Over the last several days, I’ve been able to publish some tips–free tips, I might add–for product distribution sources. Just to summarize, there was a recent post on closeout liquidation sources. I also made a post on sources for wholesale laptop distribution. Yesterday I had the opportunity to mention an after market auto parts wholesale dropshipper and also a general good dropshipper.
I hope these are of some use for you. Please use the comments to let me know. I mention again that I don’t always have the time to vet each and every source I mention. If I see obvious signs that a source is flaky, I will either ignore it or tell you that it is registering on my own internal bogometer (measurement of all things bogus).
Dropshipping is still being heavily promoted as a way to make a living on eBay. This may be true if you are selling at item or service for which there is no or very little competition. For example, let’s say you have a line of your own t-shirt designs for which a company like Cafe Press handles the production and shipping. Or a line of unique sculptural items for which you are the only provider. These are not very good examples, but I’m still only on my first cup of coffee for the morning. Let me try again . . . let’s say you strike an agreement with a map reproduction company to produce a specific sort of map just for your company and then handle the shipping under your company name. That might also be the sort of product that would do well on eBay (assuming you can survive the exhorbitant eBay fees).
These days, it is very difficult to sell mass market goods, such as consumer electronics, on eBay because of the eBay fees and the intense competition. That is why I tell you to be careful of dropshipping programs that suggest you can make a profit on eBay. The dropshipping programs might, in themselves, be pretty good, but probably not for eBay. At any rate, you would need to do some careful research to be sure that the kind of products you want to dropship can do well on eBay.
I think that services such as dropshipdesign.com, megagoods.com, doba.com and so forth can work for you, but in my opinion, not on ebay. I think your success will come through ecommerce. In the long run, that should allow you far more profit than eBay. Here is a “secret” tip–eBay may be of more use to you as a source of advertising rather than as an auction source. If you are really into the auction business model, check out other auction sites.
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