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Old 26-09-2016, 11:37   #11
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Re: Ebay - advertising unavailable items

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis View Post
An explanation I can offer is one of two things.

1 - seller has multiple shop fronts, and the stock is shared across them all, if they got too many orders across all the shop fronts then they have to disappoint some buyers, I had a seller confirm this happened to me when he said he sold too many across amazon and ebay to fulfill orders.
2 - Some retailers advertise stock of the wholesaler instead of their own stock, so you place an order, and then they order from the wholesaler (this is also why sometimes delivery times can be quite long), sometimes the wholesaler doesnt actually have the stock so again the seller fails to fulfill.
Judging by the format and wording of the messages from the 2 sellers, I have a sneaky feeling they are one and the same and I think option 2 may be what's going on.

Anyway I received a Paypal refund today but the same seller is still showing 4 available for dispatch within 1 day and an express delivery date as 28th Sept.?
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