makaminski
Newbie
- May 13, 2011
- 18
- 2
am thinking of going it alone, just need somone to encourage and say do it , will try it . will just give it a short
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Dropshipping Books on EBAY
- Thread starter jstewart
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First, thanks goes to the OP. Good contribution.
I have found a bunch of items that seem to work from a profit perspective but this quote below is exactly what I am seeing...
The delivery time can be anywhere from 5-28 days which will not sit well with your buyers. If you do not care about your DSR (detailed seller ratings) this might be ok. Meaning you just want to generate some cash and do not care longer-term.
Also, I looked on Amazon based on some of the discussion higher up in this thread and interestingly found the Book Depository themselves selling on a bunch of books, which would mean the Amazon idea is basically out. Especially since the feedback for the Book Depository is ok, but not great, delivery time complaints and occasional out of stock or delay issues.
Looks like a decent ebay "business" but a few big things to keep in mind:
1) delivery times are going to be long and completely out of your hands
2) as mentioned above, items will show as coming from BD, your customers will know, so your repeat business will be low and likely be close to zero
3) your entire business is structured on 2 other companies who can change their rules and pricing on you in any given moment and can topple your "business" in that moment
But definitely a good idea and if someone wants some decent cash, not a bad way to get some (with very little work as well).
Recently I ve found a few books from sellers on amazon. I was comparing price for other items (home category) and sometimes I check their best selling items. And found a few books. Then found source (bookdepositary and other one, forgot the name) and listed them. Sold 4 books but yeah delivery time looks horrible and I removed the listings. Shipped what I sold and decided to not sell it any more because it looks very risky for account. But what if I use amazon fba for those books? Or it is just easier to use ebay as source? Especially for used ones. At least there is some analytical tools for ebay which may save your time and find profitable items. But I haven't found anything like that for bookdepository. And haven't found any price and stock monitoring app.