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The seller in question was selling items they didn't have at a nearly 50% markup.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I had a seller try to pull this shit on Amazon a few years ago. I had bought a wrist rest for my keyboard, the one I'm tolerating at this very second in fact. Amazon's pages have a stark white background, the wrist rest was black. Even if details came through in the picture, the background of the page would wash it out. I wanted a simple straight wrist rest. This one has what I can only describe as a waist; the part your right hand would rest on is narrower and thus less supportive than the ends. I gave it a 3-star review stating such. The solution I've found is to turn it around so it's facing "backwards" and that puts the narrowest part in between my hands.

The seller emails me asking if there's anything they can do to make it right. So far, we're okay. I just say no, it's not worth bothering with on my end. They kept getting pushier about changing my review to 5 stars until I contacted Amazon about it.

Somewhere, be it Amazon themselves via the almighty algorithm, or the dropshippers themselves, there is a disconnect from reality. 5-star reviews carry no information, even if they are specific and detailed, the practice of paying or compensating for them is so common that you can just flush them down the toilet with the rest of the piss. It's the low end that carries the information. I have chosen to buy products based on their 1-star reviews.

For example, I'm invested in the Craftsman V20 power tool system. I went to buy the power inverter they sell for it, that lets you run normal electrical things off of drill batteries, has a NEMA15 socket and a couple USB ports on it. The negative reviews were mostly "Doesn't run my space heater. Would rate 0 stars if I could. Returned." I couldn't find a negative review of the product that didn't boil down to "I don't know what 150 watts max means." Not a problem with the product, it's a problem with people being ignorant. I bought, and am happy with, the tool.

On the other hand, I went to buy a pocket flashlight, I looked at the negative reviews and many of them said some variation on "tail switch broke after 4 or 5 months." Ah, this model has a common mode of early failure, I'll move on.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Username checks out in the best possible way.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Oh this is possibly my least aggravated.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago
[–] 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago

This happened to me once but diff platform. I gave the seller 3 out of 5 stars. Seller messaged me with the same m.o. I changed the stars to 1 and attach the screenshot. Fuck them.

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Update it to include being pestered by them to change to a positive review.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 11 hours ago

To being blackmailed into only receiving a refund if they change their review. I see nothing in there about them giving a refund if they don't change it first

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I had this on amazon a while back. They offered to send me a new item and refund if I changed my review. They sent the item and refund and I stopped responding.

[–] Flummoxx@lemm.ee 81 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

My wife bought a Keurig coffee maker on Amazon for a Christmas gift. When it arrived, the box was mailed directly from JCPenny.com. I looked on their website and the coffee maker was $35 cheaper. We learned our lessons about dropshipping and only looking at Amazon for products.

Keep fighting the good fight OP!

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I think I'm gonna wait a few days before telling them no. Or maybe just not respond. I'm sure as hell not changing or removing my negative feedback. Clearly my review is worth more to them than the cost of the item.

[–] Slagfart@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Just take the item and run. Underhanded tactics deserve underhanded tactics

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Are they not spamming 5 star reviews to the limit so that no new ones can be submitted anymore? Because that's also a thing they do with less effort.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 102 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I left negative feedback for dropshipping

Not all heroes wear capes (unless you do, OP).

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 43 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I wouldn't mind wearing a cape lol. Underrated fashion accessory.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 26 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Flowy thin capes that just make you look dramatic: cringe, impractical

Heavy, thick capes big enough to drape over a buddy for cuddles: hot + chad

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wife wore a cape/cloak for our wedding. 10/10 would marry again.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Exception that proves the rule

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 points 17 hours ago

Order one from him on ebay!

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

stay safe

Well, that doesn't feel vaguely threatening at all...

[–] teft@lemmy.world 42 points 17 hours ago

Update the review with a screenshot of their begging.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 49 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I'm out of the loop, what's drop shipping and why is it bad?

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 87 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (28 children)

The seller just buys the item on Amazon and sends it to your address usually at an inflated price. They sell stock that they don't own.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

To be a little more clear from what op said, it's when someone sells it from eBay to a person that didn't shop around to see if the product was cheaper from other retailers. The ebay seller than buys it from another retailer where the product was offered for less money and then the seller has it shipped from that retailer directly to the buyers house. It's bad in the sense of some eBay shoppers purposely want to avoid giving their money to a specific retailer (like amazon), or they just feel mad that they could have gotten the product cheaper to begin with.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago

I don't mind this personally with ebay, I might be out a few extra dollars sometimes but at least I am supporting independent sellers and not having to waste time visiting and put my info into many websites. If they are violating the terms of service of Amazon Walmart etc. to do so, great, I support that. If they are waiting for sales to get a better price, fine, I wouldn't want to bother with that myself.

If their lack of actually having the item resulted in me not getting it at all, I'd be a little pissed about it, but I haven't experienced that. Overall I like ebay way better than other e-retailers.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 17 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Basically the way it usually works is.

Chinese knock off mass factory, makes stores and has the items.

They find a guy in America and say "Hey can you list our items on ebay, when you sell them, we'll take $20, you can probably sell them for $50.

Guy lists item for $50, someone buys it, he then just e-mails the dropshipper and asks them to send it straight to the buyer. Sometimes he will have to give ebay a fake tracking number (because ebay doesn't approve the practice).

Point is the drop shipper is just there to conceal the actual source of the product. That's generally because they are sketchy in some other way.

A co-worker of mine at one point got into a drop shipping scam. She was selling golf clubs that way (she was selling them about 80% of expected retail, place she was buying from was charging her about 25% of retail. She didn't know (but probably should have guessed) that the clubs she was selling were counterfeit, and she about had a heart attack when her 2nd customer called her out on it (she refunded him and took the loss).

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[–] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 31 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Change your feedback, get the refund, and change it back.

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I had an Amazon seller offer to send me a gift card if I changed my review so I said I would take the card but would probably only change my review to note the gift card offer.

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