Selling a product on Amazon, would you suggest selling a low priced item or high cost item?

Amazon is a great place to sell goods for, but from the tone of your question, you give the impression you are only considering promoting one item. This will never work. These days, you need to work towards building an authority site that promotes a whole variety of goods in a particular niche. These can then cover prices from cheap to expensive.

Just as an example, you could promote musical instruments (expensive), then also point your visitors to carrying cases, appropriate cleaning materials, strings, plectrums, music stands, etc.

Never just copy sales material from Amazon, you need to compile your own, including any good observations you may find in Amazon's, and often the manufacturer's feedback, plus a reference to one or two minor complaints you may find. Just do it in a way that makes your take on the item appear to be genuinely helpful and informative.

Back all this up with plenty of non-sales articles. This will gradually give you a serious, authority site.

This is just a very basic outline. Search for posts from Warriors such as Sojourn (Erica Stone), Jan Roos, Brian Kindsvater and PotPieGirl, for more detailed advice.

Anne

Your reasoning doesn't make sense to me.

If I am understanding correctly you are saying that he should not sell on amazon because one day he may not be able to do so? I'm sure that cannot be what you really meant, surely?

The chances of amazon revoking your selling rights are extremely small and reserved for, quite frankly, those who deserve to be revoked. I am part of a very large community of amazon sellers and can count on one hand where this has happened. In the few cases it happened they deserved it, frankly.

I have my own online store and I sell on amazon too. I know many others with the same set up. There is not one of us who sells more from our own store than we sell on amazon. For the majority of us we sell considerably more on amazon.

Good luck with your ventures

I wouldn't say drop amazon as a whole just have a website or few in the making brewing.You are right though,I can't stress to people enough how much of a risk they're taking when they decide to live strictly on marketplace sites.Unless there's a chance you can make enough money for you to live on for a lifetime in a year's span on those sites I'd NEVER recommend anybody trying to make big financial decisions off that income(financing cars,houses,rent,starting a family,etc).Those businesses are looking out for their best interest first,the customer second and the seller last.

Why do you not attempt to sell on eBay. Not that there will be a tremendous difference between Amazon, however, you could easily pick a product from Amazon, increase it's price a bit and sell it successfully on eBay.

You have to make a quick research to see if there is high competition and demand for the product before you list it but that is a part of the process.

Another thing you would like to keep in mind is reputation, which applies both to Amazon and eBay. Getting positive reviews is highly important as that will determine your long-term success.

No one has ever been successful in drop shipping by finding one product in one niche and just selling that. Usually, competition arrives fast and you need to constantly be "on the cutting edge of drop shipping". What I mean by that is that you need to constantly learn new techniques, find new niches (not necessarily but often) and improve yourself.

Now, to your most basic question, it is naturally better to sell expensive high margin products, if however, these conditions are met:
- high demand for the product
- low competition.
Unfortunately, this almost never happens, so you start going down the %margin.

There are people who list hundreds of different items where they are not sure if there is demand for, like antiques etc but the competition is low, and when they make 5 sales, they will have very high earnings solely from those 5 sales. You can do that as a side thing but I don't think it can be your main drop shipping income as you can't really measure the demand for those type of items.

My suggestion for you, as I guess that you are a new fellow to the drop shipping business, is that you get highly skilled in finding the right products.

Cheers,
Daniel