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Dropshippers for eBay

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October 23, 2010 at 2:54 am Filed in:Uncategorized

Drop shipping on eBay is certainly popular.  It allows sellers to sell many items without having to purchase them up front or stock a lot of inventory.  This means less overhead for the seller.  Unfortunately, there are also a lot of problems with drop shipping on eBay.

Many people try to use popular services like Doba to sell on eBay.  The problem is that the products are very popular and thus there is a lot of competition.  You will find tons of others selling the same products, often for less.  You’ll lose a lot of your profit margins if you want to compete with the thousands of other sellers.

Another major issue is that these products go out of stock frequently since so many people are selling them.  This happens without warning, and can leave the seller high and dry when they make the sale.  This will get you negative feedback and can get you banned from selling on eBay or Amazon.  That’s why many people do not recommend drop shipping on eBay.

If you’re looking for a good dropshipper for eBay, find yourself a private manufacturer or wholesaler and negotiate a drop shipping program with them.  This ensures that you’ll get good pricing and will have more control over the stock.

You also should focus on only a small number of niche products when selling on eBay.  eBay charges a lot of high fees to list and sell products, and those fees can really add up if you sell a lot of items.  You’ll want to find a few specific products with large profit margins so you can still make money after paying eBay their cut.

DHGate Review

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October 23, 2010 at 2:52 am Filed in:Uncategorized

What is DHGate?  DHGate is a Chinese marketplace, kind of like eBay, that allows Chinese ‘wholesalers’ to post products for sale.  Sometimes they will ship one product at a time, sometimes they only ship in bulk.  DHGate itself is not a wholesaler or dropshipper itself.  It simply gives other Chinese wholesalers a place to sell their products.

So is DHGate a scam?  Well, yes and no.  DHGate itself is not a scam.  It does its best to prevent scammers and rip off artists.  However, many of the dropshippers on the site are indeed scam artists.  Many times, you will get your product, but it won’t be what you expected.

You’ll notice that the prices are extremely low and seem too good to be true.  And for good reason.  The products that are sold on DHGate are counterfeit.  They are not original products, so don’t expect them to be.  If you want knockoff products, this is a good place to look.  However, DO NOT attempt to sell these products on eBay or Amazon as you will be immediately banned.  Also, DO NOT attempt to sell these items as the real thing at all as you can get in serious trouble.

If you are purposely selling knockoff items, and claiming them to be so, then DHGate is a decent source.

If you want real, authentic wholesale and drop ship merchandise, use a wholesale directory like Salehoo.

Build an eCommerce Store

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October 23, 2010 at 2:49 am Filed in:Uncategorized

When starting your drop shipping business, you need to decide where to sell your products. Many people like eBay because it’s a highly trafficked marketplace with lots of hungry buyers. Unfortunately, theres also tons of competition and they charge ridiculous fees that hurt your margins. Other people like to sell on Amazon because they don’t charge listing fees and offer a similar amount of traffic. But again, they charge high fees and have very strict rules. The third option is to build your own online store, and that’s what we’ll discuss here.

Building an online store may sound intimidating, but it’s actually a lot easier than you’d think. There are lots of premade shopping cart solutions available to you that can be customized to your liking with minimal programming experience. Shopping cart software is a type of script that allows you to easily add products, add descriptions, options, pricing, and more. They also should include an integrated shopping cart and payment processing options.   All you have to do is populate it with products, descriptions, graphics, and features.  Here are a few of the best solutions for building an online store:

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

Yahoo offers a shopping cart solution that is highly customizable and gives you everything you need to start selling as fast as possible. This includes your web hosting, software, payment processing, marketing tools, and more.  They even help you customize it with detailed tutorials and support.  Plus your store automatically gets listed in the Yahoo shopping directory.  They charge $39.95 per month for all this, but it’s well worth the simplicity it delivers. If you want to build your own online store but don’t want any of the hassle that comes with it, this is a good option.

Zen-cart

Zen-cart is a free open-source shopping cart software that is a spinoff of the popular osCommerce software. It’s highly customizable, it comes with hundreds of free add-on modules, templates, marketing tools, and most important of all, its free! This solution is a little more difficult, and requires you to have your own web hosting, but is fairly easy to learn. Most of the modules and add-ons you need are already premade and available for download.  It’s cheaper this way, but requires more work on your end. On the plus side it’s much more customizable. This is how I build my online stores.

Whichever solution you choose, you will already be ahead of most other dropshippers. Many people rely completely on eBay to sell products. Having your own website allows you to utilize tons more marketing tools and get a lot more customers. Plus, you can always sell on eBay as well. I highly recommend building your own store if you want to stand out from the crowd.

Of course, the most important part your drop shipping business, as always, is finding the right products.  Check out Salehoo for a huge directory of legitimate wholesalers and dropshippers.

Best Dropshippers

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October 23, 2010 at 2:36 am Filed in:Uncategorized

Looking for the best dropshippers? We all are. Unfortunately, finding the best dropshippers is no easy task. Most of the companies you find in the search engines are not legitimate companies. Most of them are middlemen that give you marked up wholesale pricing and sometimes charge monthly fees on top of that. Many times they will offer you a premade online store or other cookie cutter solution.

It sounds like a great deal. A premade store packed with products just ready to sell? Sign me up! Unfortunately, these sites will NEVER make you any money. They sucker thousands, sometimes millions of people into these deals, and the only one who makes money is the middleman.

Think of it this way. If there are thousands of other people selling the same products in the same basic store with the same wholesale pricing, why would anyone buy from you? Don’t try to answer that, because i’ll tell you right now, they won’t! You can’t win with a generic solution like this. Even though it sounds so easy and so profitable, it really isn’t.

Search engines hate cookie cutter sites and duplicate content. Your online store will NEVER have any authority in a search engine if you go this route. And forget about selling on ebay or Amazon. You’ll never be able to beat the pricing and product selection that a real dropshipper supplies. The only one who wins in this relationship is the middleman.

If you’re trying to find a real wholesale or dropshipper on the internet, you’ll be sorely dissapointed.  The best dropshippers and wholesalers do not advertise in search engines.  All you will find in the search engine are middlemen and scammers.  To find the best dropshippers you’ll need to either start looking in offline business directories, making phone calls, driving to their locations, writing letters, etc.  Either that, or use a wholesale directory.

So if you really want to know where the best dropshippers are, forget about using a search engine. Take it from me, nothing good will come from it. The best dropshippers are found in wholesale directories like Salehoo or WorldWide Brands.

I have already been scammed, ripped off, and generally disappointed by many of the most common wholesalers and dropshippers. Check this out to see what I got out of it.