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Occasionally I buy products on Walmart.com when I find them at a good price. I am feeling very skeptical about this current product, which is a perfume. I am wondering if it is a fake.
At all the major sites - Amazon, Ulta, and Sephora, this bottle of perfume costs $60.
But at Walmart.com - it costs $16.96 .... how is this possible? Why would they be selling this for less than 30% the cost of everyone else?
I'm just curious if anyone has encountered this... or if you think in this particular case, the product is real or fake.
I can tell you exactly why.
People buy goods at Wal Mart and re-sell them at a marked-up price on ebay and amazon.
This has been a consistent problem for several years now and one of the reasons I no longer buy from ebay or amazon, because I refuse to support sellers who engage in this practice. There are all kinds of rogue sellers on amazon doing all kinds of unethical things.
You are far,far more likely to get a fake fragrance on amazon than at a retail store.
This has been a consistent problem for several years now and one of the reasons I no longer buy from ebay or amazon, because I refuse to support sellers who engage in this practice. There are all kinds of rogue sellers on amazon doing all kinds of unethical things.
I am uncertain why this is a problem, or even unethical. As long as the item is exactly as described and there's no deception or fraud, if I want to sell a bottle of Tide for $40 on Amazon/EBay and someone buys it, getting exactly what they expected... point to the legal, moral or ethical violation, there.
I'd never sell a bottle of Tide, by the way. You can have horrid-smelling crap for free. Take it a-way.
It's not unethical to sell anything for whatever you think you can get for it! (I don't personally do it) - it's ALWAYS been up to the buyer to decide what they want to pay for whatever they want to buy. No diff. than flea markets, etc. - someone might have bought an item for $1 but selling it for $10 or whatever.....
...it's ALWAYS been up to the buyer to decide what they want to pay for whatever they want to buy.
...with the very careful caveat that fraud, deception and falsehoods completely invalidate 'caveat emptor.' Just because you can razzle-dazzle someone or screw them on a doesn't make it their fault.
Crucial point.
But market price for consumer goods being bought and resold on EBay can easily be determined. If someone thinks my $40 bottle of Tide is a great deal, power to 'em.
If you buy from deep-discount or salvage/distressed vendors, you get exactly what you pay for. Walmart is not deep-discount; they are a regular market player.
I assure you companies like Amazon and Walmart do not like sellers misrepresenting products. One of the reasons I want items shipped directly by both, not third party.
Bought a $50.00 book third party off amazon a few years back. What a pain getting seller to send it. I just think seller was not up to speed in how to complete a sale. Such an obscure book I had no other choice but to go that route. But in the end it worked out fine.
Back to the OP, it could be older which is why it is cheap.
I'm guessing this might be the answer.
It just seems so strange to me that this product is the exact same price, $30 for small, $60 for large, at three major retailers..... but then its so much cheaper on Walmart and ebay.
After I posted this, I did some reading about counterfeit perfume, and it seems to be a big business. This particular product is from a company in Italy. They don't have a way to send an email on their website, otherwise I probably would ask them which retailers they trust to sell their product.
I assure you companies like Amazon and Walmart do not like sellers misrepresenting products. One of the reasons I want items shipped directly by both, not third party.
In this case, the product is being sold by Walmart and Amazon, not a third party.
In this case, the product is being sold by Walmart and Amazon, not a third party.
Just got back from my local Wal-Mart and they have boxes of it on a endcap for the sale price ($16.95).
I also noticed that fragrancenet.com and the Perfume Spot also have it on sale for ~$15 compared to the normal price of $60. Both of these companies are excellent at providing legit products so it seems that the big box/warehouse companies had an opportunity to mass buy the fragrance and offer it at a sale price in an attempt to draw customers in.
So my guess is people are right and Amazon 3rd party sellers either bought a bunch of the product when it was "hot" and attempted to sell at a profit when supply was limited or they bought the product from Walmart or warehouse retailers on sale and are trying to make profit after the products go off sale.
Personally I don't like fragrances very much, but I picked it up for my friend who loves this product so I'll check with her to see if it's truly legit.
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