Hi, I want to sell products on eBay without buying them first, use a wholesale supply & drop shipping company. What is the best solutions for sell products on eBay without purchasing products up front?
I thought ebay offered those stores (it's been a few years since I've used them) where they had different tiers, and you were basically marketing the different junk for niches. Some you paid for, some you didn't. The store, not the merchandise.
Actually you cant do any revenue on Ebay if will use dropshippers, its fact. You cant bit prices of existed ebay sellers.
Doba is scam? http://reviews.ebay.com/Doba-Droppshipper-Scam_W0QQugidZ10000000003014918 There are better solutions?
You could find some companies that can make a dropshipping arrangement with you. Call the factories of some companies and ask them for a list of factory authorized wholesalers and speak to them. Ask them if you sell so and so amount if you could use the consignment or dropshipping arrangement with them.
So true, You'll get undercut fast if you sell stuff thats readily available through dropshippers, Best to make your own store and market the heck out of it.
My advice (I am an eBay Powerseller) is to be very skeptical that you can make money drop shipping a product on eBay. Someone has already beat you to it and is probably offering it at a price that you will be unable to match. If that is not already the case, you can bet it will be within a few weeks of running your auctions.
I dropship a number of products and my clients make a good bit of money off of it. Even if your product sells for $20 more then the competition, only 1 person can win an auction, which leaves other bidders to come to you (unless your compeition uses only Buy-It-Now). I dropship/wholesale a number of items. Contact me with what you want and I will get back to you.
You can try WorldWideBrands dot com, good luck. Seemed like eBay raved about them. You can try to find out more yourself.
For eBay (which are 98% onesie-twosie sales), I actually stock the products myself. Small orders such as what you get on eBay cannot be cost effectively drop shipped by a wholesaler because they will often add a handling fee that kills any profits. Wholesalers are basically not interested in drop shipping an order smaller than $50 (to them), so my $1.28 cable order has to be shipped from my place. I do buy directly from the people who buy entire cargo containers off ships from China, so I get great prices. And when I get an order for hundreds or thousands of dollars from one of my corporate clients, I have that drop shipped. By the way, I have all but stopped selling on eBay. I have left my store up there and take occasional orders from people who make the effort to find me, but I do not run auctions any more. It was too much work for too little profit. I may drop Amazon, as well, though at least their buyers are not half as stupid as the average eBay buyer.
In my experience, once the Powersellers move into a product category, you are all done with a higher priced, me too, product. They will run auctions every half an hour so you will never see your auction standing by itself.
If eBay raved about them, there are already thousands of sellers lining up to talk to them. Unless you have big investment money and can negotiate better prices than the big boys, you will have your lunch eaten on eBay with a 'me too' product from a supplier that everyone else is using. Sorry to be so negative, but eBay is a been there done that kind of play. Not sure how someone new would break in unless they have a new, distinctive product that cannot be easily duplicated or found by the big players who are all over eBay. Keep in mind, with only 10,000 or so feedbacks since I started in late 2004, (probably from around 20,000 customers) I consider my business super tiny compared to the big boys.
Now, I just need to figure out how to get a wholesaler/reseller license in Indiana, and start my own store.