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

GlynD

plumface wrote: »

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.

I've done a little bit of reading on dropshipping to try and see where it is legally and see that you're correct. It is massive and lots of people are making good legitimate money from it. There are many concerns however which seem to match my own. I see nothing yet to suggest it's illegal and as things stand it looks like it's caveat emptor.

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

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

Should I have called the police??

What on earth are you talking about? You read my post which was considered and reasonable comment and then replied with something ridiculous and verging on the hysterical. Is it your intention to conduct a reasoned discussion here or are you playing the familiar game of internet oneupmanship: "I'll try to make the other poster look stupid" type of thing?

I can tell you now sunshine I don't fall for crap like that. So either discuss matters in a civil fashion or don't bother replying to me.

Are we clear on that?

powerful_Rogue

GlynD wrote: »

What on earth are you talking about? You read my post which was considered and reasonable comment and then replied with something ridiculous and verging on the hysterical. Is it your intention to conduct a reasoned discussion here or are you playing the familiar game of internet oneupmanship: "I'll try to make the other poster look stupid" type of thing?

I can tell you now sunshine I don't fall for crap like that. So either discuss matters in a civil fashion or don't bother replying to me.

Are we clear on that?

Could you be anymore condescending or patronising?

RFW

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

Could you be anymore condescending or patronising?

As soon as I see "I can tell you now sunshine" I read in the style of Eric Morecambe so it sounded funny to me.

GlynD

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

Could you be anymore condescending or patronising?

Yes. Want to find out?

GabbaGabbaHey

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Buyer Beware, They are back again, eBay sellers selling Amazon Goods sent to you from Amazon Sellers.

Seller beware. They are back again. Idiotic lazy buyers who agree to purchase items from you. But when you deliver those items (at the agreed cost and within the agreed timeframes) they get so irate when they realise that their lack of nous (or lack of ability to compare internet prices) that they compose pointless diatribes and post them on consumer forums.

GlynD

GabbaGabbaHey wrote: »

Seller beware. They are back again. Idiotic lazy buyers who agree to purchase items from you. But when you deliver those items (at the agreed cost and within the agreed timeframes) they get so irate when they realise that their lack of nous (or lack of ability to compare internet prices) that they compose pointless diatribes and post them on consumer forums.

I think there is deliberate deception going on in many of these cases. There is nothing wrong with being a middleman for anyone but to my mind it's morally wrong to simply advertise the product online, buy it from another website and sell it on at a more expensive price.

If the seller is obtaining a wholesalers or volume discount from the provider and using that to make profit then there isn't an issue in my opinion but to add the profit onto the end user price, which then becomes apparent when the packaging is opened and an original invoice gives the game away. Personally I'd feel that I'd been scammed.

At the moment however it appears that the only safeguard is caveat emptor.

I also feel this is exactly the type of issue we should be seeing on a consumer website which has money saving as its core value for members. So well done to the OP for bringing it to our attention.

Forewarned is forearmed.

GabbaGabbaHey

GlynD wrote: »

There is nothing wrong with being a middleman for anyone but to my mind it's morally wrong to simply advertise the product online, buy it from another website and sell it on at a more expensive price.

That might be your personal moral code, but I'm afraid that it's the way that free market economics works. If you want to avoid it, then you'll need to find yourself a communist country to go and live it.

GlynD

GabbaGabbaHey wrote: »

That might be your personal moral code, but I'm afraid that it's the way that free market economics works. If you want to avoid it, then you'll need to find yourself a communist country to go and live it.

Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you.

I think I can quite easily manage to avoid unpleasant things by staying right where I am thank you.

In the meantime I think I'll just exercise my opinion a little more on things which I don't think are morally excusable. That's if it's ok with you of course? :T

plumface

GlynD wrote: »

Personally I'd feel that I'd been scammed.
Why would you feel scammed if you paid an agreed price for an agreed item?

I also feel this is exactly the type of issue we should be seeing on a consumer website which has money saving as its core value for members. So well done to the OP for bringing it to our attention.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Forewarned is forearmed maybe, but only if the OP had titled the post as
"Buyers beware, you can get items cheaper if you do a bit of research first"

How is this thread going to help anyone. Unless you know the sellers history you will not know where the item comes from or if they are dropshippers.
And, at the end of the day the buyer agreed a price,was happy to pay and even might get a bargain.

Dropshipping is not all bad!
People who fail to research and then complain about their own un-forced actions are!

powerful_Rogue

GlynD wrote: »

Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you.

I think I can quite easily manage to avoid unpleasant things by staying right where I am thank you.

In the meantime I think I'll just exercise my opinion a little more on things which I don't think are morally excusable. That's if it's ok with you of course? :T

Fair enough that you want to stick to your morals, however it appears the majority of the people in this thread, myself included, don't see anything morally wrong with people drop-shipping.