Ebay Dropshipping Experiment
My work is very simple, I'm selling things on Ebay. No I am not selling my own stuff, I dropship. For those who do not know what it is, I will explain simply:
The customer pays for the desired item -> I order it from a supplier -> supplier sents directly to my client -> PROFIT
I'm doing all of this for quite a long time, and I am doing quite well, I work only with this work and I have lots of free time, so for my entertainment (and extra income), I decided to do a simple experiment:
If I start everything from the beginning, how long it would take and what difficulties would be on my way to that, what I achieved today, but this time, I have accumulated a wealth of experience, which I did not have before.
In short, I started eBay business from 0 (again), that is what I have done until today:
• I bought a VPS hosting (~ $18), so that I can create a new identity. Ebay and Paypal do not like multiple users from the same IP address.
• I have created a new eBay and Paypal users and confirmed everything.
• 1 day chose what to sell, I wanted to start with something new.
• Since I am new and my feedback is (0), people's confident decreases by 80%. Before selling, bought a few needed things for myself or for other people, and completely unnecessary cheap items. Now my score is: (16) 100% positive.
• Listed 4 things at the start, because as a new user I have limits: 10 items or $ 1,000. I remember when I started before, there was no such limit, you could list 100 items per day, of course if I were from the USA and would confirmed my bank account i could have higher limits, but I will leave it as it is. Few weeks latter, when I will have good selling feedback, I will call eBay and ask higher limits.
• For my disaster, eBay now is even more strict, than before. Almost all of my listings were removed, leaving only one, headphones, 7 day auction no limit. Beyond that, I can not sell any items until December 17th 2012.
• I am pleased that auction ended for quite a decent amount - $51, when I pay for it only $30.09. This one item will pay eBay fees and VPS hosting for a whole month, everything else is pure profit.
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