Somewhat easy ebay drop shipping method

[chris]

Step 1) http://pulse.ebay.com/ - learn to love this site. Even better learn to love http://pulse.ebay.com/index/20081_1 and find a sub category and see what is hot currently

step 2) www.o.co search for the product you have in mind selling that you found has a hot market


Live Example:

Ebay Product that is selling : http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZIPPERED-BLA...item1e6bbf9be6 $27.99

www.o.co link - http://www.overstock.com/Crafts-Sewi...7/product.html $22.49 (plus if you pay $20 a year you can become a o club member and you get back an extra 1.12 on that product plus FREE shipping)

step 3) ???

step 4) profit




F.A.Q
How do you handle the shipping of the product?
You just buy the product after you get the payment to your paypal account from your ebay listing.
O.Co ships it for you. It comes pretty damn fast aswell :-)

Returns?
Just tell your customer to send it back with the return label that o.co provided and once o.co gets it back they will refund your paypal account so you can refund your customer


Do you do this?
No but i have two family members that do this full time.

Will you show me their ebay store?
No because this is sorta a grey area :-) No one has said you CANT do this but no one has said you can do this ;P


Enjoy


Disclaimer: this is not my own oringal idea. its pretty old and common and alot of top ebay sellers do this

[Crazy]

Does o.co label their contents and provide a receipt showing the order amount? If so, I'd imagine some people will gladly drop neg feedback on your eBay account...

[chris]

Does o.co label their contents and provide a receipt showing the order amount? If so, I'd imagine some people will gladly drop neg feedback on your eBay account...

No ...due to the billing and shipping address being different o.co looks at it as a "gift" and only sends a return label. No price is included in the package.

[tm]

I would try this before doing it with real customers.

[inbox]

gotta remember the seller fee and paypal fees. then it just comes out to chump change

[SLY]

...lol.

[stang]

i did this with bowlingball.com and ebay, didn't make very much

[Vlippa]

Normal price

Overstock price

?????

Its like buying a shoe in the store and tryng to resell them

[chris]

it does not work for every product obviously ....

[Crazy]

This would require intensive automation to produce volume and monitor pricing and products. Else it's pretty much relegated to people looking to earn minimum wage.

[Kobal]

This would require intensive automation to produce volume and monitor pricing and products. Else it's pretty much relegated to people looking to earn minimum wage.

so? some people cant even find jobs working minimum wage.


Why's everyone hating? Chris is posting a method to try to help people out and I think it's kind of disrespectful to knock it. Just because something doesn't apply to you doesn't mean it won't apply to everyone, somehow somewhere someone else has it less fortunate then you do.

[Vlippa]

so? some people cant even find jobs working minimum wage.


Why's everyone hating? Chris is posting a method to try to help people out and I think it's kind of disrespectful to knock it. Just because something doesn't apply to you doesn't mean it won't apply to everyone, somehow somewhere someone else has it less fortunate then you do.

I am not knocking him, iam just showing people so they dont get played like a fool.
Companies like Overstock are basically a retailer but sell to people who think they can get rich by buying there shitty shit.

Even affiliates get more markup then that.

[Kobal]

I am not knocking him, iam just showing people so they dont get played like a fool.
Companies like Overstock are basically a retailer but sell to people who think they can get rich by buying there shitty shit.

Even affiliates get more markup then that.

then don't use it with OverStock? This is just a basic idea of how someone he knows is making money, there's plenty of other sites to use

[Dr Seduce]

this is somewhat similar to a method i used to use long long ago, where id drop ship cheap starter acoustic guitars, theyd cost me 12 dollars a piece, id put em on ebay for 1 cent, 40 dollars shipping and i cleaned the fuck up for months, thank you chris for the free info, hopefully people can get some use out of it and their own creativity

[john]

i had an old friend who ended up being brain damaged from some drug related shit and he was able to do this and make 5k+ a month lol

[john]

also after you build up a nice ebay account people will pay good $$ for it

[Crazy]

so? some people cant even find jobs working minimum wage. Why's everyone hating? Chris is posting a method to try to help people out and I think it's kind of disrespectful to knock it. Just because something doesn't apply to you doesn't mean it won't apply to everyone, somehow somewhere someone else has it less fortunate then you do.

Didn't mean to come off as a hater, was just trying to point out that this isn't going to be a get rich quick scheme. Some people think all online money is easy/fast money.

[Kobal]

i had an old friend who ended up being brain damaged from some drug related shit and he was able to do this and make 5k+ a month lol

cash dynasty ? lol

[john]

cash dynasty ? lol

my mannnnnnnn

[ButterOverflow]

Depending on the item category and promotional offers, I can see the potential. I will ask though, is this against eBay's ToS?

[Synja]

is this against eBay's ToS?

It's apparently not specifically allowed, but not specifically against ToS.

[NetProfits]

if its not prohibited it must be allowed no?

[scandalous]

do you have to make an initial investment? Or can you start out with $0 and just buy the product when the customer pays you.

[chris]

re-read the method scandalous
you only buy the product once it is purchased
you then order it from the site
and they ship it