The next in my tutorial on dropship sellers wanting you to ship to unconfirmed addresses comes from firsthand information.

I of course wrote the first guide from experience, but took the last buyer trying to strongarm me into shipping the 'gift' to a 'friend' and went a step farther. I contacted the person in whom I was to send the item. Yes you read correctly I used the white online pages and found the person, and talked directly to them.

First let me tell you that I was more worried about fraud than anything, but after speaking to the woman, let her know the entire situation. I found out she bought the exact item off of Amazon.com from an auction seller. That seller's auction stated it was MIP and from a smoke free home. Of course the seller never had the item, thus this was the first lie. The amazon seller then told her it would be a week or two for shipping, allowing him to find the item here on ebay, buy it, and strongarm a seller into shipping the item to the Amazon seller's actual customer. That was the second lie. Third was the one used to try to strongarm me into doing his will.

Well let me tell you, his customer, nor I found his antics very appealing, nor his disinformation and outright mistruths. Selling to someone who will turn around to make a profit is how this whole game works. But now we all know that Amazon sellers are simply using us as middle men, taking our customers and over charging them with little to no investment of time or money. It may be legal true, but I won't stand for it as it reeks with the possiblity of fraud and leaving me hold the bag (or indeed you).