Selling on Ebay via Amazon

[brewsterbm]

Hi, I recently bought an item from what I thought was a genuine private seller who has basically ordered the item from Amazon on my behalf and had it posted directly to me (at a small profit to himself obviously!).  This is annoying for me personally as I have chosen not to use Amazon for various reasons but is it an infringement of Ebay policy?  Is it OK to sell something you don't have, I can't find a definite answer about this on the guidelines...  As a seperate issue, the same buyer is now hassling me about the (honest) feedback I have left.  Presumably this is also something I should be reporting him for?  Any thoughts?

[angelah1847]

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@brewsterbm wrote:

 what I thought was a genuine private seller

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They are a registered business seller, what made you think they were a private seller?

They probably sell on amazon aswell as ebay and use amazon's fullfilment centre to complete sales.

Thay have broken no rules and can probably get the negative feedback removed.

Also did you not read their feedback before buying?  There are at least 2 other negative feedback comments mentioning amazon.

[brewsterbm]

OK, yeah private seller wasn't the correct terminology, I meant genuine as in "not dodgy **bleep** who's going to pass my sale onto Amazon". No I didn't read their feedback, obviously now that I know about this sort of thing I will but really who has time? Probably will just avoid ebay too. Pretty sure feedback can't be removed as I've not said anything that isn't true.

[ruby*tuesday]

The Seller is No Scammer. It says on his listing that Delivery is from a Fulfilment Centre. Which is perfectly legal. His Stock is stored and Shipped from there.

[corred]

@ruby*tuesday

Not if there is paperwork suggesting the seller used their Amazon Prime account

In my books shipping direct from Amazon breaches GDPR as the seller is passing the buyer details onto Amazon.....indeed if that is what happened & Amazon found out then they would close down the sellers Amazon account

[angelah1847]

If the seller sells on amazon aswell as ebay I really don't see there is an issue.

[corred]

@angelah1847

If.......but that's a big IF

[angelah1847]

Personally I don't see it as a big 'if'.

They're a registered business seller, the chances of them also being an amazon business seller are pretty high.

[corred]

@angelah1847

Last two I reported were both business sellers, both claimed not to have sent from Amazon, both sent using Prime accounts & neither sold on Amazon......so for me is a big IF....in addition neither mentioned fulfilment centres in their listings

Both also received negative feedback for dropshipping