eBay

tzashop · ‎07-11-2023

You cannot list items on eBay.com and eBay.ca or select the United States or Canada as your shipping location. The restriction will be removed when you enhance the buyer experience.

dhbookds · ‎08-26-2023

@ckimodog wrote:
@Anonymous
You're location of your items were in the US. You are in Pakistan. That's drop shipping. Sellers need to have their items in their possession to give better customer service. Did you fly in every day to Greenwood, Indiana USA and ship your items personally? My guess is no. That's drop shipping.

Wishing you good luck with other opportunities.

yep.......it's drop shipping, which is ebay legal, ........if he's got HIS items stored in Amazon warehouses and has Amazon ship......that's fine........perfectly legit........ If he's BUYING the items on Amazon after he sells them here.....that's NOT ok and he/anyone can be sanctioned for it........

dbfolks166mt · ‎08-26-2023

What sort of childish reply is this..

Have you ever heard of 'Having a warehouse in the USA and Shipping items' from there??

If you have a warehouse in Indiana or you are working with a 3PL provider such as Amazon that is not an issue. The problem is eBay is having difficulty determining if sellers are utilizing a 3PL provider/service or if they are in fact actually drop shipping for a retailer. There have been a number of foreign sellers that have ran into this issue. About all you can do is contact eBay customer support, I would suggest going through the FB connection, and try to get them to reinstate you. If you can show that you are in fact utilizing a 3PL service or you in fact have rented or purchase warehouse space of your own they may reverse their decision.

Things that may help to support your case would be a copy of your agreement with the 3PL or a rental agreement from your warehouse landlord.

If you think this business model is a game, then all I can say Thank you very much for spending a few sec. writing the reply.

lacemaker3 · ‎08-26-2023

@ckimodog wrote:
@Anonymous
You're location of your items were in the US. You are in Pakistan. That's drop shipping. Sellers need to have their items in their possession to give better customer service. Did you fly in every day to Greenwood, Indiana USA and ship your items personally? My guess is no. That's drop shipping.

Wishing you good luck with other opportunities.

Actually, this is NOT drop-shipping ... it's a different business model.

eBay calls it Forward Deployed Inventory. It means the seller has arranged/hired a warehouse in the market they are selling in (in the USA, in this case) to store their items and ship them to the buyers when they are purchased.

https://www.ebay.com.my/sellercentre/sea-selling-policies/wssp-nov-2020

Warehouse Service Standard Policy

This policy is created specifically for Cross-Border Trading (CBT) sellers in South East Asia who are shipping items out from an overseas warehouse to a buyer that is residing in the same country. This is also known as “forward-deployed”. Watch the video to learn more about eBay's Warehouse Service Standard Policy.
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In order to be allowed to do this (use Forward Deployed Inventory) sellers have to meet certain requirements for Promised End-to-End Delivery time, and Shipping Performance, which are described in the link above. The performance is monitored separately for different buyer regions, and when a global seller is blocked from listing/selling on a particular eBay website, they may have slipped below their performance requirements for that region.

@ckimodog, @dhbookds, -- just FYI.

dhbookds · ‎08-26-2023

@lacemaker3

Thanks for the info.........I'll never remember FDI......feel like someone should be wearing combat boots.....

marnotom! · ‎08-26-2023

@lacemaker3 wrote:

eBay calls it Forward Deployed Inventory. It means the seller has arranged/hired a warehouse in the market they are selling in (in the USA, in this case) to store their items and ship them to the buyers when they are purchased.

https://www.ebay.com.my/sellercentre/sea-selling-policies/wssp-nov-2020

Warehouse Service Standard Policy

This policy is created specifically for Cross-Border Trading (CBT) sellers in South East Asia who are shipping items out from an overseas warehouse to a buyer that is residing in the same country. This is also known as “forward-deployed”. Watch the video to learn more about eBay's Warehouse Service Standard Policy.
...

In order to be allowed to do this (use Forward Deployed Inventory) sellers have to meet certain requirements for Promised End-to-End Delivery time, and Shipping Performance, which are described in the link above. The performance is monitored separately for different buyer regions, and when a global seller is blocked from listing/selling on a particular eBay website, they may have slipped below their performance requirements for that region.

Does it make any difference that this policy is for eBay Malaysia and not eBay USA?

robbie31415 · ‎08-26-2023

This appears to be amazon "dropshipper".

It's a violation and causes for accounts to be limited and restricted.

I'm glad eBay has been sweeping some of these out of the US marketplace.

fab_finds4u · ‎08-26-2023

This policy is for sellers in South East Asia.

The U.S. is not part of South East Asia so it doesn't pertain to sellers in the U.S.

lacemaker3 · ‎08-26-2023

@marnotom! wrote:
@lacemaker3 wrote:

eBay calls it Forward Deployed Inventory. It means the seller has arranged/hired a warehouse in the market they are selling in (in the USA, in this case) to store their items and ship them to the buyers when they are purchased.

https://www.ebay.com.my/sellercentre/sea-selling-policies/wssp-nov-2020

Warehouse Service Standard Policy

This policy is created specifically for Cross-Border Trading (CBT) sellers in South East Asia who are shipping items out from an overseas warehouse to a buyer that is residing in the same country. This is also known as “forward-deployed”. Watch the video to learn more about eBay's Warehouse Service Standard Policy.
...

In order to be allowed to do this (use Forward Deployed Inventory) sellers have to meet certain requirements for Promised End-to-End Delivery time, and Shipping Performance, which are described in the link above. The performance is monitored separately for different buyer regions, and when a global seller is blocked from listing/selling on a particular eBay website, they may have slipped below their performance requirements for that region.
Does it make any difference that this policy is for eBay Malaysia and not eBay USA?

As @fab_finds4u,

This policy is for sellers in South East Asia, who list on eBay websites in other regions, including eBay USA. I have found the same page on several different eBay sites; that is just the one I found this time. There's a list on the page that shows which eBay selling websites it applies for, including eBay USA and most sites in Europe.

I was responding to a seller from Pakistan, so it does apply to them, and the explanation from the seller strongly suggested that their business model is Forward Deployed Inventory using a warehouse in the USA, NOT drop shipping.

robbie31415 · ‎08-26-2023

This seller isn't doing FDI, that would be if he was using Amazon FBA for diversification. The seller here is doing a form of retail arbitrage, that has been given the label of "amazon dropshipping".

The seller here is selling inventory he does not own, and buying retail after order is placed.

Clear violation of eBay policy.

lacemaker3 · ‎08-26-2023

@robbie31415, the OP on this thread has been gone for more than a month.

I was responding to a different user, who was storing their items in a warehouse in the USA, and the items were shipped from there to their buyers. Since the seller is based in Pakistan, this is FDI, not dropshipping. They clearly stated that they are not using Amazon FBA.

@Anonymous wrote:
How did you come to the conclusion that I am doing Drop shipping of that sort?? In my case, I was shipping from my own warehouse. I have a contract with it to store my inventory and ship the items.

robbie31415 · ‎08-26-2023

That makes sense, was confused how it applied to OP.

However, seems majority of inventory is with Amazon?

Based on what they sell, and products official website, inventory seems stored with Amazon.

Based on the little checking I've done, I don't see the connection between the official product company and this eBay account.

mam98031 · ‎08-26-2023

Since you are an international seller, it is likely you got caught up in the crack down Ebay started at the end of July for international sellers that have too many INRs. They changed the rules on this for international sellers in July.

You should have gotten an email from Ebay explaining why your selling rights were revoked. Post what is says exactly here except black out any personal information.

mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999

marnotom! · ‎08-27-2023

@lacemaker3 wrote:
This policy is for sellers in South East Asia, who list on eBay websites in other regions, including eBay USA. I have found the same page on several different eBay sites; that is just the one I found this time. There's a list on the page that shows which eBay selling websites it applies for, including eBay USA and most sites in Europe.

I was responding to a seller from Pakistan, so it does apply to them, and the explanation from the seller strongly suggested that their business model is Forward Deployed Inventory using a warehouse in the USA, NOT drop shipping.

@lacemaker3, my understanding from the UA is that the seller is subject to the policies and procedures of the eBay site they chose to list on, and since eBay.com doesn't have a FDI policy as far as I can tell, I don't get the sense that a seller from anywhere would be able to use FDI if they chose to list on this site.

lacemaker3 · ‎08-27-2023

@marnotom!

That's not how I interpret it.

It's more that a seller can only use FDI if they are based outside the US (assuming their warehouse is in the USA) because that is how eBay defines FDI. The same holds true for a seller from Asia listing on eBay UK and shipping from a warehouse in the UK, or listing on eBay Europe and shipping from a warehouse in Europe.

In that case, as long as the seller meets the requirements for it, they are allowed to use FDI, and list on the local website i.e. eBay.com with an item location in the USA. It's probably not posted on eBay.com because it doesn't apply to sellers who are based in the USA or Canada.

At any rate, this policy is being enforced against sellers who are not meeting the minimum requirements for FDI, so they are being affected by it when listing on eBay.com.

Actually, at least one of the eBay sites in SE Asia doesn't have any listings, and you can't buy or sell anything on it. eBay India only exists now, to support sellers based in that region who are listing on other eBay websites. These new requirements for global sellers are being announced and explained there.

fab_finds4u · ‎08-27-2023

Go back and look at the time stamps and who I was talking to- replying to.

I was responding to someone other than the OP.

@marnotom! asked you at 1:57 if it made any difference that this policy is for eBay Malaysia and not eBay USA.

My answer was left after there was no response for awhile. Short answer is the FDI policy does not pertain to US sellers.

That was all I was saying.

Specifically the Forward Deployed Inventory policy says it was created for Cross Border Trading (CBT) sellers in South East Asia who are shipping items out from an overseas warehouse to a buyer that is residing in the same country.

Pakistan is in South Asia. Is that different than South East Asia?