First drop shipping sale!

[dan_ebay]

I only use amazon who send it direct, they refund me if the buyer wants to return it so not that bad. Had a amazon account banned but vcc's are fine for purchases

[solefoodbk]

Originally Posted by applepbc

intersting. do you guys operate off only 10% profits? that seems hugely risky

My profit is 43%.

On the ones I have listed now.... friggen sweeeeeet

[applepbc]

thats pretty damn good... do they ship from the states?

[solefoodbk]

i think i stumbled upon a jackpot ideaa

[k_lock]

Originally Posted by solefoodbk

Hahaha YES!

I just used ebates. I get 4% cashback off the website I use AND I got free shipping.

All for doing essentially nothing. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy to add anything helpful to this forum! You're very welcome!

[k_lock]

Originally Posted by applepbc

intersting. do you guys operate off only 10% profits? that seems hugely risky

Most of my drop shipping items are 10%, but items that I buy on clearance and then sell, I usually make a 50% or more profit. For example, just bought a ton of boys Nautica T-shirts at a Peebles store that is closing. Bought the shirts for $ 2.10 each. They retail for $ 26.50. So I'll sell them for $ 19.99. And they are light, so they only cost about $ 2.00 to ship and all my shipping stock is free from the post office!

[k_lock]

Originally Posted by solefoodbk

i think i stumbled upon a jackpot ideaa

Care to share????

[pegasus]

Originally Posted by solefoodbk

Just got my sale drop shipping!

Made a $75 profit too.

I most defiantly won't be making this a long term business move NOR is this even a fraction of my REAL inventory. It seems like most sellers either commit or don't do it at all. In other words their entire inventory is drop shipping which is OBVIOUS.

I think having that little mix of drop shipping (if you can find a good one) will allow you another method of getting $$ and can't realistically kill an account. Sure I might have some slight issues with shipping, I know this already. I figure if I get some super mad customer I'll just refund them then give them a credit of $10 free or something....It's going to probably end up being a MAX 2 week delivery time frame which isn't great but I have enough sales to counter any issues that could arise.

Having a free $500 bucks a week is pretty nice doing NOTHING. I almost feels like stealing. ALOT of stores do this so I do know its apart of business. I have TRS and amazing feedback so doing this with a few items seems like a good move.

!GOOD HUSTLE!

Any extra cash would be good if you found a good supplier and have a great system in place to move products WHY NOT?

[Cloak_d]

Originally Posted by k_lock

And you get a percentage from ebates.com every time you buy on eBay!!!

Hi k_lock,

Do your ebay customers mind receiving their items in a Target or Sams Club box?

What do you do about the invoice that shows what you paid for it?

Thanks!

[k_lock]

Most of my items come from Amazon. Sometimes Walmart or Toys R us. I just explain in my listings that I source the items from many places to get the best price. I also explain that I have an Amazon marketplace store, so that items may ship directly from the Amazon warehouse.

It's all in small print, but it covers any issues that might arise!

[Sooner]

Originally Posted by k_lock

Most of my items come from Amazon. Sometimes Walmart or Toys R us. I just explain in my listings that I source the items from many places to get the best price. I also explain that I have an Amazon marketplace store, so that items may ship directly from the Amazon warehouse.

It's all in small print, but it covers any issues that might arise!

Do you use an Amazon Prime account for shipping to your eB customers (free 2-day shipping for Prime members)?

[k_lock]

Originally Posted by Sooner

Do you use an Amazon Prime account for shipping to your eB customers (free 2-day shipping for Prime members)?

Yes I do! And I use my Amazon Prime Store Card and get 5% back each purchase. Of course, AFTER I go through ebates and get a percentage back from them as well!

[yankee]

Originally Posted by k_lock

Yes I do! And I use my Amazon Prime Store Card and get 5% back each purchase. Of course, AFTER I go through ebates and get a percentage back from them as well!

How many returns are you receiving?

That seems like it would be the hangup for many popular items.

So when you are selling on ebay, you are adding in the back side % for your markup or see that all as an add on bonus?

Just curious.

[k_lock]

Originally Posted by yankee

How many returns are you receiving?

That seems like it would be the hangup for many popular items.

So when you are selling on ebay, you are adding in the back side % for your markup or see that all as an add on bonus?

Just curious.

I only had 3 returns in December out of 151 items sold. They got returned to me. Then I print out the Amazon return label and process the return.

I make sure to sell items that have great reviews so that I don't have many returns.

The % back is just a bonus!

[yankee]

Originally Posted by solefoodbk

I'm placing the order same day as they make it to ME and then I ship via priority to them.

This is more like pre selling because you are not drop shipping to your buyer.
I do this on many items from distributors that are one day away from me. Never thought of it as drop shipping.

Question: If the items are popular, why not source them wholesale and buy small stock? Or are you just looking to test new markets and items?

[dan_ebay]

Originally Posted by k_lock

Yes I do! And I use my Amazon Prime Store Card and get 5% back each purchase. Of course, AFTER I go through ebates and get a percentage back from them as well!

how many orders are u putting through prime? I can't believe you've not been banned yet especially getting 5% extra? They've banned me 3 times already

[k_lock]

Probably about 200 orders since November. They'll ban me?

So maybe I should just select regular shipping instead of prime. Bummer.

[dan_ebay]

At some point they will. They aren't hot on it like they are with seller accounts though. I used a VCC on a new account but heard from others they even used the same debit card

[solefoodbk]

Originally Posted by yankee

This is more like pre selling because you are not drop shipping to your buyer.
I do this on many items from distributors that are one day away from me. Never thought of it as drop shipping.

Question: If the items are popular, why not source them wholesale and buy small stock? Or are you just looking to test new markets and items?

True.

The thing is the items I'm selling now are going for $99.99 and I'm selling them for about $174.99-$199.99.

So I have about 6 listings but with variations its totals about 40 items. I don't have 4 grand to buy all these items to have them sit in my inventory and sell when they do. I make good money but flipping prices $50 gets hard to do with a bunch of stuff even if I know I'll make a profit.

I think you know what I mean.....

The more money I'm making them better stuff I'm able to reinvest in. I'm getting there.

P.S

I just applied for the amazon card to get the 5% back and got denied.

Oh well

[k_lock]

the amazon prime store card (which is 5%) or the amazon visa which is 3%?

One might be easier to get than the other but both give a percentage back.

Also I almost forgot, I request gift receipts for my drop ship items if it's an option. Then no price on the receipt!

[Atom]

Originally Posted by dan_ebay

nice. Theres serious money to be made dropshopping. I just use terraspeak and find other dropshippers, check their best selling products and upload them. We have a nasty sales tax in the UK after you turnover over 82k per year which I hit in less than 2 months on 2 new 1000 item accounts with zero feedback but very easy to sell 1 million per year with a 10% profit if you're not in the EU

Excuse my ignorance. How do u know who are dropshippers?

[brandnewboss]

Originally Posted by Atom

Excuse my ignorance. How do u know who are dropshippers?

Anyone can be a dropshiper, dropshiping is basically selling something that you don't have but someone else does and then shipping it to there place instead of yours..