Buyer Beware, They are back again, eBay sellers selling Amazon

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All of the major retailers drop ship certain items.

ballisticbrian

plumface, hope you get it now. There's no point you just posting questions to make it look like a valid input into the conversation, which it certainly isn't.

plumface

GlynD wrote: »

I'd read up on everything posted since my last offering of yesterday and agree with those who say no law is being broken. However, I'm still uncomfortable with the thought of someone offering wares on ones site which they are really ordering in from another. I see it as sharp practice.
Why, if you get the exact item you paid for?

It's like the adverts which used to appear in newspaper classified in the 80's and are now banned which said: "How to make a fortune for just £10" . You replied to the advert and got a single page of writing which basically said:

To make your fortune, simply place this advert in as many local newspapers as you can. "How to make a fortune for just £10."

It wasn't illegal to do it at the time but it is now.
It is absolutely nothing like your example.

I think, for the very same reasons, the practice of offerings goods for sale in this fashion from a 3rd party website without declaring where they come from, should also be made illegal. I wouldn't be that surprised to find out if it is actually illegal already as the vendors in such cases are not being open and honest with potential buyers.
Why should it be illegal?

I wish we could get a comment on this from somebody who knows commercial law.

I know nothing (surprise surprise) about commercial law but, dropshipping is a massive,massive business and cannot see it being illegal. I will,of course,stand corrected.

Brooker_Dave

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Also, while most customers could understand the concept of a "middle man", if he was honest about his modus operandi, most customers would feel ripped off.

I've got 2 people flogging stuff off my website on ebay, and I have to ship it out less branding and paperwork.

Good on them for finding a way to make some money.

Does make me think that everything on ebay is now priced over the odds, so many people flogging Chinese stuff that can be brought direct for far less, good thing ebayers are too dim to shop around.

plumface

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Thing is, I posted this on here to help consumers, and what I have is a mixture of replies from folk who don't understand the concept of what the post is about and other business folk who are just interested in whether it is a valid business opportunity or are looking at in in a legalistic way. This just completely disregards why it would be posted to a consumer site and the whole intention behind it. One also can't help wonder why people who "only care they get their item and don't care from where it comes" are really doing on a site like moneysavingexpert at all.

You are not helping consumers.
To help the consumer,try guiding them into researching the product more, they could find a better price.

Brooker_Dave

GlynD wrote: »

I wouldn't be that surprised to find out if it is actually illegal already as the vendors in such cases are not being open and honest with potential buyers.

I wish we could get a comment on this from somebody who knows commercial law.

I've ordered all manner of things that the retailers did not have in stock at the time?

Should I have called the police??

plumface

ballisticbrian wrote: »

plumface, hope you get it now. There's no point you just posting questions to make it look like a valid input into the conversation, which it certainly isn't.

So asking for you to quantify your daft accusations is not a valid input? You are getting sillier by the minute.
You claim it is illegal, a rip off and a scam but cannot and will not back your daft ideas up.
Keep skirting round all you like, you are the only person (so far) on here to think it is wrong.

Brooker_Dave

plumface wrote: »

You are not helping consumers.
To help the consumer,try guiding them into researching the product more, they could find a better price.

Some consumers *genuinely* think that ebay = the internet and that all internet sales are something to do with ebay.

I've had a fair few loons ring me up because they've brought the wrong thing and then threaten to report me to ebay.

"I've seen your advert on ebay" - no that was the internet.

powerful_Rogue

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Thing is, I posted this on here to help consumers, and what I have is a mixture of replies from folk who don't understand the concept of what the post is about and other business folk who are just interested in whether it is a valid business opportunity or are looking at in in a legalistic way. This just completely disregards why it would be posted to a consumer site and the whole intention behind it. One also can't help wonder why people who "only care they get their item and don't care from where it comes" are really doing on a site like moneysavingexpert at all.

Im a consumer and totally understand the concept.

As already pointed out, as long as I get the exact item within the timescales specified then im happy.

If I could have got it cheaper elsewhere, then thats my problem. Far too many people trying to blames others in this day and age. Take some responsibility for yourself.

Brooker_Dave

ballisticbrian wrote: »

If you stick a hundred customers of theirs in a room and tell them how their eBay order was processed by another site and ask them how many feel "ripped off", I think 99 hands would go up.

99 out of 100 customers just rip open the packet and bin the paperwork with out even looking at it.

Some are too thick to realise that ebay and amazon are separate companies.

From the feedback the speedy delivery is what counts.