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The problem with the Amazon vs eBay argument I’ve heard in the past is that Amazon blurs the line between when you’re buying from Amazon and buying from a third
by dawnerd 6y ago
The problem with the Amazon vs eBay argument I’ve heard in the past is that Amazon blurs the line between when you’re buying from Amazon and buying from a third party. And if Amazon is still commingling items they absolutely should be responsible because at a certain point it doesn’t matter who the seller is.
Seller rating on Amazon are also useless. At least eBay you can see what it is you’re buying (for the most part) and get a seller eating that’s at least somewhat useful.
I really hope this forces Amazon to start vetting sellers more, they’ve simply been run over by aliexpress “drop shippers”.
- Avshalom 6y agothis particular case doesn't involve a Fulfilled By Amazon (where the commingling problem happens) product (though it is mentioned in a sentence)
- airhead969 6y agoEtsy actually has even more of a problem with dropship queens. Interestingly, I got a shoe rack for free because it was a double dropship from AE to Amazon to Etsy. LOL!
- dawnerd 6y agoI've noticed that too and gave up trying to report when I realized Etsy is funny enabling it.
- judge2020 6y agoI did this for an eBay listing that was actually drop shipped to me and the seller is still up, selling Amazon items for +$10. I hope Etsy is a little more active against them.
- airhead969 6y agoIf true, that sucks. I always report but the site is flooded with Aliexpress/Alibaba goods.
- rhn_mk1 6y agoWhat is a dropship queen?
- beowulfey 6y agoI had to google what dropshipping was, but it seems to be when your company relists products from other websites and when a customer orders them from you, you place the order on the other website with their address. Basically, a shopping consultancy. You no longer need to maintain inventory.
- kayodelycaon 6y agoMy company does dropshipping when we can’t fulfill things directly. This has an order of magnitude more shipment errors and our vendors have no incentive to improve their reliability because shipping things isn’t a core competency, but rather an annoying necessity.
- airhead969 6y agoNot really. There's multiple kinds of dropshipping sources, be it ecomm, wholesalers, or manufacturers. Dropshipping is when a seller has their vendor send customers their orders directly. It can be JIT fulfillment but it depends on the vendors' ability to source product. No one really wants to hold inventory because it deprecates.