Amazon To Ebay DropShipping Many Products Prime MemberShip! Question

This model doesn't work well.

You'll be shut down because you're violating the TOS.

Furthermore, you've already admitted that you don't want to tip off Amazon into thinking you're doing anything suspicious.

That should be your first red flag. If your source doesn't want you to do something, and you're doing it, you have a very short-term business.

The real question is it even worth it to do it. Just look at the products he is selling and the prices on Amazon and do the math.

I will take his top selling product Cards Against Humanity. He sells it for $27.19 his costs on that are $25 buying it $2.175 in ebay fees (8% taking account of top seller status), $0.817 in paypal fees at the lowest rate (1.9% + 30 cents).

Total cost $27.99

Now that is obviously more then what he sells it for so I am going to assume he is using cash back cards to make some money back. So additional income of 3% cash back on the amazon purchase $0.75 so up to $27.94. If he uses a 3% cash back card to pay his ebay fees he gets an additional $0.065 back.

Final numbers Total income $28.01 - expenses of $27.99.. Best card scenario 2 cents.

Even items with profit are extremely low for example the Seinfeld DVD he makes 63 cents assuming 3% cash back on his purchases...

So lets say he does 2000 orders a day at 20 cents profit ( 1% ) which is probably an overestimate since his average sale price is pretty low. So profit per day is $400 before accounting for returns charge-backs and actually having to run this account. So maybe he makes half that through automation and outsources to run the operations. $200 per day

Why would you want to do this???? crazy low margins, high risk and you have to scale up to a large scale before you even make a couple hundred bucks per day. Trust me there are a lot easier ways to make $200 a day :/

"closer to the source at a higher margin." I have taught hundreds of people, many of whom only have a small amount of capital, how to go direct to the source.

The source is the manufacturer. You can buy direct from them instead of buying from the light bulk importers and you will enjoy the extra margins that those importers have added.

With that low cost inventory you have complete control of your own business. You will not be dependent on a dropship wholesaler to supply the right product at the right time and in good condition. You will not be working for the dropshipper at very low margins, you will be working for yourself at margins that will amaze you..

AND... you won't be getting your account with Amazon banned.

After you've had 90 days after your first successful sale, over $250 in transactions, and at least 25 successful transactions on Ebay, then I believe Paypal won't hold your money, so it will be instantly available in your paypal balance. Now, for sourcing from Amazon, yes you will have to first draw from your own money to pay for it. I'm not quite sure about the paypal debit card, but it's possible.

As far as the main thread goes, using Amazon as your source for dropshipping isn't against their ToS, and Amazon, as far as I'm concerned, has no problem with it. The only thing you can't do is use your prime membership for shipping, because once you hit a certain volume, they'll be losing more money than they wish too.

Good luck!

Hi tuetatestojoy

I dropship from Amazon to Ebay and it's true they don't accept Paypal as a form of payment. So you do have to pay from a credit or debit card and then transfer the money from paypal to your card.

It wasn't ideal as other sites let you pay via Paypal, however since they introduced the Paypal Access card you can register that with Amazon and use that to pay for items.

You do have to have the funds in your Paypal account though as it is a kind of top up card.
If you have a Paypal account in the Philippines then you should then be able to apply for the access card. Once you get it just add to amazon account and use that to pay for your items.
It's now just as easy to buy from Amazon using this method as it is from other drop-shipping sites.

Hope it helps : )

If you're thinking of running a drop-shipping business selling on eBay, then think again.

eBay are a law unto themselves. I spent five months dropshipping on eBay.com. I live in the UK. I bought and sold in the US because of the bigger market.

Overall I made a loss in that time. eBay and PayPal fees, and the conversion fees of dollars to GB pounds and back again added up to more than my gross profits.

On top of that, about a month and a half after I ceased the business, eBay informed me that my account was "restricted", which meant, apparently, that I can no longer buy or sell on eBay. I can't use a different account or open a new one. And there's no appeal. How's that for the exercise of arbitrary power?

I have 100 per cent positive feedback, and had no dissatisfied customers at all, so how could this have happened? eBay tell me that I had a "high defect rate", but refuse to explain what that means other than referring me to one of their pages.

I did have eight refund requests, owing to a faulty product or (alleged) discrepancy between the image and the product but this was something outside my control and down to the supplier. I refunded all of them as soon as the product had been returned, and had no complaints.

I don't have the time or inclination to get into a protracted argument with eBay, but I'm just glad I didn't come to rely on that business or eBay itself long term for my income.

It seems that if you run a business that involves selling on eBay then you don't really own or control that business - eBay does. You're just an employee of eBay, but without any statutory rights or employee protection.

You have been warned.

Philip Gegan

do you know anyone from Faya8.com? why do they have so little information on
Dropship : FaYa8.com

if you know them, can you ask them to put on some or say can we have some reviews?