How do you dropship to ebay?
1.)
Get yourself a good eBay and PayPal:
Unless you have a lot of capital saved up, you will be using the money from your sales to buy + ship the goods, so you will need instant access to the money. This means your PayPal account must be unlimited, so if you do not have one I would suggest you buy one.
I would also advise you to have an eBay account with some feedback, and high selling limits, as this will allow you to look more authoritative & trustworthy to buyers, as well as sell more items. You can also buy these fairly cheap
2.)
Identify products:
The hardest part about this method is identifying a product that will sell high price and high quantity. You can look for an item on a whole host of sites, such as: Dhgate, Alibaba, Aliexpress, Amazon, G2A etc. Whilst looking for products you need to factor in seller fees, which can often make a product you thought would make you a decent amount of money worthless. I used a
fee calculator to make sure I was making a nice amount from each item, and I always aimed for at least £3 profit/ item.
One thing I notice is that eBay does not take commission from your postage fee and as I was originally buying my products from Amazon, where postage is free, I decided to reduce my prices by a bit and instead increase my postage cost. This meant that if I bought a product at £25 and sold it for £32 + £2.99 postage fee, I would make £5 every sale.
3.)
Attracting customers and getting sales:
As I have said countless times, when I was doing this I did not know of BHW and online services, so looking back now, I am really kicking myself for not making my service more efficient. I was originally copying all of the sales information from Amazon and posting the item and hoping it sold.
If I was going to do this now, I would buy some watchers for my item which would make it more appealing to potential customers. You could also purchase a few from yourself (refunding the money of course) So that my listing displays “Hot: x sold in 1 hour”.
4.)
Make it passive:
I am actually really mad I did not discover this site earlier, as I could have scaled the shit out of this method. You can sell as many products as you like, try everything and see what sells best, and hire a cheap VA to process all of your orders. One setback I met was that Amazon let me buy 2 of the Headset each week/ account, so I had to create about 30 accounts to keep up with the demand.
Like I said, this method is not new to you guys, nor is it the biggest earner, but by using a VA, you can get some decent passive income. Sorry this is shorter than my last post, but this is much simpler, and you really just need to test a bunch of products and see what works best.
