This is how I find profitable items to dropship from Amazon to eBay

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For the last 2 years I have been doing Amazon to eBay Dropshipping. And this is one of my strategies to find good items to sell.

First step I go to Amazon bestseller list and pick a random product from any category and search the same product on eBay. If you don't find anything, just take the next product from Amazon.
Step 2. I filter the eBay results for new, buy now (and sold).
Step 3. I will scan over the results and open the listings in a new tap if the price is higher than the Amazon price is.
Step 4. Now we should have a few taps open with products that are more expansive than the one on Amazon. But we want to see more, so we click on the sellers other items.
Step 5. Now we have a whole lot of products that might also be cheaper on Amazon. We will filter again to look only at the sold items.
Step 6. Go through all items and check if they are cheaper on Amazon.
Step 7. If you found a winner, list it to eBay.

That's it. Pretty easy. Any noobie should be able to do this.

BUT we are here on blackhatworld. So let me add a twist to it.
I developed a chrome extension that makes this process even easier and faster. It creates an overlay over the eBay site and displays the Amazon price next to the eBay listing and also shows the percentage of the difference. With one click you can copy the Asin or click through to the item page on Amazon.
I hope you will like my first app ever, your feedback is much appreciated.

The chrome extension is now available for free without any limitations in the chrome store.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/intellyfish-price-compari/anpakijakceoakpblfifhfopkammmcfi
 
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will try that extention and provide my feedback,

recently i used a similar app - Profit Spy- well there are many of them with the same name, they all claim that their have the original code and its was copied...
 
will try that extention and provide my feedback,

recently i used a similar app - Profit Spy- well there are many of them with the same name, they all claim that their have the original code and its was copied...

No code has been copied. As I understand it profit spy has a different approach. With them you choose an Amazon category and it tries to find the same products on eBay. I haven't used their software, I used competitors though. My approach is to look at products that actually sell on eBay and match them with Amazon prices. So you should be finding more products that will make you money.
And a big difference is of course that my app is free and works directly on the eBay page.
It is also very useful to identify other dropshippers fast, so you can further investigate them with other softwares that are out there.

When I was doing product research, I always had to click back and forth between eBay and Amazon. And I couldn't find an available solution to make this process more efficient, so I made my own. It will save you alot of time.
 
do u target just united state only and what about shipping do u use amazon prime ?

I target the european market. For shipping I use an Amazon Business account which has prime, BUT I use free standardshipping when checking out. Never lost an Account or had any problems that way.
 
Nice share OP. How much have you made with this business model?
 
Great share, I hope your using amazon affiliate links in your extension. ;)
 
I target the european market. For shipping I use an Amazon Business account which has prime, BUT I use free standardshipping when checking out. Never lost an Account or had any problems that way.
But what i know amazon ship just to USA UK AU right? how u can target european markets? even it's possible cost of shipping will be so expensive Right?

can u please explain more that point
 
But what i know amazon ship just to USA UK AU right? how u can target european markets? even it's possible cost of shipping will be so expensive Right?

can u please explain more that point

I am using european Amazon to fulfill my orders.

Can you include .ca in your extension? Thanks.
For now it is just .com, .co.uk and .de. Down the line I will add more countries.
 
Once the customer order product on ebay, you will order the product from amazon and sent it to customer. Is it right?
 
That is correct.
But customer may confuse order received from Amazon instead of ebay.How do you deal that?
Whether Amazon accepts one account ordering number of products for different customer address?
 
But customer may confuse order received from Amazon instead of ebay.How do you deal that?
Whether Amazon accepts one account ordering number of products for different customer address?

Out of thousands transactions it was an issue only a handful of times. It doesn't really matter. You tell them you use Amazon as your logistics and fulfilment partner. Other roadblocks are more substantial, like account limitations. But everything can be dealt with as long as you put in the time to get all the information you need and treat your business as you should. Always comply to Amazon, eBay and PayPal TOS. Dropshipping is nothing illegal or shady. Most stuff you buy online is dropshipped unless they use their own warehouse.

Amazon doesn't have a problem if you use different customer addresses. Just don't use prime shipping, because that is for personal use and Amazon will ban your account.

Just get your feet wet with a few items and see how you can deal with everything that comes along with it. You can be a private seller for your first sales until you get the hang of it. After a few transactions you can decide if this is something you want to do for longer term. It is not a short term strategy to make money.
 
Out of thousands transactions it was an issue only a handful of times. It doesn't really matter. You tell them you use Amazon as your logistics and fulfilment partner. Other roadblocks are more substantial, like account limitations. But everything can be dealt with as long as you put in the time to get all the information you need and treat your business as you should. Always comply to Amazon, eBay and PayPal TOS. Dropshipping is nothing illegal or shady. Most stuff you buy online is dropshipped unless they use their own warehouse.

Amazon doesn't have a problem if you use different customer addresses. Just don't use prime shipping, because that is for personal use and Amazon will ban your account.

Just get your feet wet with a few items and see how you can deal with everything that comes along with it. You can be a private seller for your first sales until you get the hang of it. After a few transactions you can decide if this is something you want to do for longer term. It is not a short term strategy to make money.

Thank you for reply. Whether ebay accepts seller account of Non-US person to sell items to US customers in ebay.com
 
Thank you for reply. Whether ebay accepts seller account of Non-US person to sell items to US customers in ebay.com
Yes that is possible. If the Chinese can sell on all these platforms and get away with all kind of shenanigans, you should be too. To be sure head over to eBay, open an account and add a listing ;)
 
PayPal bans accounts which do dropshipping
 
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