anything. I blocked them all. thanks

[sharingtheland]

I'm going with it's a reshipper.

I'm also going with  "remove papers" means invoices.

If you were paid immediately/on time and there are no problems later, I wouldn't block the buyers.   Sounds like a probably repeat customer.   Sending to reshippers solves a lot of problems with INR and other stuff.

[sharingtheland]

probably = probable

duh