Can I Dropship Using Amazon?

[michaelch]

Can I list items on my on ecommerce store and purchase them from Amazon and send the items to customers through Amazon? What will happen if I send products through Amazon to many different addresses?

 

[ftwseounli9]

Yes You Can Easily

 

[michaelch]

Yes You Can Easily

It doesn't raise any flags with Amazon if I'm sending items to many different addresses? Is this allowed under Amazon's policies? Thanks for the reply.

 

[Deadlock99]

I currently do this with a few products i sell on ebay. Once i get a sale from ebay i go onto Amazon and purchase the item and get them sent direct to the ebay customers address.
I have been doing this for a couple of months and sell a few items a day doing this and Amazon have not had a problem. I guess if you start to file claims for none-delivery or faulty goods then they may look a bit closer but the items I sell are all fairly low value <$20 so this is not really an issue.

 

[Rgennpt]

when they make the purchase in amazon to be sent to your eBay customer how do they proceed? buy as an offer? send some message to the seller not to mention the value? the order is sent in what kind of box? does not mention Amazon? thank you

 

[MisterF]

when they make the purchase in amazon to be sent to your eBay customer how do they proceed? buy as an offer? send some message to the seller not to mention the value? the order is sent in what kind of box? does not mention Amazon? thank you

If Amazon are despatching they send out in amazon packaging, but if it's the actual seller who is despatching you could possibly ask them to send it plain label and explain it's a gift or something.

 

[getakash1]

Amazon is filled with dropshippers .

Why would you want to dropship from a dropshipper & not the source ?

 

[kpetar]

You can as long as you don't use Prime account for Amazon purchases.

 

[Rgennpt]

Thank you for your help. if the product is sent by amazon as an offer, can I put some message to not be indicated values and be shipped in a box without mentioning amazon? is there an iPhone / tablet app to automate the insertion of ads?

 

[kpetar]

It will be shipped in Amazon box. No way to avoid that. I think if you pay gift wrap that there is no price but that is not an option for you.

But, what will you do if price goes up on Amazon or product is out of stock? Those should be your main concerns.

 

[Rgennpt]

I have to study the best option! I want to start a dropshipping business. advise otherwise? to sell on ebay? I thought about Amazon because I want to sell to the UK so deliveries are faster. I've thought of aliexpress among others but the deliveries take a long time!

 

[Deadlock99]

I have to study the best option! I want to start a dropshipping business. advise otherwise? to sell on ebay? I thought about Amazon because I want to sell to the UK so deliveries are faster. I've thought of aliexpress among others but the deliveries take a long time!

It is possible to do with Amazon if you find the right items that are of low enough price on Amazon that you can make a profit to sell on ebay after you pay ebay fees. You do have to be aware of items going out of stock or increasing in price on Amazon though as I have had this happen a couple of times and your choice is to either buy the item from elsewhere and get it shipped to your customer (possibly costing you more money so could loose money on the sale) or you refund your customer on ebay telling them the item was damaged when you came to check it before shipping. Cancelling a lot of transactions on ebay will bring your account infront of the ebay moderators though and they could then put restrictions on your account so best not to do it to often
There is a Chrome extension which is supposed to show you the inventory of the items in stock, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stock-stats-amazon-invent/ I have not tried it though so not sure how well it works.