Watch for ebay sellers ordering cheaper from 3rd parties..

RFW

marking_bad wrote: »

Drop shipping from other retailers should be banned, the buyer has no control over stock, and is essentially conning customers if they don't tell them what they are doing imo

Not sure how you could ban it, there's no real way of knowing. Some sellers occasional do it out of necessity, ie buying from a third party to fulfill an order that would otherwise not have been possible.

Stoke

marking_bad wrote: »

Drop shipping from other retailers should be banned, the buyer has no control over stock, and is essentially conning customers if they don't tell them what they are doing imo

I really don't see a problem with drop shipping. It's no different to much of the other overpriced junk on eBay which is ordered from Poundland and sold at a premium. Like I said, what about the people who list 20 iPad pouches, sell 20, then go down to the Poundland and... whoooops, they're out of stock. That's no different is it? Buyers should shop around instead of turning to eBay as their first port of call.

marking_bad

If they didn't have stock then the sale should have been cancelled, they should not be passing on details to other companies. I'm surprised retailers allow it (when it becomes apparent a customer is buying for lots of other addresses), they are essentially putting their business into the hands of random ebay sellers.

Stoke

marking_bad wrote: »

If they didn't have stock then the sale should have been cancelled, they should not be passing on details to other companies. I'm surprised retailers allow it (when it becomes apparent a customer is buying for lots of other addresses), they are essentially putting their business into the hands of random ebay sellers.

It's weird that some people find 'drop shipping', a perfectly legitimate way of making money, morally reprehensible, yet think that cynically overcharging people for postage and packaging is fine. Businesses have bloody done this for years, how the hell do you think many of these companies are able to keep such HUGE catalogues of stock on their website?!!!! Many pass your details on to some third party that distributes the item.

The world has gone mad.

RFW

marking_bad wrote: »

If they didn't have stock then the sale should have been cancelled, they should not be passing on details to other companies. I'm surprised retailers allow it (when it becomes apparent a customer is buying for lots of other addresses), they are essentially putting their business into the hands of random ebay sellers.

So are you against fulfillment centres too? The sellers would have to pass on details for the centres to send the goods out on their behalf.
What about sellers who have goods made to order from a manufacturers and then sent direct?
Are you also aware that most of the large mail order companies use what is essentially dropshipping? Is it also wrong if JDWilliams list Sony laptops and have them dispatched direct from Sony?
I don't really get why anyone would think it was so wrong, done badly the sellers won't last long, done well I can't see a problem. If the seller gets the goods to the buyer at a price they are willing to pay then what's the problem?
The worst 'crime' in the case of the OP is that the price was included. If the Asda invoice was for £10 and not £5 then the buyer would have been happy.

robatwork

People do similar with Primark stuff too.

I wanted to buy some gloves for a relative and knew they were Primark ones. The local store had sold out of that type which were £2.99, and the ebay seller had them on for £5. Probably bought a job lot just before winter - so I was annoyed but kind of impressed at the same time.

soolin

robatwork wrote: »

People do similar with Primark stuff too.

I wanted to buy some gloves for a relative and knew they were Primark ones. The local store had sold out of that type which were £2.99, and the ebay seller had them on for £5. Probably bought a job lot just before winter - so I was annoyed but kind of impressed at the same time.

I remember a seagull dress a few years back that was worn on the TV by some celeb or other, press picked up it was a Primark dress and the next day the shops were completely sold out and a £15 summer dress was changing hands on eBay for £50 and more.

Sigh, I just wished I was quicker off the mark with that one and that I had the courage to sell clothes again......

thebestnameshavegone

My sister is a Hermes courier who delivers to (and collects from) a woman who makes a comfortable living by keeping a close eye on whatever clothes the Duchess of Cambridge is wearing! After Kate is pictured in an outfit she gets straight onto the website of Reiss/LK Bennett/whatever, orders a job lot, and then waits 48 hours for the item to sell out (they nearly always do).


She then lists the outfits on ebay (.co.uk and .com) for a handsome profit and watches them fly off her shelves!

RFW

thebestnameshavegone wrote: »

My sister is a Hermes courier who delivers to (and collects from) a woman who makes a comfortable living by keeping a close eye on whatever clothes the Duchess of Cambridge is wearing!

I don't think Wayne Rooney's salary would get me to do that.

prowla

I think it's cheeky, but acceptable.
If you think about it, the seller has to buy the product from somewhere, so if they can get it in an online sale then so what.
The buyer obviously has to decide if the price is fair, and presumably doing a BIN would cover that.
The seller may get free shipping if they've got the prime/plus/whateveritscalled account with Amazon.