Overseas Sellers with multiple Ebay accounts

[glamis-junkie]

For the last 6 months I have attempted to get Ebays help. Overseas sellers are creating multiple Ebay accounts and filling the first page of similar products to our U.S. made products. The same sellers copy our products/listing descriptions and images to sell the overseas parts at a discounted rate. Reporting the listing does nothing. Filing Vero cases for the images has worked-a slow and painful process. The kicker is the sellers have multiple accounts selling the same products and its perfectly fine? So one just opens up a bunch of stores to capture more sales? The sellers also state the parts are Made In The USA? Really should be some regulations and support channels to cut this epidemic down to size. Like a game of whack a mole-they just changes names.

[dbfolks166mt]

     Let me guess a lot of the sellers are in China, Hong Kong (China in essence), Singapore and India?

[glamis-junkie]

Of course-but they all dump the products in the same fulfillment warehouses in the U.S.

The names changes occasionally likely to avert taxes. The kicker is -all the same products using different seller names. Guess I need 5 different names to do the same-but pay taxes and everything else required legally. Its Ok right????🤠

[femmefan1946]

There is nothing wrong with having multiple eBay accounts. I have seven myself, four of them actively selling.

Fulfillment warehouses are set up to handle shipments to and from multiple sellers. AZ for an  easy example, has fulfillment centres from which they not only handle shipping for hundreds of their sellers in addition to their own, but also for sellers advertising on other sites like etsy and eBay.

The kicker is -all the same products using different seller names.

That's how dropshipping works. The supplier does all the photography, description, packaging, and shipping for hundreds of resellers independently advertising the same goods. Because the reseller has full responsiblity for the photography, description, packaging, and shipping  but no control over the photography, description, packaging, and shipping , when the supplier becomes a problem,either in error or fraudulently, it is the reseller who bears the brunt.

And also, since those resellers often think online selling is easy, they tend to drop out at the first sign of difficulty.

[glamis-junkie]

I understand the fulfillment aspect. So point in case, I open up 5 different stores with 5 different names to capture sales with my same products. Blanket the first page to capture more sales. Seems flawed. Game on.

[redmodelt]

As long as you have the products to cover the total shown available in each listing for each store, go for it. 

[itscalledapostingid]

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@glamis-junkie wrote:

I understand the fulfillment aspect. So point in case, I open up 5 different stores with 5 different names to capture sales with my same products. Blanket the first page to capture more sales. Seems flawed. Game on.

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I assume you are saying that in jest but it would be a violation of dupe listing policy:

We don't allow more than one fixed price listing of an identical item at the same time from the same seller. This includes:

• Listing an identical item in different categories or listing an identical item using different usernames

Source: https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-policies/duplicate-listings-policy?id=4255

The sellers you are concerned with are probably different individuals who all get their products from the same CCP factory/warehouse.

[redmodelt]

Individual sellers sitting in the same room at a bank of computers all day. 🙂

[itscalledapostingid]

A few years ago someone who had been to China and saw their entry-level ebay operations posted a description. It went something like this:

The citizen is given a sales package which consists of the images and text to create listings for some low value entry-level items.
They create the listings from home computer.

When they get sales they print a pick list and trek down to the warehouse.

Warehouse gives them the merch plus envelopes and sheets of bubble wrap to fulfill the orders.

They trek back to their apartment and pack them up.

Then another trek down to the shipping depot.

A successful seller is rewarded with the ability to sell increasingly higher value items. 

[itsjustasprain]

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@itscalledapostingid wrote:

A few years ago someone who had been to China and saw their entry-level ebay operations posted a description. It went something like this:

The citizen is given a sales package which consists of the images and text to create listings for some low value entry-level items.
They create the listings from home computer.

When they get sales they print a pick list and trek down to the warehouse.

Warehouse gives them the merch plus envelopes and sheets of bubble wrap to fulfill the orders.

They trek back to their apartment and pack them up.

Then another trek down to the shipping depot.

A successful seller is rewarded with the ability to sell increasingly higher value items. 

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That is basically just drop shipping except that the seller is doing his own packing job. The 'sellers' do not seem to realize that their competition is all the other sellers working for the same warehouse and trying to sell to the same buyers on Ebay. There is no way for anyone in the group to get ahead except to be a few pennies cheaper than everyone else.

It is drop shipping stripped down to its core. Everyone is using the same descriptions and the same artwork to sell the same items as everyone else. Kind of sad but eventually the sellers wise up and drop out. The warehouse does not care because there are plenty more where those came from.