Scraping and Drop Shipping:

[glomaniausa]

Hi everyone,

This our first venture onto the forum so please be kind 🙂

I have noticed more and more companies selling our products on ebay, at over inflated pricing and shipping costs. After reading through the www I understand that these people are drop shipping or scraping for the best selling products, the more you have on your site the more you will sell!.

As a manufacturer we have no qualms about these business's selling our products ( if they are selling our product!) on their eBay sites, however we would love to keep the pricing structure, integrity of our name and the quality of our products safe.

I need to know your views on us offering a discounted sale price to these business's through eBay so they can :

1: Make a decent margin of profit.

2: Lower their pricing to make the items more sellable.

3: Keep the integrity of our company intact.

Also for this to happen most of the drop shippers have 2 accounts , one to sell from and one to purchase from, we would need their details for that. The issue we have is eBay does not allow the passing of such information on the email system? yet they openly state we can do  B2B communication as long as we are polite and do NOT sell off eBay.

I really do NOT want companies to use our information and images ( copyright) and then sell a sub quality product, this does not help us , the customer or even eBay as a whole. I really do not want to start slapping legal cease and desist emails out.

Perhaps eBay can set something up similar to the way Amz deals with their business clients and discount rates based on quantity of items sold.

Any comments would be appreciarted.

[papermoneyforme]

Sorry, I am not sure what you are asking but all I will say, you do as you see fit with your business and let the rest do as they see fit.

[thatsallfolks]

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@glomaniausa wrote:

however we would love to keep the pricing structure, integrity of our name and the quality of our products safe.

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You have no control over the pricing structure used by others. As far as integrity and quality go, if you're concerned about them being affected, why would you consider supplying these sellers?

You need to watermark your photos and file VERO complaints if you want to enforce your copyright.

[siayan]

t is worth a shot but don't expect them to hI understand your frustrations. You sell a product at a fair price and someone sells your product at an inflated price and you have no actual quality control. Unfortunately, someone can buy your products then resell them at any price he or she wants. Cease and desist letters may work or they may not but I don't think you can legally stop it. 

Of course, there are other ways but then you may stop those sales. Is that what you want? 

I am not sure if you can make "distributors" of them but more may just pop up. It is worth a shot but don't expect them to hold inventory.

[siayan]

You have a great product. Are you the manufacturer. Looks like a good line.

"you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink." 

[partial*eclipse · Accepted solution]

You need to join the VeRO program, to defend your trademark, copyright including your images.

http://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing/create-effective-listings/vero-program.html#m17-1-tb2

You cannot control resellers' prices unless they have a contract with you. You have no recourse to learn the buying IDs of members who order and then resell your products or who use you as a drop shipper.

ebay does offer sellers an option to discount prices for quantity purchases.

[glomaniausa]

Thank you all for your comments.
The main issue I have is that I do not mind if the promote our items on their site,but to control if they actually sell my item from the information they place on line or a lesser product from some place else. It has happened in the past. Perhaps it is best not to tempt the devil, and use the VeRO program to halt it before it reflects badly on our business and customer service.
Thank you Partial Eclipse.