Where to do Retail Dropshipping?

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Based to the fact that on Amazon and eBay Retail Drophipping is against their policies, what kind of alternative site you would recommend to choose for do that? I need basically the biggest marketplace after these giants that don't ban RETAIL dropshippers, and, a marketplace that would allow at least using their site for sending goods directly to the customer.
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  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    Start your own eCommerce site

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  • Profile picture of the author llucyhunt
    The easiest way is to create & start your e-shop, e-commerce site. There are good free website builder sites where you could quickly begin everything from the beginning to the end with the 'assistant.' I would recommend you to do quick research & decide what tactic is preferable for you because you need the 'third party' to help the customer to pick&buy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Juherianto
    If you insist want to do dropshipping on the biggest marketplace like Amazon and eBay without against retail dropshipping. My best advice for you is to do dropshipping with Print On Demand. You can dropship like T-shirt, coffee mug, pillow, hoodie, phone case and etc. Dropshipping with Print on Demand (POD) fulfillment is not against Amazon and eBay rule. The company that you can use to do POD were Printful, Printify & Gearbubble. Those platforms can integrate into your Amazon account to fulfill the order. The only downside of doing dropshipping with POD, you need to be able to create the design for every merch. Another big marketplace that allows you to do POD was Etsy.

    But still the best solution for sure for long term strategy, you need to create your own e-commerce store. If you create your own store, you don't have to be afraid of any banned/ suspend account issues anymore like on Amazon and eBay because of doing retail dropshipping. You can dropship safely without any issue if you do it in your own store. I would recommended you to use Shopify as this is the best e-commerce platform, easy to use. I hope this help
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    A large percentage of sellers on Amazon dropship, including Amazon, themselves. I think you do not know what dropshipping is or because you used the term, "retail dropshipping", you are doing something that is (and definitely should be) banned.

    What IS against their policies is buying at retail, marking it up and selling at a higher retail price, shipping from the original retail vendor (i.e. finding something on Walmart.com, pretending you are selling it, marking it up and then shipping from Walmart.com). In other words, they are trying to prevent someone from bilking a consumer that was too stupid to see they are getting ripped off.

    What IS NOT against their policies is buying at wholesale from a manufacturer (or distributor) who then agrees to ship to your customer at a normal retail price. That is what real dropshipping is. Practically every major retailer does it - Home Depot, Target, Walmart and yes, even Amazon, themselves. You really don't think those businesses have warehouses that actually stock everything on their websites, do you? They ship directly from the manufacturer (a.k.a. dropshipping). Amazon knows this because 80% of what they sell on their site is dropshipped and not actually in their warehouses.

    But yeah, it starts with creating your own eCommerce website. Then, you also list those products on Amazon and/or eBay, as well.
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    Get your own ecommerce site and start selling! It's that simple!
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  • Profile picture of the author Naheed
    @ The Prototype,
    As all others have recommended establishing your own e-commerce site, I also prefer the same idea. As working on your own store, there won't be any restrictions as you are facing on Amazon or eBay.
    Allow on your site sending goods directly to the customers as you expect from others' sites.

    Best wishes
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    • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
      Originally Posted by Naheed View Post

      @ The Prototype,
      As all others have recommended establishing your own e-commerce site, I also prefer the same idea. As working on your own store, there won't be any restrictions as you are facing on Amazon or eBay.
      Allow on your site sending goods directly to the customers as you expect from others' sites.

      Best wishes
      Thanks
      I'm not at all against testing the market with eBay and/or Amazon before you build out your own website. After all, they have the traffic and you can quickly see how viable the market may be for your products. You definitely need to have pretty good markups (I'd suggest at least 35%) in order to pay the eBay and Amazon commissions, though.

      Of course, another way of doing that is simply building your own site and running paid ads right off the bat before you waste a bunch of time on SEO.
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  • If you want to do Retail Droshiping then you can do it in market. You can attract a large number of customers to your business.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vishal Sarangal
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