Common Misconceptions About Drop Shippin

Common Misconceptions About Drop Shipping

Never Use a Drop Shippers Who Charge for a Member Fee?

I've been hearing a lot of so called EXPERTS in a lot of internet forums saying "You should never trust a drop shipper if you're asked for a member fee to join".

I'm always having doubts how these EXPERTS came up with this theory. Why can't a quality drop shipper charge for a member fee for maintaining their service and system? Why can't a free of charge drop shipper scam your money?

According to my experience to work with quality drop shippers during my eBay selling history for the past few years, to determine whether or not you can trust a drop shipper, you should judge the quality of products, reseller price they offer, profit margin you can get, actual service quality, etc, so finally how much profit you can earn at the end.

There're quite a few drop shippers whom I've been working with through out all these years which brought me enough profits to support my living. They have too many good items I can resell with decent profits in eBay. I never mind paying them the minimal member fee as it's not really significant compared to the real profit they brought me.


How Can People Sell for Less Than Wholesale in eBay?

Well, you cannot sell for less than wholesale if you are drop shipping. Forget about it.

At the beginning, I felt frustrated as everybody did. I saw a popular auction for a name brand of digital cameras for less than I could even get it for at any drop shipper. How could they do that?

There could be tens of reasons. Perhaps the seller bought thousands of products from an overseas source and therefore, he can still get a very decent profit when he sells at a very low price. Perhaps the seller was selling at loss for some items as a way to advertise his other items. Perhaps the seller worked at the factory and got a great deal on reconditioned items.

The answer is: DO NOT TRY TO USE DROP SHIPPING FOR POPULAR NAME BRAND DIGITAL CAMERAS, OR IPODS, or things like that. You can never compete with the big retailers.

Then what should you sell? The answer is: unique items that your customers cannot find the exactly same ones from other places easily. You can define your profit margin freely without the need to worry about the price war out there.

How to find such items? I'm going to share more detail and experience at a later time.

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I am a Silver Level Power Seller on eBay and have been selling since 2006. Since that time, I have sold over 20,000 items as an individual to buyers all over the world. During my eBay journey, I have gained expertise on what products to sell, where to find them, and how to successfully market items to make a profit on eBay. Selling on eBay is more than a hobby for me, it is a passion and full-time job.

For people who are interested to find out what items I sell for my success, you may take a look at 2 of my sources:

A reliable drop shipper: Giftamax

Unique and personalized gift items: Wow Gift Mart

I have created a self-sustainable eBay business now. I do not need to develop it further and therefore, I am more than happy to spend my time sharing my success and experience with anyone who is eager to join this industry.