Is eBay dropshipping dead?

josh98 · Feb 2, 2019

I'm sure you've all heard the news by now, but eBay is laying the hammer down on dropshippers. What I don't understand is, are they banning people for selling from, say, Walmart, or is it still cool to dropship from a wholesaler like Aliexpress?

I'm just getting started, have an eBay account in good standing, and don't wanna **** anything up. Can I just sell some stuff from Aliexpress and be good?

sbenderschii · Feb 2, 2019

You can do it, however it is so saturated that you will make a tiny amount of sales if any at all. Most Aliexpress wholesalers already have ebay listings with Aliexpress prices that have a monopoly on their items, it's nearly impossible to do nowadays. Give it a try though, it's free so why not

Sombrero · Feb 3, 2019

Some sellers use an Amazon Prime account to dropship on eBay. They find cheap products on Amazon to sell on eBay and use their Amazon Prime to drop ship in 2 days for free.

josh98 · Feb 3, 2019

sbenderschii said:
You can do it, however it is so saturated that you will make a tiny amount of sales if any at all. Most Aliexpress wholesalers already have ebay listings with Aliexpress prices that have a monopoly on their items, it's nearly impossible to do nowadays. Give it a try though, it's free so why not

Thanks. I probably won't use Aliexpress tbh. I have a couple US based wholesalers I was looking at, but what is this stuff about negotiating contracts? Can't I just list their products and enter the purchasers info? I'm kinda confused by all this contract and negotiation talk.

Caspooor · Feb 3, 2019

I'm curious as well

wilsjac1 · Feb 4, 2019

I have talked to a few people that are stilling doing it this past year. I use to do it with aliexpress to ebay but I lost to many ebay accounts do to poor delivery times and aliexpress sending the wrong products. I know most people that are truly successful with it have U.S drop shippers and do a lot of niche research to try and find smaller markets that they can tap into rather than trying to compete with popular products

NewPinny · Feb 11, 2019

The main two ways they can flag your account is the repricing software most dropshippers use accessing ebays API, also there is speculation the item location can get you flagged too, there is one software out there that has the option to reprice without accessing the API its called skugrid (not affiliated in anyway and haven't used myself), you can set it up to notify you when prices change and it scans your source supplier every hour for price changes. A way to get around the item location is to use niche sites as sources instead of everyone else with amazon find the location of the warehouses they ship from (you can call them to find out maybe) and use a software that does not access the api

josh98 · Feb 11, 2019

NewPinny said:
The main two ways they can flag your account is the repricing software most dropshippers use accessing ebays API, also there is speculation the item location can get you flagged too, there is one software out there that has the option to reprice without accessing the API its called skugrid (not affiliated in anyway and haven't used myself), you can set it up to notify you when prices change and it scans your source supplier every hour for price changes. A way to get around the item location is to use niche sites as sources instead of everyone else with amazon find the location of the warehouses they ship from (you can call them to find out maybe) and use a software that does not access the api

This is some of the best info I've gotten in a while. Thanks bro.

PianoMan · Mar 1, 2019

It is definitely a lot harder.

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