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How soon is too soon to begin dropshipping on an account? It is 3 weeks old, I plan to drop ship items that ship from the U.S. to the U.S that are low risk. I have been browsing and watching items and following sellers for a week. I listed two items that are cheap and used.

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Too soon. Try in 90 days.

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First month or so should be browsing and selling low risk items

After the first month gradually increase in sale value and introduce slightly higher risk items

by 2nd-3rd month you should be pretty solid

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Nonsense. A year. After 90 days maybe MAYBE you can move $1500-2000 through it. Nowhere near enough to make money dropshipping.

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Amazon to Ebay dropship? then Once you get 10 feedbacks then it should be fine.

Please note if you use any software like Hustle Got Real, ZIK Analytics etc for uploading listings then Ebay will flag your account and your listings will be way down in search. They started doing this since April 2018. From other dropshippers i spoke to the listings they upload to Ebay manually are totally fine. Check on google for dropshipping june 2018 onwards on updates on how to avoid Ebay throttling your listings in search

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I always list a 7 day auction for 1 item until its paid and shipped. Then so on, for about 12 weeks. Then ill toss in a couple single item 'buy it now'. Trying not exceed 10k sales first year and then slowly increase 5%-10% from previous year.

I wont withdraw more then $20-$25 at a time from paypal, might also buy few random things.

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I'm sorry, but I don't believe having more or less than 10 feedbacks can change anything, I think that you need to start slow and don't list expensive/high-risk items. Of course having multiple accounts is highly recommended ;)

I have no Idea about these softwares thing and ebay not showing your listings on top just because you're using them :shocked:

Anyway I have my own software to create and sync my listings, so maybe that's why I didn't notice any changes!! Or maybe because I'm selling in Europe, and things are not the same in the US!

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So, if I'm getting you right, you don't withdraw more than $20-$25 at a time for 3 months !

What about Cash flow ?? I don't see how this can be possible!

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I was dropshipping on 2 separate purchased accounts. I never had an issue with ebay, my issues were both with PayPal wanting picture ID. 1st account (month old) went down after 4 sales in 4 days for $25 each. 2nd account (3 months old) went down after $900 in sales over a 2 week period.

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Its happening not just in US but in Europe too. I'm from UK. Any use of API software to upload your listings and use of a price checker risks Ebay flagging your account.

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I have no experience in the UK, but I'm sure this has nothing to do with Dropshipping or using API.

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If an account was shut down after a few sales, this means that you're selling high-risk items, and it has nothing to do with DS.