@andersonbros wrote:
I can tell they've bought multiple things that day because they'll only have a few reviews, and they're all seller feedback on that very day. Does anyone have any idea what this is? I've encountered people actually buying gifts, but this seems very suspicious. I've never had so many happen all of a sudden.
Just for yucks, pick one or two of your sold listings for which you received one of these notes, and do a Google Image Search to see if another seller (either on eBay or another site, doesn't matter) is using your image(s) to sell. Once they get a sale, they scramble to buy yours (at a lesser price) and disguise what they're doing by asking you to leave out any identifiable paperwork. (I don't know how they explain the fact that it's your name and return address on the outside of the package.)
This is not drop-shipping, because you have no previously-existing arrangement with them to fulfill their order from their buyers. It's retail arbitrage, which eBay prohibits, although to be clear, your buyer is the suspect here, not you. What they don't allow is a seller to be using others' listings and then buying their stuff later when a sale occurs. You're not doing any of that yourself; you're just fulfilling an order from a buyer.
I would complete the sale as you're expected to do, but if this happens a lot (and especially if you do find others copying your photos and listings), you might want to consider raising your prices to whatever these other guys are managing to get for your products.
