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by Louis Roberts, Lou

Drop Shipping- An Innovative Method to Add Profits from EBay many people are taking up selling on EBay as a means of alternative income. Over the years, Internet has developed into a medium of e-commerce and slowly it is being filled with virtual supermarkets. Today everyone wants a piece of the pie, which is the Internet.

Everyone wants to make quick bucks and get rich overnight. Sounds like right out of a fairy tale. Selling online has become the easiest way to earn money.

Websites like eBay, Yahoo Shopping and many others allow individuals to conduct online auctions and buy and sell products online.

Majority of sellers on eBay comprise of homemakers, college going teenagers, and even people who work fulltime but sell their products during their spare time. All this effort is for getting rich overnight!

The Story Behind
Selling on EBay is getting more popular because the costs involved for setting up your store on EBay are almost negligible.

The initial setup cost for a basic auction is a nominal as 25 cents and includes description and one picture. However, eBay charges a percentage of the final bid price. That is very less for the seller and the seller can charge buyer for this by including it in the shipping and handling fee.

With increasing access to Internet and millions visiting eBay everyday, this becomes the choicest and cheapest way to sell the goods and make a healthy profit.

Drop Shipping- Sell Products without the Hassles.

Since sometime, the term ‘Drop shipping' has become a popular method for selling goods on eBay.

This method allows the seller on eBay to sell goods without the need to have an inventory or the necessity to ship the goods. Many companies also allow the user to purchase their goods and then have them blind drop ship the product to the winning bidder.

The company uses the eBay seller's name or company details as the return address to make it appear that the item actually came from them and not the true goods supplier.

The true supplier will however, handle the packaging, the shipping, and any return of items.

Drop shipping has gained popularity because in this method of selling on EBay and other auctions, you do not have to pay for the product upfront until the auction has closed and the buyer has paid.

One the buyer makes the payment, the order is sent to the drop shipper and they would complete the procedure including sending the tracking number for the shipment, which is then forwarded to the buyer.

This method ensures that you earn money and risks are minimized for the sellers.


On April 1st 2008 Ebay dropped the hatchet on many of those who are selling digital products on their network. While this news devastated some, this is actually good news for legit sellers. This puts the sellers of the 1 penny e-books down for the count. In the past this was a way to greatly manipulate your feedback as well as boost ACRU fees almost devilishly. With that said, the change will actually bring back respectability to Ebay's digital products section.

As a seller of digital products myself the news at first was scary. However a warmth overcame me shortly as I realized this was actually a very good thing. It seemed far to often with Ebay, that people were selling useless, rehashed and often unfinished low quality products within. Many times these e-books were marketed for a penny and used to build up one's email list and add extra increases to their feedback score. Most of these type of e-books offered little to no value to the reader whatsoever. Ebay realized the problem and had been working for a while now to put an end to this. Throughout April they expect to clean up their inventory greatly, by removing such gimmicks.

This opened up two options for anyone selling digital products on their network. The options were either to adapt or leave a rich cash harvesting empire behind. Even though Ebay now offers the classified ad feature where you may still place a digital product, most are not willing to go that route. The classified ad option does not allow one to collect feedback, nor are transaction actually done through Ebay. You must now add your own link or Paypal button to make the sale. The other way to still sell an e-book or digital product on Ebay is to have a physical product created with it and offer the digital product on a CD or DVD instead. That option simply isn't in many marketers line of sight and may in fact, be to expensive.

Time will tell how the classified ad or CD/DVD options fare on Ebay but one thing is for certain this will help clean up much of the manipulation of sales, email accounts and feedback scores. Just the other day I already noticed a decline in amount of e-books and digital products listed on Ebay. If someone was looking to sell digital products on Ebay now is probably the best time. Right after something changes is usually the best time to get in on what is bound to be a good thing.
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