Online shopping is like that, you want cheap you need take the risk.

So when this happen to you then you need to find those can easy refund platform.

I don't think shopee refund easy than lazada.

those are not fake people, and not a scammer. is a real person using the drop shipper app.

Dropshipper app generate weird name as you can see.

The app pick the best selling item and mark up based on the price.
in hoping to get buyers, they sometimes spend alot of money on ads

thanks to who? unscrupulous "Gurus" or digital "gurus" who create this kind of thing to fish people who want to start a business. but always fail.
They pay these gurus, go to their lesson.

in the end is the Gurus who earn more than them. And if these gurus have alot of views in their youtube, they will monetize it with ads.

edit: go to youtube and search for shopee dropshipper app

This post has been edited by Red_rustyjelly: Aug 11 2021, 03:30 PM

Interesting. This kind of sellers do they have the advertised products as well or they just randomly picked best selling items using the dropshipper app? The duplicate shop is one under this program too?

I just hope there's no naive buyers would buy overpriced stuff from them.
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This post has been edited by leftycall9: Aug 11 2021, 06:45 PM

im also selling stuff on Shopee, i sell 0.5 or 1 cheaper than sellers who have 3k ++ sold lol

well , suffice to say i only got 1 order in a month

I'm sure you and other online sellers I've met here are legit sellers and owned real business.

What I'm referring to now are the examples of sellers I posted in first post. Compare them with real shops with followers and real buyers and reviews.

better to delete the link, otherwise it will cause trouble. There are more apps. Not only in youtube. u can try google.

anyway, buyers are generally know how to select using the sort lowest to highest price. and rating.
I sell in Shopee, got so many dropshipper piggyback my listing. even the image got my store template, they also not care at all. I did try to confront them, they delist it, but the next day got new dropshipper comes up. report to shopee also no use..

is like picking sand out from the beach. No direction, drop shippers don't hold any stock. They just wait for customers to buy their product. then their app will generate the buyer's detail to the original store. acting as a buyer for the real customer.

Is no wrong for them to do this, but it will look ugly for Shopee and Lazada very soon. because of many weird listings. I don't call them scammer though, it is just stupid to do it with big effort.
A few years back, I did try to buy the same product I am selling from a dropshipper. They can't even answer the product information.

In the early days, Oberlo was one of the famous one. But it does serve its purpose because not many people know how to shop from Aliexpress or trust China's marketplace platform.

Shopee is too easy to open seller account since they tied to normal account. There is no layer of verification even the Bank accounts, any ah pig ah dog also can put in. If you see new seller, less than 2 months but got over thousands of product listed for selling that seemingly have abundance of stock along with gibberish username then conlanfirm red flag even though these mostly are signs that they were dropshipper, so buy with them at your own risk.

Lazada also recently start liao opening their version's can of worm. Although they have slightly stricter requirement (requires IC copy & Bank statement)

Shopee many disguise as local seller, all goods pre order only

So they're not illegal sellers or scammers. But still not legit business owners as well no? They're diluting search results yet there's nothing customers can do about them?

I didn't buy from them of course. Dropshipper or not teir shops way too shady no way I'm gonna risk anything.

just put it as middle man in marketplace platform.

But it is ok I warned others to avoid their shops no? Honestly I just don't think they're real sellers with real products to sell.

if u got to shopee/lazada FB group. they have this topic a long time ago alraedy. therefore many sellers are already aware.

We had a problem with this seller. https://shopee.com.my/minewatch.my

My husband wanted to buy a watch for when he's out for a run.
We found this nice Garmin model, not the latest, but at good price so we bought it.

When the item arrived, it seemed ok until he went out to try it.... the gps didn't seem to work, certain apps were not syncronizing and... worst of all... at the end of his training, the watch screen froze!

He contacted technical service who told him to 'reset the watch'. He did. And the same thing happened again, and again. And... curiosly, the battery seemed to drain like water. Really strange for a brand new watch.

We contacted Garmin, they asked us the serial number and other watch Ids.. and lo and behold.... the watch was sent to Malaysia in 2017 and USED in 2019 .....
But the store claimed this as a 'brand NEW watch'.

There you have a fraudulent store.

The store never took resposibility, so we initiated a legal claim with Shopee and told them all this ordeal.

Thankfully we got our money back, but never EVER again buy in this store.

Thanks. I learned a lot about it now.

Great share and thank God you guys got your money back. Yes sometimes we have to be very careful when choosing which shops to buy. For me I always search for their reviews first too see if there's legit business going on and screenshot of items I'm going to receive.