15-05-2018 10:25 AM
Placed bid for 4 items from a seller,then received a message from "another seller" offering 2 items what the first seller did'nt have.The first seller through messages openly admitted they had passed my details to the second seller ????? I contacted E-BAY as I was,and not happy about this and tried to cancel my bid/offer,but now have a non payment case against me. As far as I'm concerned this is a case of "fraud" and corruption.........E-BAY are still allowing this seller to trade as E-BAY are only bothered about making money...........sooner it gets sorted the sooner i get finished with these clowns..............a well peed off e-bayer
Well it's certainly not "fraud". To me it seems more like a seller [misguidedly] trying to provide exceptionally good customer service!
If you have won something [from the first seller] then of course you have to pay! If you do not then you will get [possibly two] defects and - whatever you may think - many sellers will not sell to you.
There is no reason to think that the items will not arrive and provided that the second seller is dealing through eBay there is no particular objection although you do not have to do anything.
It "may" be that the sellers are related or associated
Fair comment, we see this differently, I would see this as helping me out finding an item, and as they can only pass my username ID which is available to everyone on the site to contact me, I cannot see any breach of details.
However, like I said you should contact that seller, and report that you do not appreciate this action.
@cr-judia-2ruhmnvs0g
The seller MAY indeed by the strictest definition broken eBay rules.....BUT I'm not sure of the exact course of events......
If you purchased 4 items from seller one, who supplies two & then purchases the other two from the other seller to send to you then that is no different to a perfectly legitimate practice on eBay which is adopted by a great many eBay sellers........that is where you buy from them & they then purchase from Amazon or another supplier....they supply your name & address for delivery & that company then sends the goods to you......it is called drop shipping !!
I suspect if eBay review the circumstances it could well be that they will consider that the original seller has indeed simply drop shipped from another seller on eBay.........and if they do decide that is the case then you will owe full payment for all the items to the first seller (and you will receive 2 from them and the other 2 from the second seller)
Drop shipping is neither fraud or corruption & is recognised by eBay as a perfectly acceptable practice ...... if you do not pay the unpaid case(s) you will get unpaid strikes on your account.........eBay CS do not always understand exactly what has happened or their own rules
They have not sold you down the river.....you only pay & deal with seller no1....he sends the items he has to you & he then pays seller no2 to send the other two items....it is in effect the legitimate & allowable practice of drop shipping
It is absolutely no different to the seller sending you 2 & then paying Amazon to send you the other 2........it is a practise that a great many sellers do on eBay....you only ever deal with the first seller & any potential problems are still the responsibility of the first seller....all the second seller has is your address to post the goods to