Same Buyer bought more than 100 same items, and Shipped to Different Addresses

[great-goods-mt]

Yup... let's throw that money away.

I discovered a buyer who is using me to "ship" for free whatever he/she is selling to their customer.  I read some of the past posts concerning this topic, and I was blown away by how caviler some sellers were about this behavior.  If you are offering FREE SHIPPING, whoever that buyer is, they are making PROFIT off of what you pay for shipping.

I talked to an ebay customer service specialist about it, and it is legal in their system to be taken advantage of in this way.  In fact, the rep tried to tell me the person buying from me was not profiting unless they were selling the item for more money.  OMG... don't they know about SHIPPING!  That person profited the entire shipping amount that I paid, and could still offer free shipping to their customer.  But this supposed "special" customer service rep was clueless to this fact, and I guess ebay is too.  They have nothing in place to track scammers like this.

I'd like to know what any of you have experienced with buyers like this, and how ebay reacted.

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https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Buyers-who-want-to-change-their-shipping-address-AFTER-the/m-p...

[sales_sales_sales_sales]

How can 1 buyer have items sent to 100 Diff Addresses? 

Unless they tell you to ship to a diff address ( Which I never would).

[sales_sales_sales_sales]

A-B-C = Lose Money

D = Make Money.

For some odd reason I think the answer is D!

I dont understand people that get p'd off about buyers that pay their FULL ASKING PRICE because of the fact that buyer is going to make money off you.

First off maybe they are buying because of your price.....

Raise your price & it may not be a good deal for them anymore.

So then try to replace that lost customer with new customer(s) willing to pay YOUR FULL ASKING PRICE!

[shirkie_42]

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@sales_sales_sales_sales wrote:

How can 1 buyer have items sent to 100 Diff Addresses? 

Unless they tell you to ship to a diff address ( Which I never would).

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I've had stuff shipped to various family, just enter their address and away it goes

[shirkie_42]

Wait just a minute, if it was on this ID, the OP has sold a whole 10 items since March.

[musicforyoureyes]

So, are we wholesalers now?  Isn't there a tax break for that?  Maybe WE should be collecting tax numbers!  So interesting!  Feels so, uh.., Corporate-ish to me.  'Bay is comfy-cozi now.  Puuuuurrrrrrrr

[musicforyoureyes]

Collect those tax numbers you wholesaler, you.

[mr_lincoln]

@great-goods-mt   Is that Buyer messaging you with different addresses?  If so and it were me I would just tell them I only ship to the address on file and if they wanted me to cancel the purchase I would be happy to do so ... that's actually what I have told Buyers on a few occasions. 

I also don't offer many items with Free Shipping, if I do it means I am ready to get rid of it so it would typically be a small light weight item anyway.

[wahlstreetmkt]

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@fern*wood wrote:

I assume you worked your "free shipping" into your asking price in order to end up with the selling price you want.   So this buyer is paying you that amount, which actually covers your shipping cost --- just like any other buyer you might have.   They aren't taking advantage of your free shipping to add to their profit since they are paying your asking price.   I imagine they are clearing very little profit unless they can mark up your items a big amount.  If that is the case, then you probably can too. 

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Yeah. Caught a video a while back where what he does is take listings from Amazon and then copies them on Poshmark. Raise the price some amount that will probably clear him $5 or $10 if I recall. Then if he gets a sale, purchases the item from Amazon. Repackages it after he gets it and slaps the Poshmark mailing label on it and out it goes.

I guess it works. I guess it's safe to do since if it goes out of stock on Amazon, you can safely cancel the sale I believe. Same if the price of the item jumps up in price on Amazon.

[jd197094]

If you have a steady sales stream for whatever reason, the last thing you would want to do is disrupt that stream! If you list an item and it get's sold WHO CARES who, where, when & why? Why would you see this as a problem? If your items are sold for what you list them for, you're NOT being taken advantage of, or used, or violated in any way! How, what, when, where, and why someone does with something they buy from someone is nobody's business but their own.

Instead of feeling used, or violated, you should be thankful...but if you feel this is somehow an injustice, than charge S&H and kiss those buyers goodbye!  They'll simply find someone more agreeable.

I just can't understand why you would want to sabotage your own business, but you do what you need to do!

Good Luck

[mr_lincoln]

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@jd197094 wrote:

If you have a steady sales stream for whatever reason, the last thing you would want to do is disrupt that stream! If you list an item and it get's sold WHO CARES who, where, when & why? Why would you see this as a problem? If your items are sold for what you list them for, you're NOT being taken advantage of, or used, or violated in any way! How, what, when, where, and why someone does with something they buy from someone is nobody's business but their own.

Instead of feeling used, or violated, you should be thankful...but if you feel this is somehow an injustice, than charge S&H and kiss those buyers goodbye!  They'll simply find someone more agreeable.

I just can't understand why you would want to sabotage your own business, but you do what you need to do!

Good Luck

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@jd197094   Good point ... my only concern would be if the Buyer is requesting different ship to addresses after the sale which would Void the OP's Seller Protection on an INR claim ... of course then the OP could "negotiate" with the Buyer and work out a sharing of the loss if it came to that and to your point,  as long they are both making profit over the long haul.

[souc_ha_rh5ttog]

You can look at it as somebody throwing you a ton of sales and taking 0$ in advertising fees, not as somebody exploiting you for shipping. Those are sales you would likely have missed, at least some are bound to be, and they cost you nothing more and profit no less than others.