ordered from ebay came from amazon wtf?

Diddums said:
Rather clever seller. If he's making money doing this then fair play to him. Can't imagine it being much mind, I don't think there can be too many people about who are as uninformed as the OP.
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Even if he was only making £5 per item

Just 10 items per day would equal £350 profit per week...;)
 
chaparral said:
Even if he was only making £5 per item
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He isn't. He is making £1-£1.50 profit because that is the maximum he can make with what he is doing. He is using his Prime account to sell things under £20 for £4 cheaper than you can get them on Amazon on their own.

He could become unstuck if he gets a load of orders one day and Amazon put their price up..
 
Drizmod said:
They probably wont be bothered with it really as they are getting sales and even with prime still making a profit. So some guy bought 300+ items in one month? thanks! :D
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Well, no not exactly. Amazon will have carefully worked out on average what a person will order in a year using next day delivery. The Prime annual cost will be based around this.

Amazon will start losing money if people use it like this (potentially using next day delivery hundreds, maybe thousands of times a year as they are running a business with it). That is why this is specifically not allowed in their terms and conditions.
 
Last year I bought from a seller on the bay 2 x 2.5" to 3.5" SSD HDD Mounting Adapters at less than £2 a piece. They arrived separately through the post - from Amazon.it :eek:
 
It's weird how we always assume the interwebs, or certain sites on said webs, are the best place for cheap things. I did a google around the usual online shopping places to buy suncream, ordered some, went to the supermarket the next days and was like bwwwwwwwwwwwwuuuuuh *chump*.
 
Jono8 said:
He could become unstuck if he gets a load of orders one day and Amazon put their price up..
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I imagine that he'd only ever lose out on one order as a price hike happens, if he doesn't spot the hike in the first place. I wouldn't have thought his items are "flying off the shelves", as it were. In which case, it would follow that it would theoretically only take one order for him to figure out the hike has happened and remove all of the listings for that product.

If he can sell 10 and the price goes up by a couple of quid, I'm sure he's still profiting from it.
 
I've had things shipped by Amazon from a seller on eBay. Apparently if they have a merchant account with Amazon they can get them to ship it out. Funnily enough they were selling the same thing on Amazon only more expensive...
 
A bit of a bump here but I've just experienced the same thing - I bought something on eBay and it arrived from Amazon Prime. Strangely enough, even after searching on Amazon for exactly the same item description, I still can't find it. I also searched there before I bought from eBay.

I'm happy with the price I paid (it was still the cheapest I could find) but I thought that I'd ask Amazon support if this dropshipping using Prime is actually legit.

It turns out that it is allowed, providing it's shipped from Amazon as a 'gift'. No T&Cs are being broken at all according to their chat representative "Douglas".
 
Feek said:
A bit of a bump here but I've just experienced the same thing - I bought something on eBay and it arrived from Amazon Prime. Strangely enough, even after searching on Amazon for exactly the same item description, I still can't find it. I also searched there before I bought from eBay.

I'm happy with the price I paid (it was still the cheapest I could find) but I thought that I'd ask Amazon support if this dropshipping using Prime is actually legit.

It turns out that it is allowed, providing it's shipped from Amazon as a 'gift'. No T&Cs are being broken at all according to their chat representative "Douglas".
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Amazon Business has products not available to regular users. Maybe that?
 
I had this when I bought some 3-in-1 oil from ebay for £3.17. I did see it on Amazon for a little bit less as an add on item. It hardly seems worth the effort.
 
I had the same experience. Was a bit of a shock when it arrived lol. But I read from somewhere it is the Amazon fulfillment service.
 
bobbyspangles said:
I imagine this type of scheme has a very limited lifespan. It won't be hard for Amazon to clock on what you are up to if you're sending 300+ 'gifts' a month using Prime.
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Why would Amozon ban an account that getting them 300 sales a month?

moogle said:
Worst comes to worst he can always cancel the orders.
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If the price goes up on Amazon the software adjusts the ebay price automatically.

The only instance where the seller would lose money is if the price wen up on Amazon AFTER the ebay order was placed but BEFORE the "seller" manages to place the order on Amazon - which is why if you're doing this, it's important to place orders quickly. The software even has settings for this though - you can choose the level of price volatility you're willing to accept on the items used for your listings.
 
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Although it's sneaky, that eBay seller is a genius. I should start doing this even if it's only a couple of quid made. It all adds up and pays for a night out.

That seller is selling Roundup weed killer for £25 when it's only £20 on Amazon as I was looking for the stuff the other day.
 
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