AuctionCut

I recently wanted a new printer as a gift, so I searched ebay for the model number I reqd. Up pops a seller offering a BNIB printer for £51 BIN plus £9 p&p.
This was in the price range and appeared reasonable, the person had a feedback of just less than 99%. Don't know about you but i'm always curious about the 1 negative. A bit of searching later, i come across the feedback comment "If I wanted to buy from Amazon, I would have done". You've guessed it, of I go to Amazon. Same search criteria, up comes same printer, £39.50 and because the order is over £15, FREE delivery.......So the ebayer was selling on ebay and sending the items from amazon, but not to me. Printer arrived from Amazon, 2 day delivery time all ok.

Pretty standard practice tbh, lots of the tshirt sellers do a similar thing.

AuctionMan wrote:Pretty standard practice tbh, lots of the tshirt sellers do a similar thing.

........Well, you learn something new everyday.........and thats how it should be.

I've thought of doing similar things in the past but I never released it was being done on such a big scale. Really, its similar to dropshipping but without the dropshipper stopping silent.