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eBay Drop Shipping Business Essentials

this is the easiest way to start Drop Shipping on eBay I know this because I personally made over $4 million doing this and I'm spilling all the secrets on how you can get started fast and dominate this year to change your life it doesn't matter if you're a total beginner or looking to level up your skills to get to my level this free 5 plus hour course is all of my 8 years of hands-on experience that will guide you to build a real and profitable eBay Drop Shipping business from scratch we're going to start off by creating our free eBay account but before that there's a couple of things I want you to know so I want you to get to the point where your stores are going to look like this now granted I've been doing this for8 years now and I've got only a couple of eBay stores connected here but you can see that they made over uh six figures this year over 7,000 orders almost 300,000 in revenue and I've got a lot of new products that I'm always adding all the time of course we're going to go through everything and I'm not holding anything back I'm going to get you to this level and we're going to do that one by one step by step as I walk you through all of the pages all of the ins and outs everything that you need to know and I've got it all structured right here in the eBay 2025 cheat sheet which I also want to give out to you completely for free but let's not get too much ahead of ourselves yet let's take it step by step and start with step number one so why exactly would you want to drop ship on eBay I'm going to make this relatively quick because I want to get into it but if you don't know eBay now you will know this has always been my go-to for Drop Shipping and the reason behind that is because it's really easy to get started you can literally start with $0 in your pocket and I'm going to show you how that is possible you also get free organic traffic in other words as soon as you upload a listing on eBay eBay Shoppers all around the world will be able to see your listing and if that is something that they are searching for they're going to enter your listing and buy the product so this means that you have to make absolutely no marketing efforts and I will step into marketing later on and I'll show you free ways to Market your products on eBay to get even more traffic and sales but the the point being here is that you're going to get free organic traffic you don't have to worry about marketing you don't have to run paid ads and any of that people open up eBay in order to buy something when opposed to opening Google because on Google they're most likely looking for some type of information so here they're looking to buy and I'm going to show you how to get your listings in front of your target audience next is that eBay gives you 250 free listings from day one so this means that you can list 250 items and you're not going to pay any money for those listings and you can keep refreshing those listings removing the ones that aren't selling testing other listings instead until you start to make sales from those 250 and then from there you're going to use the profit that you're making from those sales to further upgrade your store to get more listings make more sales and enjoy the extra profits so this helps us start with $0 and it makes it really easy to start testing products this is where things are going to get really interesting because with the new and updated methods that I will show you it's going to have all the shortcuts on how you can easily find products to sell today on eBay much easier than what we had in all of the previous years another thing that I love about eBay and this came to me as a little shocker this year is that eBay hands out Free ebay account managers when your store really starts to grow and that happened to me this year and I'm going to go over that as well but to put it simple no matter what type of seller you are whether you're selling from inventory or you're a drop shipper when your store does well eBay is going to give you a free account manager on your side that's going to help you grow your store even even more I'm going to share all the information on how that happened and what happens actually once you get that account manager now next this kind of goes without saying but eBay has millions of daily Shoppers every day so this goes together with free organic traffic that's where that organic traffic comes from and again you don't have to run any marketing tactics to get in front of these daily Shoppers all you have to know is understand eBay's algorithm and how to do good product research in order to get your listings to sell free marketing methods I already mentioned that and of course I'm going to dive much deeper into it in this video you can sell from anywhere around the world so it doesn't matter where you live you can sell on eBay and you don't have to sell in the same country that you live in so for example if you're anywhere in the UK you don't have to sign up on eBay UK you can sign up on ebay.com and sell to the US market domestically so of course I'm going to go over all of that but it's really nice to know that we're not limited to where we can sell on eBay and who our domestic audience is going to be last but not least no technical skills required when Drop Shipping on eBay this means that you don't have to create any websites you don't need to have any coding skills it's really easy to get started and no technical skills are required in order to do so now some of the cons of selling on eBay or some of the things that make it a little bit more challenging is that one eBay gives you a certain amount of selling limits when you're starting off so if it is a new eBay account you're going to get a limit of up to 10 listings to upload and around $250 in listings and in sales even though they're giving you 250 free listings to list you won't have access to list those 250 right from the start but rather you'll have to start with 10 and I'm going to show you the tips and tricks that I been using for years and years in order to get these limits to raise as fast as possible so that we can really start selling for a profit and keep in mind that the reason that they do this is simply to protect their platform and make sure that sellers don't enter on day one list 2,000 listings sell a th of them and just pretty much run away with the money and never ship them out to their buyers now you have a whole bunch of really angry buyers and eBay is going to have to reimburse them and they don't want that so they want to get to know their sellers first and we understand all of that and it's really no problem to overcome all of this of course all of that will be shown in this video the second is that you can't really collect email addresses so this means that when someone purchases something from you you don't really get to keep the buyer in your pocket you can send them messages you can send them all kinds of promotional offers which I will also show you in this video but only eBay is going to be able to keep their email addresses so this means that we cannot send out any email marketing campaigns again it's not a big disadvantage but it's something to note when selling on eBay last but not least verification for new sellers so when you're new and just starting off on eBay one of the biggest drawbacks that you might experience is the fact that you'll have to have your account verified and some people have a problem with this either because they're creating accounts not on their own names and then they have no way to verify it or they simply don't understand what eBay wants from them so again I'm going to go over all of this so that none of these will actually be a drawback for you but it's important to take all of these things into consideration so let's go ahead and get started to learn how to start Drop Shipping on eBay and I'm also giving away winning products in this video I will pretty much be throwing them around randomly but at the bottom of this cheat sheet I've got winning products that you need to know about because sellers are making a lot of money on them right now as we speak and it's going to be pretty simple to enter the competition and snatch some of those sales for ourselves so let's go ahead and get our hands dirty and start with step number one which is registering your eBay seller account and connecting it to manage payments so what exactly does all of this mean so the first thing that you're going to do of course is register your eBay seller account it's as simple as going to abay.com and clicking on register for an account so you'll be greeted with this page right here so you're going to create an account and you're going to choose is it going to be a personal or business account now I'm not going to create an account now because I already have my accounts up and running but here here's everything that you need to know so whether you're going to go personal or business it's completely up to you if you don't have a registered business yet that is fine you can start off with personal and when you actually start making sales you can consider when it's a good time to transfer over to a business account you won't have to create a new account for that you can simply reach out to eBay and let them know that you would like to migrate from a personal to a business account so this is a very simple and straightforward process you're going to enter your name your email address and other information to verify that you are who you say you are so date of birth phone number if you live in the us you'll also have to provide them with your social security number if not then you won't have to worry about that and for the business account you will also have to fill in a registered business address now if eBay reaches out to you and says hey you know we need something else like uh documentation like a bank statement or credit card statement then simply Supply them with what they're asking for although in most cases they won't do it because when you'll connect to their manage payments program the manage payments is what's going to ask that verification info from you and that is the next thing that I want to talk about so the manage payments means okay eBay is going to let you sell on their platform but eBay wants to know how they can pay you the money that they owe you because when a customer buys something the money that they spend on purchasing your products are not going to go directly to your bank account so the money will first go to eBay and then eBay can send it to you in one of two ways one directly to your bank account and that is mainly for anyone who lives in the US if you do not live in that country then most likely you are going to sign up with eBay's manag payments now eBay's going to let you know automatically what your payment program is going to be in the past eBay used to work with PayPal that contract ended and today they work with payeer so you're going to have to connect your account with Pioneer create a new account there the step-by-step process will be shown on eBay while you're registering your account and then they will connect you with your managed payments whether it's through eBay or through payer of course you're going to again sign up with your name your phone number your address any verification they may need which I already mentioned and once everything is set up you're good to go I also dropped links right here on how you can do all of that so how to create an eBay seller account step by step you will find it in the cheat sheet so you have this fully detailed article here that will walk you through step by step on how to create your eBay account the right way and how to do everything step by step and you've also got another link to a video that shows you how to connect payeer to eBay manage payment so if it's the first time you're doing so and you help that you'll have this video right here that will walk you through step by step on how to do that okay so I don't want to spend any more time on that here register your accounts get them verified up and running it's a very simple and straightforward process now if you already have an ebay account it's even better because you already have an account that's been aging on eBay and you already registered it so you don't have to go through the whole registration process all you have to do is try to list a product if you haven't listed one before and here eBay May connect you with that manage payment system but if you have an ebay account and it's already registered you're already one step ahead of everyone else now if you already have or had an account with eBay and for some reason you got suspended then you can't really create another account with the same credential so you cannot use your identity anymore to create an account on eBay and there's a couple of ways to bypass that and I will also talk about it later in this video but one of the quickest tips that I can give you here is you can ask maybe one of your relatives or one of your friends somebody that you know if you can use their eBay account to sell on it if they're not doing so and if they don't have an ebay account then ask them if they can create it or you can create it using their identity of course with getting their permission so that's a way to get another eBay account registered just make sure that you're not using the same computer and the same IP address because of course eBay will be able to know that and I don't really want to talk about black hat strategies but there are ways to go around these things and still have a store up and running so once our accounts are up and running the first thing that we want to do is list our first products so the first product you're going to want to list it manually and the reason that you want to list your first few items manually is simply because it's much easier much smoother to get the ball rolling with a new account when you're listing items that you have laying around your house and again the reason for that being is this is how eBay started off and this is mostly what eBay is looking for in new sellers if you start reselling on day one right away that's still fine that's still a way to go about it but eBay May temporarily restrict your account if they see that you are selling right from day one and this isn't because you're doing anything wrong they simply want to get to know you better as a seller because they understand that you are a seller that's most likely going to scale on their system and they simply want to get to know you better to make sure that you're using good good business practices and of course that is what we are doing but I want to walk you through these steps so that you'll understand what to expect when you do certain things on eBay and it's easy to overcome them but I want you to have a smoother start so you won't have to deal with these things at all so what you're going to do is you're going to look to list products that you have around your house that look completely new because we don't really want to sell used products it doesn't look that good and new products simply work better on eBay for new sellers we're not actually looking to make a sell on these products and if we do then we will have to ship them out to the buyers but I personally never sold the items that I list manually in the beginning because those products don't really have any demand and we haven't really tested the market yet for example let's take this backpack right here okay so it's my daughter's backpack I could just take some photos of it and upload it as a new listing um that I'm selling from my location so because you have that new account and you don't have too many limits you can only list up to 10 products those 10 products are going to be those manual products so I would list around two to three products per day until I fill up the limits of 10 products and here's how you can do that really quickly so once you got your seller account here on eBay and don't worry about all these numbers that you're seeing here we're going to go through all of that and I'm going to show you my store stats and everything that I'm doing here but first and foremost you're going to create a new listing okay so I've got the option right here so I'm going to click on create listing and now eBay is telling me all right tell me what you're selling so I'm going to write kids backpack and give some info whatever you have um I would say pink zebra okay I'm going to click on search I think it's a zebra it's even got some sunglasses all right so select the condition of your item so I'm going to go with new without tags cuz it really doesn't have any if it has you can go with new with tags as long as it's new it's okay if you use a used one but I like going with new okay so here we're going to complete our listing so first photos in video so of course if I would have my photos I would put them right here I don't have any but let me just put a random photo that I have on my computer okay let's say that this is the photo of the product I'm not actually going to list this I don't really need to but this is what I do with new eBay accounts okay then you're going to give the item a title so it's a kids backpack pink Ze zebra with sunglasses for school right something like that okay and then here eBay is going to give us some recommendations for item specifications so color pink is true theme school is true style backpack is true the brand is not zebra so of course I'm not going to fill that and be careful with the brand because eBay doesn't want you to sell brand new products we're going to get to all of that subtitle cost $2 we're never going to choose that option and look you're only going to do manual listings in the beginning and in this video I'm going to show you two ways on how to work one how to do everything manually like I'm doing so right here and two how to do it automatically with the help of automation which if you know me you know that I'm a firm firm believer of that and that has been helping my Drop Shipping business scale especially with that keyword dropshipping the business model that allows us to sell products without holding any inventory without putting any money up front for any products that we're selling so we can easily test the market with millions and millions of products until we start to get some best sellers narrow down on them continuing to do product research for new niches for new products to sell and again I don't want to go too deep into that now because I want to leave each section for its own all of my strategies for 8 years are being spilled in this video so next item specifics here is where you add in more item specifics which we pretty much already did for the brand you can go with unbranded and everything here is optional you don't have to fill in a UPC a character family this is just to get your listing to show to more people but we don't really want that we're not actually looking to sell these listings so what we did up until now is enough we've got the title we've got the images and we've got a few specifications next under Condition it's new without tags we already showed that we don't need to write anything in the condition description and here we we have got the actual description so you do want to write a couple of sentences here but again nothing too fancy so new school backpack for kids with a picture of a zebra with sunglasses I would just add one more thing so maybe let's say uh two zippers and side pockets the backpack has two zippers and side pockets that's it I'm not trying to Market it too much but I do want to show Ebay that I'm not rating anything and I'm just not some kind of robot okay so pricing we're always going to go with the buy it now we're not going for auctions eBay started off known for their auctions that is not what we're doing here especially when we're Drop Shipping we're not doing any auctions only buy it now so this means that there is no starting price and then we'll only see in a few days if we're going to make a sell and then it's only going to sell one time buy it now means that a buyer simply sees the price they purchase the product and the next buyer can do it right after the first one or even simultaneously okay so this bag I don't really want to sell it so I'm not going to go too cheap I'm also not going to go too high because it doesn't make any sense so I would just go with $19.99 and the quantity I'm going to leave it on one and here is the payment policy I'm going to go through the policy section soon I already have set policies on my eBay store so you can see that I've got almost 3,000 listings on this uh payment policy called eBay payments but basically you're going to click on these dots right here and you're going to create a new payment policy because you already have a registered eBay account you're only going to have one option for the payment policy here for the Buy It Now listings which is simply using eBay's managed payments program okay so here under the policy name you're going to write uh eBay managed payments description you can leave it blank and here require immediate payment when buyer uses buy it now so what this means is is one a buyer wants to purchase one of our listings they're not going to have an option to pay later because in this case we could end up shipping out the product because we didn't really notice that they didn't pay and then they forget to pay and then we just shipped out items which the buyers didn't pay for so of course we're always going to have this checked in and we are not going to allow offline payment okay so that is going to be the payment policy very nice and simple we're going to click on Save of course I can't do it because I already have this policy but I just showed you how to do it and that's exactly the policy that I have now next you have allow offers you can have this on I have it on in all my listings and I always make sales with it so in order to accept offers we're just going to have this toggled on but we're not going to do an auto accept because we're going to have a whole bunch of price ranges and we don't really know what we can Auto accept yet now as a rule of thumb and of course I'm going to get to this stuff later but I work no less than 60% profit margin so I always have room for flexibility when it comes to offers I like to see them one by one and accept only the ones that leave me with a good profit because when a buyer sends you an offer it's going to look like this I don't have any open offers at the moment but if I open up my notifications here so you can see here that I had some offers which I didn't get to in time so they expired but a buyer sent me an offer here an offer here an offer here so when that happens what you're going to do is you're going to open that offer and you're going to see what the offer is that they sent to you so for example if you're selling the product for around let's say $60 and your profit there is around let's say $10 and the buyer is like hey you know what I'll offer you you uh 56 and you're like okay yeah I'm still making a pretty good profit here you might even have a promotion on your supplier so you're actually going to purchase it for a lower price or some cash back of course we're going to get to all of that so you're not actually going to lose that much and it's still profit right so I have a lot of orders that come just from offers and I my personal recommendation is to always have this on you'll also have the option to send offers to buyers who are watching your listings so of course I'm going to get to all of that when we do the marketing section of course marketing methods that will get us more orders without paying another dime so allow offers on schedule your listing no real reason to do that I usually don't schedule them I just upload them as soon as I want I registered my account on ebay.com this means that the US audience is going to be my domestic audience now I did open up my listings worldwide so anyone around the world can purchase them but my domestic audience is in the US so I'm also looking for suppliers who are from the US who can ship quickly domestically of course I'm going to go over that when we do the supplier section in the video but my point being here is that in the past I would schedule my listings to upload at the same time when my target audience is waking up but I was never sure if they open eBay as soon as they wake up or in the afternoon or more towards the evening so at some point I just let it go you can do your own research and strategy here but I just have this off so that means that as soon as I list a product it's going to go live and everybody can see it and on private listing I always like to have this on it just makes it harder for your competitors to see what listings you're selling so they can snatch those products from you don't worry about this I used to stress so much about other drop shippers who are copying my listings and simply selling it for a lower price in the beginning I used to really stress out about it and I used to send the messages hey you know go do your own research find your own products but in time I learned that it really doesn't matter and in most cases even if they try to take my products and they try to sell them for a lower price I'm still the one who's making the most sales on this product so at some point I was just like okay let it go let them have the the the crumb from my sales I'm still doing more research I'm still adding more listings I'm still staying one step ahead of the game just like I'm going to show you guys how to do okay so private listing is on and here is the shipping policy so this is where you're going to create the shipping policy but I'm going to go over the policy soon when we start to actually list products from the suppliers that we're working with so it depends on your supplier's location whether it's in the US whether it's in China I'm going to go through all of the policies later but from here your shipping policy is going to be from where you would ship that backpack that you're listing from your location okay so whatever item you're listing you're going to have to have a shipping policy that's relevant to where you're shipping from okay so here again you're going to create a shipping policy okay you're going to give it a name like ships from my address okay that's just the name of the policy no one's going to see it but you okay then under the shipping you can go with the right choice here it's standard shipping small to medium items and here is the domestic shipping so are they going to pay a different price or are they all going to pay the same thing and we're going to leave our on flat same cost to all buyers because we're always going to offer free shipping to our buyers they're never going to pay for shipping even if you're going to work with a supplier that charges you for shipping I'm going to show you how you can add that to your Source price so that you can always offer free shipping to your buyers while still maintaining your desired profit margin so we're going to leave that on flat same cost to all buyers under cost type we're going to add a primary service and here you're going to use a service that doesn't have a specific name okay so for example not FedEx or USPS because you don't really know who you're going to ship from unless your apps absolutely sure with those random products that you have laying around so here you would choose whatever is right for you as long as it doesn't have a specific name okay so we're not going to go for expedit services we don't really want to be pressured to ship out these products not one day Services now if you're outside the US you're going to choose something under economy services from outside the country cuz it's going to take you a while to ship to the US if you don't live there okay so in that case you would choose economy shipping from outside the US 11 to 23 business days on top of the five handling days that you already put there now if you're from the US then you would choose something here under standard Services if you're doing uh us to us or UK to UK uh so same region eBay Canada to Canada so if it's the same region then you can choose something under standard Services again I wouldn't go with a specific name but you would go with something like standard shipping one to five business days really shouldn't be a problem if you add the five handling days on top of that you have 10 business days to deliver this product and that is more than enough okay so you would just choose one of those Services I'm going to go with a standard shipping from outside the US okay and under add a primary service you can go with offer free shipping so just toggle that on and that is how you're going to offer free shipping to your buyers now again this most likely is not going to be the shipping policy that you're going to use as a default once you start to actually work with Drop Shipping suppliers but we're going to get to that soon and we're going to create these policies the right way but this is the way that you want to do it when listing products from home so we'll be able to increase our eBay selling limits once we fill up those 10 items and I'm going to go over that in just about a minute and rate table we're going to leave it on none international shipping there's no reason to have it on here I will go over international shipping in this video and local pickup of course leave that off handling time is how fast you can supply a tracking number once you get an order and here I would leave it on five business days just to give you some time to run to the post office in case you make that sale you most likely won't for the products that you have listed around your house if by any chance somebody bought something you're going to have 5 days to give them tracking information you can even go for more than that and here you have your excluded locations so where do you not ship to and so here I would recommend ticking in all the countries because you really don't want to make any sales on these first uh manual products that you have uh laying around so domestic we're going to take all the boxes no international shipping either so we're going to turn off everything which means toggle it on and click on done and that's it so now the listing is only going to be able to ship to or buyers only in my domestic Market which in this case is ebay.com so it's the US market it only they're going to have the checkout option for this product and I'm going to go ahead and click on Save and that is pretty much done for the shipping policy now next you've got the package weight and the package Dimensions it's optional you don't really need to fill it in under preferences you've got the item location this is an important thing to fill in and here eBay is asking you where is the item being shipped from so we told eBay how we can ship to our audience but they also need to know where we are shipping from so under item location we're always going to say what we're actually shipping from so if for example we're shipping from China we're not going to say that we're shipping from the US the item location is going to be in China okay so here for example you're going to put the ZIP code from where you live because this is where you're going to be shipping from your city and your state so go ahead and fill that in right here as well this is just for demo purposes I'm not really shipping from this location and of course the country or region where you reside last but not least you have also got your return policy so this you can find it right here you're going to again click on the three dots and create a return policy now for these products that you're adding from your house you're not going to actually give them free returns so you're going to really quickly make a return policy and this is not the same return policy that we're going to use when working with our Drop Shipping suppliers which I will go over soon so here I'm just going to call it no returns that's going to be the policy's name under domestic returns we're going to leave it off International returns off and we're going to click on save so really easy really simple no returns for this product here you've got promote your list thing we're not going to promote it because we're not really trying to make any sales here we're just trying to fill up our 10 item limits so that we can ask eBay to increase our item limits so that we can really start to make great sales and profit when we have more listings when eBay sees that they can trust us as a seller and they're going to open up our limit so that we can really start to sell so we're not going to do any promotions and that's it listed for free as I said 250 listings you're not going to pay anything only if and after you make a sale and I'm going to go through all of EBAs fee soon so you'll know exactly how to price your products and how much profit you're going to make and still how to stay competitive in the market so that you'll actually rake in sales and profit and that's it you're going to click here on listed and this is how you're going to list products that you have laying around your house do it for 10 items so I would say list around three to four items per day you're going to use up all 10 of your item limits and then you're going to move to the next section which is right here eBay selling limits so now that we have our accounts set up and we started listing our items manually we're going to get to that limit where we listed 10 items and we can't really list anymore so this is the perfect time to upgrade our selling limits and at the end of the day we want to get as much selling limits as possible the more limits we have the more items we can list and eBay is a numbers game so this simply means that the more items we list the more we're going to sell and the better our product research the more times we're going to sell those products so before we get to the eBay selling limits just keep one thing in mind when it comes to listing items manually and I wrote this all down in the cheat sheet especially the copyrighted and trademark so even if these items are in your house and you're listing them stay away from branded products we don't want eBay scanning robots to see that you're listing uh copyrighted or trademarked items think that maybe you're reselling them and then they're going to open up a red flag and for your first several listings for the first listings that you're uploading make sure that they're not Electronics as well simply because Electronics in terms of eBay have a higher return rate and I mean don't get me wrong I'm selling a lot of electronics as well but in the beginning eBay doesn't really want to see you selling in the electronics uh category this is something that I learned the hard way so stay away from Electronics because eBay doesn't want you to list items that are most likely going to get returns later on when your account opens up and you've got the selling limits they will even open up more categories that you can sell in but in the beginning you are limited so stay away from that and pay attention to the item location which I already stressed out when I was listing my first item so just make sure that you are clear about your item location and don't say that you're shipping from one location and then ship it out from another country okay so eBay selling limits so I added a screenshot here on the cheat sheet and the prerequisites for upgrading your selling limits now this part is really important because as I mentioned the more we list the more we'll be able to sell and eBay is not going to open up thousands and thousands of listings on the first time but I'm going to give you the tips and tricks in order to get them to upgrade your listings to as much as possible and then you'll will only be able to pretty much upgrade your listings once per calendar month so in the beginning we're moving slow that's why I want you to create your account already I want you to start listing your items so that you can get the ball rolling on your account so let me show you what my seller account looks like so I'm just going to hover over my eBay and then I'm going to click on selling to get to my seller dashboard and here I'm going to scroll down to the monthly limits okay so we can see that right here so here we can see that eBay is allowing me to list $4,000 items on this account and up to $130,000 so these limits are talking about two things one is how many items you're listing and two is how many times you're selling those listings each one of those is going to take up a limit on the quantity of items and you can see that right here it says listed and sold so this means that I currently have 2,68 items listed and sold and this refreshes once per month so in other afterward in the beginning when you only get 10 listings to sell then it also counts as listed and sold items and same thing for that $500 limit that you'll get in the beginning so if you list one item and you sell it for $10 then your selling limits are going to go down to nine items because you listed one and $490 because you already listed $10 now if someone purchases that listing then from 9 you're going to go down to 8 and from 490 you're going to go down down to 480 because someone purchased it it's going to take up another limit and another dollar amount so every time you list and every time you sell it's going to take up room under listed and sold in both the quantity and the dollar amount and or whatever currency you're you're using okay so that is basically how the limits work now every once per calendar month these limits refresh so what this means is every time we list an item on eBay on that same day on the same time in 30 31 days from that day once 1 month passes that listing is going to automatically Refresh on eBay this is an option you have when you're listing your product and it's on by default it's called good till canel listings so this simply means that the listing will keep refreshing once per month as long as you don't deactivate that listing so what that means in other words is let's say I listed a product on January 1st so by February 1st it's going to refresh it's going to take up the limit again let's take another example let's say it's January 5th okay so I listed the product on January 5th and whether it's sold or doesn't sell doesn't matter if we're using automation when it sells the quantity is going to go back up again so from one it's going to go down to zero and then it's going to go automatically back up to one again if you're working manually and you s a listing the quantity goes from 1 to zero you're going to have to manually move it from zero back to one again so what this means is if I have let's say 1,000 items listed and I have't sold any then I'm going to have here 1,000 listed and sold if one of those listings sold then I'm going to have a,1 listed and sold and then if I sell another one it's going to be 1,02 listed and sold and then if I list 10 more items then it's going to be 1,2 listed and sold every start of each new month the sold refreshes so whatever you sold in the last month it's not going to take up your listed items limits anymore but whatever items you listed are still going to stay there so if you had a th000 items a month passes and you sold 50 items in that month and you didn't list any new items then you're going to have 1,50 listed and sold and when that month passes a new one starts you're going to go back to a th000 listed and sold because those 50 that you sold get refreshed every new month and that is different from the amount of listings that you get with your store subscription I'm going to go over that soon but I really want you to understand the difference between your selling limits that eBay allows you to list to the store subscription limits which allows you to list an x amount of items that are different from what you're actually allowed to list so the store subscription is how much you paid for or how much you're getting and the selling limits is how much eBay allows you to list so it's two different things and the way that they refresh every month Works differently so as long as you understand this I'm going to get to the store subscriptions soon and I'm going to explain to you how the used listings and left listings works every every calendar month but right now it's just important to understand how selling limits work so you can see that I'm really scratching the limit here so that means that it's about time for me to upgrade my limits here I don't need to upgrade the quantity listed and sold yet but the dollar amount definitely it's time to upgrade it so once again your new account is going to have 10 items $500 and you're going to want to start increasing the selling limit so how do you do this first of all the first prerequisite is to fill up your current limits so you can see right here that I filled up my amount limits so I can actually request to get my limits increased here you also want to have no open returns and cases so if there are any customers that are currently waiting for a dispute or for a return which at this moment I don't have any if I hover here over orders I'll click on returns requests and disputes okay so I just open them in a new tab I don't have any returns so you see I have nothing open here and no disputes open I always keep my seller account healthy we're going to go over the health of the seller account which is super super super important in the long run especially if you want to get that private account manager that's going to help you take care of your store and of course if you want to scale and stay here for the long term just like I have been doing so you want to make sure that you have no open returns in cases when you are requesting from eBay to upgrade your limits which will show you how to do soon your seller account needs to be in good standing so good standing means that here if I go in my seller dashboard uh performance I'm going to click on seller level then you can see here that my seller level was above standard now I'm top rated so in the past month I was above standard and I was able to upgrade myself to top rated with the help of that account manager which I will also talk to you about it soon but basically you want everything here to be healthy your account needs to be above standard or top rated and you want to make sure that everything here looks good you don't have a lot of transaction defect rates late shipment rates I'm going to go over all these things soon but you can see here that I am in the high zone for all of them so you can see my status is always always in the green zone and even if it's here in the middle it's fine okay you can still be above standard which is where I have been for years and years up until this month and still make crazy sales in profit and still be able to upgrade your limits but below standard here you're going to have a problem so you want your transaction defect rate to not be more than 2% okay and same for late shipment rate you have all of your metrics here so you can understand where you need to be at so you won't go to below standard because from there you won't be able to upgrade your selling limits okay so more on that soon you want to have a verified manage payments account if you made it this far in your listing product and that means that you already have one and now in order to increase your limits what you need to do is a few things one if you're making consistent sales and eBay sees that you're about to reach your limits they are going to automatically increase your limits and they're going to send you an email saying so let me show you what that type of email looks like so your email is going to look like this why wait list more now highly run congratulations you've been doing a great job selling on eBay and we've noticed how would you like to list even more now you can here's how much you can now list every month so here it was just just a dollar amount so items stayed at 1,350 but they saw that I was reaching my $35,000 A5 limit so they upgraded that to 675,000 so that's what it looks like when you get automatic selling increases okay I have a couple more here so here they upgraded that to 98,000 as I continued making sales the item stayed at 1350 because I wasn't listing that much and here was an older one where they moved me from 370 to 710 and the dollar amount also raised so I got that email a few times and my listings were automatically getting increased now I also left a link right here in the resources to a Blog article that you can read and this will give you a full guide on how you can upgrade your selling limits and this is going to walk you through step by step pretty much mentioning the things that I just said for example all of the prerequisits it goes a little bit more into detail and how to increase so we talked about the automatic method where you get that email and this is what it looks like this is just a little bit blurry so I showed you the actual one and that is automatically as long as you're making sales you don't really need to do anything else the second is the button that says request to list more okay so it's going to look like this here there's a button that says request to list more okay so I'm going to click on that okay and now they're going to give me the option okay you can request some higher uh selling limits click here to verify through customer support and click continue now I'm not going to do that in this case because I do have a personal account manager that can take care of this for me but as long as you don't have one you're going to use this method and that is another way to get your account limit increased of course they're going to check to make sure that you don't have any cases open and things like that and also make make sure that you don't have listings that are out of stock I didn't mention that but it's also one that's important to know because if you have listings that are out of stock they're going to let you know hey okay you want us to upgrade your limits but you're wasting like 10 items over here that are out of stock so get them back in stock and then come back to us again and the next option is to contact eBay on phone sometimes it may be hard to find eBay's phone number because they keep changing the way to find it but in any case you're going to click on help and contact which is right up here okay and then you're going to click on selling okay so you're saying okay I'm selling then you just need to keep navigating your way until you find the selling limits option okay which is right here and once you click on that you scroll to the bottom of the page until you see the contact options and you should be greeted with a phone number now if you don't see it there you're going to have to choose another reason why you want to call them at the end it doesn't matter because whoever answers the phone can help you with your selling limits and if they can't you can ask them to forward you to someone who can or simply hang up call try again this requires a little bit of trial and error until you actually get to the right person but once you do that you can let them know hey he I'm I just got started selling on eBay I have so many more things to sell and as you can see I'm selling my products well or I haven't made any sales yet but I have so many more products that I would like to sell so please allow me to have more selling limits whatever you can give the maximum amount will be great even if you can give me a th000 or 5,000 that's going to be even better and then they're going to reach and see what is really the maximum that they can give you and that's going to be that now I prefer phone calls because eBay usually doesn't keep a h history of the times that you called them and if you take the option of clicking on request to list more and they reject you for whatever reason so they say okay you still need to get more sales or uh you have some open cases you won't be able to make another request until one month passes but when you're doing it through the phone call they don't really keep the history so you can call them right after a phone call where for some reason you got rejected try again one won't know about the other so that would be my recommended method but if you don't want to talk to them on phone and you're not getting the automatic increase you're going to go with the request to list more option now back to the eBay Drop Shipping cheat sheet it's about time for me to tell you what you need to do in order to get access to it but first let me share with you one winning product look at all of the sections that we still have to go over we still have so much more especially when it comes to product research to putting our business on automation to fulfilling our orders and all of the exciting things that we still have coming up but first let me share with you one winning product let's do that right now so eBay winning product number one I've got several winning products right here you're all going to have access to it because everything I'm going over in this video is also in the cheat sheet but of course stay in the video because I always throw in so much more so you want to watch the video watch it until the end then get your cheat sheet and start taking it step by step as I walked you through in this video and what you need to do in order to gain access to this cheat sheet is comment right below this video # eBay 2025 let me know what you learned in this video what is your top takeaway and I will share this cheat sheet with you completely free all for you to have so that you can really start and succeed with your business all right so eBay winning product number one is an inflatable shampoo Basin let's check it out so I left the links to everything including who's selling this product and also the supplier so where he's sourcing it from or where he could Source it from where you could Source it from for a much much cheaper price so this is the listing right here and the seller's name is Ronan SCH slush and this is the product that he's selling and I can just tell by the title here that he's not really optimizing his titles we're going to get to optimization soon we're going to make the best product pages we're going to make it better than our competitors but here you can see that the sentence is kind of being cut off here hair at there's like a comma here and you can just tell he doesn't really do any optimization he just uploads the product from his supplier as is okay so obviously he is a drop shipper and you can see right here that six people are watching this prod so every time he makes a little move like changing the price anyone who's watching this product is going to get a notification on that and this item sold nine times now here's a trick that I'm going to teach you so if you want to see and I do want you to see when the sellers are selling these products we're going to do this when we get to product research okay but I'm going to show you how you can see the history when they bought these products because if they bought it 2 years ago and for 2 years he hasn't been selling this product then I don't want you to try to sell that product either because you're going to have a very low chance of selling it we're going to get to this when when we talk about product research and I'm going to show you that little hack where you can see exactly when the products last sold whether it's today yesterday half a year ago whatever so that you can make the right decision okay if this product is selling well now and it's sold uh today or a few days ago or last week then there's a good chance that this product is in demand right now so I should probably list that as well that is one of my product research strategies that got me so so far so we're going to go over that but I just want to show you really quick how sellers are making a profit so he sold this product nine times and if I go back to the cheat sheet and click on the supplier link then you can see where you can Source this product so in this case it's from the autods marketplace so if you're using autods this is the ultimate automation tool that does so much I'm going to get to that soon but you can Source it right here for $122 with another $2 shipping so that comes out to around $14 and you can see that he's selling it for two times that price so if you've got your eBay stores connected here on autods and you got the link to the product you can just click here on import draft and you can start selling it on your store I'm going to go through the whole importing and optimization soon but I just want you to have a little example of how people are making profit on eBay drop shippers just like you and me and I'm just sharing these products with you and showing you that you can make a lot of profit when Drop Shipping we're not working at 20% profit margins or 30% minimum 60% minimum two times a source price you can even go one and a half but I'm usually around two times a source price why because it's possible because we're sourcing really cheap and when someone buys something on eBay they don't check out the whole Market they won't go to AliExpress and Amazon and Walmart and everywhere else if they see the product here and they like it they're going to buy it that's what most people do and that is the way that it works but I want you to see the selling history to see that this product is in demand okay so I'm going to share with you exactly how I did this because eBay doesn't really give you this option but if you see right here so I'm recording this video in the last couple days of uh December right before 2025 and you can see that he sold it a few times this month so he sold it for uh 2807 on December 23rd so that was just a few days ago December 15 December 12th so three times this month and last month he also sold it a lot November 23rd November 18th he sold it twice November 17th 16th and 13th and back then the price was $24.47 and in time he started to raise the price why because because he noticed that he can just make more profit and I'm also going to show you a method on how you can do that and how you can automate your pricing strategy so when an item sells the price will slowly increase until it gets to a sweet spot when it stops selling it's going to decrease down to a certain limit so that you know you don't really end up losing any money and so that way it's really going to find that spot where the product is making consistent sales at the highest profit margin to you this is one of the happiest moments that I've had in the last 8 years of me doing eBay Drop Shipping and that all Happened One Fine Day when I simply woke up opened up my email and this is what was waiting for me there so I got this email and I got it twice once on August 8th and the other one followed up on August 16th about a week later so it went like this you are eligible for eBay manage seller program what I opened up that email want to First make sure that it's actually from eBay which I can see here that it is okay so we are excited to share some great news news with you based on your recent activity and performance you are now eligible for eBay manage seller program account manager what is the eBay managed seller program it's absolutely free of charge it is performed on behalf of eBay and its main goal is to help you grow your business on eBay and provide you with updated and useful information that you can increase your sales and improve your seller performance and all of that happens once I got hooked up with my uh account manager which I'll show you in a second so only selected sellers are to join this program enjoy all the benefits of this program so the personal account manager is your point of contact for special offers and promotions tips on how to expand your business into new markets advice inventory Integrations improving your listings and more plus exclusive promotions better customer support So how do you actually join all of this you don't really need to do anything over the next few weeks one of our team members will call you to join the program and also help us to get to know you better so you just simply need to answer the phone when they ring and that's pretty much it now here's here's the thing I actually got the phone call two weeks before getting this email and I thought that I was just being scanmed by someone so it was this guy and he's like hey my name is uh yada yada yada and I'm going to be your eBay account manager and I was like how did you get my number that's the first thing that I said to him I was like how did you get my number cuz it really felt like a scammer and because some people know me from the Drop Shipping scene I just figured out someone got my phone number and is now trying to prank me and he's like no no no I'm I'm just letting you know that it's going to happen just wait a couple weeks you'll get an email from uh an official uh email from eBay and they're going to assign you or appoint you to me but I just wanted to make a formal introduction and once you get that email just contact me and you know we'll get started and I was like okay do you know my eBay store name and he's like yeah it's this and that so once he told me what my eBay store name is and my real name and he has my number I was like okay maybe there's a chances isn't a prank because people don't usually have this information it's not out there for the public so yeah a couple we later I got that email and I was happy I still didn't know if I was really going to be assigned to him and then one week later I got the next email so that's this one again you're eligible for eBay manag seller program I opened that email and this time it's a little bit different but I can see it's from eBay it's got the verified uh badge here saying that the person is actually emailing me from ebay.com so I know that it's not a scam and so again we're excited to share some great news with you based on your recent activity performance you're now eligible for the uh managed account program manager so again what is the managed seller program I'm not going to go over it again it's kind of summarizing what we already know and then here they kind of just bulleted list of things that we already talked about so you're going to get a personal account manager you're going to get exclusive promotions you're going to get better customer support the only difference is that in this email I got the contacts details and it was the same guy who contacted me because I saved him uh on my phone contact so I got his name right here his phone number and his email address and that's pretty much it so again they're saying over the next few weeks one of our team members will call you but he already called me so once I got this email I sent him a message on WhatsApp I'm like hey I just got the email from eBay you can officially start to work with me and that is when we actually started to work together so the first thing that I want to say about all of this is I did not expect to get this email from eBay at any time I'm a drop shipper which again they don't mind but they don't like when you drop ship from retailer so I'm doing a bit of eBay Arbitrage but because I did the most important thing keeping my seller account super healthy making sure that all my customers are happy and I did this year after year after year eBay just suddenly realized I guess okay this guy knows what he's doing we're going to give him that personal account manager and that is how I was finally finally able and this is the first month that I'm finally getting it that my past seller level as you can see right here I'm recording this video on on the last week of December so it's about to be 2025 but as of November 2024 my past seller level was above standard and it was this way for years and years and years on end I was always above standard I was never able to make it to top rated but now after getting the personal account manager he was able to help me to finally get my account unflagged which I didn't really have a problem being flagged in the first place because I was able to overcome it I just added more listings I learned how to refine my product research and find better products same info that I'm passing on to you in this video and that is what helped me increase my sales I just added more listings more bestsellers learn from your past experience and continue to learn and grow but one of the things that my account manager helped me do is to get that account unflagged which means that you can now be eligible for that top rated status and I got it as soon as that happened and I took a few screenshots from our chat history I have everything here on my phone but here is a screenshot here's a chat that I wanted to show you so he's like okay um we were like in the middle of a conversation he's like all right so here's a couple more things uh one your account has selected in the bestsell program can you please enroll in it so I'm going to show you that in a second what that means but this is a cool thing that eBay now allows me to enter all of these special promotions so they show my listings even more and obviously you're going to make more sales this way and that's exactly what happened here uh but more than that he said selling limits on the account has been exhausted would you like it to be increased and at this point he didn't know that my account was flagged and I was like yes finally someone can unflag my account so that I can increase my limits and so I said yes please and so he got into that and he just kept me updated along the process so we were just kind of talking here and he's like hey just a quick update I'm fighting on removing Arbitrage tag from your account it's taking time but the day it will get removed I believe your sales will uptick so when he tried to upgrade my limits he talked to the team that he speaks with and they told him yeah this guy's a account is uh flagged for uh for Arbitrage now again guys the account is still making crazy sales with the Arbitrage because I was able to get a high set of limits before the account was flagged so your account may or may not get flagged that is why I'm giving you the best strategies to get an account with as many limits as possible before that happens so that at least if it happens you will still able to make consistent sales month after month plus you can open up more eBay stores but again let's get back to the issue at hand so he got back to me and he's like I see that your account is doing our eBay Arbitrage I mean your account is flagged that way is it true and I told him I don't know what Arbitrage means but I'm Drop Shipping using private suppliers and so he's like okay he took that information he went back to them and he just battled it out with them like I didn't really have to do anything besides explain to him and from here he pretty much took it on himself and so while he was kind of fighting this uh Arbitrage my account being flagged and all of that he was sending me links to export. dashboard. ebay.com and this is where I have this sales and marketing events which I'm able to enter so once I entered the first event maybe that's one of the things that also helped the account get on flag because they see that I am cooperating I am joining the events that eBay wants the top rated sellers to join and so after running the first promotion and after just waiting it out pretty much Patiently I just woke up to another fine morning to find out that my account is fine top rated this does not happen on flagged accounts so this is how I know that my account is not flagged anymore and when you do provide good customer service it's also going to show in the feedback that you're getting from your buyers so you can see that right now I'm at 3,067 of feedback on this store and you can see that I'm getting feedbacks every day but if I click on this I can go deeper inside my feedbacks and actually read them so you can see that this is my uh seller account so you can see right here so I got my 367 feedbacks I got the star the color changes every hundred few feedbacks that you get so positive feedback in the last 12 months 99.6% so you can see that I keep it very very high to be honest I've never dropped below 99% uh and the more feedback you get the harder it is for the number to drop okay so you can see that I've been a member here since 2009 even though I wasn't selling back then I was selling since 2016 I believe but this this account has been active since then top rated seller which is absolutely new and again I'm so happy to get it so top rated seller one of eBay's most reputable sellers consistently delivers outstanding customer service the biggest thing that I've been talking about and I know that I said it enough times already so I'm not going to say it anymore we can see right here that pretty much every day I'm getting a uh positive feedback there are even months where it's much much higher than this but the important thing is not to get too many negatives I don't mind the neutrals you want to avoid the negatives as much as possible and even if someone leaves a negative I always contact them right away and try to understand okay what happened let's work this out and um you know we usually get to the bottom of it so it's really important to have this open communication okay so you can just kind of read the reviews right here uh works perfect fast shipping Great Value from a A++ seller quick shipping and great service at a fantastic price so even though we're marking up our prices even though some of these products are coming from Amazon and others from AliExpress and others from private suppliers they're still getting what they wanted and this is what's important to them the shower made it easy to match it to whatever he was matching it to which was very helpful received items super quick in good order seller very professional great transaction really love this item fantastic Buy on top that it's the fastest shipping ever excellent seller a look how many pluses I got and how many stars I got and this is why I always talk about fast shipping this is why I do not work with suppliers like AliExpress and while while I do mention them and we can use them for product research these products some of them the product research comes from AliExpress but at the end I will Source it through a private supplier but in most of my cases I am working directly from into to the US because I love keeping the fast shipping okay so you can just go on and on and read all of these amazing feedbacks look at this one right here so let's focus on this excellent seller although fulfilled through Amazon quick shipping still got me that green positive feedback so like I said they do not mind if you purchase from other marketplaces and sell them on eBay and that's why eBay allows you to do it too because they see that their buyers do not mind and this is why I've been doing it for years and years on end and this is what I mean about taking care of your buyers so let's read these feedbacks refunded quickly gave me a green positive feedback so I don't remember exactly what happened here but I guess there was a return or that he wanted to cancel his order of course I responded in a timely manner gave him the refund no questions asked if it was an order cancellation I didn't really send the product out anyway so it doesn't matter if I did send out the product and the buyer wants to cancel then what I usually do is I let them know hey once you get it I'll send you a return label and then when they get it sometimes they will regret they'll just be like I'll just keep the package in other cases they just message me and I will send them the return label so that's what I do in that case and if they just open up a return as usual of course so excellent I was able to cancel this order and get something that better suited me from the same seller so again that is what I mean by good customer service service I'm always on point I'm always responding to my buyers and that is what helped me get to where I'm at today and so back to the promotions let's go over that for a second so what you get here is eBay allows you to participate in all of these promotions and in these promos they're like hey okay you've got all of these listings on your store we'd like to promote them on this whatever event that we have going on and if you join the promotion then you're going to give them like $3 off and we're going to give them another $3 off I'm just giv an example of a price the higher your listing price the higher they'll want you to give a promotion but they're also going to reward you for doing so they give you all types of incentives for decreasing these listings prices so you will decrease half they will decrease half I check the profitability and as long as we're working in the 60 plus% profit range there's not going to be any issue you're just going to take a few bucks off of your profit but you'll never get to a point where you're not making any money you're still making good profit and they'll also incentivize you for that so let me see if I can pop up a quick example of a promotion that I already ran so there was Black Friday and Cyber Monday during Q4 so we can see that that's the promotion name um the date to confirm participation I already did that and the promotion status right now is validating your reward so I'm still waiting to see what my reward will be let's click on view details and see what we get there okay so here you can see we're validating your performance please stay tuned and we will announce your reward amount soon so I'm going to get some kind of award for being in this promotion this was the first one that I was in so I really don't have the details yet so what I did here simply was I accepted to join the promotion I saw what listings are going to be in that promotion it's selected automatically by eBay so it's these listings right here you can see that the status is confirmed past and what we have is here for example the original price was let's take this one this High ticket one so it's $30.99 so eBay is like okay we want to promote this product we want to shave $10 off so the promotion price is going to be $110.99 so that means that we're going to offer $10 you're going to offer $10 and then it's going to come down to 110 so it's going to go down by $20 and then they're going to incentivize you for that so you're not actually going to lose all of those $10 and the more sales you make the bigger your incentive so when I get that incentive just stay tuned for a further update if you want to know you can also drop a comment below if you're interested and I will answer when I actually have this update so this is another thing that I was able to do once I started working with a personal account manager and my account is eligible for top rated status and so there's always more promotions going on so you can see right here for example Christmas in New Year's and plus my account manager always lets me know if there's a special promotion and then I just go ahead and accept it so again the only thing that I had to do to get this personal account manager is to follow the same strategies that I have been doing and teaching year after year take care of your customers make sure that your seller level is above standard that you do not have transac ction defect rates that you do not have too much late shipping rates so anything below 3% you'll always be fine cases close without seller resolution as low as possible so you can see that I'm at zero and tracking uploaded on time and validated 95% out of all of my transactions have tracking uploaded on time and validated so you have to always see your cases see what disputes what returns you have if there's any product that's getting too much returns let go of it remove it from your store if you really really liked it look for a product that's similar to it that's got similar functionalities but that's not going to get so much returns you can see by of course also seeing the reviews on your supplier site on that product so there's so many things that you can do to keep your customer service intact but this is the most important thing open up your eBay messages daily open up your cases and disputes and make sure that you are responding not only in a timely manner but you're never arguing with your customers you're showing whatever proof you have if you need to and of course side with the buyer at the end of the day unless you are protected by The Seller Protection so for example if they say hey I didn't get the product but you have tracking information that proves that they did get the product that's it you're done you're going to win that one but if you don't really have the proof and you're working with some weird supplier that's telling you n it was delivered and you're like hey you know buyer it was delivered or for example if a buyer wants to return a product and they're just above their return window you can still contact your supplier and be like hey I know we're a little bit above can we still do it and if they let you and you pass that return label to your buyer and they know that you made that extra attempt for them they're going to remember that you did that and that is the kind of good service that eBay is looking for and of course updating your tracking information on time so these are the things that I can stress enough how important it is and that is what got eBay's algorithm to check out my store see how much I've been selling see that my customer service is intact and they saw no reason whatsoever not to give me that account manager so again this was nothing that I was expecting eBay does not know who I am all they can see is how well we have been performing on eBay and how we have been taking care of their customers and with the personal account manager I also send him a message if I ever need anything if anything goes wrong or if I just need some special advice I just have him one message away I don't need to contact eBay I don't need to open up any live chats I don't need to send them any emails I definitely don't need to get them on the phone because all I have to do is send a message to my account manager and he will take care of everything completely free of charge as he has been doing so again I cannot stress this enough how important it is to be on top of your customer service it pays off in the long run as it did for me let's continue to the eBay store subscriptions and selling fees so this will help you understand what I'm getting with my current store subscription which as I already mentioned in the starter store you're getting 250 free listings and this also comes to You Free by default so you don't have to take a starter store because that's going to cost you $5 per month annually or $8 per month without the annual subscription and you're still going to get $250 listings so because eBay today gives you a promotion giving you 250 free listings that means that you do not need a starter store because that's what that gives you zero investment sign up to abay start listing your products0 spent so far increase your limits still $0 spent so far fill up 250 listings in increase your limits some more and still 0 spent so far this is the best business model that I can think of that you can start to make sales make profit before you really spend a dime so here's how eBay store subscriptions and selling fees works so that you'll understand exactly when it's time to move to the next store subscription but only after you're making sales only after you're profiting we're going to reinvest our profits back into the business so we will not spend money before we actually start to make money all right so how much does it cost to drop ship on eBay and how exactly do the store subscriptions work so we're going to go over the store subscription fees the insertion fees the final value fees and the promotional fees these are all fees that we're going to pay eBay but once again not before we actually start getting paid all right so let's start one by one so there's a few stores that we can subscribe on eBay the first is the starter store absolutely no need for it because we're getting that for free next is basic then we've got premium anchor and ENT price all right so what's the differences between them besides the pricing of course as you can see right here you've got your yearly price so this is how much you're going to pay per month on an annual subscription and if you're not doing annual then this is how much you're going to pay per month and so we're starting with the starter store all right so you're going to get 250 listings and after you pass 250 you're going to pay 30 cents per additional listing so 251 is going to cost 30 cents 252 listings is going to cost 60s and remember that these listings that we're seeing here is different than the item limits that we saw up here okay so split between the two it's two different things eBay selling limits is what eBay allows you to sell that what they trust you with and the store subscription is how much listings you're paying for so that you can actually list them okay so for example if you pay for a premium store okay which gives you as you can see right here 10,000 listings so now that you're paying for it you have the ability to list 10,000 listings but not really because you're kind of limited at let's say 4,000 listings okay so the selling limits is how much you can actually list and the store subscription is how many listings you're paying for to sell so the starter store forget about it you don't need it eBay is running a promotion on 250 free zero insertion listings there's no need to purchase a starter store when I talk about insertion listings it's every time you list a product that is an insertion okay so for example on the basic store you get 1,000 listings so that is the first time that you are going to make an upgrade and what you're going to get from that is a, th000 listings that you can list under the basic store price okay let's say you go with the uh annual subscription so you're paying $21.95 per month and under that $21.95 you can list 1,000 listings now every additional listing on top of that is going to cost you another 25 cents so how exactly are you going to play around with this one you can pretty much use your common sense so you're not going to upgrade from 1,000 to 10,000 because you listed a,1 products right because 1,01 is going to cost you $21.95 plus 25 for that extra one that you went over and so let's say you got 1,010 listings then you're paying $21.95 for the basic store subscription plus 25 cents for each additional listing after 1,000 so if you listed 1,010 products that's going to be $25 extra so you're going to pay 23 24 about $245 so of course if you're going to pay $ 24 or let's say $25 it's still not a good time to move to the premium store that costs $60 so only once you find that sweet spot between paying $22 to $60 the difference between them is $38 so you want to make sure that you're paying $38 in additional listings before even considering to move over to the next door subscription otherwise you're pretty much wasting money and in order to help you with that calculation right here in the cheat sheet I left this link under resources and tools it's called eBay insertion fees calculator so you'll know when it's a good time to switch store subscription so if I click on that it's going to take me to this landing page right here and here I'm simply going to fill in all my details okay you've also got a video here explaining it but it's pretty simple so here I'm selling in the United States uh my store subscription is currently let's say a basic store subscription I'm using manag payments so we can see that the total cost here is going to be $22.50 on top of our regular subscription so we already paid whatever we paid the subscription $22 if we went annual $28 if we didn't go annual and so now we get to list 1,000 products we listed 1,010 so on top of paying our store subscription we're paying another $250 which is fine because it's nowhere near the Delta between our current store subscription and the next one where the difference between them is $38 so as long as I'm not reaching $38 it's still worth it for me to continue listing under the basic store so let's say I listed 1,00 products now I'm paying $25 on top of the regular basic store subscription that is still fine because it's still not $38 it's still not a good time to move from basic to premium okay so you will use this calculator to understand exactly when is that spot where you actually now need to move to the next store okay which in this case is going to be around right here when you're when you listen around 1,150 products you're paying almost $38 that is already the difference between the basic and the premium so this will be a good time to move to the premium store but before you do that just make sure that all of your listings are in stock because if you list at 1,50 products and let's say 50 of them are out of stock then you can just replace those 50 before moving to the next door subscription because you got out of stock listings which you're paying for so you might as well make sure that everything is in stock to increase the chances of making more sales and of course more profits before spending money on the next door subscription so that eBay fees calculator is going to help you with that of course the link once again in the cheat sheet # eBay 2025 let me know what you love about this video what you actually learn from it and I will send you the link to this with everything that I'm going over so you've got the stores right here you got the basic store you got the premium store which will give you 10,000 listings plus 10 cents per additional listing so you see that each additional listing As you move up to the next store subscriptions the additional listings that you will list after the ones that are included in your package get cheaper and cheaper so the anchor store will give you 25,000 listings and you're going to make crazy money on an anchor store especially when your product research is on point and it's going to be a few got the money to now purchase an anchor store 5 cents per additional listing after 25,000 and Enterprise store which is in another planet so that is basically the difference between the store subscriptions and how that works now next we're going to go over how to create our shipping policies no matter where we're shipping from where we're shipping to but before that I want to make a few more things clear so remember how we talked about the eBay selling limits I don't know if you guys are noticing what we're seeing here on the screen but you can also see that the feedbacks here are amazing on the store uh I've got 367 at the moment 99.6% we're going to go over all this stuff but I want you to notice also the little things that you're seeing here so remember how we talked about the monthly limits here which have nothing to do with the store subscriptions that you have so the store subscription you can see that this store right here has got the premium store subscription so that is 10,000 fixed price listings as we can see right here okay let me just zoom in a bit okay so I'm paying no insertion fees for 10,000 listings because of course I'm paying $60 for that sore subscription if I'm not mistaken yeah $60 per month I'm doing the annual of course because I'm doing this in the long run and I saved a lot of money doing so so here it's telling me all right you only listed 2,139 listings so you still have 7,861 more products that you can list now as you can see right here my item limit will not allow me to do so but this is why these are two different things the store subscription is going to give you one thing but you want to make sure that your limits will allow you to have that and if not you need to increase your selling limits so you want to balance both of them now here under the store subscript itions the amount that I sell does not count under what I use this is only the insertion listings the listings that I listed on eBay whereas here in the sing limits that we talked about before it's both how much you listed and how much you sold here on the store subscription is only how much you listed so I only listed 2,139 and this is where I can always see if I'm going overboard on the amount of listings that I can list or if I still have a big part to go until then when you sign up for your eBay seller account you're going to notice that here you have 250 free listings so of course you're not going to make any store subscription until you're ready to move which of course is going to be the basic store because we're skipping out on starter so the basic store is going to give you a th listings and when you're ready to upgrade to from basic to premium you're going to have 10,000 listings and this is where I'm at with this current store that I'm showing you all right so next we've also got final value fees now we're talking about selling fees okay we're done with the store subscriptions we're talking about selling fees and this will help you understand how much you're paying on every transaction how much fees you're paying so that you'll also know how much profit you have left on every sale okay you also get the info on eBay when you're making sales uh I'm going to show you that later on so you can uh really you know see an order and see how much they take off but this is how you can calculate that beforehand so you've got the final value fees and you will get charged a final value fee only after you make a sale okay remember that up until now we're working with no store subscription we've got 250 free listings so hypothetically we listed 250 listings we didn't pay any money for that and the first fee will come after we actually make a sale and that is the final value fee now the final value fee consists of the category fee percentage that you're paying so every category that you sell under from the health and beauty uh category or home in Garden or Outdoors things like that so every category has its own fee and I left a link here so that you can see how much fees there are under every category okay so we're going to scroll a bit until we see this right here okay so here we've got two different options starter store subscribers or basic premium uh anchor and Enterprise so if you still haven't subscribed for a store yet you can use the starter store subscribers and if you already moved up to basic premium anchor then you can see that one so let's go with the starter store subscribers I'm going to click on that and here you can see the total fee that you're going to pay every time you make a sale under a certain category just zoom in a bit okay so let's say you sold something under jewelry and watches so you're going to pay a 15% fee for the total sale amount If the product costs up to5 ,000 and you're most likely not going to sell over that price okay and for example let's say clothing shoes and accessories also 15% the fees are a little bit higher when you don't have a basic and up store subscription which is completely fine we're just getting started eBay wants to make a little bit more money but the more sells we make the less they will take from us because we're making more sales so they are actually making a lot of money from that and you will be able to notice a little difference so now this is the uh basic premium and anchor store subscriptions you will pay a little bit less so let's say baby products is around 12.35% and again this is taken from the uh total transaction price so let's say you price the product at $100 then they're going to take 12% from that so they're going to take about $12 from that sale and you can just go on and on and see the category fees but it mainly doesn't reach up to 15% so what I like to do when it comes to my break even is I like to set it at 15% and on top of 15% that is when I'm actually starting to make my profit okay so we're going to of course go over that soon when I list products and I show you how to Prof price them but this is for you to understand how much fees you're going to pay so you got the final value of fee percentage and you're also going to pay another 30 to 40 cents depending on your store subscription on top of that whatever percentage that you had to pay and you can see that as I scroll up okay so after the category fees or before that we've got the final value fees so you can see eBay charges one final value fee when your item sales so you don't have to worry about payment processing fees and yada yada yada the fees calculated as a percentage of the total amount of sale which is the category fee that we went over plus 40 cents per order this used to be 30 they raise it up to 40 they're a little bit hungry that's fine we're still making a lot of profit and if the total transaction price is $10 or under you're only going to pay 30 okay so you're going to pay between 30 to 40 cents plus the category fee that is your break even and I'm going to show you how you can price your products on top of that when we get to that section so that is the final value fee which consists of the category fee plus another 4 cents or 30 cents If the product cost 10 or less dollars next you've also got an international selling fee so this simply means if you are an international seller I got the link here with all the info but I'll just pretty much walk you through it it's very simple if you are selling from outside of the domestic country so let's say I'm selling on ebay.com which is eBay us and I don't live in the US I live somewhere else in another country then I am an international seller so that means that we have to add another between 1% to 1.55% okay so let's just keep that right here okay we're rest of the world we're doing 1.5 5 and even if you're going to pay 1 or 1.30 then okay you just made a little bit of extra profit because you added this to your break even okay we're going to get to all this stuff soon but I want you to understand right now exactly what you're going to pay and soon I'll show you all the calculations okay so we're going to take out another 1.5% uh International selling fee and there's another currency conversion fee which is only applicable if your currency is different than what eBay wants to pay out to you so in other words if you are listing a product for sale on ebay.com and you're selling it for $10 and on your manag program let's say on payeer you're getting payments in a different currency then eBay is going to charge you this extra currency conversion charge now my recommendation is don't do that don't get to this okay for example my payer account is set up on a USD virtual bank account so that means that when I get my payouts from eBay eBay sends it in USD and I receive it in USD and then when I take my profits and I withdraw that to my bank account and my bank account is in a different conversion then my bank account is going to do the currency conversion and it's not going to be anywhere near as expensive as this okay so my recommendation is when you set up your payments option to get payouts from eBay make sure that it's the same currency as the one that eBay is sending your payout so that you won't pay these extra fees okay but if you don't have a choice and you have to get in a different currency you're going to pay that extra 2.5 to 3.5% now additional resources and tools that I added here to the eBay Drop Shipping cheat sheet besides the insertion fees calculator the fees calculator that we talked about you also have a link to the fees and subscriptions overview this pretty much sums up everything that we went over more into detail but I kept it specific to what you're going to be experiencing and the eBay selling limits zero insertion fees overview which helps you understand how that works with selling limits zero insertion fees even though I explained it here but if you want to go down more into detail you've got the link right here so now you understand how much fees you're paying and what store subscriptions exists what you're going to start off with and when it's a good time to move to the next door subscription to get the most bang for your buck and make sure that you are not wasting any money before you actually have to next we're going to go over eBay business policies and I know that we're still doing all the boring technical stuff but it's really important to get this stuff down and to understand how it works because after we're done with this stuff we're going to move over to product research and this is where things are going to get very interesting because this is what's going to make or break your store am I making any sales or am I not making any sales all of that is going to come down to your product research and I'm going to show you the best and updated methods for 2025 but before we do our product research I want you to have all of this set up so that when you do your product research you find really good products and you're now ready to list them and you won't now have to take care of all of your policies and your shipping and selling preferences and all of that so we're just going to get this stuff out of the way so that we can move to the good stuff but again I'm walking you through step by step I'm not skipping out on anything so that you'll really be able to sell and nothing is going to stop you or hold you back when you're ready to start listing products so we've basically been through the business policies when I was listing an item manually but the business policies are going to be different when we actually start listing products from suppliers in different parts of the world so this is how we're going to get that done I've got the links here where you can start to set up your shipping policy your return policy and your payment policy the payment policy is the only thing that's going to stay the same as when you created it when you were listing items manually because the payment policy is the same you're going to get your payouts through your manage payments and nothing there has actually changed the shipping policy which is where which countries you can ship to and how fast you can ship to them is going to be different because you're shipping from a different location and the return policy we're going to offer free returns as long as our suppliers supported and I'm only going to show you the good side of Drop Shipping suppliers that will really make your business easy to sell and scale you we're going to offer free returns if you can't I'm also going to show you of course how you can uh not do it we actually that's actually the policy that we already created so let's take it from the first one so I'm going to click on the shipping policy uh setup so that link will take me directly to creating a new shipping policy and here I'm going to show you two different shipping policies and you can adjust it depending on which suppliers you're using where they're shipping from and which countries they have access to ship to but once I show you uh USA and China you're going to understand how to do the rest of the world without me showing you how how do we create a shipping policy that ships to all of the countries in the US which is my domestic audience in this case Okay so create shipping policy a policy name is I'll just call it USA shipping okay we don't need to write a description again this is all internal no one's going to see this information shipping we're going to keep it on standard shipping small to medium items and domestic shipping in this case for me it's the us we're always going to leave it flat same cost to all buyers then we're going to click on ADD primary service and this is similar to what we already did did so if nothing is going to change from the time you created a manual listing you can use that shipping policy but you're most likely going to create a few because you're going to work with different suppliers that can ship to different uh locations okay so let me get down to that okay so here under the shipping service we're going to go with standard service we're not going to choose a specific one like UPS USPS or FedEx because then eBay will expect to see that on the tracking info that we upload once we get orders which of course we're going to get to on a later part in this video okay so standard shipping without naming which shipping service we're going to use one to five business days and once you start to get to know better suppliers that ship really quickly and you already have experience with one product that ships super quickly from your supplier you can create another shipping policy called expedited shipping and you're going to go under exped expedited services and you're going to choose this option expedited shipping one to three business days but that's only if you know that the product is going to reach the customer within that that time so there are two time frames to take into consideration one is the handling time how long it takes you to provide tracking info once you got an order so let's say you got 2 days handling time and then you got another 5 days shipping time so you got 5 plus 2 that's seven business days for you to supply the product to the End customer okay so that is exper added shipping it's better to have that if you have the option if you know your supplier is going to deliver quickly and you know from experience because eBay is going to give you better visibility if you ship faster than other sellers but in this case we're just starting off we're doing domestic shipping so I know that in this case I'm shipping from and to the same country I'm going to keep it under standard shipping and whatever questions you have at the moment like am I doing domestic shipping and is this the one that I should choose you'll understand that better later on when I go over the suppliers and how you're going to do the whole calculation between shipping from and shipping to okay but right now this should be very straightforward if I'm shipping from into the same location if you don't know that yet you will know it soon when you'll start to get to know your suppliers and see where they ship from we're going to go over that in the supplier section but understand this now so that when you get to it you'll be able to come back here and create the right shipping policy so right now I'm taking into consideration that I'm using a US supplier and I'm shipping to my us domestic audience so I know that I can ship relatively quickly and my products will arrive between 1 to five business days again we're going to offer free shipping even if you're paying for shipping I'm going to show you how you can round that up we already talked about that before always offer free shipping you don't want to be on the bottom in terms of search engine visibility of other sellers who offer free shipping because you don't you're still going to offer even if you pay for it and you're still going to maintain your desired profit margin rate table we're going to leave it off international shipping you can leave it off I'm going to go over international shipping when we get to it I'm going to give you two options that you can use to enable international shipping on your listings but right now I'm going to leave it off and we're going to automate that soon local pickup are going to leave it off and handling time which I already mentioned this is how long it will take you to provide tracking information so in the beginning I suggest going with five business days if you haven't ordered from the supplier yet and you're not sure how long it takes them to provide tracking info go with five now why am I saying five and not 20 first of all nobody wants to see that they're going to get tracking only after 20 business days we're living in 2025 and customers want to get their packages yesterday so I'm going to also show you of course all the tips and tricks to get super fast shipping to your customers even if you're shipping from different locations but you do not want to go over five because this is the limit where eBay starts to decrease your search engine visibility and I want you to have the highest chance the highest visibility on eBay search engine and to do that we are not going to exceed five business days why are we not going two and three at the moment because we're not sure if our suppliers can deal with that and we'll only know after we process a few orders from them so while it's very enticing to do it we're going to leave it at 5 until we get to know what we can actually do this is how we maintain the highest search engine visibility while keeping our businesses safe as we get to know our business our products and our suppliers next is excluded locations so besides my domestic country which is in the United States what countries do you want to exclude now this is going to change once we enable international shipping and it's all going to be automated for us but until that happens we are going to exclude everything except maybe PO Box you can still ship to PO Boxes but Alaska and Hawaii I'll leave that off because there's always a lot of problem s when shipping to those places APO fpo and the protectorates we're going to leave everything here on International everything is going to be toggled on meaning we are going to exclude them and that is pretty much it for the shipping policy so similar to the one that we already created but what happens when we want to create a shipping policy from products that ship from China or from outside of our domestic country so here you'll need to choose different shipping policies so let me just go to the same business policy that I was just creating and let's make the adjustments so here I'm going to call it China shipping and let's say you're using this when you're shipping from Chinese suppliers from a Chinese Warehouse from a warehouse that's located in China to wherever your target audience resides so whether it's in the uh us uh UK Europe Canada New New Zealand whatever Australia but you're shipping from China this is the business policy that you want to create and of course you can have multiple policies so that every time you upload a product to your store you can choose what policy that product belongs to depending on what supplier you're uploading it from again we're going to get to all of this but I want to make sense of everything so we're going to keep it basic at the moment and under shipping we're going to keep it the same small to medium items domestic shipping flat same cost to all my buyers but here in the shipping services this is what needs to change because I know that products that are coming from China are not going to reach the US within one to five business days it's going to take a little bit longer so what we're going to do here is we're going to change the service and here we're going to go for products outside of the country so if I scroll down it should be right here towards the end standard services from outside the country okay so let's say you're shipping from Canada to the US you can choose this one four to nine business days it should usually arrive within that time shaping is relatively quickly when it comes to that but that is not what we are doing here but you have those options as well let's go back down to economy services from outside the country so if it's coming from China you've got two options one is economy shipping from greater China which is 11 to 35 business days and the second is economy shipping from outside the US 11 to 23 business days so even if it's coming from China I'm still going to choose this one 11 to 23 and not 11 to 35 because I want the buyer to see that they're going to get the product within two to 3 weeks 3 weeks is not really good okay let's let's just be honest here but most likely they're not going to get it that long but if you give them this one they're going to see 35 business days plus five handling time 40 business days m nah let's look for an alternative so if you're shipping from China you're going to choose EC economy shipping from outside the US or from outside whatever location you open up your eBay account whatever your domestic audience is that is what you're going to choose so 23 business days plus five business days gives you 28 business days to ship and deliver your item if your supplier ships slower than that move away from them you don't want to work with suppliers that take so long to ship now at the end of the day eBay is going to see on your sold listings when you upload valid tracking information which of course we're going to get into they can say exactly when you shipped out your product if you really did it according to your handling time and also your shipping time and if they see that you are and let's say there's this one product that has this policy right here and it's sold a few times and it's always getting delivered within uh 10 days then eBay is going to write this little message on your listing expected delivery within 10 days something like that and so your buyers actually going to see the truth so they're not going to see 23 plus 5 they're going to see what you're actually able to do okay so take that also into consideration that is why I choose economy shipping from outside the US without anything specific and not choosing greater China which UPS your delivery time by a lot okay offering free shipping we already talked about that and everything else pretty much stays the same still five handling days even if it's coming from China your suppliers should still be able to give you valid tracking information within 5 days otherwise we're going to remove them and move to others again we're going to get to the whole supplier section soon and that's it excluded location stays the same so the only thing that actually changed here is the primary service that we're using and the name of the the policy so that we'll be able to easily choose the right one for these products so that is how you create a domestic shipping policy a China shipping policy or anywhere else that you're shipping from to your audience all right so when it comes to the international shipping so I talked about making your listings uh open internationally there's one or two ways of doing it so one is making your eBay listings available globally using a service called hip shipper I've been working with them for years and I'm pretty happy with their service I never really had any problems and they also got good customer support what happens here is you sign up with this service provider okay they're called hip shipper I have a video here that explains everything on how to do it uh but this is pretty much their website okay and so this is pretty much what their menu looks like I don't really want to get too much into it now but basically you have all of your International orders right here so what I had to do was simply send the product instead of directly to the customer I would send it to a hip shipper this these are only International orders so let's say I have an order in uh New Zealand and I'm shipping from uh a US supplier so I would use that us supplier I would ship it to hip shipper instead of directly to the customer unless my supplier ships really cheaply to the End customer then I would skip hip shipper uh in that case so that you can see that on all of these canceled orders is because I pretty much processed them manually directly to the buyer because the shipping price for me was cheaper so you can see here the hip shipper rate and the and the shipping rate so here for example I got 10% uh profit on my shipping prices too so so for example uh the shipping price is $32 I would sell it for $36 just make a little bit more profit uh on the shipping but still I was able to ship it cheaper using my supplier directly to the buyer now in other cases the supplier can either not ship directly to that International buyer or it's simply cheaper to do it on hip shipper so I would ship it through hip shipper as you can see right here it was shipped through them and so it cost me $39 but the customer paid $45 for that shipping and so you can see more Shi products here through a hip shipper and the canceled orders because I was simply able to do it for cheaper so basically hip shipper is a warehouse in the US and you're simply going to deliver the products there they can see your order they'll be able to know that it's coming from you because you're their member doesn't cost any money to work with them it's absolutely free so you ship the product to them you pay for that shipping and they will ship it directly to the buyer and that's it no questions asked no issues and their Chrome extension that again is free to use is going to go over your eBay listings it's going to scan all the listings that you uploaded and that you will upload in the future and it's going to decide if shipper can or cannot sell this product internationally it's going to also look at the product's uh weight and dimensions to be able to know exactly how much shipping to price for this and that's pretty much it you can connect multiple stores to hip shipper and they will manually create international shipping policies different than the ones that we just made and it's going to automatically assign the listings that are eligible for international shipping directly to that international shipping policy so that buyers around the world will be able to see that product and be able to check out because as long as we do not have international shipping if anyone outside our domestic country sees our listing they will not be able to check out Ebay will simply display them the message item cannot be shipped to your country so you can get more information on how to set that up from the video that's linked here the second way to do it is through eBay's international shipping program now personally I do not use this this is something relatively new that they rolled out with and it's pretty much doing the same exact thing that hip shipper is doing now the reason that I'm not doing it through eBay is because I'm used to working with hip shipper so you may try this and you may like it but because I have packages coming from all kinds of different suppliers including uh Amazon who's a retailer eBay might not want to see packages coming from them even though their customers don't really care I'm not sure I could be wrong here they could totally not care about it but I feel safe working with a hip shipper but here eBay does the same exact thing and especially if you're working with private suppliers and we're going to go over that soon then you know it's not any any retailer it shouldn't be any problem so anyway eBay has this program as well so they will open up whatever listings are eligible automat Al for their international shipping program so buyers around the world in those countries will be able to check out and eBay will understand that okay this order is going to our warehouse so they're going to let you know where to ship to and you're going to ship from your supplier to eBay's warehouse and eBay will take care of the rest so these are the ways to enable international shipping on your orders on your shipping policies and I highly suggest that you do so because you'll get more traffic you'll get more sales and I have a 0% return rate from International countries because they don't want to deal with returns it will take too long and it's simply not very friendly so more traffic more sales the more the marrier open up your listings internationally if you don't want to do it in the beginning it's fine but consider this down the road it will make you more sales and profit next is the return policy setup I'm not going to set that up because it's very simple very straightforward and we pretty much did it when we were creating our first listing okay but if I scroll up I've got the link here return policy setup page so you're going to click on that and this is very straight forward so you're either going to accept returns domestically and if you do so then it will ask you how many days do you want to give and you're going to do the same thing as what your supplier can give so if your supplier gives you 30 days you're going to give the buyer 30 days as well the better the conditions are once again just like the faster the shipping the better the conditions are in your Returns the more eBay is going to give you the better search visibility compared to your competitors so how many days do you allow returns who's going to pay for the return is it the buyer or is it free for the buyer you pay so in other words the seller which again you're going to give whatever your supplier can give if your supplier gives 30 days free shipping you will give the same as well and that's what I give on all of my listings and the two options that they give you here for the refund method is either give them the money back or money back or replacement okay really doesn't matter what you choose you can even choose money back and the buyer will open up a case and say Hey I want a replacement so you can send them a replacement so here doesn't really matter what you choose but if you do have the option for replacement which most likely you will you will choose this option because it gives the buyer more flexibility and more of a reason to purchase from you okay International returns I still accept it but I do not make this one for free okay and this is another reason why buyers internationally usually don't return but even if it was free they usually won't really want to put up with it uh in any case I don't give them uh free returns I do allow them to return so the same thing 30 days only this time it's paid from the buyer and refund method is only money back I don't want to send them a replacement if they end up returning products especially if they are from worldwide so that is the difference between domestic and international that is how I run all of my listings and I've had a lot of success with these specific policies payments policy page we're not going to do it you got the link right here but it's not going to change from that listing that you created the only two policies that actually change from your manual listings is shipping and return now we are so close to doing product research we just have one more quick thing to do which is shipping and selling preferences it's really important to get this done before we start listing products because this will make sure that if a buyer opens up a return request we're going to avoid a situation where eBay automatically sends them a return label and charges us for that return label using our return address which we don't want none of this we want to be able to offer our buyers a return label that we're going to get from our suppliers and we don't want eBay to intervene here so we're going to do that and there's a couple more quick things that we're going to do here and that's it we're jumping on to product research and this is where everything is going to get fun before that let's review winning product number two and then we'll return to the shipping and selling preferences really quick and finally jump to product research there of course there's a lot more things that we have to go over after product research but this is really the part where you want to focus on the most so take a quick break if you need to get your cup of coffee or your favorite beverage or snack let's reveal winning product number two move over to the shipping and selling and find winning products live so winning product number two let's reveal is a fireplace humidifier Aroma diffuser let's take a look I'm going to open up the eBay listing and I'm also going to open up the supplier link you don't really need to do anything with these products yet and when we go over product research you're going to learn about a whole bunch of more products and how to actually find them but I want to throw these as bonuses just so that you can see how much money you can make here so check out this seller right here he's really new he's only got four feedbacks very very new seller his name is Javier harez so yeah he's only got four feedback totally new and making some good money right from the start so he's selling this fireplace humid fire for $51.99 and he already sold five units and so okay so it's a fireplace this is a a niche this only works uh mainly in uh the winter season but it's still fine to have such products and on product research I'm going to talk to you on the differences between having a general store to a a niche store or Niche whatever you want to call it but right now I just want you to see the potential so product uh heater selling For $52 and sourcing it for around $25 same exact heater don't worry about all the things that you're seeing here I'm going to go go over all this stuff soon and of course you can Source from multiple places I'm going to go through all of the product sourcing options so if you don't have autods or you're not using it or or not using it yet of course you can also find it on other places like AliExpress prices of course May differ but overall you can see that you can get this product for half that price so here he's making around $20 in profit when selling this heater and he already sold five of them so this new seller that just got started on eBay already made around a hundred bucks in profit selling just this product and of course there are so many of these types of heaters that you can sell as well and this just shows you a little bit of that potential so let me just put in the quick uh hack to see the selling history which I will share with you soon in product research so we can see that he selling them right now so December 16th he sold it once this month last month he sold it four times so that is the five times that he sold this product only he did sell it for much cheaper it could have been sourced for a cheaper price during November maybe in December the prices kind of went up or he just wanted to make $20 instead of $10 profit so he upped the price from uh 40 to 52 and he was still able to make sales under that price so okay he didn't make a $100 maybe he made around $70 selling this product but that is still a very good profit percentage from selling just one product being a brand new seller on eBay and that is the level that I want you to get to not just get to this level but easily surpass it and continue making crazy sales and profit guys we're on the way there finally get to product research let's go now over my history of selling on eBay the product research methods and tactics or at least mine have kept changing from time to time so in the beginning I was using really expensive tools to try kind of try to understand like what products are selling well actually first I started doing everything manually because there were no tools and then the tools came out about a month two months in and I started putting a lot of money into these $50 $60 a month tools that are supposed to give me all of these winning product ideas and it was just costing me way too much in the beginning to uh you know pay all this money just for getting product research done when there's so many more things that I also need to do um so it wasn't really solving it for me and then I went back to the manual way of doing it um so I'm going to go over all of the product research methods but today I can easily tell you that it's not what it was 8 years ago and doing things manually is not the way to do it but also paying 50 60 bucks a month for a software that will do only product research for you and show you also a bunch of uh saturated products which is really hard to sell even though product saturation is not a big issue especially when selling on eBay it doesn't really justify paying 50 60 bucks just to get some winning product ideas but I still really like the the idea of having a tool that g that can give me all this data but I also need really really good data so I'm going to go through a bunch of product research methods because they all work and they all can work for you as well but I am a firm firm believer of the first one that I'm going to present and that is the autods winning Products Marketplace I've been using autods way way before I started working with autods and the reason that I'm working with them is because I believe in the product so much way way before its time help my business so much there's no reason not for everyone else to know about it as well especially for those who are really looking to succeed so not too long ago the autods winning Products Marketplace came out and there was so much work that was put into this because this software has so so many things inside and I'm I haven't even gotten into it yet but right now let's only focus on the product research aspect of the autods winning Products Marketplace so this is a huge huge Marketplace and because this software has been out for pretty much as long as I've been Drop Shipping there's a lot of data in here there's a lot of sellers there's a lot of products that are selling really well for these sellers and the data base here is just enormous so it's not just scanning websites and seeing what's selling well in Al press and adding it there which is what most tools are doing so again there's many methods that I'm going to go over but I'm going to start off with my number one recommendation today which is the autods marketplace I don't know if you know this but autods has a $1 trial for 14 days if you don't know it Now is really the time to know that so for 14 days you can try out this software for just $1 and really check out all of the great things that it has now I'm going to go through more things like the product finding and so many more things that it has but right now let's focus on product research cuz this video is probably going to go way longer than it should because I just have so much to say and teach okay so the rods winning Products Marketplace is full of winning products and this is split to the marketplace where you can find a whole bunch of suppliers to work with as well we'll get to that when we'll get to the supplier section but here you also have a whole bunch of uh products and you can see our suppliers names here like one is called holy party uh aaet uh Jeff store uh ano us who probably has a Us warehouse just by the name of the store uh daily handcraft store party supply store and so forth so you have like all of these sellers who are selling their products on autods and autods checks these sellers one by one so of course you're not dealing with another type of middleman or anything like that these are actual sellers who have warehouses they're selling their goods and you can have private access to work with them through autods okay so here is already one place where you can find trending products because these sellers know what's selling well they have a lot of experience in the Drop Shipping scene and they're just waiting to work with drop shippers like you so here you have a whole bunch of categories that you can go through like let's say you really like pets you want to sell pet products so here you can find a whole bunch of uh pet products and I want to add to this really quick while we're doing product research so if you haven't sold before and you're kind of wondering should I make a general store or a niche store the answer to that and especially on eBay is a general store and the reason for that being is most people who will see your product listings on eBay who will find your product cuz they were searching for some something and you're selling that certain something they they see your listing that pops up in their search results they'll click on your listing and most likely the next thing that they're going to do is purchase the product if it is what they're looking for they're not going to click on your store to see other products that you're selling some people will most people don't do that on eBay and so that means that it really doesn't matter if you have a whole bunch of random products on your storefront nobody's going to pay attention to it at least a very small fraction of them are going to pay attention it's not really important and so that's why I would go with a general store because you can just test so many more products instead of just you know working off of a hunch I really like pets I think that I can just create a pet store which might not be a bad idea pets is a great great category for drop shippers but a lot of times people who never sold before are narrowing down way way too much right from the start and this is where many of the mistakes can happen because when the product won't sell when that Niche is not the hottest at the moment or the products inside that Niche that you're selling are not super in demand you're going to think that this whole thing is just dead it's not working and you're just going to probably move on to other things and I don't want you to do that until you actually start to see success and you'll probably also be addicted to hearing that cha-ching once it starts to come in and you'll always want to continue growing so in order to get to that I want you to start off with a general store and test out a whole bunch of products not off of a hunch not what you think might sell do your product research and start to list products that are selling well for other sellers now if you're thinking if I'm just going to sell what other sellers are selling and they're already selling it so why would anyone buy from me just because someone is selling something doesn't mean that everyone who's searching for it are only going to find that one seller and eBay's algorithm is going to give you the favor as well especially when you're listing your products right when you've got better tit your competitors when you've got better descriptions than them when your shipping options are better than them because you found better suppliers and all of these things are what I'm teaching in this video so here you have a whole bunch of products and in terms of testing I'm going to show you that in about a minute but first of all I want to show you how easy it is to find products to find trending products that are also good for drop shippers there's also a whole bunch of products that we cannot sell and this easily helps us see the products that we actually can what I used to do back in the day was I used to go to Amazon so like best sellers right and I'd be like okay let's see what the bestsellers are and this is also a pretty good strategy the only thing is I didn't have a lot of experience knowing what I can and cannot sell and I would list products that I cannot sell and then I would get my account suspended and then I would try to appeal that suspension with eBay and sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't I really would learn from this what products I actually can sell so here for example like okay well this is just a a tumbler why wouldn't I be able to sell it and I didn't realize that Stanley is like a branded product okay and here we're not really dealing with any uh big brands in the marketplace so of course it's going to make all of that much easier and more simple for us but on the other hand like I would like you know still look at these categories here on the left side and there's a lot here that we cannot resell like we cannot resell uh CDs we cannot resell uh audible books uh these are all branded items we definitely don't want to sell renewed uh no Amazon devices and accessories I'm going to go over that soon but point being these products we can sell them so it easily takes the hassle out of understanding what we can and cannot sell next is the handpick products so under the marketplace you have these three options handpick products add by and trending products the biggest difference being is that the marketplace has a whole bunch of like I said different suppliers who are selling these products uh mainly also private suppliers and we're going to go over that soon okay but here it's different suppliers and also a lot of private suppliers which is really really great especially when Drop Shipping on eBay to narrow it down even further I would go to the handpick products because here we have a team that's sitting day till night just finding these products one by one okay searching up other sellers searching up ad copies all around the internet and finding what products what ads are working really well for drop shippers narrowing it down of course to ads that are related to drop shippers finding the product that they're selling their website the source for these products putting everything together in a package and so this gives you a lot more trending products that are viral and going crazy right now okay so let me give you an example of like what we're seeing here oh this is cool this is one of those piggy bangs that it kind of eats up your coin okay so if I click on this for example this was just the newly added one I haven't really seen it but let's just click inside and see what we have so you got the title right here you can see uh customer reviews who bought this product this was added 9 hours ago to uh autods the potential profit that you can make here from the data that we got from the seller who's selling it how many orders they have uh the engagement score which is how well the product is doing in terms of engagements on the ad copies which we can see right here uh saturation score how saturated or unsaturated the product is target audience which isn't that relev for eBay unless you're going to do eBay PPC which I will get to later as well social media ads so Tik Tok and Facebook ad copies right that we have for this product like I can click here on the Tik Tok ad and I can just kind of see the Tik Tok video that uh someone made for this product so here for example he got 150 likes uh he calls himself your toys too not very relevant for eBay unless you want to purchase the products and make Tik Tok videos on them which is I wouldn't say it's a bad idea it's actually a great idea but it requires a lot more investment cuz you have to actually purchase the product uh bring into your house uh shoot video copies on it and all of this is just going to take more time from just doing more product research uh increasing your selling limits uh doing everything with automation adding more and more products and just continuing to grow your store this is maybe a little bit better for places like Shopify and so forth but if you really found a product that's selling really well you can of course consider doing this but anyway I just want to kind of go through all of this you can see all the people who are selling it like on woocommerce and Shopify for their prices around uh $30 $40 price range and so that's pretty much what the handpick products uh Hub delivers so you can see a whole bunch of trending products right here and also you can import them to your store in a click so once you connect your eBay store to autods which I'll show you how to do in a minute then you can just import these products right away just hover over the product and click import here you also have it inside the page so if we go inside you've got the import button right here you can see how much it costs what is the shipping price you see how cheap it is compared to the uh $3 $40 that those sellers were selling it at so you can make a nice profit here and you've also got different colored variations of of course you've got uh variations from the seller and then you import it to your store you can also search for this product on Amazon Facebook and all Express by clicking on those links up here okay you can get more product information here if you click on the product info tab uh specifications policy and reviews so in the policy you can see uh if this uh if you can return this product what are the options and reviews okay so that is the handpicked products and you can just find a whole bunch of products here now how do you test these products I'll show you in a minute but first of let me show you the other um product research uh methods so you've also got the adspy which is nice to have because here you've got Facebook Instagram and Tik Tok ads and you can play with filters here to kind of find uh more trending videos like for example those that have uh 100 to 1,000 likes it's got a product link to it okay and then you're slowly narrowing it down to uh people who are selling products and how well their ad copies are going for them and then you can just link it to the product and okay maybe I should sell this product as well and the trending product is similar to the handpicked products only the info that you get inside is a little bit different but here you also have a whole bunch of products that are trending on the market now the biggest difference is that in the trending products we're using AI to help us put everything together whereas the handpicked products is using a custom team okay so here for example you can see how much this product sold uh the prices the interaction rates uh an overall product score I just opened up a product randomly uh the countries that it's being distributed to so you can see a nice uh healthy mix here uh the sales chart which shows the uh sales history of how well this product is selling month by month so you can see the months here and the numbers uh here and adds right videos that people have connected to this product to try and sell it and more product information here so you found a trending product you went over the info you like it click on import draft right here and it will import to your store so this is always going to be my number one because this is really going to give you a shortcut into this so how do I actually validate the products and know that or see if they're going to sell well on eBay so usually I'm just looking for examples from other drop shippers once you already have experience a lot of experience in this this becomes a lot more automated because you already have a bunch of products that are selling so you're just looking for more T types of variations of them uh different types of uh Dimensions or or colors and you can also make that very easy on autods because I can add one product like uh let's say um just a quick example let's say I would add this Plus to right here right cuz I saw it here it's trending I imported to my store I started selling it myself and I can add more variations from other suppliers right and it doesn't even have to be inside autods it can go also be from suppliers outside autods that autods supports I'm going to go over that soon inside and out but here for example let's say you also want to have this dock toy here as a variation so you can add that as a variant to the main plush toy that you added I'm going to show you all this stuff but I just want you to understand some of the advantages that you will have here here so you can actually make a product page that nobody else has and here I already found that inflatable shampoo Basin that I already showed you well I found it here and I and I'm also selling it on my store since I found it but this is where I found it right so I saw this product it looks really interesting I clicked on it I've been in the drop Shing game for a while so I know what is new what I haven't seen much around and this is one of those products so what I did was I took the title not the whole title just the main keywords that make up for the product okay and then I would copy it then I would go to eBay and I would make sure that I'm on ebay.com because that's where I'm selling at and I also want to make sure that the ship to over here is on the US because that is the audience that I'm targeting so I want to make sure that I'm only looking for products that can ship to that uh domestic uh audience to that target audience so I'm going to search here for inflatable shampoo Basin okay and here I have a whole bunch of um examples now there's just one bug on eBay that for as long as I live I could not understand why I could not overcome it so if anybody knows let me know in the uh comments Ms below it's showing me my local currency which I don't want I want to see the USD currency so I click here go to customize this used to work in the past it just stopped working you see here convert prices to US dollar but it's not actually doing it I apply the changes and it goes back to my local currency so super annoying I don't know why it does it but the next thing that you want to do here okay you're seeing a whole bunch of sellers oh so many people are selling this product I probably won't be able to sell it that is totally totally not the case but you can see a whole bunch here that are selling it like this guy sold almost uh 20 sold 20 unit this guy sold 19 and you can see the prices here let me just round that up to US dollar just curious to see how much they're profiting so 87 divided by 3.6 comes out to $24 okay so they're selling it for $24 that is relatively cheap but you can also see other ones like this one right here so all of the ones where you see um how many Watchers last one all these special messages okay this one here this means that they have a selling history this means that they sold this product okay this one here every time you see these messages you know that they sold the product but how do you filter out the ones that didn't sell them so what you're going to do here on the filter on the left side here under show only you're going to click on sold items now it's going to also automatically click in completed items so you want to unclick that after that happens because completed items will only show you products that are out of stock because the seller already sold them but no I'm looking for the drop shippers who are selling them and there's always more and more stock okay and don't mind the super super cheap cheap sellers like this guy here who has 324 uh sold don't worry about them you are going to do your own thing and you're going to test products and you're not only going to test one product and once you see that you can sell a product the same product that other people are selling for a higher price because you actually want to make a profit and you're still making sales that's what's going to make you realize that you need to stop looking at your competitors on eBay and start doing your own thing because you're optimizing titles you're optimizing descriptions you have different sh times you're working with different suppliers you're not all playing the same game and again not everybody who's searching for inflatable shampoo Basin is going to go only to one seller okay the algorithm is going to work its way and as long as you keep testing products and you keep remaining profitable the sales will come in the profits will come in and you will really enjoy this business model okay so here under show only I'm going to click on sold items and you see that completed items also clicked in so I'm going to go back down to it untick completed items and see only sold items I don't know why eBay does it this way but this is how we put up with it okay and now I'm only seeing people who this product and not only that I can see when they sold it last right over here so this guy sold last December 17th so that was just a couple weeks ago December 14th uh September 28th December 21st December 23rd most of them have sold this month and this is the first guy that we saw look he's even first place on the search and he has a relatively higher price guys 28 bucks and you know once I enter the listing we can see it anyway so let's just enter the listing there we go $28 okay so really no need to do the calculation there um so yeah so this is the guy that we saw um we already saw this guy's uh product and this is how I was able to find it and also validate that this product is worth selling because if I can Source it for a much much cheaper price then why not and I'm also going to talk about product sourcing soon so even if you find the product here okay and let's say Okay I I found it from the autods handpick products or Warehouse doesn't matter here it costs $12 and another uh $2 to ship so it cost me $14 and I can sell it for let's see I can sell it for even $27.99 okay I could be cheaper than this guy or $26.99 and still make some good profit so even when you do that when you take that into consideration and you sell the product you can Source it for even a cheaper price than what you saw here I'm going to show you how to do that when we get to the orders and the uh product sourcing uh methods but again I want to take it step by step so that you can really take in every section that I'm passing on here so this is how I was able to validate that this is a good product and now also how can we see the selling history okay not just when it last sold but all of the selling history so here on the cheat sheet you are going to go to the product research section right where I'm at right here it says Ebay reverse product research eBay sells history hack and then you have this so what you want to do let me just add in another note replace xxx with the item ID and let me show you exactly what that means so we're going to take this URL over here okay I'm going to copy it my goal here here is to see the selling history of this product here cuz you see it says nine sold but I can't see exactly when they sold I don't want to sell products that sold for sellers a year ago or two years ago I want to make sure they're selling now to make sure that they're in demand now so the way to validate that is to put that URL up here okay but I also need his Item ID so the item id you can find it in the URL so it's right after ebay.com itm like item slash Item ID so that is these numbers these digits that we're here I hope that you can see it but in any case this is the item ID that I need okay so I'm just going to open up another Tab and I'm going to put the URL right up here and this is the item ID that I need so I'm going to go back I'm going to copy it from here and I'm just going to replace the xxx with the actual item id I'm going to paste it right here and I'm going to click on enter okay and now lo and behold we've got the selling history for this uh shampoo Bas in that that Ronin guy is selling and we can see right here that it's sold a few times in December several times in November I think we saw it before uh in this video cuz I showcase it on this product but I just want you to see where you can get this from and how you can make it work so that you can validate that the product is selling now and worth it to add to your store now because now the product is in demand okay so let's just continue let's say let's try this pet cooling chew toy over here so let me open that and now I need to search for this on eBay so I can just take the title like the main keywords and hopefully find it um there's a lot of pet chewing toys you have to be a little bit more specific specific I think what makes this one special is maybe that it's freeable okay so I'm going to keep that in my uh keywords as well and I'm going to go to eBay and I'm going to search for that okay now I'm still seeing sold listings only okay so keep that in mind I can't see what's not selling because of the filters on the left side but I can't find the same exact one so here I can do one of two things one hey this product isn't selling on eBay maybe I should be the first one to sell it right but two you have to even make sure that is this thing even in man are people looking for freezable chewing toys is that like a thing and so here you can see okay this one is freezable and it's sold last month okay not so wow this one I don't see that it's freezable it's sold a couple days ago but it's not freezable and so I'm not really seeing anything here that shows a trend in freezable pet tethers and they're not all selling now like this one sold a couple months ago a few months ago so okay I can valid that this is not a thing that we should sell now on a platform such as eBay okay so you would continue exactly what I'm doing here until you find products that I as I showed you are selling for other sellers on eBay or similar products because if I would have seen that freezable is a thing right but nobody's selling that same exact one that I found in the marketplace or on the handpicked products that could be a banger and those are also the types of products that you should be on the lookout cut for so if you don't see the same exact product but you see other similar ones that are selling well you should definitely jump in on that opportunity and be the first seller to create a sales Trend there okay so let me just uh as I'm scrolling through um let's see let's see this thing right here I don't even know what it is okay I'm just randomly choosing products here 45° lock miter router okay so this is obviously well not obviously I can also see that it's selling for a really high price look $60 on these websites $112 on this website okay so we can Source this one for $5 and $2 shipping so we can Source this one for around s s and A2 bucks let's just round that up to eight okay so let's say eight bucks and let's see what we're looking at here so these are only sold listings and these are selling today like this sold today what is today's the 26th but uh time zones right now in the US it's uh it's still the 25th so this one sold now this one sold now and these are similar right this is what we're looking at yeah this is the product okay so we can see it here here here this one is actually selling pretty well wow what do you guys think about this look look at how many times it's selling and I would have never guessed right you wouldn't wake up in the morning and be like Oh 45 degree Locka miter router bit set why don't you think about selling those and this is the thing about product research you're always going to learn about new things that you would have never thought about because you don't know what's going on in the world you don't know all the billions and billions of products that are out there and what out of those products are actually in demand Okay so we've got this guy selling it for $23.99 and is it's the same same exact one isn't it 45° half inch Shank 1 in uh this is a quarter of an inch 6 mm we've got 2 in here 2 in here we do want to make sure sure that the measurements are more or less the same because we W to understand exactly what people are searching for and it looks like this one is just a little bit smaller but hey people could always use a different variation it's okay to sell a variation as I said that's a little bit different because that's people might be looking for this one here is a three pack so it's not exactly what we're selling okay so these are three packs and we are selling a one pack so that is also a little bit of a difference let's see who is selling only one unit the first guy is selling only one unit but different dimensions let's see if there's anyone else selling only one this guy right here it's a half an inch shank and three fors stock lock this is a this is the same one right here see the three fors and three two and three fors no almost the same but anyway it looks like everyone is selling kind of something different here so I would definitely sell this as well I can't find the same exact measurements here people could probably be looking for it cuz I can see that this is a thing people are buying this and if we look at the first guy who's selling it for how much was it let's see $23.99 we're selling a very very similar product which costs us eight bucks so that is about three times the source price that's a lot of profit here and we can say people are also selling it for much much more expensive on websites that are not uh eBay which is not what we're doing but you can just see how much of an expensive price people are selling this for so this is definitely a great one that I would definitely also test on my store so this is how easy it is to find these Trends and it'll also give you an idea to more products that you can sell okay so this is how you can see those products find them and validate that they are selling well on the market right now even if it's not the same exact variation that could even be better for you so the autods winning products Hub is always going to be my number one go-to because because this place has proven winners that are updating all the time every day with new and more products and it's very flexible so it saves you so much time with real good validated products that you can validate even further on your selling Channel okay so other traditional product research methods that will work really well for you if you don't want to scroll through a Marketplace or if you don't have an autods subscription yet then you can use other methods that are completely free like the sell these now YouTube playlist I link to it of course in the eBay Drop Shipping cheat sheet guys # eBay 2025 let me know what is your top takeway from this video what did you really take away from it and I will personally send you this cheat sheet with everything inside all the links all for you to have absolutely free you win we win win-win situation let's go let's keep at it so these sell these now YouTube playlist click on the link you'll be taken to this huge huge YouTube playlist and so this playlist has many videos that are coming out all the time with fresh new products and you can see Mario here with autod Ds uploading videos all the time with new trends new products and as you can see right here it's always moving it's always updating this one was uploaded uh 22 hours ago this one was 2 days ago so this is always moving all the time so here for example you've got the top products for uh every month for January February March April and for all the seasonal events that we have like Valentine's Day and all the niches like uh jewelry products Christmas and so forth so this is your go-to if you don't want to go through any platform if you don't want to uh do it manually and if you want to get everything handed to you that pretty much summarizes it okay so You' got the now YouTube playlist very very descriptive going through the products what makes them popular how well they're saying for other sellers how much other sellers are profiting from them and what you can do to do better and sell more so the sell these now YouTube playlist is another great option with hundreds of videos there and hundreds more to come live product finding Q&A events these are hosted by me so if you want to come down with me and have a chat oneon-one and learn about the next set of winning products Trends I hold these live sessions every two weeks and it's absolutely free to enter so you can click here on the link just to see the previous sessions and to kind of see how these live sessions work so I'm here with you guys I got the live chat open I'm sharing winning products I'm sharing Drop Shipping strategies and this is absolutely free to join so if you want to be a part of that go ahead and click on this link right here register for the next live event click on it enter your name your email address I already did it so I'm already in the uh live page so that's it name email address and you're already inside and you can watch the live event from the landing page right here or just from going to our YouTube channel and seeing the live episode from there you'll also get a reminder when the live is about to happen so that's why I do suggest registering for the next live event and not just trying to remember that it will happen next is the product finding blog articles so this is for those who like to read don't really like watching YouTube videos don't really like going through uh software so here you simply have it all written down in a blog article so right now for example top 10 hot selling products to drop ship in January uh 20125 of course by the time you're watching this video this is probably a bit outdated maybe you're already in uh June or July or just kind of throwing it out there but of course go to our blog page it will be more updated like I said I'm in the last couple days of December at the moment so uh January 2025 is uh brand new all of the strategies that I'm going through now by the way it's all very super relevant for all of 2025 and even Beyond so even if you're watching this video in 2026 you'll still see that I would say 95% of the info that I'm giving is still very very relevant but of course my 2026 video is going to come up with the next strategies for 2026 with all the new stuff that's going to happen later in 2025 and also um as we step into 2026 so be sure to watch these videos once a year when I pop them out the full tutorials as I'm doing them now so the blog article also has these products as you can see right right here you're going through the uh products one by one and it also gives you a whole bunch of screenshots how much these products cost how much they're selling for what is the estimated profit range and so forth and you've also got the best product categories to drop ship on eBay so I just left that link under the blog articles if you want to get to know some of the uh best categories as well and the subcategories that are really going well for them so for example you've got uh the home and kitchen Niche then you've got all of the home and kitchen uh sub niches that go well like artificial plants uh coffee makers stand mixers candle holders uh picture frames and so forth okay so I'm not going to uh dwell too much on that now because you have that all here you've also got Google Trends and Google Lens so utilizing Google Trends and Google Lens will help us try to understand also what products people are searching for or what Search terms people are searching for at the moment and Google Lens also helps us do some reverse research to find other websites that are selling a similar or that have an image that we are currently looking at right now so for example we're looking at an image and we want to see other places where we can get it okay so let's just go back to this inflatable uh shampoo Basin product so if I rightclick on it and you can only do this through uh Google Chrome browsers you have the search for Google Lens option as you can see here so I'm just going to click on that and now it's searching the internet for other websites that have this picture so that I could find other people who are selling it or cheap suppliers that I can use to Source it with now this isn't going to be my number one sourcing method I'm going to show you a really cool way to Source your products but this is still another way to find other suppliers who are selling it so you can see here on the right side I have a whole bunch of results like uh uh Amazon so like just for example let's click on the Amazon one just to see what is the price there um yeah I'm seeing other ones but they're kind of similar but not exactly I think this one's goes a little bit deeper but it cost $759 and this is just one option right so I can go back and see what other options I have here so we have it on Shane we have it on timu um we have it on Alibaba for some reason I don't see it on AliExpress though I'm sure that it's there as well maybe it's just not an image that looks like that here we go this is the AliExpress one okay so you can also find it here and then we can see that here it cost $646 it looks like the same exact variation but anyway this one is 646 uh shipping will probably be another $2 because it's less than $10 and that's usually what AliExpress does you can see right here free shipping is right only over $10 so add another $2 for shipping uh but still it's around eight bucks and um that's how you can find uh and and source to cheaper suppliers and what you're seeing just from the help of by the way I don't know if you guys just saw but I got a new offer okay let's just see this offer that I just got live to see I'm going to show you guys how you can enable all these offers of course when we get to it so here for example I got an offer from a buyer and again we're going to do offers soon and I'm going to show you guys ways to promote your products using promoted listings and uh things like that and you can also see right here it says this offer came from a promoted listings ad so I want I want to show you guys how to do all of this but because it just got a live example let's just jump to it really quickly so this listing is being sold for $13.99 and he's making an offer for $12 so the profit here is not very high I probably can't go that low but the way that I'm going to do it I'm going to check how much profit I have here so I'm just going to copy the product ID the eBay item ID so I'm going to go back to autods and I'm just going to search for that product here for the product ID okay under products and so it found it for me here I'm going to click on it okay and here's the product I can see that I'm buying it for $5.99 selling it for 13.99 so the profit here is about $5.90 if I give the buyer uh $2 off which is what he's asking for I'm not going to make that much profit it is a low ticket item anyway but let's see exactly how much profit we can make so I clicked on the uh product to open up the editor so I'm going to click on the variation just to see the pricing here again I'm going to walk you guys through all of this but if right now I'm making about 198% profit if I bring this down to $12 I'm going to make around $421 that's still 70% profit margin again it's not very high but it is another sale I'm not going to say no to money so I'm going to accept that offer so to do that I'm just going to go back to the uh offer that I got from this guy and I'm just going to click here on accept offer okay so I'm going to accept his $12 by the way I could make a counter offer off right so if I go back I could say you know what I'm going to make a counter offer right here but and and so instead of 12 you know let's let's maybe sell for $12.99 I could send this counter offer he may accept it he also may not but just for the sake of this example let's accept that offer and make a sale okay so I'm just going to accept the $12 again it's not a lot of money $4 but again it's money we're not going to say no we like selling low ticket medium ticket and I definitely like selling High ticket items so just made an another uh $12 sale so I have a few uh sold items that I need to fulfill the orders I'm I'm waiting on it because I want to show you guys how to do it so we saw the Google Lens uh so we're just right clicking on the image and we see other we can find other sources that way and there's also Google Trends okay so you have a link to it here if you want to learn further deeper how to utilize Google Lens in order to find uh products that are um trending right now not product but search phrases okay and you can get a lot of examples here okay so if right now let's say you're uh in December you have a feeling that maybe Christmas is you know happening right now so you want to see exactly when does Christmas spike in Search terms when do people start searching for Christmas products and this will help you understand when it's a good time to list Christmas items and start making those sales as well now while I did say that we are going for a general store we're still going to sell seasonal products as well because seasonal products Peak very very high so suddenly you start making a lot of sales but then after the season is over it just suddenly drops so you don't want to put all your business on that so you do want to have Evergreen products Evergreen products are products that sell all year long okay so from January until December it maintains consistent sales and seasonal products are going to give you huge Peaks and then huge drops so you want to take advantage of both so you're always making consistent sales while also taking advantage of the huge profits that you'll get from the seasonal products as well so what I did was I searched for Christmas I kept it on the United States uh in the uh country that's searching uh past 90 days okay we can also go from uh let's say from the past 12 months we can see exactly what which month it starts to happen so you can kind of see that here so Christmas we can see the drop here during the end of December which is right now because Christmas is happening as I speak today's CHR or yesterday was Christmas uh today's boxing day I believe and uh it picks up as we can see right here around September towards the end of September start of October that's when the searches start to go up this is when you want to start uploading products for Christmas because this is when people start searching for it and so by the time you reach around here and other drop shippers are starting to wake up a little bit late you're already way ahead of the competition because you started to upload the products right here the organic search results started to work to your favor and other drop shippers that are waking up late are simply going to be late to the party so I like to use Google Trends to help me understand when the seasonalities usually start for certain products and then I kind of just continue by my own experience uh because I already tested okay so I already went through the uh trials and errors and then you start to learn how to do these things by yourself but in the beginning you're going to use these tools to really be able to pinpoint the right times and so that's why I use both Google Trends and Google Lens next is supplier best sellers so we still haven't started the suppliers yet I still haven't showed you the large amount of suppliers that you can work with whether retail or wholesale suppliers or PR suppliers which I believe is best especially for platforms like eBay mainly all of these suppliers that I'm going to go through they all have these like bestseller Pages like you saw me already when I went to Amazon and I clicked on best sellers or uh new releases which is also good to help you understand what products just came out right now on the market but it's better to have some experience on what products to look out for here and I just jump straight to the biggest new releases and definitely not here in uh Amazon renewed anyway we're going to go through all the do's and don't soon you also got mov and shakers on Amazon which I also uh really like to use because it shows you the best sellers in ranks in the last 24 hours so here you can see what products started to work really well just in the past day or two okay but again this requires a little bit more experience because this is mixed with products that are not good for drop shippers and those that are like I would definitely check out this flying disc here um maybe this cooling pad for the laptop some nice looking stickers but I would stay away from the uh walking machines you can sell sell these but around $200 price point it's way too much to start off with uh and I would stay away from U you know big Brands and things like that after Christmas it's a really good time to sell these uh Christmas tree uh bags but anyway that's just another uh indicator you can go for example to AliExpress and check out the AliExpress Drop Shipping Center so if I highlight if I just hover over my name here and I'll go to my orders then you've got the Drop Shipping Center right here it's called DS Center and this is uh just to help drop shippers understand what products are selling well at the moment in the market and so you can just kind of play around here and uh find some trending product ideas uh they give you a nice little product analysis that you can do as well so for example if I click on one of these products like let's say this bow and arrow kit right here which looks pretty cool okay so I don't know if this is selling well of course I can search for the title on eBay and like I showed you see how much uh uh it's trending if it's even in demand I think it's the best way to check products um but I would go back here on the crop shipping center and I would click on product analysis and I would drop the link right here to that product that I want to analyze and now it's basically going to show you a whole bunch of other products that are similar to this one that are selling really well right now on AliExpress so you see all of these uh bow and arrow uh kids toy products even this pink one which is pretty cool so this one is actually uh more for girls so it kind of it's kind of different cuz everything you're seeing here looks kind of the same then you got this you know this one that stands out so I would also consider that and here you can see how many orders it has uh and other information which I think is not that relevant but again what I would do here is I would look for the ones that don't look like the rest of them like this pink one right here and then I would search for that on eBay okay so here for example kids bow and arrow set and I can see a whole bunch of sellers who are selling it again on the left side I am going to see only products that sold I don't care seeing listings that don't sell and we're going to untick completed items so only see whatever is in stock that is making consistent sales so I can see one right here okay let's see how much this guy's selling it for he sold it um today okay he had a sell today so I can see he's already selling it $28.99 and how much was it on AliExpress so it's $429 with shipping included free shipping one thing that's important though is to always make sure that you have tracking information available as you can see right here it says tracking available with this free shipping method and this one delivers pretty quickly less than two weeks this is what customers are looking for this is great okay so $429 for this set where we can see that he's selling a ilar one right Two bows two arrows uh two big targets and three smaller ones this is actually a much much better pack and you can see at the reviews here are good I would also check out the seller see who is the seller that's selling it is he established on AliExpress or is he relatively new this one is relatively new he's been active on the platform for just about a year uh so I would check him out a little bit more and check out his reviews but because this product has good reviews um I wouldn't worry too much about this one and you can also read the reviews down here you can see the uh customers images they're very happy with this product so $429 he's selling it for two times that price and he sold already 25 units and I already found a better package this is a much better package in what he's selling okay it even looks better right the the bows themselves but check out the whole package deal here you're getting three small targets and two uh mediumsized ones here you're getting two mediumsized ones and six smaller ones and let's see ammunition we're getting two for each and also this little holster over here whereas here we're not getting any of that okay let's look at the whole package okay you're getting two Quivers here and 20 arrows this is still much much better so two times for less you're going to pay two times less you're going to make um you can sell this easily for $27.99 make some great profit and I just got that from a second of product research on AliExpress's uh Drop Shipping Center granted AliExpress did show me this product because I did check out a similar one before that I found from the autods marketplace so when you search for a product on AliExpress it's to show you that as a recommended these are other products that I searched for before so you do have to have some kind of a search history on AliExpress before but in any case good place to find insights okay and last but not least we also have the uh Ebay reverse product research which I showed you with the eBay uh history hack so let's just do that really quickly for that bone arrow product because I see that this seller just sold it now he's also a top rated seller you may notice that he is number one on the search results also because he has a lot of feedbacks right I think even more than me I'm only on 367 he's on 31,000 that's pretty crazy 99% just like me and top rated set are just like me so I would probably be second or third place here if I would uh list this product and it doesn't matter I mean even being third place is fine you got a cheap price and you can see that these are selling pretty quickly like this one just s sold a couple days ago this one as well so I do see a nice Trend here for kids bow and arrow sets Okay so take that into consideration too like these are all selling right now all of these have sold in the last couple of days I just want to check out his selling history really quick so let me just put the URL hack here then just put the item id here remove the rest I want to see how often he sold this cuz he sold it 25 times and look he was always selling it for $28.99 look how many times he sold it this month so let's take a look at the profit I would say around just off the top of my head $7 $8 in profit times 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 that's around7 $80 profit no questions asked for this product just from this month from one product this is why I want you to do product research the right way and start from the top start from what's selling well right now instead of starting from the bottom which I had no choice uh back in the day and product research just used to take a lot more time this is how to do product research today and he also told it plenty of times in November as you can see right here and he started really cheap you see 2429 he sold it once twice three times he also did a special offer a sell as I just did right now and he sold two units there um and then he started raising the price like okay let's make some more profit $26.99 then he dropped it to $25.99 sold it again twice and he's like okay let's let's go back up again 26.99 26.99 let's go back up let's keep going up $27.99 27.99 then he went back down to$ 26.99 for a couple of sells and now he's up to 28.99 special offer sold to units $28.99 easy easy money so you have all of that plus plus eBay terapak now you can only use eBay terapak after you have some uh sales on eBay and after eBay sees what you're selling so you have an article linked here on how to use it but basically eBay terap peek gives you much more insights as to what products are selling well around the products that you're already selling so let me just show you a live example of what that looks like so it should be here under research okay I'm going to click on that and then sourcing insights so they Chang the name it used to be called ter terap now they call it uh sourcing insights and this is another place so here while you can really see the categories because these are my uh top starters at the moment I really want you guys to do your own research but I'm giving you all the tools and resources in order to do it this is going to show you what are the bestselling categories right now how much the search volume is how much active listings you have there what is the search to listing ratio and the sell through rate which is absolutely great so this one for example which I know you guys cannot see but there's a great opportunity as eBay says right here this category has a higher search listing ratio and sell through rate than kitchen tools and gadgets you're selling in kitchen tools and gadgets but here's another category that's close to that that's selling a lot better okay so eBay is kind of giving you all of that under the uh terapak or whatever they're calling it now sourcing insights so you can take advantage of that but only after you start selling and eBay gathers data on the types of C products and categories that you are selling so those are the best product research method strategies that you have today along with what I said like go to like best sellers and seeing okay this is a bestseller right now let's see how that's working on eBay and then you have to move over to the validation part okay soon I'm going to show you guys all the supplies that you can use so you can do your manual research there and then do that reverse product research strategy to validate it on eBay and my recommendation of course is to use the autods marketplace to find the winning products and then find someone who's selling those products successfully on eBay filter buy sold items uncheck completed items I got the whole step byep for you here in the eBay cheat sheet use the sales history hack to view the selling history If the product has potential optimize and upload it to your store rinse and repeat and you'll find your winners so I already found some right here while doing this um live uh search this live product research session but it goes much much deeper than this and this again guys is where you have to put most of your time into product research do your due diligence do your homework and put in hours and hours of work into product research more than anything else around your store store okay remember that it's all trial and error and the cool thing about Drop Shipping is that especially on eBay you're going to get 250 free listings so once you open up your limits and you can list 250 that's not going to cost you any money so now I got 250 Best Sellers from products that I saw that are selling well from other Sellers and once some of those start to sell it's like great I'm starting to get get data on what's selling well I'm starting to see what products are in demand and the other products I would give them around 1 month if they don't sell in a month I would go over them and then I would start to optimize okay this one didn't sell but it's getting a lot of views so I'm going to give it another month to check it out but these barely got any views and it doesn't look like it's going to you know move anywhere so I'm just going to delete them and we're going to replace other products instead of them so you can always do this rinse and repeat process until you have 250 really really good listings the sales and profit will come it's inevitable when you follow these steps and then you can use that profit to reinvest back into your business grow your eBay stores get the next store subscription get more listings and this is the way to grow and this is what I've been doing for years and years and I'm probably not going to stop because I got to the point where it's so easy for me and I want it to be easy for you as well okay so that is my recommended product research strategy you got all the step-by-step all the links here inside the cheat sheet # eBay 2025 let me know what is your top takeaway what did you really learn what did you like about this video and I will share the link with you and have everything that you need to succeed with your business so before I start showing you how to add the these products to your store and how to fulfill orders and how to deal with returns and how to maintain a high seller level and all of that let's get to know about the products to avoid selling on eBay I did Hint it a few times but let's go over really quick no copyrighted no trademark product so this means guys no apple no Samsung no Sony no Nintendo no Adidas no rebok nothing that you've heard of before if you've heard about it it's branded you cannot resell it but you can sell products that are made for them not from them for example you can't the uh iPhone for example but you can sell a case for an iPhone right so long as it's not created man manufactured made from the brand itself or from another branded company so like all of these you're good to go it's not an Apple product it's for an Apple product so you can sell products for trademarks but not from the trademarks no age restricted products no pornography no alcohol no tobacco none of that stuff if you think about it and you know that it's bad just don't sell it no dangerous goods no guns no ammo no flammable liquids no choking hazard toys just stay away from that no medicines no vitamins no supplements now the thing is there's a whole bunch of products that you cannot sell but there's even more products that you can sell so don't worry about what you cannot sell just stay away from it no matter how much you think you can profit off of it it's just not worth it in the long run and the cool thing here is if you're using software like autods that has the uh eBay Vero Checker then here you won't really need to worry about anything cuz if you try to add a product that you cannot resell you will get a warning message from the system hey this product is Vero Vero is a verified uh owner rights program something like that you have a article to it right here so it's linked in the cheat sheet and you can learn dive more deeper into this into what products you cannot sell and how this whole Vero system works but just so you know when you try to add a product to autods you're going to get a message like this a manufacturer name contains a veril word a keyword Apple so go over this product really quick see if you really want to uh add it maybe it's not an Apple product maybe you want to check it out first before we you know go ahead and add it to your store so again stay away from all these uh types of products and you will get that warning message anyway now this database by the way is always updating with new uh entries inside the Vero program so you'll always be updated with the latest all right let's jump into eBay Drop Shipping suppliers this is really important almost as important as product research because you did your product research you found a whole bunch of products that you're ready to sell but now who am I going to list these product who has these products that I can list it from them and s it on my store so that when I get orders I can use those suppliers to fulfill the orders and send it to my customer and get my profit okay so this is really important there are suppliers all around the world and we want to choose the right ones not just based on their locations and how fast they can ship but also by the quality of their products by their returns and replacement policies by how fast and reliable their customer service is by the product range so you know obviously you don't want to work with a supplier that only sells a few products and by competitive product prices even though we're still going to source and we're still going to look for cheaper suppliers we still want to use them as the regular Baseline so let's jump into the best eBay Drop Shipping suppliers that we can work with in all of their sizes shapes and forms so those are the main things to look for in a supplier but who are the best eBay drop Shing suppliers what are the differences between them how do we find them so I'm going to start with my most recommended one and this may not come as a surprise but there's also a good reason for it so of course it's going to be the autods marketplace with the private suppliers and we've also got retail suppliers which we've been supporting for years and years now I'm also going to share with you the other ones you see I have a whole list ready for you here but again I'm going to start with my top recommendation because this really works the best so the thing with eBay is they don't mind Drop Shipping you can read all about their Drop Shipping policy but they don't really want you to work from retailers so this doesn't mean that it's not possible and it's kind of a gray area because I'm also doing it so you can see for example uh Amazon and Walmart and Home Depot these are retailers right Costco these are other marketplaces or or other retail chain stores which you can use to upload their products and you'll enjoy automation with all of that so what I mean by automation is you can easily import products from any of these suppliers to your store in a matter of seconds and all of the data all of the images the titles the uh descriptions everything will move over to your store in a matter of seconds and you'll also have price monitoring stock monitoring so if the prices or the stock levels ever change it's going to change on your store as well you can also add in order automation price optimization all these things that I'm going to go over soon but basically what this means is you can get products from all of these so we're looking at millions and millions of products and you can just list them on your store and enjoy automation from all of these suppliers and another thing that you can do here is also search from different regions so if for example you want to sell on eBay Germany so if you're using uh German suppliers and you're selling on eBay Germany then of course your target audience is Germany so you can click here on Germany and here you can see okay well there's not a lot but I can use Amazon products I can use Shopify stores as my supplier you can't use eBay when you're using eBay as your selling channel so you can skip out on that but if you were selling somewhere else like for example you can sell from eBay as your supplier to your Shopify store or to your Amazon store but that's not what we're doing here uh costway and dhgate so they all have warehouses in Germany and so you can use them to ship quickly to your target audience okay but that's basically what that means so for example you want to Target the US audience so you only want to filter by USA warehouse location and here we have a lot more suppliers that we can use for that okay so that's how you can kind of narrow down on your uh location and ship quicker so these are the retailers but my top recommendation would be to work with private suppliers so we already went to the autods marketplace right here and we saw that here inside the marketplace you can choose a supplier right here and here you have some retailers like the ones we just went over but the top one is autods suppliers and there's a big Advantage with working with autods private suppliers the biggest Advantage is that eBay actually wants you to work with private suppliers and not with retailers when they do the verification in the beginning they could also ask you who are your suppliers and here you can tell them flat out I work with private dropshipping suppliers and that'll just make it much easier for you so let's say I want to go with uh Sports and Fitness right so I click on that and here I see a whole bunch of products whole bunch of uh different suppliers and if you like one of the products here you can also click on the supplier's name here okay so this guy's name is oliveras burias but then other ones also have customizable branding and this is where you can really really stand out so what this means is this product can ship out with your branded design as a welcome card next to the product so this way you can really sort of brand your products and your customers will will remember your store because even when you're drop shipping and usually this isn't possible for drop shippers you know if you're purchasing only one item no one is going to send it out with your branded logo on it but now it's POS for example we're looking at a veteran patriotic uh pickle ball paddle and we can add customizable branding so this means that if I import this product to my store and we can see that it ships from the US so it's great for my us audience it chips really quickly within 69 business days and if I import this to my store and I sell it then it's going to go out with my branded logo where can I put my branded logo right here in the autods settings here on the right side we got Store settings and then I've Got The Branding settings right here so I would upload my logo right right here right now I'm just using the autods logo and this is what's going to go out every time I sell this product so it's really nice to have that extra branded effect and again importing is really easy you like this product click here on import draft another thing is that you can also message these suppliers so all of these private suppliers you have direct access to them you can click here on message just supplier and now it opens up a chat window between me and them and here I can start writing to them Hello nice to meet you I'm a drop shipper I have a few questions about this and that or whatever you have a private chat with these private suppliers so it gives you another real nice Edge to the private suppliers Marketplace and also again the fact that eBay wants you to work with private suppliers instead of using retailers so it's also going to give you another Advantage so if you like the supplier you can also click on their name to see what other products they're selling so for example if I click on uh this Jane Zang I can see all of the products that they sell and it's mainly around the same Niche from what I see here okay but also nice to know that we have that option and we also got the autods warehouse so autods also has a warehouse in China so sometimes under the supplier's names you will be able to see autods Warehouse like here right so all of this these products and these you see are not just from one Niche so we've got these backpacks these uh AB uh muscle stimulators this uh Smartwatch and all of these products so these are all trending products we do our own research we bring the best products to our warehouse and this chips out from China but still reaches within 14 business days the uh US market or uh pretty much anywhere else so you can also work with the autods warehouse which will give you a hug huge huge advantage and this way you are working with private suppliers and this is what I recommend to do when you're looking for suppliers you can work with them and you can even Source through private suppliers so even if you're not working with them even if you're adding products let's say from AliExpress you can still Source it through private suppliers if you have a cell so I'm going to get you this stuff soon but this is my top go-to when it comes to looking for what suppliers to work with now as for the rest of the recommendations here this is all different types of suppliers mainly around specific niches so if for example you want to find a supplier in a specific Niche or in a specific uh country location then you can do that here so for example let's say you want the jewelry nich so you got jewelry Drop Shipping suppliers right here you click on it and you'll go to a full blog article that will go over the best jewelry Drop Shipping suppliers as you can see right here it's very detailed you have the pros and cons you've got the comparisons and everything else that you need there and also an embed video so if you like to watch you can watch and if you're the type that likes to read you can read in any case all the information is there so here for example you've got jewelry suppliers pet suppliers clothing Drop Shipping suppliers Drop Shipping gifts UK suppliers clothes UK suppliers candles print on demand in Australia medical supplies which you do have to be careful but there are some products that you can sell there and some supplies that you can find lingerie Australian Drop Shipping suppliers Florida suppliers Canada UK USA wholesale European and how to find these Drop Shipping suppliers and more so this is more than enough for what you need to find the best eBay Drop Shipping suppliers with my top recommendation and examples that I gave you from the autods marketplace especially with private suppliers so when you dive into all this you're going to learn a whole bunch about Drop Shipping suppliers which you probably didn't know that you can use and a whole bunch of products inside them that you didn't know that you could sell so this is all going to help you a lot with my top recommendation now now what do you do with these suppliers so you found the products you found the suppliers you're ready to start selling right we did everything the right way up until now and now it's finally time to start listing these products on our stores and get to selling so this is the best way to add products to your store to save time we're going to do it with automation so you already know how to manually import a product only when you're doing it from your suppliers it's going to take a little bit more work and let me show you what I mean so if for example we take a product that we want to sell okay let's take AliExpress for example let's say this is the product that we want okay now let's do it the manual way so I'm going to go to eBay I'm going to open up my listings and I'm going to create a new listing okay so now we're selling a kids bow and arrow set right this isn't the title but this is kind of what we're selling right it's just like the main keywords okay now eBay is like oh is this the product that you're selling no we're selling a different variation so I'm going to click here on continue without match it's a new product continue to listing very similar to what we we did when I listed that first product only here it's not a product I have laying around here so I have to download all the images from AliExpress which isn't that easy AliExpress doesn't give you that right off the bat you can't really download here so you're going to have to use an extension called AliExpress image sa something like that and it'll give you these options over here so I can click here it'll download all the main image click here download all the variant images click here download all the description images um of course we're going to have to move the title over even though we're going to optimize it I'm going to show you guys the best optimiz ation option soon but here's where you're going to copy the title paste it go to the description and find the text here if any and paste it there so it it all gets very tedious especially when you need to list tens hundreds and then thousands of products but you can still do it here uh just move everything move all the information over here I'm not going to do it now because it really is time consuming but I'm pretty sure that you get the idea the only thing that you want to watch out for is of course the item location so here this one is not shipping from the United States so I'm not going to keep it there since I know it's coming from China I have to use a different zip code a different city state because it's coming from China so here what you need to do is first of all choose the right country so I would choose China on the drop- down menu and I'm going to need to give a city and state from China so while I don't know exactly what the city and state is where this product is coming from I can pretty much choose any that's coming from China and that will also work so in order to know what item locations you can use use I added this to the tools and resources so you've got us Warehouse locations China Warehouse locations UK Australia Europe all the main countries that you may be shipping from and it's just going to be easier for you to find a uh an address uh that you can use for your warehouses so let me show you exactly what I mean by that so let's say I'm looking for uh somewhere in China so my item location here is asking for a city and a state so I can just look here okay under the uh China warehouses link that I have there in the cheat sheet and here I'm just going to choose let's say City uh let's see uh ha and yaai District okay and that should be it okay so it really doesn't matter as long as you are choosing the right country don't lie and say that it's coming from the US if it's coming from China for example then we're going to click on done and you can continue with the listing you don't really need me here cuz we've already been through this this is the manual way to do it which again I don't recommend but you can work with this way and you have all the tools and resources that you need here now my favorite way of adding products which is of course the auto ated way because this one saves us a whole bunch of time is to use autod DS's oneclick importer or the multiple product importer so how exactly does this work let's say we want to add once again this bow and arrow product okay let's just stick with this one since we're already here it doesn't matter which supplier you use okay you can take a product here from the autods marketplace or from the handpick products and it's really easy to import a product simply by clicking here on import okay so you can do it from within the autods system when you find a good product and you validated it on on eBay using the strategies that I showed you but if you're taking an outside supplier right like AliExpress or Amazon or Walmart or one of those retailers or wholesalers that I showed you CJ Drop Shipping so what you're going to have to do here is you're going to have to copy the URL for the product right so let's say I want this product I'm going to copy the URL then we're going to go here to autods and I'm going to click here on add products before that of course you have to add your eBay store I didn't really go over that but it's a very simple straightforward process and when you register for your autods trial then it already asked you what store you would like to connect so you probably already did it if not you can just click right up here then you're going to click here on ADD store you're going to choose eBay store click on continue and as long as you're logged in the connection will be quick if not it'll go to your eBay login page log into your eBay account and your store will be connected now once that happens you can start adding products to that store so once again either import draft directly from the autods marketplace and winning products Hub or click here on add products and here you've got the single and the multiple products so I just want to focus on these two first is the single products so this is if you just want to add one product really quickly to your store so let me just choose that option which store do I want to add it to so in this case I'll add it to my first eBay store one so here I'm just going to add the URL that I copied this is the product that I want to add to my eBay store my supplier Source here is Aliexpress the warehouse is China so I can either edit now the product or I can publish it directly to my store because I do want to optimize it I'm going to go with edit now quick okay and here in just a couple seconds later I've got all of the det details here you can see that the draft upload process completed and I've got the products title right here let's just zoom in a bit so you can see it better so I've got the products title here this is the store this is the supplier here I can add an internal note for the product if there's anything that I want to write about it I can add it here and only I will see it so now let's start the product optimization and then I'll show you the multiple way to uh add products but this part is really important to get down because I want your product page to be different than others and the title on eBay is really really important whatever title you go with with is going to Define how well it's going to work on eBay search engine because at the end of the day someone is searching for someone to buy and they're going to search by using eBay search function and the better your product title The More close it is to whatever someone is looking for the higher the chances of you being way way up there on eBay search results especially in the beginning when your store is not established and you don't have a th000 feedbacks and all of that so here we've got the title we want to optimize this title to the best of our abilities and there are a couple ways of doing so one is using the eBay title Builder which is absolutely free to use I've got a link to it right here under the tools and resources so you can go here and build a title for your product okay so you're going to go here and you're going to write right here in the search bow and arrow keep it as simple as you can okay now it's searching up all the search phrases on eBay and it's seeing what's being searched for the most and this is also going to help us build a nice little title so we can see here that that this keyword has about 35,000 searches uh in a month uh the competition score how much sales these keywords has and and what people are searching for the most so we can see right here 20in hunting inch hunting crossbow hunting crossbow bolts of course this isn't what we're selling but if this was related to the product that we were selling then you can start building a title here so I see that a lot of people are searching for archery arrows let's say that's the product okay just as an example okay so I would click on that it's starting to build the title okay then I would go to next this is the hunting uh Niche so I didn't search up the right product in this case but this is how you would build a title if of course it was relevant let's say for example you're searching for an LED dog collar okay probably a much more bigger search phrase so let's say you're building a title around this product so let's say LED dog collar okay that's the product that's what it is it's relevant so you're going to click on it and it's starting to build a title here okay next uh dog color blinking so I don't want to repeat the same words but blinking is also good so let me click on that and just remove the words that I already have so I already have dog I already have collar we're going to leave blinking here and continue night flashing light flashing light up also relevant so let's also add that okay so we're not repeating words we got the right spaces in between them and you're going to continue building a title here as you can see you can go up to 80 then you're going to copy the title and paste it over to your title on the product however there is a much better way to do it and that is optimizing the title with AI directly from within the autods system so you see that I got this option right here optimize title with AI I can click on that and I could say okay you can do the title you can do the description and you can do both title and description so let's do that okay cuz I don't want this title doesn't look good good kids bow and arrow set LED light up archery toy set for Kids 4 8 812 with 10 Su it's way too long it's it's kind of randomized uh keywords all bunched up together and it's way too long it's 127 characters out of the 80 that we can use so we do want to use as close as we can to the 80 because it will just show up you know with more keywords on eBay search engine but we want it to be as good as refined as optimized as possible the description as well let's see what we got here we don't even have a description we only have images which is not that good even though images have text and and some of them can actually be really good and relevant to the product still not going to use it because we still need text okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to optimize them both so again I'm going to click here on optimize title with AI I'm going to choose title and description this does require an AI balance you do get a free balance when you get your autods when you register for a new account and and you will just be able to up your package by buying more but in any case I really recommend using it because this is what automation is all about and it just saves you a whole bunch of time and time equals money so choose a tone for the title make it sound more professional sellable funny optimize it for social networks I'm going to keep it on professional same thing for the tone of the description you can also choose a temperature I'm going to keep it on balance you can go with more creative more precise okay then just use AI write and now let's see what title and description it makes for this product okay I can see that it's already working its magic right here in the background we're going to give it a second to finish and of course you can do this in a bulk fashion which I'll also show you soon but right now we're just doing single product okay so it finished I'm just going to go ahead and click on Save and we'll just see the results right here okay so 78 out of 80 characters it really did do a good optimization here LED bow and arrow set for kids ages 4 to 12 with 12 suction cups arrows and Target straight to the point doesn't feel randomized and the title is within the limits that we can use so that is absolutely great let's keep this title no effort there and you can also check to see that nobody else is using this exact title on eBay okay so let me just search for that same exact thing and yeah this person starting the title with vever kids he's even like writing the manufacturers or the um reseller's name over here this is the Bungalow the guy who uh is selling it a lot we got light up kids bow and arrow indoor outdoor Archer game for boys and girls so some of them do optimize the titles a bit some of them don't they even leave the other sellers names here but nobody this guy didn't do any optimizing and he's still selling you can see last one that means that he sold kids bow and arrow set LED light up archery toy set 10 he even optimize it how you can see the commas you can see this last word here is being cut off and he's still selling even without optimization so imagine what you're going to do with optimization so nobody has this title only us because we use this AI tool that's already built in autods next we've got the category it's automated it's inside archery sets and kit so we don't have to touch that tags as well and tags is good for further optimization which I'll show you later in the products page but let's say you have uh 10,000 items in your store and now you want to see exactly how the toys and hobbies is work working for you so you can just use that tag or of course any other tag let's say you're adding a whole bunch of bow and arrow sets so you want to have a uh bow and arrow tag you can just create it by writing it here and clicking on this plus icon here so this is going to create a new tag especially if you're going to sell a lot of these types of items so that's how you can also create other tags add new ones and then further analyze them later on in the products page shipping methods we're going to go with cheapest with tracking you can go with cheapest or fastest with tracking I suggest keeping it on cheapest with tracking it's always going to take the cheapest shipping price and add it to your Source price so that you're going to offer free shipping cuz it's already added in your Source price and you're going to maintain your profit margin we're going to go over uh the profit margin soon so this is the shipping methods I'm always going to go with the cheapest shipping but I have to have tracking cheapest can give you no tracking which is not good cuz then you cannot prove to the customer that the product actually was delivered if they say Hey where's my product I don't know I don't have tracking so I have to give you a refund and I'm probably not going to get one myself we don't want that we always want tracking it also gives us protection and I'm not going to choose fastest with tracking because fastest could cost the most it could take some really expensive I don't know $60 DHL or FedEx and just charge me that I don't want that so I'm going to go with cheapest with tracking and that usually works pretty well when you're working with good suppliers you can use Dynamic policies so it'll create its own shipping payment and return policies but because we already created our policies and we know exactly what to use here you've got the drop- down menu here with the policies that you already created so here we've got at the payment policy it's always the same one shipping policy is whatever shipping policy you're going to go with here I would go with the five business days okay I've only got the three business days from right here but you created your five business days so you're going to use that here I'm only working with suppliers that can ship really fast I already uh tried and tested them so I'm only keeping my three business days uh shipping policy the return policy also you would add it here and the country location the ZIP code so we already talked about that brand just leave it blank so it'll kind of show up as unbranded and then you've got stock monitor ing price monitoring automatic orders I'm going to go over automatic orders soon but stock monitoring price monitoring definitely have that on and now let's move over to the description so first I'm just going to quickly save everything that we did let's move over to description so here we went from zero description because we didn't get any description from the AliExpress seller he just added a whole bunch of of photos in the description there's absolutely no text uh so what the AI did was it took the title it knows how to build a good title from it and here introducing the kids bow and arrow set an exciting Arch toy designed to provide endless fund for children 4 to 12 and then a whole bunch of other specifics what you can do with it what it comes with the material the uh LED lights just makes it really good professional and very sellable and even with this bulleted list with other features and highlights so all of this was done doesn't look like it comes from some uh Chinese seller and it all works I have a title in description that no other drop shipper has and on top of that I talked about creating more variations and I'm going to show show you that soon okay so the next tab is variance so here we've got the three variations same three that we have uh here on AliExpress right this one the blue one and the bow and arrow set we're getting the same variations here we can see that they're all in stock but let's say you want to add more variations so what you would do here you can even go to a different supplier because this one is coming from a Chinese Warehouse I can go to another Chinese supplier or even just keep it here on AliExpress and let's say I want to add another bow and arrow set and now I'm making variations not just a title and description but more variations that no other seller has right so here you can also kind of go high ticket right okay if anyone likes that maybe they'll like this one okay it's really expensive I'm just throwing this as an example but if you found the niche it's working well for you you can take this product here as well okay and add that as another variation so I copy the URL I'm going to click here on ADD variant I'm going to add this extra variant and that's going to be added as another variation to this product we're going to give that a minute to load and now let's check out the VAR viations inside so you can edit each variation so I can click here on edit and here I can see that the Buy price is $142 my fees usually is around 15% that's usually the break even another 30 cents uh even though eBay now uped to 40 cents I'm going to show you later in the settings page how you can get all of this on default so every time you list a product you won won't have to keep changing all of this the extra profit for me is always at least 60% but for this type of product I would even give it 100% profit so this means I need to sell for around 34 I'm buying for 14 I need to sell for around $34 and I've got my total profit here so I'm going to make around $14 profit include the shipping price is important to have it in we already talked about that I will talk about pricing automation soon as well that's what I explained earlier today when um it finds a sweet spot on how to price a product again more on that later round prices I usually use that so 9997 for that psychological effect so I always like to uh usually I have that in as well and general settings I usually don't touch anything here cuz everything is automated but the color of the variation the default quantity uh and all the specifications here the weights the dimensions everything here was automated so I don't really need to touch it I'm going to click on Save and that's pretty much it when it comes to that next is the images page so all of the images got transferred over we of course didn't have to have any extensions to get this done so it's really nice when we are using Automation and so what we can do here is a few things we can change what we want the main image to be on the listing and you can also open up the image editor right here and you can make additional adjustments like cropping the image flipping it rotating you can use a Freestyle hand to draw or of course create straight lines you can add shapes icons and even text so you can write for example a free shipping or change some things around feel free to do it I'm not going to do it now just know that it's there and you can drag and drop the images to show the buyer other images first before the other ones if you want to set another main image just hover over and click here on set as main image and you have another quick uh menu here to remove copy the image r rotate and other things okay so use the advanced image editor for whatever you need so that is the images you can also add additional images so I can click on ADD image and I can either add an image from a URL so for example let's say I want uh this image over here I can just copy the image address and paste it here and it will add it here as well or you can upload an image from your hard drive so download from somewhere and upload it from here and add additional images to the listing last but not least is the item specifications again it's all automated so you don't really need to touch it so for example you can see the material the item origin the country the recommended age and all of those things the dimensions so here you can do a few things one is you can edit whatever you want okay so if you want to change something here you can do that you can remove an item specific you can copy item specifics from another seller by using copy from URL and let's say you like the item specifications that this guy has and it's the same product so you can use the same specifications so you would copy URL and paste it here and it will copy his item specifications instead and you can also add your own item specifications so here for example I would add one call it type and under type would be uh bow and arrow set for example add that and that is pretty much the item specifications you can edit all of them also at once if you need to and when you're done of course you can click on Save when you're completely done like we are now we can click here on Save and import and it'll import to our stores but what I didn't show you is the edit templates over here so if I click here on edit templates and then I'm going to click here on eBay then here you can see a whole bunch of other templates that you can use and this is going to make your store look better so here for example let's say I want to go with um this one uh everything for your home improvement in one place but okay let's say it's not my main Niche uh gr cells Beyond The Great Wall uh it's like this Chinese uh theme we've also got this one which looks pretty nice art drives your passion so let's say you'd want to preview this one I'm going to click on preview it'll show you what this will look like on your store so you'll have the product Title Here the price here the main image here and as you scroll down this is going to be like the main cover image and this here would be the products title and here would be the description so it just kind of makes the whole visual a lot nicer as you can see right here and this is all free to use all included inside your autods membership okay so you have a whole bunch of templates here and again this will just make you look like a real nice store and you didn't really have to put any money down to any designs to get this done and there's also a nice range of free templates that you can use here so for example I go to this seller and you scroll down a bit you can see if they're using a template or not and this one is is using one it's right here I don't know why there's all this extra space here it doesn't look good uh but here you've got the features in details and then you've got this little template over here so it's it's kind of small it doesn't look as good as the ones that you can use but anyway it's a template and you can just kind of Click around here it's a little bit Dynamic but that is pretty much it so that is how you can use this single product importer now there's also the multiple product importer so let me show you how that works so when you're going to add products instead of using single you can click here on multiple and then here you can also choose multiple stores so you can see here that I have a whole bunch of uh stores connected but right now we're only using uh eBay so let's say I could choose uh three eBay stores or two or one it doesn't matter so you're going to choose what stores you want to add the products to and here you're going to start adding the URLs to those products so this way you're going to add multiple products so let's um say we're going to take a whole bunch of products from uh Amazon for example okay so here let's say um I don't know let's search for a general uh Niche let's say um table runners okay let's say you want to add a whole bunch of these to your store it's going well for you or you want to test out this uh uh Niche so let's say you want to add this one and this one and this one and this one and this one okay you did your research you want to add them but you don't really want to do it one by one so you can just copy the URL and go back to autods and paste the URL over here make a line break go to the next product copy the URL come back paste it here line break copy the next one go back paste it here and this way you're adding multiple products and then once I click here on ADD as a draft they're all going to be added to the drafts section of our stores right so here the draft is where all the products go before we start optimizing them and then from here you can open up this quick editor over here instead of opening them all up one by one or I can click right here to open up only that product uh to edit it but the drafts page is where all of the products go before they're added to our stores before they go live so we have room here to optimize them so again we're going to optimize the titles and descriptions and everything that I showed you but this is how you can get a whole bunch of products multiple products to the draft section or directly import them to your store without the drafts but I usually go to drafts cuz I love optimizing my products especially on eBay it makes a big big difference and so all of those products will end up here in the draft section and this is where you're going to start to optimize them using AI is just going to make life so much easier and faster and then you're going to import them once you are done so in the drafts page you can do a whole bunch of other things like bulk edits so let's say I will highlight this uh let's say these four products then I can make a bulk edit like I can remove them I can make a bulk edit add item to edit you can change the fees the additional profit that you want the quantity rounding the scents and a whole bunch of other options which are good to have and use you can import them to your store so let's say you finish optimizing them click on them import them here you can do a bulk AI rewrite which is just going to save you a whole bunch of time you can of course select multiple products like you can click here it's selected every all the 20 products on this page I can select all of the products that I have in my drafts which in this case is $459 and do a bulk AI rewrite for all of them so this pretty much takes care of pretty much everything that you need besides the pricing if you didn't do that before as a default in the settings you can do it here in the bulk edit and you can also schedule to upload them at a later time and date you can also view the history here so you can see all of the changes everything that you did on whatever day right so you can just open one of them and see okay here I optimized those products I added those products so you have a nice little history here and that's it expand all is just going to expand all of them like this uh so you can quickly edit them before importing them to your store once you import them it moves from the drafts to the product section so that is how you can add a single product or multiple products and also really work on optimizing your products and the pages and the templates to really make your product pages look good and stand out much much better than the sellers that we are seeing here even the sellers who are making a lot of money you have the possibility to make more cuz you're also selling trending products but you've got better product titles better descriptions better images and better variations take advantage of all of this because you are going to be the 1% or maybe even less than 1% of drop shippers who are actually doing things right so start importing products to your stores do your product research validate the products import them whether you're using the manual method or the single product importer or the multiple product importer optimize your products in the same exact way that I just showed you how and once you start importing them the sales will start to come in the more products you add especially after validating them with the steps that I showed you you will start noticing the Sals now you may not sell every product that you add and that's fine even me up until today I don't sell every product that I list but the more products I list the more sells I get and the more time passes by the better the ratio of the products that I upload to the ones that actually sell so it keeps improving time over time but you have to start from somewhere and getting 250 free listings from eBay is really going to make your life easier and so now we are going to move over to the eBay marketing and promotions both free and paid methods I can tell you that I'm not using the paid I tried it out a bit in the beginning and I noticed that I'm spending more than I'm actually getting from it but I'm still going to walk you that as well because you do get a lot of data from it but basically I'm working with the fre methods I love spending as least as I could and getting the maximum amount I'm sure that that's what you're looking for also and it's more than enough even if you don't run marketing and promotions you're still going to get sales and it's still pretty much inevitable when you do good product research when you add international shipping from the methods that I showed you your sales are going to go up and I want you to make the most amount of sales as possible so now we're going to go over eBay marketing and promotions and I'm going to show you exactly what I'm doing on my store like for example that best offer that you already saw me making a sale and so right after marketing and promotions we're going to move over to order fulfillment and just to show you kind of quickly how that works we're going to jump into that soon but I want to show you how to do it both manually and automatically automatic of course is my number one method because as you see right here I have some uh orders that are pending I have one from yesterday which I forgot to fulfill but let me show you how easy it is you can get it fulfilled automatically again we'll go over it soon there's a whole bunch of methods you can use here but um basically I'm just going to take the status here and move it from pending to send to Auto order okay and this one as well and now these two products are going to get sent out to Auto order this is the product that I sold from that best offer so I'm waiting for the buyer to pay but in other cases where someone buys from your store you're going to get paid automatically only when you're sending offers and the buyer wins the offer you're going to have to wait for them to pay so you see it says a waiting payment we're going to wait for the payment then we're going to fulfill the order later but basically we can see right here that these two orders are being completed by the fulfilled by autods service I'm going to talk about that but right now everything is being automated for me I don't need to touch it I don't need to order the product I don't need to add tracking information we'll go through through all of that soon but I just wanted to give you a quick glance on order fulfillment before we get to it but first let's do eBay marketing and promotions and up ourselves as much as possible before we move on to order fulfillment these are the right steps for great scalability so now let's move on to the next one so there are free and pay methods as I've mentioned I am sticking to the free methods because it's more than enough to get my sales um we can again run PPC campaigns I'm going to go through everything now and you can decide which is best for your business the reason that I'm not running PPC campaigns is because I did find that it's spending more than it's bringing in so from my experience this is what's working well for me but I have seen others with good PPC experience so again you will learn all of the best methods now and decide which is best for your business I will show you exactly what I'm doing and also what I could also be doing better so when it comes to eBay marketing and promotions when we go to our seller dashboard we've got this marketing right over here so if we hover over it we can see marketing summary discounts buy a group group subscriber discount social and then we also have advertising which has dashboard and campaigns and then if we go to the next tab store we've also got marketing methods here too like for example the store newsletter and social and subscriber discounts so how do we make sense out of all of the marketing methods and which ones actually end up working so first of all let's do a quick summary about the options that we actually have so we've got promoted listings which is something that always existed on eBay this is where we are able to promote our products have eBay sponsor it so it'll be higher up in the search engine and so eBay will also give us the little sponsored text on our uh listing and it'll just be way way up higher on the search results so what happens here is we tell eBay hey eBay take 5% of the transaction price right so if the product sells for $100 on eBay and I give eBay 5% then they're going to take 5% of that transaction on top of the regular category fees the 12% and all of that but we're only going to pay eBay if they are able to make us a sale from that product so I'm not paying every time somebody clicks on that sponsored listing I'll only pay eBay if the person clicks and checks out so I've already made my profit selling this product now I'm going to give eBay whatever I decided under promoted listing standard so this is my advertising dashboard right here and you can see that I've made over 16,000 Clicks in this time frame I sold over 500 and almost 530 units I made about $24,000 in transactions this is only from promoted listings okay from promoted listing standard which means I did pay eBay $1,242 in ad fees but only after I made these sales so my click-through rate from these promoted listings is 1.5% my sales conversion rate is 3.2% which is pretty good and I've got my return on ad Spen here even though eBay doesn't really know because they don't know how much the products actually cost me but in terms of the ads themselves that is the row ass or the return on ad spend so we can see here month by month that I'm getting around an extra 100,000 Impressions per month meaning my listing is now being shown in front of more and more people so 100,000 people see my listing okay whether they clicked on it or not is a different story but they see my listing now because it is promoted so an extra 100,000 people see my listings and then I get these extra sales because of that so if I switch Impressions to for example to clicks then we can see that every month I'm averaging around it looks like somewhere between 1,000 to 1,500 extra clicks just from the promotions that I'm running without spending a dime only after I make a sale and this is why I always work with a profit percentage of at least 60% on top of my 15% break even from the category fees and international selling fees and all of that because I also have to make room for for another 5% which I may have to give eBay if I make a sale from promoted listing standard so I highly recommend everyone to use promoted listing standard and as soon I'm going to show you the dashboard exactly how much I'm giving them and how much is coming out of that but we can also see that right here and then if I click on sales we can see how much revenue I'm making which looks like an average somewhere between $ 2,000 to $3,000 per month extra on my Revenue just from promoted listings standard so that is the ads impact Tab and we can see how much it's actually affecting my store I can also click on ads performance but this one gets a little bit messy so this blue one right here is the clicks uh the Cs are the dark blue one here and the ad fees are all the way this tiny little thing over here so you can see that I'm paying a very small percentage of fees to the actual sales that I'm able to get from that so that is why I only give eBay 5% and I've tried playing with this a lot I tried giving them 1% but then I wasn't getting a lot of views I tried giving them 20% and I was getting a lot of views and sales from that but I also had to up my prices which meant I was a lot more expensive than what I would usually be because I have to give them more of a percentage more of a cut from my sale and I didn't end up with as much profit as I wanted so I found my sweet spot being around 5% and that gave me the most amount of sales while I'm able to give eBay the least amount from my transactions for helping me promote these products so that is the ads overview but I want you to see exactly how much promoted listings is taking up from that because that is the main campaign that I'm running on my store all of the time okay so what I did was I clicked on advertising and campaigns and here I can see what campaigns are running which is basically only one active campaigns which is promoted listings for General meaning all of my listings are being taken up here and so on this I've got 2766 uh listings and since the time I started this campaign which was about more than a year ago it's just running all the time because again I don't have any AD spin here only after I make a sale so it's profitable so let's dive a little bit deeper in let's click on this campaign okay so we can see that it's active these are the same stats that we just saw on that other screen but if we look up here we can see the campaigns configuration okay so we can see that it's active that it's promoted listings standard not the advance advance is pay-per-click the ad rate here is fixed and the ad rate range is 5% because as I said that's what I'm doing in this campaign and it's working out pretty fine for me so I can edit the campaign from here but basically in order to create this campaign first you need to have active listings and it's continuous so this means that every time I add new listings every time I upload new listings to eBay it automatically gets pushed inside this campaign so I don't have to open up the campaign edit it and put new listings that I added inside that's being done automatically so I can click here on edit campaign if if I want to edit something here but there's really nothing to edit in order to set this up we're just going to create a new campaign so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to advertising okay I'm going to click on it to get to the dashboard and then I'm going to create a new campaign and then I'm going to choose promote your listings okay there's also other options like promote your store promote offsite which you can do what it'll do is it'll promote your listing outside of eBay but that's going to be more expensive you're going to have to set a daily budget which is kind of similar to uh PPC payperclick which like I said personally I'm not doing because it wasn't as cost effective for me as just running regular ads that don't cost me any money unless only after I make a sale okay you've also got promote your store the reason that I don't do this is because the store doesn't get as much traffic as the listings that I have inside my store and when someone enters my listing they most likely purchase and when someone just looks at my storefront they most likely won't purchase cuz they're not looking at a specific product and so that doesn't usually drive as much traffic in sales so what I do is I promote my listings each in individual listing being promoted on eBay search engine okay so here I'm going to change it to promote your listings and if I scroll down here then you've got your campaign strategy so here it's priority pay for clicks so they want you to go for that right they're saying hey go with promoted listings Advanced I see that they don't really call it that they're changing the name to priority in general but that's eBay I'm still going to call it standard and advanced because it's easier to differentiate between them that way eBay says hey do a priority campaign you're going to get 200 % more visibility but only here you're going to pay for every click but if you go for a general one or AKA promoted listing standard then you're only going to pay for every time you make a sale which is what I just showed you I have great results from there my sweet spot is around 5% maybe yours can be a little bit less a little bit more just make sure that you're making enough profit if you want to make that number bigger okay so we're going to go with General pay for sales okay so after we choose General pay for sales I'm going to go down to add listings I'm going to click here on manage Rule and here I'm saying okay take all of the products that I have in all my categories in all the price ranges just take grab all of my products now the thing is it's telling me zero qualifying listings because I already have them in my promotions campaign in my original one which you just saw so that's why it doesn't it can't find any new new listings to add to this rule but if you would do this and it's the first campaign that you're running you're going to see all your listings showing up here and then you're going to click on create new rule just keep everything on all because you really want to run this campaign on all your listings cuz you have enough budget to allocate to eBay from your sale so that way you can test out all your products but again here you don't want to go with a dynamic ad rate so after you choose all your listings you're going to go to select ad rate strategy and here you're going to choose fixed ad rate you don't want to go with a dynamic one because then eBay is going to choose automatically what they think the percentage should be and they could suddenly up you to 12% 20% and even more if they see fit okay so you don't want that because you don't know how much they're going to eat up from your profit so you're going to go with a fixed ad rate and they will automatically put 9% I'm going to update that to five again you have to do your own testing here but for me this is what worked the best and you can see that they're saying here hey your ad rate is less competitive it may prevent your ads from being seen we want to take more of your money so can you please update it to 9% that's up to you I'm good with my 5% it's giving me enough sales and profit I'm happy with it you guys can try 10% 15% but make sure to up your profit percentage according because you do not want to make 10% or 20% profit per order okay that is not good profit so I'm going to go with a fixed ad rate 5% and I'm going to scroll down to settings and here you can name your campaign so name it whatever you want and then you got the start date and end date now I would make the end date continuous because you don't really want this campaign to turn off I'm running the same campaign for a very long time now it's on continuous and that's because there's no real reason to turn it off it's working well I can always jump inside and edit some things if I want to or you can turn it off and start a new one in any case I like to have it on continuous but if you're going with pay-per-click ads then you want to keep your eye on this because you don't want the ads to keep running and to keep charging your daily budget if for some reason you forgot to turn it off and it's not really you know driving any sales and now you're just wasting money for these clicks that are not relevant so if you are running paperclick you can have it on continuous just remember to come back and keep an eye or just set an end date so you won't you know end up forgetting and just keep paying eBay money for sales that are not coming in so this is how you would create a new campaign for the promoted listing standard meaning paying eBay only after you make a sale now if you want to go through the whole p-per clicks strategy then I have a link right here in the eBay cheat sheet it's called eBay promoted listings Advanced PPC so how to run an eBay payperclick campaign with Advanced promoted listings you can click on that you've got the blog article you've also got a video embedded inside so you can watch how it's done and here I showed how I run a whole PC campaign uh on eBay and the results I know it's a little bit blurry cuz the video is just loading up now but it's of course obviously in very high quality and here you can learn how to run that campaign how to set it up on eBay a toz everything that you need to know okay I'm not going to go over it now because like I said personally I'm not doing that on my store but you have the whole step by step on how to run that campaign how to set your daily budgets how to choose what listings you want in that how to remove other listings that you don't want in payperclick because when it comes to paperclick I wouldn't recommend marketing all of your products okay you want to do it on a specific Niche on a specific category or a specific set of products and anyway the whole explanation is here so if you want to go with pay-per-click marketing everything you need to know is right here again for a copy to the eBay Drop Shipping cheat sheet all you got to do is head over to this video on YouTube and comment down below eBay 2025 let me know what you learned from this video what is your top takeaway and I will personally comment on your comment with a link to this cheat sheet completely free so we went over promoted listings standard promoted listings advance and I showed you the stats of my promoted listings account now let's move over to other methods that we have on eBay to promote our products now if we look here in the cheat sheet you can see that under eBay promoted listing standard you have a lot more under this content it'll also go over coupons volume pricing sales events sending and receiving offers and other strategies that I use on my store as well so you can read this blog article it walks you through all of these uh sales events that you can do I'll also show it to you now but just so you know you've got everything organized here but now let me show you how I make a lot more sales by simply sending offers to buyers so here I'm going to go to my listings page on eBay and here I've got all my active listings for this store okay so we can see I've got my 2,766 uh active listings and send offer on 13 of your listings on eBay you'll notice that you have watchers okay so I've got the listings here I know they're kind of blurred out for you guys I'm sorry but you are going to have to do your due diligence on your product research and find training products using the strategies that I showed you because that is exactly what I do on eBay you can see the products the prices under the listings page of course you can see the quantity the sold quantity these are all new listings I just had them uploaded now so that's why we don't have any uh viewers or Watchers yet it's just one viewer you can even see here that the start date is less than a day but anyway so you can see how many views you're getting here and your Watchers okay so let me sort by Watchers so that you can see what it looks like when you have listings with a lot of of Watchers okay so let's do it the other way so now we're seeing listings that have a lot of Watchers what this means is people clicked on the product and where it says add to cart you also have uh watch watch this product something like that so you got the watch button this means that every time the stock status changes like the product goes out of stock or it's about to go out of stock or it's coming back from being out of stock now it's in stock or the price suddenly drops on the product anyone who opted to watch your product right or in other words they added it to their favorites list on eBay they're going to get an update a notification on eBay every time one of those events occur if the price changes stock changes and so what happens is when you send an offer it will let all these buyers know who are watching these products hey the seller is running a promotion on this product and right now you can get it for so and so so all of these buyers who are watching my products are now going to get a notification but why is it only sending an offer on 13 of my listings and not all of these hundreds of listings where I have watchers is because I do this every couple of days and you can send offers to all your Watchers every day eBay Waits a few days before you can send them an offer again cuz they don't want to spam them so every couple days it goes from 0 to 13 or 20 and if I wait a couple weeks it's suddenly going to be like a 100 I just do it every few days so now I can send an offer to 13 of my listings so I'm going to do that I could have 30 Watchers on these 13 listings or even more so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to click on send offers and I'm doing this directly from my listings page okay okay I could also do it another way by clicking here where it says send offers eligible so I only want to see the listings that are eligible to be sent offers and then here I can send an offer for this listing here I can send an offer for this listing but this is doing it one by one we don't like doing things one by one we don't like doing things manually we like to automate things so here we can do a bulk grab okay and now it's grabbing 13 listings because these are the exact 13 listings that I can send offers on at the moment and then I'm going to click here on actions and then here I can click on send offers this is the same exact thing as just clicking here on send offers if eBay doesn't give you this notification or if you ex it out then you can just do it from what I showed you below okay so let's click on send offers here on the right side I can see all the products that I can send the offers on I know that it's blurred for you guys but let's do that now so eBay is like okay what do you want to send these Watchers what offer so here you can choose I can give them a certain percentage off or a fixed amount off I always give them 5 to 6% off let's just give them 6% just for the sport customize a message here by default it's going to say here's your chance to get this item at a great price you can change it if you want I can keep it the same doesn't really matter and then it says here send automated offers will automatically send offers to current and new interested buyers until sold I have no problem leaving that on and also allow Conor offers so buyers also send me offers as well I'm going to go over that soon because that's another marketing method but right now let's just send them these offers so I'm just going to leave it on 6% for all of the products that I can and I'm going to click on send okay you just send s buyers 13 new offers I'm going to click here on got it okay and let's see if the sales Will Roll in from that but this is one of the methods that I'm easily able to get free sales on my store so just every few days remember to come back and send offers to people who are watching your products now another thing that I do with my products is I allow buyers to send me offers so if a buyer sees one of my listings and they're like okay I see that it's for $19.99 I'm willing to pay 18 bucks they have a button inside my listing to send me a customized offer and then I would see that in the not no ification screen or on my seller dashboard you can see how many offers you have I don't have any at the moment to demonstrate but in any case you will see it here under tasks where it says uh print labels and ship so you see that right now I got eight orders that I need to uh ship them out so it would be here under tasks or under suggested actions uh respond to offers so in order to activate the offer option so that buyers can send you offers what you're going to do is you're going to go to the listings page and now I want to filter listings that don't have the offer option enabled so there's no autom for this okay I wasn't able to find anywhere on eBay where I can automate this so every time you list new products or once every few days once a week after listing new products remember to come back to your listings page and then on the right side you have this filters option here and I only want to filter products where I can add the best offer too that I haven't added it to them yet once you add it once to a product you don't have to add it again only to new listings okay so here under filters I'm going to click on offers okay and then here you have a few options so send offer sent you can see that recently I sent 31 offers offer sending automatically 1,174 which is great that also goes with the promotions that we're running but look at this best offer added 2324 right it means that I added it to 2,300 but remember that I have like 2,700 listings and that is this missing link right here best offer eligible and look how long I haven't done this for and that's a big shame because I'm missing a lot of sales here so good thing I'm making this video because it reminded me to do it so I do have uh a helper on my store it's a virtual uh assistant a VA I'm going to show you also how to create VA accounts because he's doing such a great job adding products so quickly I need to do this more often where I add it to my best offers okay so again best offer eligible I want to see all the listings that are eligible to add best offers that I didn't add it yet okay so I chose that option and I'm going to click here on see results okay and then here I've got 441 listings where I can add a best offer so of course I'm not going to do it like this one by one that's too much I'm going to bulk grab all my listing so I'm going to click here on this square but it only grabbed 200 that I have on this page out of 441 so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to click on edit and then edit all 441 listings this will open the bulk editor on eBay and now I'll be able to add this offer to all of these listings the best offer option okay so again I'm going to bulk grab all of them and then bulk edit and then I'm going to find offers which is right here by the way you can make more bulk uh changes right as you can see here like changing the policies even though you can do that on autods pretty quickly but there is other things here which you can do like promote them right like add them to promoted listings even though yours is automated your promoted listings and it should automatically grab them but if for any chance it didn't grab them or you want to add a volume pricing or other things which I'll talk about soon you have it here under sell it faster okay but right now we are doing offers so we bul grabbed all of the listings that don't have the option for buyers to send me offers so I'm going to click on that and here I'm going to click on allow offers and I'm not going to make any configuration as to when to automatically accept an offer from a buyer okay minimum offer amount or Auto accept amount okay so no automation here when I get an offer I'm going to get a notification for it I'm going to see it on my seller dashboard I'm going to go into each and every offer see that I have enough profit and either send a counter offer decline the offer which I barely ever do or of course accept the offer and make that sell okay so now I'm going to click on apply offers updated in 432 listings so now buyers can send me off offers on 400 something additional listings and just remember to come back and do this every time you add new listings to your store so set a weekly or a daily or a bi-weekly reminder to come back to your listings and always add best offers because I guarantee you that you're going to get a lot of sales from that just like I am as well so promoted listing standard and best offers for my listings are two of the marketing methods that make me a lot of sales there's a lot of more things that you can do like send coupons add volume pricing create sales events events and send and receive offers which I just mentioned so let me show you how to run those really quick the ones that I haven't went over and then we will continue to order fulfillment because I've got some orders that I I need to fulfill okay so we can see that those orders that I talked about before have already been fulfilled I've got new orders here uh so some are in pending status uh and I need to fulfill them so I'm going to do some of them automatically and some of them also manually if you guys want to also learn the manual way but let's finish up the promotion options that we have so of course I have linked to others like social media marketing and creating a store newsletter and you've got links to how to do all of that but let me run you through it really quick so here you've got a marketing uh summary tab which here you can just create all of your new marketing uh promotions and you can also create discounts which is it will just pretty much bring you to the summary where you can create another uh promotion page I don't really use that you've got buyer groups okay so buyer groups helps you well place your buyers in groups so that you can send them all kinds of uh marketing campaigns you would create some kind of a campaign or or or like a special promotion like okay uh 10% off the whole store or from this date to this date $5 off everything or whatever and then once you have a coupon or a or a sales event that you would like to promote you can create buyer groups and then send specific promotions to specific buyer groups so let's see what examples we have here we can create automated offers for interested buyers this is something that's new and here eBay will send offers to interested buyers who answer a number of conditions like they haven't ever received an offer from this listing previously they haven't purchased that item from you they're watching your it item they had it in their shopping cart for a period of time even if they're not watching it they viewed your listing multiple times or they're a buyer with good standing on eBay so here there's a lot of types of personas or a lot of types of um buyer behavior that can fit this category you've also got your previous customer so you can create a buyer group for customers who purchased from you before and then you can send them offers like for example hey you've purchased here before I've got a special welcome back promotion for you then you can create a welcome back promo code I'm going to show you how to create promo codes as well and you can make them either private or public so if it's public everyone can see it when they enter your listing and if it's private if it's only if you send them that private uh promotion and you've also got a buyer group that you can create from your followers so people who follow your shop who clicked on your shop page and they clicked on follow my shop so again I know that this is a blur Fest but you can see here on my store that um okay besides the positive feedback as we saw 9,000 items sold 241 followers so this is whoever went to my page here and clicked on the follow button uh I don't have that here because I'm the seller but if you would go to another uh seller who's not you you would have the follow button so that's people who actually followed my storefront okay and then you would send them a specific offer so let's see for example let's click on set up automated offers select items you would like to sell faster okay so let's say I want to do it on all of my inventory I don't want to exclude any listings and here the buyer name is interested in all of my inventory okay I'm going to leave it like that on default then you're going to click on next to review the offer okay and then what do you want to give them so what I would like to give right now is 6% off here's your chance to get this item at a great price I'll just leave it at that allow counter offers and automated duration so this will go for about 6 months I have no issue with that whatsoever and yeah let's see if this works as well I haven't tried this one before and you can see it right here congratulations on your first automated offer this is a new one and I was glad to just learn about it and as you see I always like to test things let's see if setting up automated offers for new interested buyers is also going to boost up my sales you can ask me in the comments below and I'll answer you because I'm sure that some time has passed and by the time you're writing the comment I already have some results from that okay so I sent uh an offer to interested buyers previous customers we can do that as well and followers I just did that when I sent them offers from the listings page um I can do this easily but there's really no reason to do it now in front of you you get the point I want to walk you through other marketing methods as well but as you see I always like to test new things we've also got subscriber disc accounts and social okay so let's open up those really quick so social you can connect your Facebook Instagram Pinterest Tik Tok and YouTube accounts here I haven't tried this at least not yet because my social Accounts at the moment are just my personal social accounts but you can always open up new pages or new accounts for your store for your Niche and then you can link it here but then you'll have to be very active on those social accounts upload posts all the time and make sure that you're building a following because then what you can do after you link your social social media account to eBay is you can just promote your products from eBay directly to your social media accounts but if you don't have any followings on those social media accounts it's going to be a little bit more difficult in the beginning to drive that initial organic traffic okay so that is what you're going to do through social and you can also set up automatic posting as well so eay gives you that option that will automatically post new listings that you list directly on your social media platforms so if you do build a following and you have this automation going on that is free marketing for you right there okay eBay is not going to take anything off of that that is completely 100% profit in your pocket okay then you've also got subscriber discounts which just pretty much gives you discounts to use a whole bunch of uh uh eBay's uh tools for shipping and things that are not really relevant to us so we're not really going to use that so let's go back to uh marketing and just go over a couple of more promotions so volume pricing is another thing that you can do and this is if you have a lot of uh limits open because my limits are pretty full if I upgrade my uh quantity to two okay per unit especially for products that are not really selling well then these limits that we have here okay I'm already my limits are already eaten up okay like I said I'm going to open that up with my uh new eBay account manager which I hope that you will get as well but I personally if I upgrade my listings to quantity 2 almost two times more of this number here there's no room for it so I can't really do it if you have a lot of limits that are open that you haven't used yet and you want to add a quantity of two to all of your listings I only do it for me on listings that sell or listings that are super super cheap that people usually buy more than one unit but if you have a lot of limits open and you want to automate Volume pricing on all of your listings then you can create here the volume pricing okay and then here what you're doing is you're telling eBay okay if a buyer buys one unit they're not going to get any discount but if they buy two they can take let's say 3% off and if they buy three they can get 5% off and if they buy four they can get 8% off okay then you can set your start date and end date for this campaign and give it a name and here you can select if you want to do it on specific item specific categories or all of your inventory I would of course say go with all see what works and then you're going to go ahead and launch this campaign and this is also going to display a message inside your listing and also outside when someone is searching for the products and then they see a whole bunch of uh results from different sellers they can see that you have volume pricing okay so that could give you an advantage especially if you have a lot of limits that are open and free to use then you've got the Sales Event so here you can create a sale event which is pretty similar to what we've seen uh up until now so you're giving the buyers a certain percentage or a fixed price from a start date to an end date and when you're running the Sales Event eBay makes sure that you're interested buyers know that you are currently running a promotion what the promotion has and when it will end so it will kind of give them a rush effect to go ahead and purchase the product before the sales event is up you can also create coupons so I pretty much skimmed over this but this is how you're going to create a coupon as I mentioned you can create a public or a private coupon and then choose what type of coupon you want it to be like a percentage off off fix dollar buy this get that much off and all of these special other types that you have here and then here is a discount that you're giving them so let's say you're going to give them uh 10% off which is what you chose here percentage off how much percent 10% start date end date start time end time so specific date specific time within that date and a coupon code so you can call it whatever you want my special promo okay or let's say you're making a welcome back uh coupon to Target a buyer group that you created like we talked about on customers who purchased from your store in the past so here you would create a coupon let's say called uh welcome back uh 7 and you would give them 7% off okay for example and then you can make it a private coupon because you don't want all of the buyers who enter your listings to see it you only want specific buyers that you will give to a specific buyer group right so this way it would be a private coupon and not a public one okay then you're going to go to details and coupon limits okay give it a name here maximum savings so okay once a customer saved uh $20 by using this promotion they can't you know use it anymore because I kind of maxed out and I'm not making a lot of profit here just an example you should make a lot of profit of course usually I don't give any maximums because I'm always in the profit Zone as long as it's making sales you know keep it going for me and maximum redemptions by buyer so you can limit to how many times a buyer can redeem a certain uh coupon which in my case I would leave it off because no limit I'm making profit keep going and also same thing for Budget which I wouldn't leave it because again uh we're making profit we want it to keep going okay then here select items so you want to run it on all your inventory or for specific items or for a specific price range so only for products that cost anywhere between $2 to $100 again I leave this off and item condition all your conditions are new so you don't really need to touch it you can see that pretty much all my inventory is included in this and then I can go ahead and click on launch then I will have this coupon then what I'll need to do is go back to create a buyer group and advertise to them so I'll go back to the marketing I'll create a new marketing promotion just like I showed you to Target the buyer group of people who purchase from my store and that's just one example of a coupon and then if you go with a public coupon then again on your listing everybody can see that there's a coupon they can redeem it that can also create a rush to sell effect shipping discounts there's no reason to do it because we're offering free shipping so there's no reason to give a discount on shipping a store newsletter is sending a promotion sending an email or a newsletter but from within eBay to people who are watching or following your store so I showed you for example that I have a like 200 something people following my store so I can send them a newsletter and inside that newsletter I can send them some type of promotion that I have so here you would create a campaign score newsletter and then you can choose what type of promotion you want to give them so do you just want to give them a welcome just a welcome hey thanks for subscribing to my store or do you want to show them new products and collections do you want to send them a specific coupon which is what I would do a sales event that you have going on in order discount or volume pricing I think those are not as effective as sending a coupon but that is what you can do with a store newsletter and it will Target people who are following your store besides that we also have social sharing which we've been over and those are the top marketing methods that eBay will allow you to run through eBay so as you see there's more than enough marketing methods and most of them are organic so that is great we don't have to pay eBay anything only until after we make sales and for some of these marketing methods they they're not going to get anything like the social sharing or sending newsletter eBay is not scratching anything off of that it's only off of the actual coupon that you're sending them and once again eBay is not making profit off of your coupon you're just profiting a little bit less because you're sending them a promoted price but you're still making profit because we're in the high profit zone so eBay is just going to make money off of the regular category transaction fees final value fees things that we've already been over so again my biggest recommendation would be to use eBay promoted listing standard and sending offers to your buyers as you just saw I also showed you some live examples how to do it and creating each campaign is very easy here under marketing you're going to click on create promotion and then create what type of promotion you would like or send offers to your buyers directly from the listings page promoted listings is going to be here under advertising so you're going to hover over advertising you're going to click on campaigns and then you would create a new campaign and this will be your promoted listings campaign again you can also promote your store you can promote offsite but this will take your money before you get money and promoted listings if you go with the standard not the advanced which is general not priority then you're paying for sales and not paying for clicks which is my initial recommendation because I have been doing this for years and it's working really really well and now that you are done with marketing and promotions it's inevitable you've got listings up in the air you did great product research you marketed your products organically and now you are finally making sales now how do we fulfill these orders what do we do once the orders come in what are our options and what are the differences between them let's go over that right now so when it comes to me I like to automate everything I don't think that that's a secret and with autods we got two order automation examples so I'm going to go over them both and then I'm also going to show you how to manually fulfill orders if you want to do it the manual way and you don't want to uh do it the automatic way so I'm going to give you all the options you do what is best for you but keep in mind that once you hit those few sales a day and you're going to spend most of your time just processing orders and making sure not to ship them out to the wrong address and things that I still make mistakes with them because now and then I will process in order manually and these mistakes happen so again I'm going to show you all the methods you can even try all of them until you decide which one you like the most but when it comes to scaling remember you cannot do it without automation okay so let's start with the first one fulfilled by autod DS now this is an automatic order service that autods has that simply automatically fulfills all of your orders so what exactly does that mean so if we go to eBay and we click on the orders page over here then we can see all of the orders that we have on eBay now you will not exactly need this because all of your orders no matter what status they're in whether it's all orders or waiting shipment you can see them all on autods right here you can see all of your orders if you click on orders here on the left screen and this pretty much summarizes all your orders together so if you have multiple eBay stores or multiple e-commerce stores all connected to One autods account which is of course a possibility you can run as many stores as you want I have multiple stores connected to this account you will be able to see all of your orders in one so you won't have to jump between one account and the other and another thing is that you can process all your orders from this orders page so you don't really need this orders page here on eBay but just so you know all your orders are right here so if you click on orders and then all orders then there won't be any filters you'll just see all of your eBay orders and I'm also going to show you how it works like with the payments and stuff like that we're going to go over that as well but let's finish up the order section first so how do we automate our orders and what's the difference between fulfilled by autods and automatic orders which are two different automatic order fulfillment methods so let's go over that now I will fulfill some of these orders that are uh waiting for me on my eBay stores we'll do some manually we'll do some automatically I'll show you all the methods and um yeah let's get to it so first one fulfilled by autods this service once again automates all your orders and this uses autod DS's buyer accounts so when an order comes in like you can see it here you can also see it here the orders are coming in in uh pending status and you can send them out for processing right away and orders can come in two different statuses either in pending or even awaiting payment if the buyer hasn't paid yet but that's only if you do a Buy It Now offer and they accept the offer and they haven't paid yet it'll either be on pending or sent automatically to Auto order in general first I want you to understand that fulfilled by autods will fulfill your orders automatically okay it'll go to the supplier that you're using it'll purchase the product using autod DS's buyer account so you don't even have to have a buyer account with your supplier if let's say I'm fulfilling my orders from uh Amazon I don't want to have a buyer account on Amazon because Amazon locks buyer accounts once you have a lot of Drop Shipping orders to uh different locations to different uh shipment locations from the same account then your account will be locked at some point and then you know you're kind of going to be stuck so this helps you solve that issue because autods will fulfill it using their own buyer accounts and this works with uh major retailers that uh charge in USD like uh Amazon Walmart and so forth we' got the whole list here under the link that I'm sending you in the cheat sheet so you don't have to worry about your buyer accounts getting locked you don't even have to have a buy account on your supplier's website and everything just gets managed all in one place you'll even have the luxury of oneclick returns so this means that even after you process an order using the fulfilled by autods service and you will know that when you hover over this icon right here and you see how it says completed by the fulfilled by autods service so you can see that this order was fulfilled by fulfilled by autods and this one and this one and this one so you can see that I'm using this service a lot for most of my orders because it's seamless it's easy and it simply gets the job done whereas on automatic orders the order will still get fulfilled automatically but it will use your buyer count so this means that if you're using AliExpress or one of the many retailers that are uh supported I've also got the whole list here all of the suppliers who is supported by automatic orders who is supported by fulfilled by autods tracking updates which from which suppliers so you can see that from some supplier regions like uh Amazon Australia you can have automatic orders and tracking updates but you can use fulfilled by Auto DS whereas Amazon us you can have automatic orders with automatic tracking updates you can update only Tracking Information Tracking conversions and you can also use fulfilled by autods and tracking conversion which means that the orders that will come in uh the Amazon shipping status which we cannot read anywhere besides using our own Amazon buyer accounts and if we're not using it then we're just going to get tracking information that we cannot use it mainly starts with that TBA tracking number we're going to have to have tracking conversion so that we can convert that tracking information to one that can be read on eBay and in that way our tracking uploaded on time and validated will always stay according to eBay standards and we will not jeopardize our seller account so it's really important to have tracking conversion as well more on that soon but just so that you know you have this graph here which will show you all of the suppliers that you can use whether it's for automatic orders which uses your buyer accounts I'll show you how to set that up soon or using fulfilled by autods which uses autod DS's buyer accounts besides the whole which buyer account are we using everything everything else is pretty much the same an order comes in you process it automatically using the system whether it's using your buyer account or autod DS's and then tracking information will be uploaded on autods on your store automatically as soon as it's available from your supplier and you won't really have to do anything now if a buyer wants to return a product after you shipped and delivered to them then any order that was processed using fulfilled by autods you will have an option to process a return request let's say this product right here which was uh shipped and delivered so I click click on the status and then I'll click here on request return now I'm not going to do it now cuz I don't really want to return this product but once we do that then the system will automatically generate a return label from the supplier that we used if of course we are eligible for one and if we are it'll be uploaded right next to our order so let me see if I have an example to show you on a previous one yep here we go so here's a return where I processed a return and I got the return label so you get it right here right next to your order you'll click on download return label it'll download the return label on your computer then all you need to do is send that return label to your buyer and your buyer will know that they need to print it put it on the package and ship it back with UPS or whichever shipping service is available and that is pretty much it once it gets sent back you will get a refund on your auto order balance or on your original payment method whichever one you used and you can send a refund to your buyer as well so the main difference once again between fulfilled by autods and automatic orders is which buyer accounts are we using are we using your buyer accounts which we'll need to configure in the system which I'll show you soon or are we using autod DS's buyer accounts so you don't even need to worry about buyer accounts which is my number one recommendation and I have been using this service for years ever since it came out since day one on autod DS so let's process an order really quick I think I already showed you a couple minutes ago how to process like I moved one of these orders to uh order status but we weren't doing the order section yet so let's do that now okay I've got this uh order right here for this product uh it cost $849 I sold it for a a little bit too cheap $15.99 so only about $5 in profit it's going to be like $4 and a half dollars after taxes but never mind I need to raise the price here and I do that every time I see that my profitability is a little bit too low I don't like making like $4 or $5 profit even if it's super super cheap after it sells uh usually products that are this cheap I upgrade the quantity to two and I up the price by a dollar or another dollar I'm also going to show you how you can automate that soon it's an order we're not going to say no no to profit I'm going to click on the status and send it to Auto order and then what happens now is once this will be ordered it will move from in order progress to ordered status okay I'm just going to move back to pending for now cuz I want you guys to see the uh statuses so it'll go to ordered status and it'll also have the order ID so it'll have the order ID that the system gets from the supplier so if for example I open these order details over here okay I'm just going to click here on the thumbnail you see where it says click to edit I'm going to click on that it opens up the order details and here we've got the buyer details so name address country City ZIP phone I have it set to 99999 I don't want to share the uh customers phone numbers I don't want them receiving smss um you know from retailers saying your package is is on its way and I've never had any issue with this for years and years on end so it's perfectly fine but if it's in international order then I would have a phone number cuz I wouldn't want it to not reach its destination when we're talking International and I've never had any problems with these settings so you can do the same next we've got the orders tab so the order tab shows the order status which of course we have a quick glance at from here but we can also see it when we open up the order details here okay so I can see that this one is ordered the buy order ID here is FBA order so I don't get the order ID because it wasn't fulfilled from my buyer accounts it was processed by the fulfilled by autods service and uh that's it we've got the Buy price which is $5.99 uh the taxes was 59 The Profit here at the end was about $5 you can see that the fees here are calculated from my uh estimated break even over around 15% so we know that the profit here is around $5 and the tracking number will be uploaded once it's available I don't need to do it because this order is automated for me so it will move from order to shipped with tracking information and I'll be able to see the tracking number here as well as in the order on eBay as well and with shipping carrier was used FedEx UPS USPS whatever and then you've also got the product tab which shows you information about the product so here we can see that the supplier for this product is Amazon warehouse United States the buy URL so the link to the uh product and the product ID which is the Asin uh which is also inside the uh URL now if you would like to change a product before it's automated by the system this is where you would do it so I'm going to show you also how to do a product sourcing which is a great reason to change a supplier from the orders page but if let's say you found the same product right same exact product and you would like to use that product instead that seller then you can just change the url over here change the supplier here to whoever the supplier is and the warehouse location so you can say okay I understand that I got an order from this supplier but I would like to use this supplier this product Instead This is where you would update that and then you would move it to send to Auto order and that way the system will automatically order the product that you actually switched with so let me show you first how to set up um fulfilled by autods or automatic orders uh how to top up your balance uh Auto order credits and all of that and then I'll process an order manually to show you how to do that as well okay so let's go to the settings page really quick and from here you need to go to plans and add-ons and you want to make sure that the orders processor is enabled okay so at $8 a month you make up that profit from just one order and you will have automatic orders enabled on your account okay so this means that you can start using automatic orders or fulfilled by autods but first the system needs to know which one do you want to use automatic orders or fulfilled by autods in order to let the system know that then we are going to go to the supplier settings and we're going to set that here so let's say I want enabled fulfilled by autods using Amazon as a supplier so here I would choose Amazon us under the supplier if I don't see the supplier in the list I can click here on ADD supplier and just find him on the list on the warehouse of course as well and say okay every time I use this supplier every time I get an order from this supplier using eBay store one or whatever you called your eBay store you can select any other store that you have here then every time I get an order from this supplier on this selling Channel then these settings should happen then I'm going to go to the orders tab here on the right side and here you can see that it says process orders using the fulfilled by autods service so once I activated the orders processor under plans and add-ons and here under the order settings when I click on the supplier and the selling Channel I enable process orders using the fulfilled by autods service then when an order comes in the system knows that we are going to fulfill it using fulfilled by autods but next you also have automatic orders and this requires a buy account or fulfilled by autods orders management so what does that mean this or this if we want to use let's say only this fulfilled by autods so what happens is if you have the first one checked in because you want to use fulfilled by autods and then you click in the second one as well automatic orders then the orders will not come in in pending status as I showed you on my account as soon as as an order comes in it'll be processed automatically using fulfilled by autods and you won't even need to change the status it'll do it by itself but if you want to use fulfilled by autod DS but you want the orders to come in pending status like I showed you on my account then you would have the first one ticked in to use fulfilled by autods but I don't want to automate the order status as soon as it comes in so this means that the order will come in in pending I will move it to send to Auto order but from there everything El will be automated switching from send to Auto order to ordered with the order ID switching from order to shipped with the tracking ID everything else will be automated so if I have one ticked in orders will come in in pending both ticked in orders will go out as soon as they come in all using fulfilled by autod DS but what if I don't have the first one ticked in and only the second one ticked in so this will use the automatic order service which requires your buyer account because you're not using fulfilled by autods you don't have it ticked in so this means that I want to have automatic orders but I want to use my Buy accounts so this means that I need to let the system know what are my buyer accounts I need to share my credentials with them so I would do that here under the buyer account tab okay so here I will add a buyer account and i' say okay I want you to automate orders uh using AliExpress or Home Depo or Walmart or Amazon those are the supported suppliers that we have uh with automatic orders using your buyer Accounts at the moment okay so let's say I want to automate my AliExpress orders then here I'm just going to click on connect with AliExpress and it'll do a direct connection to my login if say I go with another one like uh Amazon then I will need to enter my uh Amazon credentials here the payment methods here so I would add my credit card that I want the system to use to automate my orders to pay for the orders and here you've got Max pending orders which you can configure how many orders you would like to have in ordered status before fulfilling the next ones so long as order didn't move to shipped yet okay you can read more about that here and you have a daily orders price limit if you would like to set a cap to how much you spend per day purchasing products using your buyer account okay then then you've got Auto order so I would like to enable automatic orders with this buyer account automate tracking numbers and of course scan for orders okay so you would have all those on and that is how you would add a buyer account adding buyer accounts is only if you're using automatic orders that's going to use your buyer accounts to process the orders I don't recommend this method unless you don't want to use fulfilled by autods for whatever reason you would like the system to use your buyer accounts but then again you're using your credit line right so whatever credit card you have on file and you're just going to have a whole bunch of buyer accounts with multiple suppliers it's not going to be as seamless as doing everything through autods where autods uses their buyer accounts but then who will pay for the orders if you didn't add your payment information so what happens in fulfilled by autods is you would top up a balance and then autods would use that balance to purchase to pay for the products that you are ordering on the orders page on autods okay after we already went to the settings and we already set up our automatic orders in the plans and settings and we activate it in the uh settings to uh use the fulfilled by autods service then if you look here we've got two more things one is auto order credits so the system uses one credit every time it would process an order and here you can buy more credits okay so you can say Okay I want 250 more credits or 1,000 more of course the more you buy the more cheaper it becomes so you can see that it's around like 20 22 cents 26 Cents uh per credit per order so that's what it's going to cost you to fulfill it automatically plus paying for the order itself self right so this is the balance that we are talking about so here you would load a balance so right now you see that I have a balance of $77 that means that I can process orders up to $77 on my account so if this product right here cost me $30 you see that I sold it for $57 my profit here is around $18 after the expenses after the fees um this is an order that I need to fulfill now as well as this one I like these these are medium ticket product so the profit is a little bit higher I don't know if you guys noticed this profit section right here but you see for these two orders it's about over $30 in profit then there was an8 a five 15 so it really depends on the types of products that you are selling this one was sold for $90 so I made about $30 in profit here and this is why in terms of pricing I always recommend to upload a whole bunch of product ranges in terms of prices so don't only upload products that cost up to $10 because then the profitability is super low these products will sell more in quantity but the profit is just very low so you want to have a nice healthy mix and if you feel like you have way too many cheap orders so the profit is like $5 $8 $6 and and a whole bunch of those then that will give you an indication that you need more medium to high ticket products because when those sell the profitability is just higher like this one here at 13 24 uh 30 and other examples that we've just seen plus these orders that I need to fulfill now so you want to have a nice healthy mix of everything and you're just going to get feedback from the orders that are coming in okay I see this but I'm missing this so let's put more of an effort to have more of medium ticket or high ticket products so to fulfill your managed balance what you're going to do here is click on load and here you can load a balance whether it's $50 100 all the way up to 1,000 and here you would choose what payment method you would like to use okay so for example you can use credit card or PayPal but then here you've got a 5% fee so if I deposit $100 for my balance it's going to take 105 I recommend using pioner especially if you're getting paid by payeer which is most people who are Drop Shipping on eBay who live outside of the US and the reason that I prefer Pioneer is because everything stays all under one place I get paid through payer and I pay my suppliers through poner so the only time I would withdraw money from Pioneer is directly to my bank account which are my profits from after I spend the money on the products and of course I get money on my sales before so the Delta between them is my profit and that is what I withdraw to my Pioneer account and with autods you've got the autods wallet so you connect your payer account here and you can also connect multiple accounts and so here we can see one pay your account that I have connected so here I've got a balance of about $330 I can withdraw some of that balance to my fulfilled by autods wallet instead of doing it from up here as I showed you instead of clicking load and so this shows my history under that pay on your account so I don't even need to log in that pay on your account to see what's going on I see everything in one place on autods so here I can see okay I got a payment from eBay so this is uh a recent payout and then I paid autod DS uh for the balance so I paid instead of $100 I paid $13 because of that $3 pay oner fee I'm paying fees just like everyone else I am not a special case here in autods I am just like any other customer just so you guys know everything here is built from my own experience okay so my payments I can see the money coming in I see the money going out and we can see all of that here as well as my final balance and then you can connect multiple payer in your accounts so you can see I've got three here so I can click on this one to go to the second one and here I got only $99 because of course I'm just moving money around all the time uh to load up our balance and to pull the profits to withdraw them to my bank account okay so it's nice to have everything all in one place because as I mentioned eBay will send your payouts to your manage payments program which in most cases will be payer so if I go now to EB and I click here on payments I can see all of my payment history here so right now we see that I have $163 in funds uh on this account and here on the right side we can see all the recent activity so I can see okay an order came in today was $48 uh right before that another order came in it was $45 and I can also see the fees that I'm paying for each order so this order here the 4834 it was probably sold for like let's say $55 and then eBay would take their fee so then at the end they only paid me 48 out of that and then there's another promoted listings fee which is not included inside the listing but as a separate line so remember how I told you that I'm using promoted listings because it's getting me a lot of sales and we can see that here so you can see that almost every order here has a a promoted listing attached to it this order has this one attached to it this order doesn't have promoted list it does it's this one right here in between I got the payout so you can see what's going on here so $292 was shaved off of my $48 sale because that makes about 5% of that okay and I'm giving eBay 5% as I showed you okay so we can see that happening live here so I can see my total funds here $163 and that is after getting a daily payout so right now I only have $7 available out of that 163 in a couple days all of that will be available and I have my payout schedule set on daily so this means that I'm telling eBay every day where you can send me a payout just send it I'm not going to wait like weekly or monthly because then I'm just going to have you know really fat funds that they're suddenly going to uh send me and I'm actually using those funds to process my order so as soon as you got money ready from eBay go ahead and send it over to my pay on your account so that I can pay my suppliers and withdraw my profits okay so you can change your payout schedule by just clicking on it as I showed you and then you're going to get this payout schedule here my recommendation is to go for daily unless you can deal with having your payouts on a weekly bi-weekly or on a monthly basis okay so that's what we need to do in the settings whether we're using our buyer accounts or fulfilled by autods and the differences between them the main again being that we're either using autod DS's by accounts or or our own of course I recommend using fulfilled by autods I've been using it for years and it's just really really working well and saving me so much of a headache but before I show you the manual way to process orders I also want to show you the sourcing request because this is really important if you want to find better suppliers than the ones that you're working with you got orders on your store and now you can look for even a better supplier before fulfilling your order using the default supplier that you used when you uploaded that product long story short you got an order on your store let the system Source a better supplier for you that can ship the product out quicker with a better price and even more variation options so how exactly does this work when you get an order on your eBay store of course you're going to see it here on your uh order screen and you're going to have this sourcing request column right here so this column will allow you to create a sourcing request for that product okay now here you see where it says linked because I already created a sourcing request uh for this uh doorlock product here that I sold on another store and here I was able to get a better uh source for it so I linked it so you can see here the sourcing request is linked because I accepted the sourcing request that I got for from the system so it takes usually around a day to get the sourcing requests and because we don't want to delay our customers packages it's imperative to send out sourcing requests as soon as you get an order okay and then you'll get the sourcing request as fast as possible and it's going to look like this you're going to click on this button that says request sourcing so you can see now that it switched to sourcing status new and then I'm going to click here on sourcing request and now it changed to in progress so now it's going to get a better Source it's going to Source this product and find a better supplier that I can ship out this product with so if I go back to the orders page okay and I don't filter the sourcing status then I can see of course the results of all the product where I did it with so you see like this lock product over here this fingerprint lock you see where it says under souring request it says ready so this means that we have a sourcing opportunity for you and here's what it's going to look like so you're going to click on review sourcing okay and then here you can see the product that the system is sourcing for you so okay here's the product that you wanted here's what we found for you so you're going to see the item cost here and you're going to see the variations here here there's only one variation so there's not much to play with the total shipping time again this isn't a really realistic 36 days I just did it with another product a long time ago so of course it changed since then and you get the total uh shipping price and shipping too so if you want to change something here you can click on it okay then here you can change to another shipping carrier for example and you can see their total shipping times so if this one for example ships within 36 days which we don't really like oh but hey this one right here for the same price ships within 14 days this one right here for just another $3 so $14 instead of 11 which it within 12 days then we've got 11 days for just a little bit more and we've also got 7 days but that's getting a little bit expensive $19 but you have all of these options and you can change your ship to Country right now I'm saying okay I want to ship to the US so the system's like okay here's a supplier that we found this is how fast they can ship and this is the total shipping price and then here in 95% of my cases I always find a better source using sourcing request so I really recommend using this method and you can see all of your sourcing requests under the orders tab it says sourcing request okay then you can see the status of the open sourcing requests that you have and if you like one of them then you can link it and then it'll say linked once it's linked you can process the order and it will process using the link source that you requested if you don't like it just leave it as is send it to Auto order and the system will use the original supplier without the new sourced one so if for example I want to see the uh link details the sourcing details so I can click here on sourcing details okay just like we saw and then you can uh check the uh shipping carriers and choose a different for example okay so now I can see a better shipping time 14 days and then here you can also send a message about the sourcing request so you can for example if you have any questions you can add that there and you've also got request a change so let's say you want a different variation or let's say you want a product that's similar to it so you would write the change that you would like to see here the system will see it and try to Source it according to the conditions that you asked for and then kind of similar to message about the sourcing request it will send a message to autods source ing okay so we work with great communication and great fast suppliers who ship quickly to our Target audiences the only way to find them is by using autod DS's sourcing request features highly recommend it to do so and again do it as soon as you get an order so you can really maximize the shipping time with your better suppliers that the system was able to source for you no matter what supplier you used before that all right so we went over fulfilled by autods automatic orders the differences between them how to set them up in your settings page and you've also got the fulfilled by Auto GS supported suppliers I left a link to it so if you want to know what other suppliers the system supports with it you got the full list right here for example Alibaba AliExpress Amazon under the US region autods Warehouse only uses fulfilled by autods so if you added the product from autod DS's private suppliers Warehouse right here okay if let's say it's it's one of these products here then once you get an order it will be fulfilled automatically using fulfilled by autods okay so of course there's no buyer accounts when using the autods warehouse Bango China brand CJ all of these suppliers right here which is a lot as you can see are all supported using fulfilled by autod DS with the regions that we see here on the right side okay so if you want to know which suppliers are supported by fulfilled by autod DS I left the link right here in the cheat sheet okay so we also went over product sourcing now let's process in order manually and then we'll also talk about automatic message to buyers which is a really important thing to have okay so how to process an order manually I'm going to do it really quickly because it should be very straightforward and again it's not my most recommended method you will it's going to be really hard to scale like this and plenty of times I also send the products to wrong addresses just from Human mistakes so I'm going to try to not let that happen here but if you want to do manual orders this is the way to do it so first of all who is the supplier that you use there in this example I'm going to process this order here so I know that you guys cannot see the product because it's blurred in the name but I've got my product right here and I need to process it so first I need the order ID on the orders page we have all of these columns here which I'll go over it after I show you the uh manual method but Within These columns I also have the order ID so I can just click on it to get to that page okay so here's the product I can see that it cost $25.73 my supplier in this case is Amazon and I have an Amazon Prime account so of course I'm going to use prime because I have to deliver quickly to my uh target audience and I always uh deliver quickly okay so I need to process this order right here I need to send out this product to the buyer so what I'm going to do first is I'm going to go to my addresses page on autods I'm going to create a new address and I'm going to fill in manually all of the details okay so I'm going to open up the order details on autods and I'm going to get the name and then I'm going to go to Amazon copy and paste the name copy and paste the last name okay then in the phone number it's just nines I already explained why then I'm going to grab the address copy paste it over here and Amazon does a an automatic fulfill but make sure that the filled in information is correct because sometimes you got the same road the same number in different cities and states Okay so you really want to watch out for that so I just want to go back and make sure that it's the right one in this case it is South Carolina Okay cool so this is the buyer's details and I'm going to click on ADD address and imagine doing the same thing over and over now I want to make sure that it's shipping to that address so here on the top left I want to make sure that it's choosing that address in this case it's not I'm going to show all my addresses it's this buyer over here so I'm going to click on him okay now it's selecting that buyer and now I'm going to go and purchase the actual product now I'm doing it from a cash back site because I get some cash back from Amazon doing this you need to check in your um location if you have any cashback websites that give you a cash back for purchasing on Amazon so it all seems nice and well but again it's tedious it takes time and only do it if you really really have to and remember that you won't be able to scale this way so if you have just one two orders a day fine but when you're really ready to scale and focus on more products higher limits better product research that is where you need to put all of your focus put everything else on automation okay so now I need to write the order ID write the product ID here okay this is the product I think you got to make sure that you're selecting the right product so it's the one that looks like this at 2573 should be this one okay so now I'm going to take this product I'm going to add it to my cart then I'm going to click on go to cart I want to also send it as a gift so that the customer cannot see the actual order information and how much I paid for it all of this is done automatically by the fulfilled by Auto the assistant some that's why again I don't really recommend uh doing it like this but I already talked about that I want to make sure once again that I'm shipping it to the right buyer to the right address in the gift options I usually just write a small little message and then I'm going to click on Save gift options then I'm going to make sure again that everything the payment information is correct and I'm going to click on use this payment method and that's it now I can see that it's going to arrive within a week and that is fine everything else is fine order comes out $ 2779 with tax I'm going to click on place your order and now the the order was placed now of course I would much rather use the fulfilled by autods System but I want to show you guys also how to do it manually so I'm going to click here on review or edit your recent orders then I'm going to copy the order ID I'm going to go back to autods and I'm going to click on the order tab for that order I'm going to switch it from pending to ordered okay under the notes I'm just going to write a quick code to remind myself that I used a manual account to process it and not fulfilled by rods I'm going to put the order ID right here and the final price which was $27.79 okay so overall I made $18 profit uh on this order I'm going to click on Save and now the order will get an automatic message because I have automatic messages turned on once the order status is Switched so you can see order has been saved this is now ordered and I can see my $18 in profit right here I bought for $27.79 sold for $53.99 you can subtract another uh few dollars uh for the promotion fee so you still made I still made around $15 on this sale and that of course is worth it okay and so that sums up how to process orders manually should go without saying don't recommend it but you still can do it um if you do too much of it in one day your buy account is going to get locked uh so that's why I only do it rarely and I always recommend going with the automated method so that you can focus on what really matters I know that you understand that by now so we can move on to automatic messages to buyers we went over fulfilled by autods the supported suppliers automatic orders and the differences between that and fulfilled by autods product sourcing manual order fulfillment and now automatic message mesages to buyers then after we go over automatic messages to buyers we're going to talk a little bit about tracking conversion why it's important in the automatic orders as I've already mentioned and I'll show you all the columns that we have in the orders page but first what is this automatic messages to buyers what does it mean so eBay allows sending automatic messages to our buyers and with autods we have really specific triggers where we can use that and it just makes it so much easier so let me just show you how to set this up because it's really easy and very helpful so if I go here on the settings page of autods and the supplier in which I will activate uh these automatic messages on so here for example again I'm going with the classic uh Amazon to eBay so I'm saying okay every time I get an order from Amazon to my eBay store I would like to automate the automatic messages to buyer so I'm going to click here on the orders Tab and then I'm going to scroll down here where it says automatic messages sent to customers so here I did write very customized messages which you guys can copy it from you can create your own messages and even better through chat GPT you can just be like hey chat GPT um I want to send automatic messages to my eBay buyers one time after an order was placed one time after I have tracking information available one time after the order was delivered and one time to remind them to send me a feedback and one time on a gift message so remember how we chose Amazon and I showed you how I can write a gift message on Amazon so this here you can change your gift message that comes with the package okay so then with that chat GPT can come up with really uh nice things I asked it to be funny cuz I just like adding a little bit of humor uh just so that you know we don't take life to too seriously and you know my customers are happy with the packages get it with a nice little you know smile on their face and you know remember me even more to come and leave a feedback so every time an order was placed you can click on the edit over here and toggle on and off whatever messages you want to send so here it's for okay every time an order was placed in other words the system understands every time uh we get a status switch from pending to ordered so the order was placed then we're going to send this automatic message to the buyer so hey there thanks for trusting us with your order we're excited to get your goodies as soon as possible we'll be processing your order and getting ready for shipment and blah blah the whole message that uh I sent and then you can toggle another message once tracking information is available uh in this case I don't have it toggle on because anyway they get like this automatic notification by uh eBay when we switch from order to shipped on autods whether we're doing it manually or automatically it'll get updated on our eBay store so eBay will know that there is tracking and they will update the uh buyer as well another one for when the order was delivered okay so the system of course sees from the status switch from order to delivered if you're using automatic orders fulfilled by autods of course it happens by itself and the automatic order was delivered message will be sent and feedback so reminding them to send you a feedback for some time after uh the order was delivered it will send a feedback message and as I mentioned the gift message when you're using Amazon and the product is giftable which is most of the Prime products okay so it's important to send out these messages because not only will your buyers understand that they are in good hands by someone who's actually communicating with them they'll know who to reach out to if there's any issues and they will leave you positive feedback because of all of your good communication and customer service so I highly recommend having automatic messages on and that will pretty much summarize our eBay fulfillment section except for going through the actual order columns which we will do now so again we're in the orders page and um I still need to process these couple of orders but let me just uh run fast really quick so here we can see of course the product which is blurred out for you the uh shipment status the order status so whether it's a pending ordered shipped delivered or cancelled estimated arrival date which you get if using fulfilled by autods so this order for example here you can see that uh Amazon is the supplier I used a fulfilled by autods uh it cost $20 it was sold for 35 which is low I I think I raised that price since then another $2 tax so I only made around $8 $9 for this uh sale but everything here was automated and you're also getting the tracking details so you can see first of all an Amazon screenshot of the order status so you can actually see the order status so we can see on Amazon it's arriving today by uh 1000 p.m. so the product is already shipped we can see it on shipped status and it's also shipped on my account as well everything was done here automatically didn't need to do anything and I can also see when is expected to arrive so I can see here arriving 29 December which is today while I'm recording this minute of this video all right let's continue scrolling to the right so we saw the source price the selling price the tax and the total profit FBA order means it came from fulfilled by autods the eBay order ID if I click on it it'll open up my order details on eBay and whichever store it belongs to So This one belongs to eBay store to and sourcing request if there was one I'll be able to see it here tracking number you can see here that it says QT TMD so this is a q track tracking number I'm going to talk about tracking conversions right after this and why it's really important to get this down but every time I get tracking from a TBA or an Amazon tracking number which I explained it happened in this order too you see TBA 318 so these types of tracking information is not trackable for the buyer if I upload this tracking information on eBay then eBay will not be able to see what is the order what is the tracking details what is the status was it shipped is it on the way to the customer none of this is visible only to whoever processed the order on Amazon so eBay can see what's going on the buyer can see what's going on if the buyer opens an INR or an item not received case you're going to have a hard time proving that this was actually delivered if they cannot see the tracking details so that is why we use tracking conversions okay so here we've got the tracking numbers and as I scroll down you can see that not everything is Q track that's coming from Amazon you see this one here is a USPS tracking number this one here is a FedEx this is USPS so you have like all types of tracking numbers but I choose to only convert those TBA tracking numbers which are not trackable to Q track and soon I will show you how and also explain why okay next on the columns we've got the item ID so the item ID is this is the uh product ID on my supplier's website so Amazon and eBay is the eBay uh listing so if I click on it it'll take me to the listing on eBay if I click on the supplier ID it'll open up the uh product on the supplier's website buyer usern name on eBay the customer's name address Das is days awaiting shipment and tags that you added okay you can customize the columns by clicking here on customize display so you can decide what to toggle on and off like let's say for example the quantity okay it's not important let's push it down some more uh price tax profit and so forth this is the order that I like to have so I'm going to keep it as is but you can toggle columns on and off and rearrange their orders here and that pretty much sums up the orders page but let's see that whole thing about the tracking conversions so under the settings again if you go to the order settings and again I choose my store I choose which supplier to uh have this tracking conversion on and then here on the orders tab where it says tracking conversion you see that I have the setting convert Amazon shipping carrier only those TBA tracking numbers to qra because qra is readable on eBay and this way qra will show the shipment details from the Amazon buyer account which can't really be seen anywhere else so Q track is going to show the tracking events on eBay where it will be supported so this way you can keep your top rated level status and you will have proof that the item was delivered so you'll of course win item not received cases if it was delivered to the right address and this simply saved my eBay store what used to work here was Blue Care Express and aqualine which pretty much does the same thing whereas aqualine and qra also has zip code masquerade and this is important for the item location because if you're saying hey the item location is coming from uh the US right with from this ZIP code and eBay can see on the first tracking detail that the ZIP code doesn't match a zip code that you said it's going to come out of even though it did come out of the us so you didn't lie about the country but the ZIP code is wrong so you're not going to get your account suspended from this or anything but eBay can flag your account like it happened to me and then your traffic will decrease and you'll have to upload more listings to make up for that and with zip code Master Grade it doesn't happen because what ZIP code master grate does is it will make sure that the first tracking event showed in the tracking details on your orders matches what you have in your item location so that fixes a huge huge issue and the reason that I only recommend Q track and not aqualine and blue track anymore which I will cross out now from the cheat sheet is because Q track works really really well on eBay I haven't had any issues it helped me get the top rated status and I'm waiting item not received cases if of course the product was delivered to the customer's address so there's no issues here and it's working like a charm so then back to the order settings page what we're going to do is again choose the supplier that you're using choose the selling Channel under the orders tab we are going to under tracking conversion choose convert Amazon shipping carrier only to Q track now again you have more options like convert all tracking numbers to Q track or all tracking numbers to Blue Care or Amazon shipping carrier only to Blue Care and you also have generate UPS FedEx and DHL tracking number which will again do it to all your orders this is another good option that you can use if you don't want to use a q track for whatever reason then this will generate these tracking numbers but the only difference between this and Q track is that sometimes this won't be able to generate a tracking number in most cases it will for the sum that it won't you're going to want to use Q track so because Q trck works really well I just have it on this but you can definitely use this one as a backup okay either way you'll get trackable uh tracking events and tracking information on your orders and this is really important for the long-term survivability of your eBay stores last but not least in the settings you may have noticed this little hip shipper uh tab so we saw process orders using fulfilled by autods automatic orders the differences between having one or to toggled on and off hip shipper will also activate hip shipper so if you want to have the automatic international shipping options to your listings this is how you're going to do it by also enabling that but you also have that in the full guide that I have linked here so now that you are finally fulfilling your orders and you're seeing the profits coming in now we need to make sure that we know how to scale correctly bring as much numbers in as we can and in order to do that we really have to know how to deal with cases and returns which is the next part I will summarize it cuz it's actually pretty simple but it's something that you need to know how to manage to make sure that you have a good seller standing on eBay so dealing with cases returns things like that should take up about two maybe 3% of your business of your total transactions of your total order so this isn't going to be your main job but it is very important as soon as you have a return request or or a dispute to take care of it as soon as you can this was always on the top of my priority making sure that my customers are satisfied and this is what's keeping me at a 99.7% positive transaction I mean out of thousands and thousands and thousands of people who are leaving feedback not everybody leaves a feedback most people don't leave a feedback so in order to maintain such a high feedback rate you have to be on top of this little 2 to 3% of your business now if you have a product that's getting a lot of returns just let it go move on to a different product don't get emotional attached to any product so this is how we deal with cases and Returns on your eBay seller dashboard you can hover over orders and then you've got returns and requests and disputes I'm going to open both of them so this is requests in disputes I don't really have any at the moment but let's see all of the ones that I got in the last 30 days I didn't get any let's do 90 days okay so I had some item not received cases as we can see over here and also a payment dispute now when it comes to the payment disputes you don't really have to worry about that this means that the buyer open up a payment dispute with their uh payment company whatever with their credit cards saying oh I didn't you know approve this purchase whatever eBay takes care of this for you you don't really have to worry about that you'll notice that you'll have all kinds of customers most of them at the end of the day just get their product and they're happy with it but this is that 2 to 3% I was as I was mentioning and by the way maybe even less than 2% many times in my seller evaluation I get less than 2% of this item not received I of course proved to them that the item was received and it was always closed I never had a case that was closed against me so I never argued with a buyer and then they ask eBay to step in after a while and then eBay steps in and says oh buyer's correct seller is wrong that's going to give you a transaction defect rate and as you saw in my seller account I've got 0.0% transaction defect and I've never had a transaction defect over 8 years of doing Drop Shipping on eBay and this is exactly why and how so everything here was resolved all of the item not received was always close to my favor because I always showed them trackable tracking information that did show that the product was delivered or if it wasn't delivered I went to my Supply I'm like hey this product wasn't delivered they send me a refund I send a buyer refund and case is closed so that is requests and disputes but then there's also returns so this is not a request or dispute this is just I want to return the product not uh it arrived damage or uh it didn't arrive at all this is I got it I want to return it so in this case we can see the product right here again I know it's blurt but this is um one that I have open at the moment I already send them the return label using the method that I showed you I opened up the return request I got it from the system because I'm using fulfilled by autods and I just sent him the return label inside the case because I enabled RMA as I showed you in this video if you don't know what I'm talking about go back in a Time stamps make sure that you watch this video to the end from the beginning so you don't skip out on any of these important things so you can see here that the status for this return is waiting for the buyer to ship the item I already did my part now the buyer needs to ship out the item Okay the reason that they opened it doesn't match a description or photos whatever he says it doesn't match his current model even though it does match I'm not going to argue I get returns you get returns and this again makes up for a very small tiny percentage of our business but keeps our seller accounts healthy and active Okay so the refund here will be $37.99 and I'm just waiting for him to ship it back once that happens you can click here on see case details so right now it's awaiting the buyer shipment the buyer uh wrote some notes here that kit will not work on my model here's my model number and uh here is uh images uh showing you that it doesn't work and I uploaded the return label with the tracking details so once he ships it back I will be able to track it cuz there's always a UPS tracking number on these return labels I can track it eBay can track it the buyer can track it and that's how we know that everything is going according to plan and of course I will send him the refund once he sends it back in all cases I don't wait for the product to actually return once I see that it's on the way back I already send them the refund don't mind you don't have to do it you can wait for it to return but because I already have the you know the money and the balance uh I want them to be happy I don't want them to wait like four more days after they shipped it out so I just give it to them right away once I see that it's actually on the way back and I've never had an issue getting of course the refund myself from the supplier so you want to make sure that you're checking your eBay messages and cases every day from the seller dashboard you can see if you have any open cases or just hover over returns and go to returns as I showed you you'll also get an email if a buyer opens up a return or a dispute so you'll always be able to see it as long as you make sure that you're looking for it on a daily basis respond quickly to cases as soon as I get a case I respond to it if have to wait for a return label I issue the request right away so that I'll have it ready within a day or within the day do not lose cases or allow the buyer to ask eBay to step in and help that will give you a transaction defect as we talked about and of course upload a return label for eligible cases now you also have another resource here linked inside the cheat sheet again # eBay 2024 let me know what you learned in this video and I will send you a copy of of this cheat sheet with everything that I'm going over so I also have another resource here the eBay customer support management system if you click on that you can learn all about this but let me just show it to you really quick this allows you to communicate with all of your customers and see all of your open cases all from one place so let me show you what I mean let me just go to the system and then you're going to click on customer support here on the bottom left now customer support is not customer support between you and autods that's going to be this little icon here on the bottom right where you can contact Live support live chat open a ticket whatever you need to do you can do it from here and then here you can see all of the messages that I'm getting from eBay on all of my stores that I have here selected combined so here for example I can open up a chat that I have with a buyer and continue just chatting with him from here instead of opening up uh eBay's messages so basically you'll just open up the message you'll see the chat between you and the buyer and you guys can just go on and off from there instead of opening up your eBay store whichever store it is and just looking for the messages there also every time you get a case you'll be able to see it there a dispute so you can see everything all in one place under customer support so that is also going to make your lives much much easier especially once you have more than one eBay store connected but even if you have only one and that is the eBay customer support management system which will also help you to see what cases you have open if there's anything new and everything else that's going on inside your eBay private messages next we've got dealing with flagged accounts so this is something that I already talked about and I already showed you how to work around it but it's really important to understand at some point I had top rated seller status this was years ago and then eBay came out and said hey you know your top rated status is going to be removed because of the Drop Shipping policy which in other words they don't mind drop shippers but they don't like the whole item location thing where we say it's going to come out from this ZIP code and and it comes out from another so I already talked about that and how to overcome that but at this point if you do that your account gets flagged now they're not going to suspend your account you can keep selling and all that stuff but traffic will drop and you're going to have to have a lot more listings that you'll need to add in order to make up for the traffic drop and I've been working with this for 7 years I would say or six years since the account got flagged and now was finally unflagged because my account was just doing well for so long and I got that eBay account manager as I talked about and he was able to help me remove that I've seen others that remove it simply by appealing to eBay answering some questions that they would ask about you know their uh business policies and things like that um but that is what worked for me so at some point your account if it gets flagged traffic will decrease remember that eBay is a numbers game so just make up for it by adding more and more listings and doing better product research they may also limit your ability to upgrade your limits so make sure that you've got a lot of limits before you start going crazy and and use Q track conversions instead of amzl tracking numbers as I talked about and finally work with private Drop Shipping suppliers this is what eBay is looking for they're not looking for more drop shippers who will work with more retailers even though again you can it's kind of black hat or gray hat it doesn't mean that it's not possible but that's not what eBay is looking for and this will make your job so much easier down the line and we fixed that with all of the private suppliers that we have inside the autods system okay here I also pasted the blue car Express an aqu aqualine carrier update that eBay just doesn't support them anymore that's why I also cross them out from the tracking conversion page and I only want you to use Q track because that is working really well or that generate UPS FedEx tracking number as well because as we saw earlier in 2024 eBay is no longer supporting Blue Care Express and aqualine carrier updates we always find solution to things we never give up and we always keep our businesses active and this is how we were able to do it this year okay you have another resource here how to work with uh eBay FL accounts I gave you all of the main tips but in order to not make this video 20 hours long you need to dive a little bit deeper into each and every one of these sections so I give you all the important points but you will dive deeper within the content that I included here next is to maintain a high eBay seller level this should pretty much go without saying even though I said it so many times in this video you saw my account and you always want to keep it around top rated above standard you don't want to get to below standard you'll have a risk of being suspended you don't want to have a transaction defect rate keep it around 0 to 1% late shipment rate below 5% okay you got all the tips here in order to keep your seller account super healthy make sure that cases get closed without seller resolution as I already talked about keep that below 2% tracking uploaded on time and validated keep it above 70 but above 95 if you want top rated and return rate below 8% 2 to 4% is the optimal range okay just keep in mind also that under performance you have service metrics so not just seller level which I already showed you but also service metrics and as you can see right here it shows you where you stand according to your peers so so here for example item not as described returns so the average Pier has around 0.8% of that you're around the 0.6 so you're doing very well you're doing better than uh the average so that's item not as described you also have the item not received rate now in this case you can see that I am in the high zone I'm at 0.46% of my orders that's kind of BS because I can always appeal to eBay and be like hey these four buyers that open up item not receive cases I proved to them that the item was received and I won those cases so you need to remove that from the measurements over here and then they do that so that's how I protect myself from that because if a buyer opens an item not receive case whether they're right or they're wrong eBay is going to add it here okay so you can see that I'm above uh my peers here but again I'm top rated uh my seller account is healthy and if I need to appeal I always do so now another thing that I would like to add is that you can not only appeal this when needed but if for example a buyer leaves a negative feedback and what they're saying is not true then you can always appeal that negative feedback with eBay and I always do that it doesn't happen a lot but when it does happen it really really helps me to remove those feedbacks so I just contact eBay I showed you how to get to the contact session just click on help and contact and find the right category for the reason why you're reaching out to them you will have an email us or talk to us on a live chat option no reason to do it now very straightforward from the eBay uh help and contact and once you contact them I let them know what happened I'm like hey this buyer opened up a an item not received case and I proved to him that he did get the item and he left me a negative feedback saying he didn't get the item so even though I won the case I still got that NE negative feedback and when you do that and you appeal it they usually remove it so you'll get an email after you send them the feedback request that will look like this okay hello Lon thank you for contacting uh eBay customer service regarding uh the negative feedback removal for this uh order this is my name I'm here to assist you first I appreciate the effort that you showed in contacting us I understand that you wish to remove the negative feedback as the buyer should compare price uh prior to purchase an item and then here I've reviewed the feedback and I can confirmed that it qualifies for removal so it'll be removed in the next 24 to 48 hours so I've got a lot of emails like this where I was able to remove the feedback and it can be for any reason that's actually Justified if a buyer leaves a negative feedback um I didn't get the item and then you would reach out to eBay and be like hey eBay he says he didn't receive it but I Prov that it was received here's all the information eBay will remove that negative uh feedback for whatever reason that you know that you're in the right you have eBay's feedback policy here and you can go over it and so you'll see here when do we remove feedback if the buyer says anything harmful inappropriate irrelevant comments one time I even got a feedback from a buyer a negative feedback just saying he didn't like the item but then he sent me a message and he sent me something racist and so I told eBay because of that they also left me a negative feedback and eBay also removed a negative feedback from that so go over uh eBay's feedback removal policy I'm going to also add it as a section in the cheat sheet okay so let's do that right below maintaining a higher seller level eBay feedback removal policy in most cases I have no problems removing feedbacks and it only takes a minute to send them that email so now that you have all of the essentials and how I've been running my business for the last 8 years and everything I've learned along the way I saved the best for last so remember without automation there is no such thing as scaling and in order to do that correctly you need to use an all-in-one software that will get everything done for you so you won't have to have multiple subscriptions to multiple softwares and kind of get lost in the whole process while trying to scale this is how I've been doing it for a long time now and I want to go over all of the important features and settings that you need to have on autods in order to really have this complete all-in-one package and have it work smoothly and seamlessly so automate and scale your eBay drop stream business I added a little dashboard photo of my stores and here I added all of the important things that you pretty much know about it so you're getting your autod DS trial for $1 you're going to get 14 days of this so that you can really test it and try before you buy you're going to get price and stock monitoring quick product importing automatic orders and tracking product sourcing Marketplace private suppliers winning products Hub VA management which I still need to show you cuz I'm going to do the settings page now ai title and description generator free eBay templates autods Academy autods wallet with the p integration the customer messaging system and more so I already went over all of these things I'm going to go to the settings page now and show you how to configure your eBay store the right way with all kinds of tips and tricks that will help you make more sales gain higher profitability so we're going to do that now okay so first things first I clicked on settings here we are on supplier settings we already went over the orders tab so I'm not going to go over that now but this is the Lister tab so right now keep in mind that I'm just using Amazon as the example for my supplier so all of the settings that I'm adding now will only be applicable for Amazon us supplier on my eBay store one these are the default settings that are going to happen that are going to occur every time I list a new product after saving these settings so default product Quant when uploading from Amazon to my eBay store what is the default product quantity that I'm going to have is it going to be one is it going to be five we already talked about product quantities this is where you control that default item country default item zip code so of course I just used a zip code that is in the US as long as I know that I'm shipping from the US shipping methods should be cheapest with tracking now in my case because I'm using fulfilled by autods fulfilled by autods always uses Amazon Prime so that is a huge Advantage so I'm not really going to pay anything for shipping anyway default template is whatever template that you want to use as a default setting I showed you all the free templates that you're getting from autods but you can also add your own customized template so I didn't show you that but it's here under the template setting so when I get to that I'll also show you how to upload your own template so you can go for example uh on a platform like a Fiverr find someone who does it for $5 $10 and then you can use a template that will be unique only to your store so here you would choose that default template to use when listing products from the supplier to the selling Channel selecting your platform policies so here is the shipping payment return policies you can go with with dynamic or go with policies that we already created in this video so I've got my payment policy my shipping policy and my return policy which will not change as long as I'm uploading products from this supplier to this selling Channel now when you are listing a product you can change these things so whatever default settings you have set here you can still change it when listing a product you have the option to go over the settings but if you don't do that then it's going to go with these default settings next we've got Advanced Lister settings so allow duplicates will allow you to upload duplicates this means that if you already listed this product in your and you're trying to list it again from the same supplier the system will tell you hey you know you already have this product are you sure that you want to upload it allow outof stock variations will allow you to upload well out of stock variations so if you're uploading a product and it has some variations and some of them are out of stock and you have this on it's going to upload them anyway and I would recommend having this because when they return to stock it will go back up in stock and then you will have that variation in stock without you having to really do anything cuz it's all being automated capitalized title you don't doesn't really matter cuz you're going to optimize your title anyway with AI autofill brand it's better have this unchecked so whatever brand is uh you know you're selling as long as it's not you know as we talked about a big brand a known brand it's a brand that you know they don't mind you drop shipping it which is most brands but again just away from the big Brands so if you don't have this checked in it will not automatically fill in the brand according to whoever that brand is and it's just better this way split variants into products so this means that if there are variations inside that product that you're trying to list then it will make them as Standalone products so each product will be its own listing instead of having variations allow Vero or blocked keywords so if you know what you're doing and you don't mind uploading veril block keywords you're going to have this ticked in or ticked off if you do not want it I recommend of course not having it unless you're super Advanced and you know exactly what you're doing add categories to tags so whatever categories that product belongs to that you're listing add them as tags as well no reason not to have that on it makes it better to optimize the products later on apply Watermark you can set a watermark and apply it to all the images that you are listing from here duplicate the main image up to 12 allow Marketplace sellers so this is if you don't want to use only Amazon Prime I have this off because it has slow shipping and you're paying for shipping so I only go with Amazon Prime in this case private listing I always recommend having it on it just makes it harder for other competitors to open up your store and see exactly what products you're actually able to sell once your listings are private it makes it that much harder price and stock monitoring I always recommend having that on it should be pretty much explainable now why you've also got AI title and description automatic generator so if you toggle these on it will automatically do the AI title and descriptions while you're importing these products to the drafts or to the products it will get this done in advance and I do recommend having that on you're going to do it anyway you're not going to use the same title in descriptions as your supplier and at the end you've got default item specific so this is if you want to have specifics item specifics like type or color things like that that are going to be the same for all the products that you list I don't have any examples like that so I have that off next we've got pricing so how do you want to price your products and this is really important so we know that we're paying around 15% Break Even fees we already got to that and you can also say okay I have another fee which is uh 40 cents right and on top of that I want to make a profit so the profit that I want to make is whatever you set here so if you want to set whatever profit you want you're going to turn off Dynamic profit and then here you're going to tell the system okay so on top of these fees I want to make 60% profit and another fixed dollar amount or just 60% and have a minimum uh profit per product so my settings are usually around these settings here but you can also add Dynamic profit what this means is you're going to set a price range so you're saying okay every time the product cost me anywhere between Z to uh let's say $10 then I want to make 100% profit because it's a lower price range I want to make more uh profit and you can also do the same for a fixed price another rule okay let's say every time it costs from 10 to 20 then I want to make um 80% profit and so forth okay so you can keep adding these rules to make a dynamic profit and every time you add products Within These ranges it will get that specific pricing next you've got the uh set price and value so that you can round all your cents I already showed you this and of course include the shipping price so even if we pay for shipping we're always going to offer free shipping while maintaining our desire profit margin because it will get added to your Source price next we've got the order settings I've already went over this when we were doing the order automation so I'm going to continue to the general settings this is pretty basic so the default weight unit you want to see pounds uh ounces kilogram whatever automatic SKU feeling I recommend having it off again it just makes it harder for your competitors to find your products and sources and now under monitoring is your conditions If the product should be in or out of stock so you got the minimum product quantity so this means okay every time the supplier has at least this much in stock then have it in stock on my store I have it around one because my products are you know usually never running out of stock and if they are I always find an alternative so I always want the product in stock as long as my supplier has stock maximum shipping days is 14 you can set that down to uh 7 or something like that I like to have it around 14 cuz I don't want the product going out of stock if it takes 10 days to ship because under my uh business policies I could still handle that but I also want to look for another supplier using the sourcing using autod DS's private suppliers to find a supplier with faster shipping so the product will go out of stock and when I say out of stock if it happens because of a setting that I have here it's going to go on hold so it's out of stock on my store but it's on hold on autod DS I will show you what that means when I get to the products page and then we've got choose from supplier table so cheapest first or prime first um I'm always going with Prime first cuz it's Amazon and uh I always wanted to look at the uh Prime suppliers table and Prime only products If the product goes out of prime then I wanted to go out of stock on my store so that is the regular supplier settings now let's move over to automations here is where you can add pricing automation and what this means is you're going to tell the system hey every time I sell a product I want you to uh increase the price so that I can profit more but then if it stops selling I want you to decrease the price so that I'll have a higher chance of selling it and then here it's going to find The Sweet Spot between maintaining consistent sales at the highest profitable price so that we can make as much profit as possible and not just be super cheap and continue making constant sales on a super cheap price where we can just go a little bit higher and make more profit so here you would add automation give it a name like uh eBay store one autom and then okay when the number of sales is higher than let's say if I make more than uh three sales every 7 Days on a product then I want you to raise the product price by uh let's say 10% up to a limit of 50% because then it's just going to be too expensive okay and then you can also do the same for a fixed price instead of a percentage okay then I'm going to go to next now I want you to decrease the price Sals performance of course you can see that I can toggle these on and off so I can do only increase only decrease or both so now I'm saying okay every time I don't make sales so if the number of sales is lower than one per uh 5 days so if the item doesn't sell at least one time every 5 days then I want you to decrease the price let's say by 5% down to a limit of 20% because below that I will be breaking even and you know I won't really be profiting just as an example and same thing for fixed price if you don't want to go with percentages or on top of percentages okay so you're going to click on next then you're going to click on what products you would like to assign these rules to okay so you can also add a filter so here you can say okay I only want to do it on specific products that have a a specific tag let's say okay I only want to do it on let's say I don't know Parts uh that I'm selling or something like that or just do it on all products select all of them then select here on all the products and click on finish so that will set pricing automation which is great for finding that sweet spot maintaining consistent sales and profitability so we already talked about templates and these are all the free templates that you get with autods but I also want to show you how to import your own so you would go here to my templates and you would click on add a blank template add a name to it okay so let's say eBay store one template then you'll click on create template okay here it is down here and I'm going to click here on edit and then here I need to insert an HTML code for this template to work so here for example I could go to a place like Fiverr okay and search for eBay store templates okay then here I have all of my results so our agency will Design uh an eBay store a listing template uh we'll create an eBay store design uh we'll create uh a responsive eBay template and you can see all the prices here so now I would start with a new seller that has a good track record and they're trying to gets better known so what I would do here is go for the cheaper ones so I would go with a budget and I would say you know what up to $15 I don't want to put more than that on a template and there are many uh sellers who want to prove themselves and get higher uh feedbacks so you can find a lot here now that are on on around $10 $15 here we've even got a guy who's doing a template for $5 and he's already got 79 uh 5.0 reviews so this would be a good example of one that I would start off with very very cheap and he's got good reviews so you can click on it get more information inside but and here's a big but they don't give you the source code so he's giving you a template that you pretty much need to uh copy and paste all the images so I would try to uh talk with him about that and ask also for the source code because we need to input the source code inside the uh system but that's just one example we're not always going to jump on the first product and the first uh service person that we see so we can even check out other ones like let's see this $5 one over here okay eBay B listing template no active contents and that's it he's going to give you everything that you need there is no source code with without he's got great reviews I would check out this guy you can click here contact me to uh ask a question make sure that you get the source code whatnot so that you can actually use the template even though they will never give you something that you cannot uh use at the end of the day but the source code also lets you make changes to whatever they did so yeah so you can get it anywhere between 5 10 $15 tops and you've got a really good unique template you would input the code over here click on update and you've got your own unique template so that is the templates tab now let's move over to keywords this is where you can add uh keywords to your block list and then here you can choose okay when these keywords exist in the product listing title description whatever then either remove the product completely from my store or simply remove those words you know from the description from the title wherever it is so here for example I wrote okay if the word Amazon exists anywhere remove it from the title uh lifetime like lifetime warranty which I cannot give then remove it from the title call us I don't have anyone calling me so move from the title and so forth so here you can add new keywords okay and here you can add multiple keywords like uh let's say branded you don't want the word branded so if this keyword appears in the title either do nothing don't upload the product or just delete that text same thing if it happens in the uh description and if it appears in the manufacturer then don't upload the product okay so those are the keyword options that you have you can add as many as you want as many as you need and you can learn more about that as you upload new listings and you'll find all kinds of keywords that you don't really want there next we've got plans and add-ons so for the eBay store you're starting with the basic plan so let me show you what that looks like autod DS pricing okay so we're going to click here on the pricing page on eBay and you can see that there's a regular import that costs $20 per month and there's also the starter 400 that cost $40 per month now again you're going to pay only $1 for 14 days but if you go with the starter 400 you'll also get priced in stock monitoring which of course is very much needed especially once you're ready to start scaling but if you want to go super basic and you want to do your own price and stock monitoring and you only have a few products uploaded you can go with a regular import 200 however I do recommend starting off with the 400 and as you build up these subscription fees over here are going to mean nothing compared to the amount of products that you're selling and that of course will depend on your product research strategies and methods follow along everything that I taught you in this video and you will see that these little prices will sum up to nothing compared to what you are making so choose your eBay plan you can of course add more plans more selling channels you can connect multiple eBay stores under one eBay store subscription so it makes it very easy and that is it when it comes to plans and add-ons next you've got account and billing so here you can see all of the history you can see your payment methods and your payment history all under one place you can download invoices as well then you've got users so this is where you can add a virtual assistant to help you with your store so here for example you're already scaling or you're ready to scale you already know how the business Works you're not going to do this before you know how your business works and what makes a tick but once you figure that out once you find your winners once you have a strategy that's ready to scale because it's already making sales you can now add a virtual assistant user who can help you with the things that you already know don't hire them for things that you don't know though you have to know your business inside and out before you hire someone and then they're just going to help you scale and automate your business even more so that you can really focus on what's important to grow so here you're going to click on add user and here you're going to give the username okay so let's say uh Josh okay you're going to write his email so Josh whatever mail.com you're going to generate a password for him and then you're going to give him privilege on whatever you want either all of your stores or a selected store and then under those stores what privileges do you want them to have so for example do you want them to be able to view your dashboard View and edit active products delete your drafts edit your orders handle customer service whatever setting you want to give them you can do that here and so this way you're not giving them all of your business before you have full trust in them so take advantage of virtual assistance because this will really help you scale to the big number once your business is already running and profiting that would be your next step next is buyer accounts have already been over there so I won't show it again but this is if you want to have automatic orders not fulfilled by autods so this is using your buyer accounts not my biggest recommendation but if you cannot use fulfilled by autods then definitely use buyer accounts and notifications so this is every time I want to get an email notification if something happens on my store for example if an order fails to uh process if an order is successful in processing out if I have a tracking number update if there if a new order comes comes in so if I toggle anything on I'll get an email notification when this happens same thing for monitoring so do you want to know every time something happens to a stock status on your store or to one of the prices and how often do you want to get these updates and to what email address just remember to click on save every time you change something in a setting so of course all your settings will be saved last but not least is Store settings so here is where you can do things like renew your token if it's needed customer support will of course let you know if you need to renew your token for whatever reason uh resync your store if there's like an issue with the price monitoring stock monitoring I don't usually put up a lot with this but every now and then if you need to You'll also know this is where you do those things this is where you also set a store Watermark I talked about how you can Watermark your images this is where you can add your watermark logo and this is your branding setting so I showed you how you can uh work with private suppliers that have branding customization inside the autods marketplace this is where you drag and drop your logo and this is the logo that will be used as a little gift message next to every item that gets ordered from your store from autods customizable branding private suppliers and of course this means that your logo is being sent out on all of your orders so you're actually able to Brand the packages that are going out and shipped out to your customers even if you are doing it one by one and you're not purchasing orders in bulk which is the usual minimum requirement if you want to Brand your packages and send them out with these customized thank you cards now there are additional features inside autods which I will not dive too deep into like having print on demand so you can sell print on demand products on your store as you can see right here so you can choose whatever category you want like a accessories let's say it's this uh iPhone case so you would click on it you would get the info and here is where you can edit your products you would click on edit product you would create your design you would add it here on the product on the front back whatever options that you have and then you can ship out these products with your branded logo or or with some funny text that you added to it or whatever just so you know print on demand exists and you can have a print on demand Drop Shipping business on eBay again even when you're sending out products one by one because we are Drop Shipping and we are not purchasing anything in bulk in advance so print on the man is also an option which I will not dive deep into but you have that here and more explanations tutorials on how to use that on our YouTube channel on our blog pages but I do want to show you the products page which I still haven't showed you yet so this shows all of the products that you have on your store and the reason that I want to show you this is because there's a lot of things that you can also learn here to further optimize your store so what exactly do we see here all of the products that I have on my selected store so 300 almost 3,000 500 products and 12 more untracked products what are untracked products untracked products is all the products that you have on your store okay that you have on your eBay store or whatever store you have connected but autods doesn't have all the information on this product it's missing some supplier information or something that allows it to make the automation process for these products so here for example I have like these natural uh beads these gemstone beans beads as you guys can see over here so what you would do here is you would click on one of these products because it's out of stock I can't really do it but if it was in stock I would have the the option here to fill in the supplier ID then I would let the system know hey here's the supplier for this product the system would be like oh okay put it back in the products page in the track products now it's tracked and we will have automation on it okay so that is the untracked products so next again we can see all of the products that we have on our stores but we can't really go over 3,000 10,000 100,000 products right and the whole point here is to sell as many products as we can with automation so that we can really enjoy the profits right so here's everything that we can do on the products page so first let's go over the columns really quick so these are the products here I know it's blurred here is when they were uploaded so you can see that I'm uploading products my VA is uploading products are pretty much on the daily U multiple products to make sure that the store is always working always refreshing itself of course removing slow movers I'm going to show you how to do that but very simple you should check out every month how many sales you're getting or how many views how many Watchers and slow movers products that are not moving so quick You're simply going to remove them from your store and take up those limits with better products and you're always going to learn how to refine and refresh this process and get better at it as you go next we've got a private notes so if you have any private notes to add on this product nobody can see it but you then you've got these three dots right here where you can quickly edit the product relist it which means it'll delete all of the history on the product how much it's sold how much views how much Watchers and it'll simply relist it on eBay add a tag to it delete the product or make a sourcing request next we've got the variation so available means that it's in stock you can see all this green here all these products are in stock now on hold and out of stock means that it's out of stock on our store on hold means that it's out of stock on our store but it's in in stock on the supplier's website but because you have a certain setting like uh you said you wanted a minimum uh supplier quantity of 10 and the supplier only has five left so because of that setting that you configured it's going to be out of stock on your store but still in stock on the supplier store so this one would go on hold and out of stock means it's out of stock on the supplier site so of course it's also out of stock on your website okay next we've got a total quantity so I've got a one of each uh item here in stock out of stock days how long it's been out of stock we don't have any here so they're all in stock price so the Buy price and the selling price the profit range if we sell this product the item ID so where I'm buying it from where I'm selling it on if I click on it it'll take me to that product page how much I sold DWS is days without sale because all these listed just got added so they've all got zero sold but also zero days without sale cuz they're new which store it's uploaded to or product information product IDs views Watchers and how many days they have left before they refresh remember on eBay we talked about how every 30 days they refresh and then you want to check out every 30 days before that happens if the product is a good seller or not otherwise it'll just take up another space on your limits and item tags are here as well okay so those are the main columns again you can customize your columns by clicking here on customize display and arrange turn on turn off whatever you need and you can click on every item just to open up the editor so if I just click on the uh thumbnail image of this product here it opens up the editor so I can go again on the title description variations images item specifications add more variations do whatever I want simply by clicking on the product here and up here we got the filters system now there's a whole bunch of filters that we can use and I highly recommend to use the filters because this will help you understand especially once you have thousands and thousands of products how to see only a set specific uh number of products for example I can add a filter and I want to find certain tags okay so I'm going to click here on tags I want to filter tags so I've got this tag right here pillow forms and foam pillows I don't know if I have any of these products no I don't have any of these but if I would it would show me all of those Tagg products the thing is it's all real products real tags so uh do have to do a little bit of blurring sorry about it guys but this will help you see all of the tags that you have and then you can see only that group of products so for example let's say I was uh um selling a whole bunch of table runners and I have a tag called table runner on those products now remember that autods automatically adds tags to your products but you can also add tags as well so it would open up the um table runners tag and then I can filter more like for example let's say I filter down or didn't but now I want to add additional filters so okay now I see all the tags that I want under that I also want to see let's say what filter um anything that has a certain Buy price or sell price range specific profitability inventory status okay so let's say I want to see my unhold I want to see what is onh hold so I'm going to click on inventory status I'm going to choose unhold you can also select multiple um selections and then click on done and now it's going to show me all of the products that I have on hold so you see variations available zero out of stock zero but on hold and if you hover over on hold you'll see why this product is on hold so you see here it says new ID new ID new ID new ID this means that the supplier changed the item ID for this product product so you're going to have to go and see what the new IDE is and just kind of make sure that they didn't also change the product itself some suppliers are trying to keep a good uh the good reviews that they have on a certain product so when it goes out of stock they will switch it with another product maintaining the the good reviews which are not true to that product so the product ID here will change and then you will need to go cuz it'll be uh unhold you'll need to go to that product page and then you can just see if it's the same product you can update the item ID on the product editor page for that product and then it'll go back in stock if it's another product then you can just remove it because suppliers playing games and we don't really like that okay so that is what that means the new ID and you'll have a lot of bunch of other reasons like for example not a platform selling seller so this means that the product is not prime anymore so I said that I only want to sell Prime in my settings and over shipping time so my shipping time says uh up to 14 days this product let's say takes 20 days to reach the customer so because on my settings it means that it's out of bounds it goes out of stock on my store even though it's in stock on my supplier store okay so you really want to use the filter system and remember that you can use multiple filters and that you can also save these filters so let's say I want to see everything that's on hold okay but I want to add another filter so besides showing me everything that's on hold I only want to see what's on hold that has a selling price more than $10 just cuz for some reason the ones that cost less than 10 are not important to me okay so now it would narrow down some more and I would get the results or for example let's say you added a whole bunch of Christmas products to your store and now Christmas is over so you want to remove those products from your store so you would search for your tag called Christmas or whatever tag you added to those Christmas products and now it's going to make it easier for you to first of all analyze what's sold well keep what's sold well because for next year you want you're going to want to reuse it and add more products that are similar to that or remove it but save the um product ID or product ID on the side so that when the season comes again you'll fill it up with the right products and this is how you keep getting better month after month season after season and year after year so take advantage of the filter system on the products page because there are a whole bunch of filters that you can use and this can really help you narrow down thousands and thousands of products you can save your filters so it'll make it easier for you to come back to it later just give it a name and click on Save and when you go to your filters you got your save filters right here so you can always click on it here and you won't have to do all of the preconfigured settings that you like using last but not least you can click on clear to clear all of your filters now you've also got view history so you can see all of the changes that happen on your eBay store on the products page just click on the date and it'll show you what products you added deleted if there were any failed products to upload and things like that and you can also make bulk changes so let's say I'll grab all the products on this page which is 20 or select all 3,500 products and then you can make bulk changes like bulk edit add item to edit I want to change the fees for these products or the profits or the quantities or I want to round the cents or the shipping methods all of the options that you have for editing products you have that pretty much there in the bulk uh editor and of course you can select whichever products you want to add these bulk changes too you can also do a bulk relist a bulk delete and a bulk AI rewrite if for some reason you missed it and I want to do it for all of the products on your store and now that we are pretty much finished going over everything I want to give away one more winning product on eBay and the last of them 456 you can see them when you get this cheat sheat again # eBay 2025 what did you like about this video what did you learn about it I'm going to send you this cheat sheat winning product number three is a mini desk Robot vacuum let's check it out I'm going to open the eBay listing so the supplier Link in this case is autods it sells for $7.3 and $2 shipping it looks like this robot that simply cleans your table and whatnot let's see the item on eBay so I can see that this seller sold it for about two times that price he sold about four units so far and yeah so he sold four okay he didn't get rich from this product but hey here's another profit margin that you guys could be missing and he doesn't have that many good feedbacks look at him only 613 and he's 96.6 he's not doing a very good job with his uh buyers and if you follow my strategies that I went over in this video it's just going to be so much easier for you to make it down the line for the long-term survivability and scalability of your business I really hope that you enjoyed this full course on how to not just get started on eBay but also learn what to do before during after and how to really get the right products how to stay on eBay safe side making sure that we are scaling the right way and that we are always maintaining a steady income of profit and sales as they start to roll in as we continue to grow I just spilled eight long years of eBay Drop Shipping experience and I left nothing behind everything was here on the table by making it this far it does show how serious you are in taking your eBay business forward so whether you got started or not now is the time to take action you owe that much to yourself get your free eBay store 250 free listings take advantage of autod DS's $1 offer for 14 days follow all of the steps in this free course and enjoy your new business enjoy your new sales and profit good luck Drop Shipping on eBay and I'll see you in the next one a