HN Explorer

Ask HN: How can I avoid Amazon fulfillment?

3 points by birdyrooster ↗ HN
I have recently placed orders for regular household goods on eBay and Etsy. Three orders where I specifically picked eBay and Etsy to not enrich Jeff Bezos. But for all three of these packages, they came on Amazon packaging, shipped from an Amazon FC. How am I supposed to avoid Amazon and still shop at these large, market based online retailers?

1 comment

[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 17.9 ms ] thread
wincy
Sounds like you got dropshipped. I think the short answer is, you can’t. These people make money by running a server daemon that slightly marks up Amazon items, posts them on Etsy and EBay, then draws profits for the user.