Creative Ebay Sellers

TractorGuy · Jul 19, 2018

Found an Igloo cooler model I wanted for my fishing boat. Did an ebay search for the model number and sorted the list by price. Found one listed brand new for $57 which I thought was a deal so I clicked the buy it now. Started getting shipping notices from Fedex saying it was coming from Walmart.com. WHAT? Looked back at the ebay ad and it had the UPC code in the listing so I searched that on Walmart. Sure enough the cooler pops up for $50. Even if I had found it on Walmart it would have cost me $54 after tax if I got free shipping. This all transpired in FL so I assume the seller bought from Walmart and is having it drop shipped to me so they spent a few minutes on the computer and made a couple of bucks. Not sure if they made that much after ebay fees.

I originally saw one listed on Facebook at $50 for a used one. Somebody beat me to that one so I did an internet search for an Igloo cooler with a hatch in the lid and found the model. Guess I should have done an internet search for the model instead of going straight to ebay but I'm not out much difference and I'm getting it in 2 days.

Pretty good deal for a 100 qt, 5 day cooler. I will use as a live well in an old aluminum boat that doesn't have one.

Industrial Toys · Jul 19, 2018

E-Bay is my go to place. You don't need to figure out different web sites and set up yet another account.

Or spend twenty minutes, and only then do you see "SOLD OUT" or "Temporarily Unavailable".

I just don't like the automated nature of E-Bay, where sometimes you can't do anything a little differently.

I just remembered, I bought a "Bull Dozer Broom" and it ended up coming from Home Depot. Same thing I guess!

TractorNH · Jul 19, 2018

If they only charged you $7 more than Walmart and had it shipped directly to you then they lost money on it. The ebay fee would have been $5.70 and then there's the Paypal fee of $1.95. They lost about 65 cents on the transaction. EBay and Paypal were the ones that made money on it.

TractorGuy · Jul 19, 2018

TractorNH said:
If they only charged you $7 more than Walmart and had it shipped directly to you then they lost money on it. The ebay fee would have been $5.70 and then there's the Paypal fee of $1.95. They lost about 65 cents on the transaction. EBay and Paypal were the ones that made money on it.

That's what I was thinking. I know there are a lot of folks selling and drop shipping but this was the first time I encountered someone selling from walmart.

My wife's step mother sits in her retirement home and runs an ebay store with no stock or inventory. She works through one company that is set up to do that and she just takes and processes the orders. She does set her own prices I think.