Manage operations for a fashion brand, recently we were contacted by an Andrew Tuch (EVP of Operations @fancy) to help him out with an order/exchange he had placed. The order was filled out processed as a personal order for Mr. Tuch himself. Our product was returned to us marked up with Fancy.com packaging and barcodes. This is interesting since we do not sell wholesale to Fancy.<p>After a quick look at their site, I was able to find the product for sale. Same price, no markup. Difference in shipping costs were negligible.<p>Reached out to Andrew to let him know if he was interested in wholesale I would be happy to discuss the particulars. After this conversation the product link was updated to remove the ability to "checkout" with our product.<p>According to their wikipedia page, "In return for selling other merchants’ products, Fancy takes a 10% cut of every purchase that is made through the website."<p>Fancy purchases our product at the going rate, charging their consumer the same amount. Where are they collecting/pulling that 10% cut from... Dorsey & Hughes? Is this a standard business practice to resell online vendors goods without gaining consent from them to list? At least someone like http://www.farfetch.com/ puts a premium on their pricing.<p>Similar account noted here: https://www.etsy.com/teams/7722/discussions/discuss/10441928/<p>Screen shot of our product in their cart after they have removed the ability to "add to cart"
http://imgur.com/GfVkEL4
Maybe they sold the product first and bought yours in order fill the order, testing to see if a wholesale convo is worth having? Could come from product scraping?<p>Just guessing here, haven't even heard of them before now.