bertsmobile1
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rough guestimate based on what comes through the gate.
There is no such thing as defects in China.
Just about every major USA ( and the rest of the world ) brand has a factory in China.
Most of these have reasonable QC so parts from their suppliers get rejected if they are sub standard.
These OEM parts get on sold through a few hands then end up on Ebay & Amazon because neither of then have any sort of quality assurance.
If you have a credit card then you have all you need to be an ebay/amazon vendor.
On ebay there is feedback but next to nobody ever leaves bad feedback.
Ebay allows you to see everything that a particular vendor is selling so if they are selling everything from baby cloths to battleships then they are a surplus vendor and their stock is suspect.
Even then a single person can have multiple vendors identities.
Amazon is harder to check on.
If they added the "other items " search then it would go a long way .
Both of them make money from every sale so all they want is more volume.
Like stock brokers, they always get their cut regardless of what happens to you.
And yes their are genuine vendors on both of them and if you are trying to offload some dead stock for less than the RRP without falling foul of your franchise agreements or alerting your creditors that you are in a vunerable financial position then Amazon is a God send.
I have handled this stuff.
Our warehousse gets a phone call from a space broker, a truck arrives with goods on it then orders come in over the web with packing slips & invoices.
The "vendor" then pays our bank & we release the goods for delivery.
We have never seen the "vendor", they nearly always have a hotmail / Gmail email address which makes them very hard to find and a mobile phone number which can also be a prepaid one.
The whole set up could not have been better for criminals if it was designed by the marfia.
There is no such thing as defects in China.
Just about every major USA ( and the rest of the world ) brand has a factory in China.
Most of these have reasonable QC so parts from their suppliers get rejected if they are sub standard.
These OEM parts get on sold through a few hands then end up on Ebay & Amazon because neither of then have any sort of quality assurance.
If you have a credit card then you have all you need to be an ebay/amazon vendor.
On ebay there is feedback but next to nobody ever leaves bad feedback.
Ebay allows you to see everything that a particular vendor is selling so if they are selling everything from baby cloths to battleships then they are a surplus vendor and their stock is suspect.
Even then a single person can have multiple vendors identities.
Amazon is harder to check on.
If they added the "other items " search then it would go a long way .
Both of them make money from every sale so all they want is more volume.
Like stock brokers, they always get their cut regardless of what happens to you.
And yes their are genuine vendors on both of them and if you are trying to offload some dead stock for less than the RRP without falling foul of your franchise agreements or alerting your creditors that you are in a vunerable financial position then Amazon is a God send.
I have handled this stuff.
Our warehousse gets a phone call from a space broker, a truck arrives with goods on it then orders come in over the web with packing slips & invoices.
The "vendor" then pays our bank & we release the goods for delivery.
We have never seen the "vendor", they nearly always have a hotmail / Gmail email address which makes them very hard to find and a mobile phone number which can also be a prepaid one.
The whole set up could not have been better for criminals if it was designed by the marfia.