Drop shippers…

Selling on other Platforms eBay
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It’s been a plague for a few years that some entrepreneur souls create accounts on eBay and on the day of creation they purchase orders for several $100s, just to claim that item was damaged, and proceed to return garbage.
The possibility of success appealing to eBay is (in my experience) a little below 50%. There is the small satisfaction of seeing some accounts be taken down right infront of your own eyes. But it’s a meager enjoyment.

I have stopped selling to new accounts all together. I usually ask them very politely if they can answer a message that basically says “hey, new person, blink twice if you’re scamming me.” Once they fail my captcha I cancel the order, and never have I received bad feedback for this practice…

Yesterday I had a “customer” with a 2 year account, but only 1 feedback, place 5 orders in quick succession, sending items to 5 different states. Two of the addresses freight forwarders. I sent a message saying:

“good morning,
thanks for your orders. We see that you’re dropshipping. It’s not a problem for us, but please answer this message confirming that:

  1. you placed 5 orders to 5 different addresses
  2. you’re not going to open returns or claims against our items
    For our protection, without the confirmation we will not ship. With the confirmation we will ship today
    regards,”

After no confirmation, all orders cancelled (sad too, about $700, oh well)

I’m happy that I can block that idiot. But alas, no rest for the wicked or the online salesmen.

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On the upside, you can actually do this on eBay; unlike on Amazon.

Although with the products we sell, not a huge target; but also, we’ve done far better than 50% on appeals. For years we had concierge service (at no cost to us) where problems could be resolved in minutes; no idea how we got it, nor why it went away. And in the last year, we’ve had all listing restrictions removed; again, no idea why, but it’s made many bigger sellers jealous.

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I do not get anyone using me to drop ship, I do not get returns or INAD claims.

Not surprising since no one can move the items I sell quickly and none of the potential sellers who need a drop shipper are likely to want to go through the effort of trying to sell my stuff.

Perhaps, you should consider their interest a complement.

I do have a long blocked buyers list because a lot of people who contact me about buying p*** me off.

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