This document discusses the challenges of drop shipping on eBay and how to overcome them. The main challenges are lack of control over shipping times, inaccurate inventory tracking that can cause canceled orders, changing product packaging that may confuse customers, potential for damaged products during shipping, and competition from other drop shippers on eBay. The key to success is automating listing, pricing, inventory and image updates to handle a large number of products and stay competitive.

1. EBAY DROP SHIPPING
CHALLENGES
&
HOW TO SOLVE THEM

2. Drop shipping on eBay as a business
can be difficult for many reasons.

3. SHIPPING TIME
1.

4. If you’re not in possession of the product, it’s
difficult to control actual shipping time.
You need to ship fast, which
you can’t always control.

5. INVENTORY
2.

6. Don’t always have accurate
inventory control.
Can cause problems if you sell a
product that goes out of stock.
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7. Have to let the customer wait (risk
negative feedback) or cancel order.
Canceling too many orders can
hurt your eBay seller rating.

8. IMAGES
3.

9. Manufactures are always changing the
packaging of products.
May be identical, but can cause poor feedback
if customer receives package that is different.

10. DAMAGE
4.

11. Damaged boxes may be shipped.
Product may be fine, but customers will
want to return or leave poor feedback.
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12. If customer is looking to return product
you’ll be paying for shipping.
You lose return shipping fee and
original cost to ship the product.
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13. Many (not all) won’t refund
the original shipping fee.
You’ll be required to refund
your customer the original fee.
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14. Work out arrangement with the
company about damaged packaging.

15. COMPETITION
5.

16. Drop ship warehouse companies work
with countless other sellers on eBay.
Drop ship companies typical
charge a monthly membership fee.
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17. Have a good relationship
with the drop ship company.

18. SO...
HOW ARE SO MANY
PEOPLE SUCCESSFULLY
DROP SHIPPING ON EBAY?

19. continued
AUTOMATION!

20. Once you start listing to make money, you’ll
want to automate as much as possible!

21. Keep updates instantly on inventory, pricing,
images of packaging and much more!

22. Can have hundreds (if not thousands) of
products up and selling in no time!

23. Makes it difficult to compete unless you automate
the listing and product updating process.

24. HAPPY ONLINE SELLING!