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Dropshipping using Amazon Prime
 

Hello. There are many different opinions in the internet. Some people say it is no problem to dropship using Prime. Others say - it will ban you quickly.

I would like to hear real opinions from people who knows from their own experience.

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You do get banned pretty fast. That comes from talking to a lot of people that have tried it

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The issue is dropshippers abuse Amazon's prime service using the 1 month trial.

If you were to dropship without using their prime service, I would assume it could work.

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Dropshipping using Prime 100% work on UK side, just dont do 2 days shipping + dont use trial Prime account and you will be fine.
On US there is different story to using Amazon for dropship.

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Prime in the UK is 1 day shipping

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If your not using the 2 days shipping (or 1 day for UK) - then why do you need the prime membership?

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Yes just dont that, use the No-Rush Delivery.

Free shipping on all Prime items.

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Why can you not do this in the usa?

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They will cancel you Prime sooner or later.

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This is a stealth forum, and you're talking about getting a buying account banned? lol

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Im not the OP, OP ask a question i just try to answer based on my experience.
Cheers

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Ok, but cancelling a Prime account is nothing. You can make another in 5 minutes

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Has anyone here tried dropshipping from Prime to customers using an ecommerce website? Also, wouldn't it be better to have items shipped to your home first, and afterwards ship items to customers yourself?

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I could see that working - but you need to constantly be investing in traffic to your site which may kill any profit made.

As for your other question, if you ship to customers after receiving it, yet again your killing profits. But if the item is more profitable, you can get away with it.

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That would just defeat the point of drop shipping really.

The idea behind drop shipping is to never hold any stock and only pay for shipping once. As soon as you start having to reship an item you have to pay for P&P again and that really cuts into profit.

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What credit card do you use?
Prime trials dont accept Vanilla. Having to buy a 10 dollar pre paid and adding address to it is not a 5 minute process.

Plus, now youre stuck with 10 dollar pre paid cards.

Ive seen buyer accounts last about 5 to 6 orders before they get suspended

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Thank you very much for the information. Has anyone tried ordering stuff with gift cards? I heard people use that to avoid being banned from Amazon.

Also, how to do check stock and prices? Is it fine to use Hydralister and Skugrid? Or it has any disadvantages?

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I've been dropshipping with Amazon for many years, Prime and non prime

Amazon and Ebay are awash with Amazon dropshippers, some with 100's of 000's of feedback

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I see two problems with this. Customer will see price of item dropshipped to them via Amazon, which will upset them. If they do not see the price, it is because you'd have to request seller to not be hide price for each transaction, which would become tiring/look suspicious.

The second issue is that beginners starting off will need FUNDS of their own to purchase items via Amazon, because paypal may or may not hold funds, which would destroy their business if this happens. With an ecommerce website, it would be easier once you gain traffic, which is one of my many goals.

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So true. Ive had many ebay accounts get suspended based on dropshipping. Im like " You know you have so many accounts blatantly dropshipping for years and you do NOTHING to them but then I come along with 100 percent and bam, suspsended" Just wondering why ebay lets some slide where its as obvious as the sun shining. Like those power sellers etc.

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There are ways and means

True always better to have capital, although you can get lucky and ave no holds.

I started dropshipping with £0

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I dropshipped 8 yrs ago, but my account was established at the time. I'm not sure if pp will hold my business account funds for eBay, or not. I'm too scared to list items and take the risk, because I'd need $$$ to dropshipped, but it would help me big time if they didn't. Currently from other platforms they release my funds instantly, but each transaction is in the $5-$60 range, and maybe 3-4 transactions weekly.

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I believe they'd be less suspicious if you were to dropship items using separate pp accounts. Accept payments via 1 account, and use 2nd account to pay for items that'll be dropshipped to customers.

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any updates on software for this type of thing? I have seen companys - cannot remember name, that claim to have people manually looking each day for deals.......

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You started your P/P account as a business account rather than starting a personal account and upgrading to business, right? Usually on new business accounts you're given a rolling or monthly release amount, which would really help you out in the case of dropshipping. I think the last business account I started had a $500 release amount. The first $500 in payments each month would be released instantly then the rest would be subject to normal payment holds. I only used the account for a couple of months so I'm not sure when/if the release amount goes away. I'm pretty sure Paypal evaluates your business after 90 days to determine your risk, and decides whether or not the release amount can be removed.

Frankly though if you can't afford to spend a little of your own $ while Paypal is still holding payments, then you shouldn't be trying to start a business. Don't quit your day job until you've got some working capital saved up.

About the thing you said in your last post, this is why Amazon has the "this is a gift" option on every listing. If you check that option AZ ships without any invoice or packing list. (*DROPSHIPPER BUSINESS SECRET REVEALED*) :shhh:

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What platforms release funds instantly?

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Same questions.
Thank you

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It is very easy to create amazon prime. I have been creating prime accounts and it works for the whole month trial. Although I'm only using them to watch free movies, so i cant be sure if how does it works with drop shipping. Imma give this a try soon, since it might give me good profit.

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Dropshi**ing with prime - send as much as you can, get a message from Amazon telling you that you're a naughty boy, then make another account and repeat

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Best to have accounts ready to go, you can start by selling cheap items to a point where the hold go away.

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what margins do you go for?

I have not gone for doing this, it is mainly time issue but also, I know how to do it and would encompass stealth methods but hesitate, as I do not want to risk my real amazon seller acc that does good business, as az are more observant and with the rumours of mac issues etc......

I have seen a few deals, seen up to 25% margins az to eb (less margin than what I go for with dropshipping abitrage)....but the prime will contain some type of invoice and will be in az boxes.....cannot get out of that one..

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There's Amz to Ebay, most sellers on the whole are happy with 5-10% as an average. The there's Amz to Amz, the great thing about Amz is the lowest price doesn't always sell, you can make 100's of % percent profit sometimes

** Amazon link! https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/cus...?nodeId=502520

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yes, true about gift option, I kinda meant the box really, all black tape and topgear logos!!

how long is it til they message you that you are abusing prime and/or kick you off?

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They don't give a sht most of the time, you'll get feedback of 99% and a small handful of customers will say "this guy is a cheat, he buys from amazon and sells on ebay!!"

Can be a few months, you don't even need to use Prime, but I love the feedback I get when a customer orders a cheap one day and get's it the next day for free, lol

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I noticed in my research (would not work with dropshipping) but that even UK to UK, on certain products, 'subscribe and save' on amazon is giving me prices that are often the same as wholesale ones...

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I have seen a few ebayers do this with great success.

I am interested, but concerned that if I use my own Amazon buyers account, they will ban me from Seller Central too. Since I only recently got re-instated, I don't want to risk it.

If I was only on ebay and not an Amazon seller, I would do this no hesitations.

Interested to know how this is done properly...

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i thinks if you avoid input the Credit Card number every time
you put in a new address by using amazon balance only every purchase it would be works based on my little experience

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I've dropshipped Amazon to Amazon for years, and use an FBA seller to make the purchase probably 50 times or so/month. A few years ago I received an email from someone at Amazon saying they did a review of my prime account and noticed that I had an excess amount of prime purchases to addresses other than my own, and just reminded me that prime is to be used for your home address only. So I cooled it on the prime orders for a month or so, then started again and went a little lighter, never heard from them again.

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Thanks for sharing your experience Howard. Interesting to know!

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I'd just use a forwarding service as that'd maintain a common denominator of having the same shipping address from Amazon, seems safer a bit less cost effective though