Recently a lot of dropshippers received a sellers notice – message from ebay:
Hello,
We’ve determined that you haven’t followed our selling practices – drop shipping policy.
There is evidence on your account that you are purchasing items from an online retail or marketplace site after you sell the item on eBay and having that retailer ship the item directly to the customer. While in violation of this policy, the account will not be eligible for the Top Rated program until it is in compliance.
For more information on this and related policies, please go to:
Selling practices policy:
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/selling-policies/selling-practices-policy?id=4346
Drop shipping:
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/shipping-items/setting-shipping-options/drop-shipping?id=4176
Seller levels and performance standards:
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/seller-levels-performance-standards/seller-levels-performance-standards?id=4080
Regards,
The eBay team
I though – okay, this is not a big deal, because I did not qualify for the top rated seller status anyway. I received the message July 09. But this is what happaned:
As you can see my listing impressions dropped BIG TIME! So, I don’t know if I will be able to keep my ebay hustle profitable at all. The only suggestion so far I got is to keep pushing and selling so eventually the situation would improve. An update will be published if any improvement is seen.
I just received the same email. I deleted all of my dropshipped listings and have been contacting ebay. Are you still dropshipping and did your impressions go back to normal?
Hey, no, my listings are still around 10k, I will try to list new items now from other suppliers like walmart, will see how it turns out. I do not put much hopes on recovering with this account 🙁