Reply With QuoteYes, that happened to me the last time I bought something from E-Bay. I got emails from Both E-Bay and Amazon with slightly conflicting delivery details but it got there earlier than E-Bay had advised.
I've just experienced this and I can't see how it could work well enough to make it worthwhile for the seller.
I bought a new book on eBay for £5 including postage. Next day it turned up as an Amazon delivery with a note inside showing the eBay seller's name.
The seller obviously has a Prime account, purchased the book from Amazon and had them send it to me.
Thing is, the book is £6 on Amazon! So, after eBay and PayPal fees, the buyer is, presumably, down a couple of quid.
Anyone come across this or can explain how it works?
Yes, that happened to me the last time I bought something from E-Bay. I got emails from Both E-Bay and Amazon with slightly conflicting delivery details but it got there earlier than E-Bay had advised.
That was certainly a positive. I received the book a day earlier than eBay had forecast.Originally Posted by alanm_3
Back in the day when I started an eBay business account we drop shipped DVDs from Amazon to build selling history and power seller status on eBay.
I see. Did you make, break even or see it as a loss leader?
At £6 there will still be a profit, maybe bought for £3. ‘Remaindered’ books can be bought for peanuts.
We got very lucky with one particular title, The Inbetweeners box set. We sold about 3,000 and made a fiver on each, so it wasn’t bad money. Also sold others, but The Inbetweeners was the main source of sales.
That’s before everyone else cottoned on to drop shipping between Amazon and ebay though. Not sure how lucrative it’d be today.
We got through seller reviews and the period where they hold your cash on PayPal with ease. Got top rated seller and power seller status then pivoted to another niche entirely. Those were the days!
Does the seller have access to a lower price I can't see? If the book is on sale from Amazon at £6 how has the seller managed to buy it from them for £3 and have them send it to me?
Sorry, misunderstood what’s going on here, please ignore!
Moral is: Always check Amazon price before buying off ebay.
When it first happened to me a few years ago I was annoyed that I paid more for the item than if I had bought direct from Amazon. I left negative feedback and outed the seller as an Amazon Re-seller. Ebay removed the feedback with no explanation. They like to protect their big sellers more than buyers. Same situation with so-called UK based sellers who are really based in Far East. I've reported a few of them but ebay don't even reply. There is a way to check and I always do.
Sounds a bit like sour grapes to me. I've never understood why people don't check at least both of these two before buying. I search as many platforms as I can!
I didn't think people still used ebay.
This happened to me recently too... I bought something for my lad off eBay on Sunday and it turned up Monday morning in an Amazon box. I was more than a bit confused at the delivery time more than anything!
What did the seller do that was worthy of negative feedback? They offered an item for sale at a price you agreed to, and delivered it in a timely fashion??
This puzzled me too. Seller puts item up for sale, buyer doesn't check if it's cheaper elsewhere, buyer has a hissy. No wonder ebay removed the spurious negative feedback.
Sent from my SM-A105FN using Tapatalk
Quite.
You may all be right but it was about 7 or 8 years ago and it annoyed me at the time and I got a proper snot on. These days I do check for all the aforementioned hence don't get 'stung'. However, as I said, it is best to check the seller's feedback and location.
Posting Permissions