Is not wrong to sell cheap things expensive .... willing buyer seller. Unless is controlled items, sellers are at liberty to make unlimited profit.

You should be aware of those selling known expensive items for cheap price.

The principle has always been "Caveat Emptor" or Buyers Beware. In both Lazada and Shopee you will find vendors selling at all sorts of prices, some reasonable, some outrageous hoping to catch a clueless buyer. I've seen items priced 20x the market price. Those selling at high prices are technically not scammers but opportunists. There are also some vendors selling expensive branded items at too good to be true prices. You may assume they are fake so again its buyers beware.

You can report the fake branded products but don't waste your time reporting high prices. The platforms can't police that all items are sold at reasonable prices to protect buyers who don't shop around.

Not sure which kind u saw but I've seen "duplicators". I'm a small time shopee seller and I watermark my product photos. These ppl just use back my photo so it's confirm scam. I report with my original product link then they get removed very quickly.

Summary: Don't buy things that has no rating

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

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

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)

just put it as middle man in marketplace platform.

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.