posted on October 15, 2005 09:34:28 AM newIf you get a few complaints because you chose an unreliable supplier and Ebay decides to give you a suspension, they will take down all your accounts for the duration, not just the offending one
Guess again. Ebay doesn't care how many accounts you have. If they suspend one, they will NOT suspend the rest. They simply don't have the time to try and figure out which of the bazilliion other accounts are yours.
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posted on October 15, 2005 10:01:48 AM new
As an unaware buyer from at least three different ebay sellers....I'd highly recommend that any seller who decides to use any drop-shipper company, be sure to follow ebay's rules of that fact being posted in your auction description. According to ebay rules, it has to be stated in your listings.
It's been my experience in buying that many sellers are honest and mention the item will be DS....but many others don't. And until pressed about why I haven't received my item in 3-4 weeks after paying them....they just continued to stall and lie to me. I think they knew they should have mentioned it....but decided not to. A very poor business practice, imho.
posted on October 15, 2005 10:11:47 AM new
LOL Tom! You know there are people out there that would buy that dvd rewinder, don't you?
I have only had bad experiences with sellers that dropship and don't notify you that the item is dropshipped. Took 6 weeks to get an item and the last email from the seller to me stated that I was impatient! I had already started a chargeback thru Paypal.
posted on October 15, 2005 09:02:44 PM new
Stone...The billing department identifies the secondary accounts. They run the credit card number associated with the suspended account. Any other accounts covered by that credit card number are suspended. Then they run the billing addresses. If a Visa and MC have the exact same address, the acounts associated with the secondary CC are added to the eradicate list. It takes less than 5 seconds in each instance. Agreed, an Ebay employee doesn't have time to chase the info manually, but IBM does. There were numerous posts concerning this technique in the early days of AW after the big bloodbath on the DNF board at Ebay, which is where AW built a major poster base on the EO forum.
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posted on October 16, 2005 07:51:25 AM new
In the old days,they used to call and ask-is mickey mouse home?is donald duck home?is ebay kahuna seller home??
wham,mickey,donald and Kahuna all get suspended.
posted on October 16, 2005 10:31:29 AM new
Power - if the issue is more that of getting away from packing and shipping than getting away from advance purchasing your best and safest bet would to find an order fulfillment company. You can have your suppliers ship directly to them, they store, do the packing and shipping. Depending on how full service you want them to be, many will also provide a toll free customer service number for your customers to call and process phone orders if you have a merchant account, or for a fee, will allow you to use their merchant account.
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posted on October 16, 2005 12:10:41 PM new
Hwa - you build their cost into your shipping. Have you ever actually worked with a fullfillment company? There are a large variety of them. There is one in Michigan that charges strictly by piece. I think there is a minimum set-up fee but their piece rate is very fair. I wish I could remember their name, I talked to them a few months ago. At the time they were looking to open up another office in Los Angeles or Las Vegas.
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posted on October 16, 2005 12:15:20 PM new
I think this is them - but I am not sure.
Advanced Fulfillment
1363 Grandville Ave. S.W.
Grand Rapids, MI 49509
Phone: 616-245-3636
Fax: 616-245-4918
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posted on October 16, 2005 01:35:49 PM new
I have never used any fullfillment center,I know several online shops did .
Another option is to pay someone to pack and ship,either by hour or by number of items.
