BAYSHIP

A Beginners Guide to eBay Drop shipping

Written by xArtemis
Edited by Bruce Knight
 Table of Contents
Introduction.............................. 2
Chapter 1 – Niche or Not.................. 6
Chapter 2 – Setting up Shop.............. 11
Chapter 3 – Choosing Your Inventory...... 15
Chapter 4 – Creating Item Page........... 19
Chapter 5 – Book Keeping................. 23
Chapter 6 – Handling a Sale and The Follow
Up....................................... 27
Conclusion............................... 31

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Introduction

Drop-shipping, for those who don’t

know, is a business model of selling items
to others without ever physically having the
item in inventory. How is this possible?
Well, this is the easy part. You simply find
items for sale across platforms other than
your own, and put them up at a markup. The
tricky part comes in getting your shop seen,
and getting people to order from you once
you’ve been seen. Many people out there view
drop-shipping as the next logical step in
their journey of entrepreneurship, but more
often than not these very same people are
stopped in their tracks before they even
really get started due to a lack of needed
funds.
As it happens, the most effective means
of getting orders if you’re running your own
site or going through a service such as
Shopify is also the most expensive. You’ll
see every guide that talks about drop-
shipping preach the same gospel like a
broken record. Facebook advertising, they
claim, is the only hope you’ll ever have for
making money off of drop-shipping. For those
who have never attempted a Facebook ad
campaign, getting all of the demographics
correct to draw in visitors is a process of
trial and error. Often times, you’ll have to
run at least four or five ineffective
campaigns that are a pure loss before you
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start seeing returns. Which can cost upwards
of thousands of dollars, money that most
people can’t afford to lose.
Obviously, Facebook advertising isn’t
the answer for someone just dipping their
toes into the world of drop-shipping. I’d go
a step further and say that Shopify
altogether isn’t the answer. No doubt that
you want to look into it in the future, but
every part of the process from paying for
premium to paying for advertising ruins the
spirit drop-shipping was formed on, the no
investment needed principle.
So I took a step back and examined what
other options are available if you’re just
starting out and you don’t want to or can’t
put money into it. What I came up with was a
simple and rather obvious no investment
needed method of drop shipping items from
Amazon to eBay. I have to admit I was
skeptical if it would work or not myself, so
before I even thought of sharing the method
with others, I resolved to test it.
I looked around at unique items I have
ordered before in the past, and picked five
simple but fascinating and fairly cheap
items, all with free shipping to test the
waters with. I log back on the next day, and
to my surprise I received six orders
overnight generating about 25$ in profit.
This may not seem like a lot, but for my
very first test run with a small inventory

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and no feedback on eBay to back me up, I was
rather happy with the results. After another
week or so of sales and a few inventory
expansions, I decided the method was
effective and that many others can benefit
from it as well
Throughout the course of this guide,
you’re going to be learning everything you
need to know about running a successful eBay
dropshipping store. This information’s been
gathered and presented here both from my own
experiences thus far, and from speaking with
countless others doing the same as me.
One thing I want to get out of the way
is we’re not talking about eBay Arbitraging,
as some call it. This process is not
automatic and no bot will be deciding what
you do or don’t sell. While this means you
have to put in more effort, your shop will
also be of much higher quality than a bot
controlled alternative, and you’ll generate
more in the long run.
We’ll be covering a variety of topics
from setting up an appealing and effective
shop complete with attractive sales pages,
to the importance of book-keeping and
demographic research. There may be parts
along the journey where it seems as though a
topic I’m covering is irrelevant, but every
insight contained in this guide is carefully
placed there to give you the highest chance
of success as possible. So without further

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ado, I think it’s time we stop covering the
nature of the method itself and begin
looking into how it’s done.

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Chapter 1 – Niche or Not

Before you can get into setting up the

shop, you’re going to have to ask yourself a
few questions. I see plenty of people out
there who give no thought to how they’re
going to run something. Instead, they jump
right into it with no direction. As a
result, their venture crumbles around them.
It’s important to remember that every
decision you make along the way should be
well thought out and researched before you
even consider implementing it. By planning
things ahead of time and researching what
kind of obstacles you may encounter along
the journey, you put yourself ahead of 90%
of people trying the same thing you are. As
Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, “a goal
without a plan is just a wish”. Sadly, in
the world of business, wishes don’t mean
riches.
First and foremost, you have to decide
what you want your brand to be. When people
think of you as a seller, what comes to
mind? Are you the cheap slow shipping but
great value store, or are you the higher
price for a better service option? You could
even try to go for the middle ground, but
whatever you decide on is going to play a
big role in the items you pick, how you
present them, and of course your prices.

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 Any of the options are viable and
you’ll undoubtedly find paying customers no
matter your choice, but overall I’d say the
middle ground would be the most profitable
path in the long run. What is infinitely
more important than the brand you choose to
create, is sticking to it after you create
it. Customers appreciate consistency, and if
they see you selling items that don’t fit
your brands criteria, you might just lose
some consumer confidence. As I’ve found in
the world of eBay drop-shipping, reputation
and satisfied customers are the key to
success.
However, your business model isn’t the
only aspect of your brand that you’re going
to have to set and stick to. Another equally
vital but infinitely more neglected aspect
is deciding on the market you’re going to
fulfill. There’s always going to be the
option to expand to more products further
down the line, but to start off you’re going
to want to decide whether you want to fill a
specific niche, a set of niches, or sell to
the general market across a large variety of
options right off the bat.
Each of these selections has its own
benefits as well as its own drawbacks, but
much like your business model, you’ll draw
in customers regardless. For example, what
the niche options might lack in overall
product views, it very well might make up
for in viewer to customer ratio. Raw sales
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aren’t the only thing you’re going to want
to consider for tweaking your strategy down
the line. Numerous factors play a part as
we’ll be covering later on, and only when
you take every aspect into account will you
truly understand which products do well, and
which don’t.
My personal choice was aiming for the
broader market. My thinking was that I could
test the waters easily and respond to
subjects that sell well by adding more
products of that nature, and that’s exactly
what happened. Most of my products were only
selling once every couple days, so I’ve put
less focus on those niches in favor of the
products that sold multiple units a day.
Once I expanded into more products of those
types, I was seeing more sales and was able
to test the water in other products as well.
While choosing to go for broad market
reach worked in my favor, it wasn’t all
sunshine and rainbows. Every one of my
customers was a new first time customer, and
so far I haven’t seen any return buyers.
This, I suspect, is due to the wide variety
of items I sell. While someone might buy
from me to fulfill a niche want once, they
won’t see it as a source of anything in that
niche they may want besides just the one
item. Therefore, they don’t favor me over
the competition when searching for another
item in that niche.

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 So what if you do decide to focus
entirely on fulfilling a single niche? I
can’t speak from personal experience on this
one, but I have spoken to many people who
chose this route and collected their
thoughts on the subject. First off, the
lower amount of competition in the niche you
fulfill, then the higher market share you’ll
possess. An important thing to note is that
a higher market share is not necessarily
equal to higher revenue. You could have 90%
of the market share and still make less than
someone with 5% of market share in a market
with a larger customer base. A benefit
larger market share does offer is stability.
Someone who the majority of the customer
base buys from is going to be much more
difficult to uproot than someone who only 5%
of customers buy from.
There’s really only one downside to the
niche path, and it’s one we’ve already
briefly covered on. In order to protect your
brand, you’ll never really be able to expand
into other markets. I asked how other
sellers manage to continue growing their
business when they’ve reached their market
cap for their niche, and the answer is
elegantly simple. They open more shops and
begin anew while focusing on their new niche
of choice. This begins building a whole new
brand allowing you to sell to a new market
without damaging your reputation in another.
Should you choose this route, you’ll have to

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start building the new shop completely from
the ground up once again, but the effort
will be worth the growth in the long run.
Congratulations, by completing this
step in the process and planning for your
market and brand ahead of time, you’ve
placed yourself far ahead of the
competition. Stay true to your vision and
results will come. This doesn’t mean you
can’t tweak little aspects of your operation
to keep up with the market, just change in
small portions and never force too much
change on your customers at once. And now,
with the general planning process behind us,
it’s time we move on to the next stage of
the process.

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Chapter 2 – Setting up Shop

Now you’ve looked around, done some

research, and decided what you want your
shop to be and the type of items you want to
sell, but what’s next? While it’s true
you’re already ahead of others starting up,
the work has just begun. You’re going to
need to put as much thought and care into
every step of the process as you did into
the planning. If there’s one lesson I’ve
learned in life, it’s that great plans go
wrong quickly without a great execution.
First off, if you have an already
active eBay account with positive feedback
on it, this can help you greatly in the
beginning, but it’s not necessary. In fact,
if there’s any negative feedback at all or
large gaps of time in between the feedback,
then it’s almost always going to be more
beneficial to start over and create a new
account from scratch. Consistency is vital
in all aspects of business. If it looks like
you’re not a consistent shop that will
always be available for them to purchase
from, it can damage some customers trust for
you.
Regardless of if you already have an
account or not, you’re going to need to
choose a name that sounds at least somewhat
like a real business entity. One that
pertains to the industry you’re targeting as

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well. Sadly, no matter how much I try, I
can’t seem to explain how to be creative in
a concise manner, so this step of the
process is going to be up to you. Whatever
you choose, just make sure it rolls off the
tongue easily and that it’s memorable in one
fashion or another.
Something people often overlook when
starting up their eBay account is the
profile picture as well as the cover
picture. If you’re hoping to create
returning customers who come to your shop
for multiple things in the market you
target, then you don’t want them to lose
their confidence when they go onto your page
and see a blank slate. It might not seem
like a big deal, but appearing professional
is one of those vital skills that is going
to separate you from others in the industry
and allow you to overtake them and stay
ahead once you do.
So how do you go about making an
appealing design? Well once again, the
creativity aspect comes into play. There are
a few different things you want to avoid and
some others you want to keep in mind. First
off, never pull a picture straight from the
internet and call it good. It might work out
in the beginning, but long term you want to
create your own brand. Something you can do
however, is take public domain images you
can find all around the web and use those to
edit together an appropriate cover and logo.
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The possibilities you can create are
endless, but so long as you put some thought
into it and keep tweaking it to get better
over time, then you’ll be fine.
Another often overlooked aspect of your
shop page is the description. This is what
every potential returning customer is going
to be looking at to see if your shop fits
their needs. Here more than ever,
professionalism in your words and how you
present the information to the reader is
going to be of the utmost importance. You
want to cover what industry you sell in and
why you’re a much better option to buy from
than the competitors. You’re going to want
to cover your brand, what your goals are as
a company, and what you offer to the
customers. You can highlight other important
aspects of your business as well such as key
reviews from highly trusted buyers, or
really anything else you think is important
for your customers to know.
Social media presence outside of eBay is
a great way to foster trust among your
customers as well. On top of this it further
creates awareness for your brand and allows
you to communicate with customers even when
they’re not actively on eBay looking to buy
something. Creating and linking Facebook and
Twitter accounts to your eBay can be a
powerful way to stay in touch with customers
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thinking about until they saw it in their
feed.
It’s worth mentioning that creating this
presence outside of eBay is going to take
additional work both in the maintaining them
with actual content and posts, and more so
with creating an appealing page for these as
well. Something I didn’t mention earlier is
that if you don’t want to create the design
yourself, you can always hire someone right
here on HF or on a site like Fiverr to
create it for you. In general, though, the
work required is minimal compared to the
financial gain, and you should therefore
consider your time as an investment rather
than choosing to invest money.
The specifics of how you set up your
page is going to be different for everyone.
As is the continuous journey of slightly
modifying aspects of the design to squeeze
out that extra viewer to customer ratio, but
overall the process is going to be the same.
By keeping in mind the importance of
appearing professional while keeping your
shop visually appealing as well, you can
hopefully establish yourself as a legitimate
seller in the scene and prevent anyone from
uprooting you in the future.

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Chapter 3 – Choosing Your Inventory

Now you’ve got a game plan, and a

detailed and beautiful shop set up, but
you’re missing one key aspect, an inventory.
In case you don’t know, your inventory is
going to be everything that you actively
sell. It’s a good idea to keep track of
items you’ve sold in the past before. That
way if they ever become popular in the
market again you already have data to launch
off of. At this point I’m sure you’ve
already got a pretty good idea of what kind
of items you’re wanting to sell in the shop,
but unless you’ve already ordered items of
these nature from Amazon you likely don’t
know any specifics. So from here you’re
going to have to do some research into a
number of different items and compare some
factors between them and ultimately decide
what version of what to pick.
First off, your brand is going to play
a part. Are you the high quality option? If
so you’re obviously going to want high
quality inventory options, but among those
you still want to pick sellers with good
feedback and who offer fast shipping from
key locations in the Eastern US or Western
Europe. If on the other hand you’re the
cheaper mid quality option, you’ll obviously
want to pick the cheapest and highest
quality version of the item you can find

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again keeping the good service and good
shipping location aspects in mind.
But what if you don’t have items
already in mind? Well from here you’re going
to want to search the general market you’re
selling in on Amazon and look at the best-
selling items of that category. You’ll have
to go through the same process as before,
but now you’re going to have to add a new
variable into the mix. A lot of the top
selling items are simply trends that aren’t
likely to last into the future. Furthermore,
the eBay Arbitrageurs using bots target
these items specifically for quick profit
and as such getting your particular page
noticed in the seas of others is going to be
a daunting task.
It’s not necessarily a bad thing to
cash in on these trends when they come, but
truth be told you’ll never be as fast as a
bot. Focusing on adding these to your shop
should only be priority once you’ve got an
extensive inventory and exhausted almost all
other options. Until then, rather than
focusing on trends focus on items that
always have and always will sell well. Watch
the top sellers for a while and see what
remains on the list, no matter how high up
or far down it might fluctuate in that time.
When it comes to picking items to sell on
your shop, longevity and sustainability is
almost always more important than making a
quick buck.
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 Something I’m going to be covering more
extensively later on, but feel that I need
to cover briefly here is book-keeping. Every
item you decide to sell should be put into a
spreadsheet of some sort with a basic name,
some sort of ID system, a link to the actual
product page you’re buying from, and how
much you’re getting it for. This makes
keeping track of everything further down the
line easier but is also going to help when
creating the item page itself.
You’re also going to want to decide on
how much to mark the item up. This is going
to depend entirely on your brand and how
much you think people are going to be
willing to pay, but in general anywhere from
5-10$ will work. In some rare cases you’ll
only be able to get away with a couple
dollar markup, but in general these will be
cheaper items that sell much more
frequently. So long as you pick items with
free shipping on Amazon or take the shipping
into account with your markup, you’re
guaranteed to profit off of every sale no
matter how little it is on an individual
basis. From there it will be a game of
drawing in more customers to get more
revenue rather than trying to squeeze as
much as possible out of your current ones.
A question I’m sure you’re asking is
how many items should you start out with?
Depending on the size of your potential
customer base, you might have to do 20-30
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items initially, or you might just be able
to get away with five to start out like I
did. Whatever you decide, there’s a ratio I
found that I try to stick to. In general,
10% of your products should consist of
trending items or items with potential to
get big in the industry in the coming
months. 20% should be unique items that few
if any other sellers on eBay cover. No
matter how little you profit off these, it
guarantees that most of the customers buying
this product will get it from you and you
alone.
Another 20% should be items that there
is always going to be a customer base for,
but not necessarily a large one. This is
something that you can always be sure that
customers in your industry will need but
once any individual gets it, it’ll be awhile
until they buy a new one. The final 50%
should be the items that are always going to
sell and that customers are always going to
need. These will be obvious with a little
research, and with some proper marketing you
can make sure customers will come back to
you time and time again.

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Chapter 4 – Creating Item Page

Now for the moment of truth. You’ve got

your shop set up, you got a great sellers
page, and you got a list of items in your
inventory ready to be added onto the site
and sold. Well guess what, your work is
still far from complete. While the inventory
step was obviously pertinent to the kinds of
people you draw in with your available
stock, setting up your shop and making a
game plan was much more intangible. Without
items for your customers to buy, those mean
nothing, and in the case of your store page
that’s mostly a luxury to reassure returning
customers.
When it comes to new customers, very few
if any of them are going to be seeing your
sellers page first. Instead most people will
stumble upon your shop by searching for an
item and finding your listing. If they like
the service you provide they’ll go and give
you good feedback, therefore looking at your
profile and hopefully becoming a returning
customer. However, as I’m sure you can
imagine, creating a good impression on the
item pages is by far the most critical
aspect of getting sales.
First off is the product images. These
can be found easily on the Amazon sales page
as well as all across the web. If you have
already ordered the product yourself in the

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past, it’s a nice personal touch to take a
picture of it yourself for the feature.
Regardless, you never want less than four
pictures of the item. You also want a very
clear view that shows exactly what the
product is for the feature. On top of this
you can overlay things such as “Top Seller”
or “Best Deal” onto the featured image to
draw customers into clicking on your listing
more often.
Once you’ve drawn the customers onto
your listing with the images, the
description is going to be the very next
thing they look at to determine if they’re
going to buy or not. In fact, I would say
that when it comes to completing a sale, the
description you provide for each item is
going to play the biggest role on if a
customer buys or passes. Keeping that in
mind, you’ll be surprised to see how many
sellers put little to no effort into their
descriptions at all. A lot of people simply
copy the description off of Amazon onto the
new page and call it good, and while it’s
true you are going to want to copy and paste
the specifications to make the customers
more aware of exactly what it is they’re
purchasing, you also need to customize it to
your shop and to your brand. Contribute to
all these factors, and you’ll be superior to
your competitors.
When it comes to your products
description, creating images special to each
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product that contains the information within
rather than a plain text over-view is a much
superior option and will convert more
viewers to customers overall. Be aware
though it is a double edged sword. On one
hand, if done right the results are
stunning. If done wrong, the results are
detrimental to your shops well-being. There
are options available out there to easily
create a general template and apply it to
every one of your items, but seeing as I’m
trying to stick to the free side of starting
up I’m not going to recommend those as a
viable option.
If you’re unable to create images
that’s high enough quality to produce sales,
then don’t worry too much. A well thought
out and well written plain text description
can be just as effective. You’re going to
have to put a lot more effort into
describing some of the nuances that are
better suited for pictures, but in a lot of
ways text can be even more expressive than
images and if you play your cards right, you
can create a personal bond with everyone
reading while convincing them to purchase
the product at the same time.
There’s one final, fairly simple aspect
of putting up your pages that I’d like to
cover. You not only have to make sure that
the shipping method you select matches what
you’ll be getting from Amazon, but you also
want to make sure to put the quantity up to
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a high amount. I forgot that last part when
I was starting out and had to painstakingly
relist an item every time it sold. I don’t
have any proof to back up the claim, but I
suspect this down time was responsible for
me missing a lot of potential sales starting
up.
Well, if you’ve made it this far then
congratulations. You’re officially at the
point in the process where you’ll start
making money. This is going to start off
slow no matter how well you did, but as
positive feedback flows in and you change
aspects of your sales and seller pages to
increase revenue, you’ll see your business
growing at a rapid rate. I would end the
book here, but there’s still a few very
crucial aspects I feel I need to cover.

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Chapter 5 – Book Keeping

This is the step in the process that

really starts to separate amateurs from the
professionals looking to run it like a true
business. A lot of people don’t feel the
need to keep records of sales. The way they
see it, as long as they’re profiting they’re
doing well. Obviously they’re right, if
you’re making money then you did well.
However, you have no easy way of knowing
just how well you did.
Say sometime down the line, you’re
doing some market research on what new items
you should focus on. One piece of
information that you may want to look at is
how well items sold before in the past and
around what time periods they sold the most.
This is a daunting task if the only archives
you have to look at are the ones kept on
eBay. Instead, you should be keeping record
of every sale yourself.
Book-keeping is a necessity in any kind of
business, but it becomes even more important
when you’re in the retail industry and
deciding on new products. By looking at past
trends and the state of the industry around
that time, you can compare it to the state
of the industry now and get a feel for what
might sell well or what might flop. Now this
isn’t an easy thing to do and there’s no
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continue exercising your skills of deduction
and you can become rather good at predicting
sales.
So what kind of information should you
store on your items, and how should you
organize it? Well, if you remember from
Chapter 3 we’ve already created an Excel
document of inventory, and this is a perfect
launching off point to begin book-keeping.
If you followed along, your Excel document
should have Item ID’s, a general name, and a
link to the page you buy it from as well as
a launch date you put it up on the site and
a purchasing price. From here, add in a
column for the number of sales, expenses for
that item, revenue (gross return), and
profit.
Now, this is all pretty basic
information that you’d probably want to be
logging even if you weren’t going in depth
to bookkeeping. Just these few figures can
offer a lot of insight. For example,
frequency of an item selling might be
something you want to look at. For this you
simply divide the total number of sales by
the number of days it has been on the site.
Items that sell more frequently you usually
want to pay extra special attention to, but
there’ll be cases where the profit for item
doesn’t justify favoritism even if it does
sell quicker.

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 This brings me to one of the most
important things you can do with the
frequency of sale rate, price tweaking.
After a week or so of running the item to be
sold, try increasing the price of the item
slightly, then run the equation for rate of
frequency after another week. How did it
change? Was it a positive change or
negative? Did the extra profit warrant the
dip in sales if it did take a dip?
Eventually, there’ll come a point where
you’re making the maximum amount of money
possible given an items profit per sale and
sale frequency. Only when all of your items
are maximized should you move onto more
items.
Another piece of data that might be of
interest to you is the median time that
customers tend to buy the item. This one
requires logging every sale for an item and
can become tiresome, but it offers you some
nice marketing insight. If you plan to
advertise your items on other sites,
targeting it for about an hour before this
peak sale time usually yields higher sales
than running it any other time. This won’t
always be the case and sometimes the
advertising will shift the median sale time,
but as you sell more and more it will even
itself out to give you an accurate and
optimized advertising time.
Yet another thing you might want to
keep track of is the demographics of your
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customers. Or rather find if your average
customer is male or female. This’ll depend
mostly on what industry you picked early on
in the process, but it’ll still offer you
some insight into how you should move
forward. This part can be a bit counter
intuitive because you might think if you
have a 90% male audience you should focus on
putting out items for them, but this isn’t
always the case. Ask yourself, is there a
big potential female audience for your
industry as well? If so, why aren’t they
buying from you? How can you expand your
inventory into items that’ll draw in more
female customers too? When it comes to
business, you do want to keep your current
customers happy no doubt, but you should
always be looking to expand and reach new
audiences as well.
I could go on and on about other data
points you might want to keep, but really
it’ll be unique to your store and what you
find useful. I’ve listed all of the basic
points that can always be helpful for making
decisions, but there’s other data points
that might just help you make better
deductions. Experiment and question what
else you could be keeping data on, and see
if it helps. It might just seem like more
work, but the extra revenue it will generate
in the long term makes book-keeping a very
important aspect to your business.

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Chapter 6 – Handling a Sale and The Follow Up

Inevitably, you’re going to have to

handle sales and shipping out your product.
Of course this isn’t a bad thing seeing as
it’s the entire purpose of your business,
but still the first time will be a learning
experience. First thing you’re going to want
to do is transfer the money from your Paypal
to your bank account or card. You can
transfer only the amount you need to order
the item and save profits on PayPal or just
keep moving the funds to your bank account,
but keep in mind fees when making that
decision.
Now you’re going to go onto the Amazon
page for the item they ordered, and order it
as a gift using your card. Obviously just
enter in the shipping details exactly as
they entered, and if you want, include a
little message with your company name as a
message inside. Voila, you’ve hid the fact
it was shipped from Amazon as much as you
can. You might think that hiding its origin
is imperative to keeping a good rep with
your customers, but it’s honestly not true.
Most people are on eBay either because they
prefer ordering from there, or they order
via PayPal which Amazon simply doesn’t
accept. If you can offer them the same speed
and free shipping within a reasonable price
as Amazon, but they themselves couldn’t
order it from Amazon, well then you’re just
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a middle man of sorts offering convenience
to the customer who otherwise couldn’t get
it. Seems like a win-win for everyone.
Now there is going to be those few who
aren’t happy and attempt to charge back, and
there’s not really much you can do in those
situations. You could try to dispute it, but
chances are PayPal will side with them and
refund their money at your expense. This is
a bitch when it happens, but it’s not world
ending. Most of the time if someone opens a
dispute, I just refund them straight away.
While I may be losing money on them, I’ll
still be profiting overall and ensuring they
don’t leave negative reputation on your
store is almost worth more than the money
you’re losing.
Something important that you’re going
to have to keep a note of, is that you can’t
use any Amazon Prime benefits when shipping
it to them. It’s tempting to offer free 2-
day shipping to everyone who orders from
you, and it might still be profitable for a
long time to come. Beware, though, this goes
directly against Amazon’s TOS. In the event
someone contacts Amazon directly complaining
about your re-sell business, if you’re using
the Prime benefits then they’re going to be
sure to drop the ban hammer on you. You can
always re-open new prime accounts, but
that’s yet another expense that could be
avoided by simply not using Prime in the
first place.
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 Once the item is shipped you may think
your job is over with, but there’s still a
few more things that you’re going to want to
do. First off, the second I finish ordering
it from Amazon I mark it as shipped on eBay.
This makes sure no one can cancel the order
after I’ve already spent the money on it,
and it’s just another small way to avoid
potential expenses. Next up, as soon as
Amazon ships it it’s time to make contact
with your customer. PM them on eBay with a
somewhat personalized extent of a thank you
note that includes the tracking number from
Amazon. If questioned on why it’s not
shipping from your location, say you use a
fulfillment center to get it to the customer
quicker.
This is usually enough to garner
consumer trust with the buyer, but I still
make sure to take it a bit further. One of
the things eBay recommends you do with every
order, a piece of advice from them that you
should really take, is leaving positive
feedback on the customer for ordering. This
is a small measure, but when the customer
sees it implants an overwhelming need to
reciprocate in their subconscious. This
leads to more positive feedback which leads
to more sales, and from there it’s a never
ending feedback loop. This is the exact kind
of thing that entrepreneurs dream about.
After that, it’s time to take it even a
step further. Once you get the notification
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from Amazon that the item has arrived, it’s
time to reach out to the customer once
again. In your message, inform them that the
item has been shipped, thank them for their
order, and most importantly, point them in
the direction of more items they may be
interested in from you. Once a customer has
bought from you one time and they see you’re
legitimate and friendly, they’re much more
likely to continue ordering. Especially if
you hit them with it right after their
previous order is completed. If they haven’t
already left positive feedback, then this is
also the opportunity to ask them. If you’ve
offered a positive experience for them up to
this point, then it’s only natural they’ll
follow up with positive feedback.
Congratulations, at this point you’ve
fulfilled the order completely and the money
is as good as yours. On top of this, you’ve
hopefully created a reoccurring customer as
well as improved your eBay reputation to
draw in more sales. Furthermore, this order
will become a data point to be used for
future market research. All of these factors
combined will bring you more and more orders
in as time goes on, and eventually you’ll be
getting more sales than you even know what
to do with. Enjoy that money.

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Conclusion

Now is the part where we have reached

the end of our journey. If you find as much
success as I did, then you’ve probably found
yourself in a pretty good position by now.
If, however, you weren’t quite so lucky,
then don’t give up. Go back over the guide,
see what you might have missed or where you
might have messed up, and try to correct
your mistakes. Failures offer much more
insight into how to do things than successes
ever could. Nobody with worthwhile success
completed all their tasks with no failures.
Throughout this journey, we’ve covered
many different topics, but all of them lead
us to the same conclusion. Drop-shipping
might appear like an impossible challenge to
tackle for someone with no resources, but
with some careful planning and execution
even the impossible can be done. Ultimately,
your fate and your business is in your
hands.
Hopefully this guide has armed you with
all of the knowledge you need to give you
the best chance at success. From deciding on
your focus from the start and creating an
appropriate shop from it to selecting items
to sell and creating appealing pages for
them. Everything we’ve covered is important
to keep in mind not just for your drop-
shipping venture, but well into the future

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as well. There’s no doubt that some of the
things we covered seem unimportant to the
overall scheme of things, but truth of the
matter is they’re not just important drop-
shipping skills, they’re vital business
skills as well. Chances are later down the
road when you’re working on another venture,
you’ll still find yourself coming back to
this guide for some of the insights that it
offers you. Keep this guide in mind and I
promise it will suit you well for a long
time to come.
With that said, I believe it’s time
that we end our time together. If you
enjoyed the guide and if the methods
contained within it help you out, make sure
to pass it forward by leaving a review on
the thread. As always if you want to discuss
anything or have any questions, I will be
available for messaging on the forums. May
this guide serve you well.

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