Dropship Secrets for eBay Sellers
Posted by Madison Claire on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 @ 04:55 PM
Well, there probably aren’t any actual dropship secrets for eBay sellers, but there are some tips and pointers that can help you increase sales and hopefully keep your Detailed Seller Ratings and feedback up to eBay’s near-impossible standards.
Being an eBay seller is tough these days.
It’s not only tough for dropship sellers, but for almost everybody. Unless you are one of the huge companies that eBay is wooing with free listings and reduced fees; you’re not going to have a smooth ride.
However, there is still a LOT of money to be made as an eBay seller, and dropshipping is still one of the easiest and most hassle-free ways to sell!
Here are a few random pointers for how to increase sales as an eBay dropship seller:
- As a general rule, don’t use the images from the dropship website. Instead, order at least one of every product you are going to sell, and take your own photos. You aren’t wasting the money because (a) it will make you money in the long run to have your own photos and (b) you can still sell the widgets after you’ve made the pictures, and get your money back. There are a lot of dropship sellers on eBay. Most of them will take the easy road and use the stock photos from the dropship supplier’s website. You can give yourself a competitive edge by using your own photos.
- Ditto for descriptions. Write your own instead of simply copying and pasting the ones from the dropship website. If you don’t feel up to the task, hire a freelance writer to do this for you. It will be a small investment that will pay you back in big dividends. Again, as with the photos, most other dropship sellers on eBay selling identical products as you are will opt for the easy way out and use the stock product descriptions. Here is another opportunity for you to rise above the rest!
- In order to survive as an eBay seller these days, you have to be very proactive in attempting to manage your feedback and Detailed Seller Ratings, as much as possible. One way to try and protect yourself from a dishonest, unreasonable, impossible to please buyer is to check the feedback they are leaving for other sellers. You can learn a lot from this! If a buyer is leaving a disproportionately high amount of bad feedback---run for your life! Always try to check bidders in time to cancel the bids of anyone like this before they ruin your feedback the way they have other helpless sellers. If they do a Buy It Now, you’re basically stuck and all you can do is hope they’ll be merciful. If you see that someone is a bad bidder, add the m to your Blocked Bidders list after you cancel their bid.
You can make a bundle of money as a dropshipping seller on eBay, if you put in a little extra effort to market your items better than the competition, and try to weed out bad buyers!