I don’t understand why eBay allows sellers to list items as “presales” when the site that the item is coming from doesn’t even have them available yet. Maybe this is a hot take, but you shouldn’t be able to sell an item that you don’t own yet.
Perhaps the bigger question is, “Why do people purchase from presale listings when the site that the item is coming from doesn’t even have it available yet?”
It's very like the form of "retail arbitrage" where resellers take orders for goods that do exist elsewhere (for example on Amazon) then have that seller ship to the reseller's customer.
This does not include dropshipping where the reseller has a contract with the supplier.
Which is the tricky bit. How to tell which reseller is contracted and which is hoping.
