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FYI buyers on are eBay too, esp. for vintage games.



I am confident that the reason I gave is an accurate answer to the question I gave it in response to, for at least a very large share of sellers. Note that you can do something for a given reason regardless of whether that reason is true.

However, the fact that it's possible to run a business doing nothing but selling things on Amazon that you buy on eBay when an order comes in strongly suggests that the customers really are on Amazon and not on eBay.


Flip can be said, I know of a few sellers that sell on eBay and buy from Amazon.

No one is debating that Amazon is larger, you just said the buyers are not on eBay... which is simply not true at all.


Interesting. I've long suspected the dropship arbitrageurs had existed on Amazon for a while, but I thought they had long since become unprofitable, or at least this Amazon to eBay channel had. Could you go into more detail about this? I'm sorta curious about how big the market is.


It’s fairly common. I sell a lot on eBay and get maybe an order a week with a message of “do not include invoice, item is a gift” which is dumb since we all know they’r drop shipping. I love it, never have a problem with those buyers. But I do include thank you cards in them with my eBay stores.


Vintage games that are valuable/rare are pretty much exclusively on eBay (and forums) and not really on Amazon at all.




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