Finding the right product to sell online is the challenge for most people looking to start their own online business and make money from their own home selling on eBay. Reputable Wholesalers are seemingly as elusive to entrepreneurs looking to start selling on eBay as the mysterious “Bigfoot”.
At the last eBay LIVE!! conference I attended, drop shipping from wholesale companies seemed to be the topic of conversation on everyones lips. I cannot count how many times someone approached me or I overheard someone talking about drop shipping on eBay and how to find a wholesaler who you can trust and with the low prices needed to really sell well on the eBay marketplace. It is not an easy road…..and it shouldn’t be.
Building a good business takes time, effort, money and lots of dedication. Thousands of people are making a living selling goods on eBay and a larger and larger majority of these eBay sellers are simply “drop shippers”. Drop shipping, or simply taking an order online from an online customer and then turning around and ordering that product from a wholesaler and having them ship and inventory the item themselves, has become quite popular recently with the rise in online sales. But with the scams out there and with so many “wannabe” wholesalers calling themselves as such, it is hard to find someone reputable who can ship out product to you at a reasonable enough of a price for selling on eBay.
eBay is a very competitive market and it can be hard to find product from anyone cheap enough without some good hard work and effort. See our next blog entry on how to find that wholesaler, tips to remember, things to avoid when looking at wholesale companies and general information regarding drop shipping on eBay.
Author Bio:
Amy Pedersen has worked in the Ergonomics and Office Furniture industry for over 10 years and is owner of Sit On This Ergonomics, an eBay Gold Level Powerseller Store, operating a number of ergonomic websites dedicated to Office Chairs and the practice of good Workplace Ergonomics.
Selling on eBay for the past 7 years and in the industry for more than 10 years, Amy is considered an expert in all things eBay and offers her services to people looking to sell on eBay on an ongoing basis. Accepting jobs, she specializes in eBay Store Website Design and eBay Logo Design for eBay Store Owners as well as classes, lectures, blogs and private tutoring sessions with clients on all aspects of selling and owning an eBay business. Please contact her for more information if interested:
acp@sitonthisergo.com
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Sam // February 15, 2008 at 3:24 am
You don’t need to find the right product, you can let others do the research for you by becoming an ebay affiliate. You lose nothing if products don’t sell(because they’re not yours, after all), but if sales are made, you earn a commission.