Drop shipping & EBay.

Do you use drop shippers for your EBay business?

If not here’s how drop shipping and eBay can work together to display and then deliver products to your customers.

Having first identified products which either (a) sell in a large quantity on eBay or (b) are rare and/or exclusive (where your margins could greater), the next step is to find a good reliable drop shipper who carries them as stock and can ship them to your customers preferably as single item orders with no minimum order value.

The next step is to download their product catalogue and photos. If expressly permitted, you should differentiate your stall by slightly altering the products descriptions (without of course touching any technical specifications) and rotate the photos (so that your products stand out from similar products which might also be posted on eBay).

You will also have to check out the prices offered by your drop shipper and compare them with retail prices elsewhere to make sure there is sufficient margin. If you have done your homework, after posting the products on eBay, your orders will hopefully start to arrive. After collecting the payment through PayPal or any other means, you can now forward that order to your drop shipper and pay him his price. The difference between what your customer pays and the amount you pay your drop shipper is your profit margin, less of course any listing charges due to eBay.

Your EBay store provides a front end to showcase your products and the drop shipper a back office which takes care of the rest, but as an inadequate back office can enhance or destroy your reputation take care to choose wisely!