IG Professor
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Nice method. Etsy is very strict fo dropshippers nowadays. maybe in 2017 this method could be way more effective.
[METHOD] Dropshipping made as easy as it can be
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GRQ Thomas
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- Nov 7, 2019
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Nope, all good, you can be from pretty much any country. Also, it can vary. What I mean by that is - my shop is supposedly located in London, United Kingdom. Buyers see that location right under my name. In product pages, it says the item ships from China, which is obligatory to show since the items ACTUALLY do ship from China. However, my billing information is located in the country I'm actually in - Latvia. However, keep in mind that choosing your shop location will differ what payment methods you have. For example, if you choose Japan, you don't have the ability to join Etsy Payments, but you have PayPal. Since I'm in the UK, I have Etsy Payment, but not PayPal. Etsy Payment is essentially an online wallet on Etsy. They release payments 1 week after they have been made, whereas on PayPal it's an instant transfer.
GRQ Thomas
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- Nov 7, 2019
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Yep, definately. However, in the end of the day, it's still about finding that key product that'll skyrocket your conversion %. MIght not do as good as it would've a few years back, but it's still something. And, of course, somehow hiding it from Etsy so you don't get banned
Revilo123
Newbie
- Jul 8, 2020
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I have a question regarding product research, Do you use any specific website to help display whats in trend or is it all manual research? ThanksHey guys,
Recently been trying to be more active on Blackhat since I'm liking this community - both for the intellect and the motive behind doing things. Nonetheless, I decided to post a method that's been working for me for the past 2 months with, in my opinion, pretty good results. It ain't nothing new, but I have a few tips that may help any newcomers. The method isn't really too milked either, so you can still jump into it yourself, I'm just moving on to other things (got bored lol).
Nonetheless, the method is - dropshipping on Etsy.
Ain't nothing new, as I mentioned before, but there's a specific way to do things since Etsy isn't very fond of people dropshipping on their website.
For starters, you'll need to pick a niche. I'd reccommend women's clothing, anime and TV shows(be careful with copyright infringement) and jewelry. If you want more detailed statistics of your own website or simply the trends, you can purchase a subscription on erank.com - $5.99/mo
You first step is probably the most crucial one. This is an issue I ran into multiple times. When you first create a store and upload your first products, it'll take about a week or so for you to be verified. Now, there isn't any DIRECT indication of verification, but I know it exists. Etsy moderators review your store. If they see you dropshipping products from aliexpress, they'll ban you. Simple as that. There is, however, one way around it. Integrate Printful into your store. Act as if you're going to sell POD shirts or whatever. This is *semi* allowed, so be careful about the niches you pick. Nonetheless, these shirts most likely won't generate a sale for you, since there's literally thousands of POD stores on Etsy. Nonetheless, a very crucial step to not get yourself banned instantly. Once the supposed verification process passes, you can add the aliexpress products.
Next, once you've made your store, you have your products, here are some little tips to optimise everything for as many sales as possible:
1) Make 25% discounts on everything. Advertise a 25% storewide sale. This means, take the price you want to sell something at ($19.99), divide it by 3 and multiply it by 4. That way you get the price you need to set your product at before the sale. Under marketing, sales and coupons, make the sale and apply it to all your products.
2) Keep your stock low. You have the ability to change the quantity of your items. If you keep it at 3-5, it'll say in red letters under the listing: "Only X left and Y people have it in their carts". Just a good lil motivator for people to buy the product. Make sure you edit the quantity every once in a while so your listing doesnt end, otherwise you need to pay to renew it.
3) Fake accounts and reviews. This is an important one. A friend of mine got banned in this way. Let the verification process pass (around a week or so) and then create 2 fake accounts and buy the items from yourself. This way you can write reviews for yourself and also increase the number of sales you have - alot easier to convince people to buy something from you if you have 2 sales rather than 0. Also, from these fake accounts, add all your items in to the fake account carts. Why? Well, inside the shopping carts, it says the same "Only X left and Y people have it in their carts", essentially just motivating people to buy your item before it supposedly goes out of stock. BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THIS, IF YOUR FAKE ACCOUNT SOMEHOW LINKS BACK TO YOU, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED.
4) Set your processing time to 3-5 days and your shipping time to 7-21 days. Say that it ships from China.
5) Not everything can be sold. Many things will get you sent a copyright infringement letter. Get 3 of those, and you're out. Research on Etsy, pretty easy to see what can and can't be sold. Just Etsy search it. If you can sell it, there'll be basically 1 on 1 copies of pictures from the niche. If there's drawings, look alike things, etc. - probably cant be sold. As an example - Naruto - can't be sold.
I'm personally in the anime and TV show niche and it's doing alright. Etsy have VERY simple advertising, which is great. It's a decent bit of work, but it'll be worth it. Also Etsy have a great app on your phone for sellers, so you can always stay up to date with whats happening to your store.
Lastly, I've attached my stats from the last week. I have to point out that this was a GOOD week, better than usual, so don't get too hyped. I've only been on Etsy for 2 months, god knows what'll happen in the 3rd. Truth be told, there is one incredibly good part of this - once your items rank in the top listings for a specific niche, they'll keep selling without any advertising. Last week, I didn't advertise at all, which is why it's so special. Of the $937 total revenue, $678 was profit, after fee's rounding to around 580eur or $600. My countries minimum wage is 450eur or around $470, so I'd say this is more than enough for this stream of income.
If you have any questions, be sure to message me on here or leave it in the comments of the thread. I'd love to integrate myself into the community more and become active. Good luck and work hard
GRQ Thomas
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For general research, I use eRank. Just a website to see what's getting the most searches, trend graphs and a lot more. $5.99/mo seems like a pretty good deal to me for that. For copyright infringement research - you gotta do it manually. Just search a certain niche up, for example, Rick and Morty. You'll see that anything being sold is pretty a much 1 for 1 copy image from the TV show itself - thus it can be sold. Whereas Naruto, if you search that up, will only show relatively obscure stuff - drawings, replications or just portray some idea. This can be hard to determine sometimes, but you can get up to 3 strikes. Same goes for movies, books etc. If you have any questions about specific niches, you can DM me, I think I'll be able to somewhat tell you. I'm most familiar with the TV show/anime niche, so for that I can even provide a list of animes that are safe to sell. Just DM me privately.
Revilo123
Newbie
- Jul 8, 2020
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Thanks a bunch Thomas, I'll be sure to get in touch tomorrow
GRQ Thomas
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- Nov 7, 2019
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Yep, Etsy is pretty unsaturated so some products can do really well. I've been seeing those personalized necklaces go for $30 + shipping, while they go for $10 total on AliExpress
Yes.... Are the suppliers taking longer than usual in sending shipments?Yep, Etsy is pretty unsaturated so some products can do really well. I've been seeing those personalized necklaces go for $30 + shipping, while they go for $10 total on AliExpress
GRQ Thomas
Junior Member
- Nov 7, 2019
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Eh, not really. Still shit shipping times, unless you want to dish out $20-30 for DHL, so it takes anywhere from 30-50 days. Is what it is, that's AliExpress. You just gotta keep telling all of the customers "its a one time mistake", "doesn't usually happen" and be as polite as you can, maybe offer a coupon or something lol.
dafrallah
Regular Member
- Sep 12, 2013
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Thank you and for the bank account its okey to add my payonner USD accountYou gotta be very careful with how you mark your products being made. Etsy asks you if "you", "a member of my shop" or "somebody else" makes the product. If you post a POD shirt and say "you" make it, you'll get banned. Try my suggestion - open a store and add 10-15 tee's that are obviously POD via Printful. This got me through the "verification" process, might work for you too
GRQ Thomas
Junior Member
- Nov 7, 2019
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Good luck. If you or anyone has any questions, don't hesitate to message me. Networking, a tit for tat and we're all winners in the end of the day
Dark Queen
Registered Member
- Nov 2, 2017
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drop shipping biz is going downhill, shoppers are getting smarter and don't trust drop shipping anymore. thanks for the share anyway.
Sparkle Six
Junior Member
- Feb 3, 2020
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- 61
So if someone buys from your shop, you head over to AliExpress with their details and purchase the item.Hey guys,
Recently been trying to be more active on Blackhat since I'm liking this community - both for the intellect and the motive behind doing things. Nonetheless, I decided to post a method that's been working for me for the past 2 months with, in my opinion, pretty good results. It ain't nothing new, but I have a few tips that may help any newcomers. The method isn't really too milked either, so you can still jump into it yourself, I'm just moving on to other things (got bored lol).
Nonetheless, the method is - dropshipping on Etsy.
Ain't nothing new, as I mentioned before, but there's a specific way to do things since Etsy isn't very fond of people dropshipping on their website.
For starters, you'll need to pick a niche. I'd reccommend women's clothing, anime and TV shows(be careful with copyright infringement) and jewelry. If you want more detailed statistics of your own website or simply the trends, you can purchase a subscription on erank.com - $5.99/mo
You first step is probably the most crucial one. This is an issue I ran into multiple times. When you first create a store and upload your first products, it'll take about a week or so for you to be verified. Now, there isn't any DIRECT indication of verification, but I know it exists. Etsy moderators review your store. If they see you dropshipping products from aliexpress, they'll ban you. Simple as that. There is, however, one way around it. Integrate Printful into your store. Act as if you're going to sell POD shirts or whatever. This is *semi* allowed, so be careful about the niches you pick. Nonetheless, these shirts most likely won't generate a sale for you, since there's literally thousands of POD stores on Etsy. Nonetheless, a very crucial step to not get yourself banned instantly. Once the supposed verification process passes, you can add the aliexpress products.
Next, once you've made your store, you have your products, here are some little tips to optimise everything for as many sales as possible:
1) Make 25% discounts on everything. Advertise a 25% storewide sale. This means, take the price you want to sell something at ($19.99), divide it by 3 and multiply it by 4. That way you get the price you need to set your product at before the sale. Under marketing, sales and coupons, make the sale and apply it to all your products.
2) Keep your stock low. You have the ability to change the quantity of your items. If you keep it at 3-5, it'll say in red letters under the listing: "Only X left and Y people have it in their carts". Just a good lil motivator for people to buy the product. Make sure you edit the quantity every once in a while so your listing doesnt end, otherwise you need to pay to renew it.
3) Fake accounts and reviews. This is an important one. A friend of mine got banned in this way. Let the verification process pass (around a week or so) and then create 2 fake accounts and buy the items from yourself. This way you can write reviews for yourself and also increase the number of sales you have - alot easier to convince people to buy something from you if you have 2 sales rather than 0. Also, from these fake accounts, add all your items in to the fake account carts. Why? Well, inside the shopping carts, it says the same "Only X left and Y people have it in their carts", essentially just motivating people to buy your item before it supposedly goes out of stock. BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THIS, IF YOUR FAKE ACCOUNT SOMEHOW LINKS BACK TO YOU, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED.
4) Set your processing time to 3-5 days and your shipping time to 7-21 days. Say that it ships from China.
5) Not everything can be sold. Many things will get you sent a copyright infringement letter. Get 3 of those, and you're out. Research on Etsy, pretty easy to see what can and can't be sold. Just Etsy search it. If you can sell it, there'll be basically 1 on 1 copies of pictures from the niche. If there's drawings, look alike things, etc. - probably cant be sold. As an example - Naruto - can't be sold.
I'm personally in the anime and TV show niche and it's doing alright. Etsy have VERY simple advertising, which is great. It's a decent bit of work, but it'll be worth it. Also Etsy have a great app on your phone for sellers, so you can always stay up to date with whats happening to your store.
Lastly, I've attached my stats from the last week. I have to point out that this was a GOOD week, better than usual, so don't get too hyped. I've only been on Etsy for 2 months, god knows what'll happen in the 3rd. Truth be told, there is one incredibly good part of this - once your items rank in the top listings for a specific niche, they'll keep selling without any advertising. Last week, I didn't advertise at all, which is why it's so special. Of the $937 total revenue, $678 was profit, after fee's rounding to around 580eur or $600. My countries minimum wage is 450eur or around $470, so I'd say this is more than enough for this stream of income.
If you have any questions, be sure to message me on here or leave it in the comments of the thread. I'd love to integrate myself into the community more and become active. Good luck and work hard
Also how do I make an etsy shop to be in US do I need a VPN?
Sparkle Six
Junior Member
- Feb 3, 2020
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Also, I have an etsy shop which is located in the third t3 country will it ban me if I open another account?
GRQ Thomas
Junior Member
- Nov 7, 2019
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Exactly. And - nope, no VPN, your billing info just needs to be your real address.
GRQ Thomas
Junior Member
- Nov 7, 2019
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I don't think they will, but I would ask their support if I was you.
nichefoxscout
Junior Member
- Apr 17, 2020
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Great writeup, thanks for sharing!
Do you sell in the USA or europe?
Do you sell in the USA or europe?