How to Dropship on eBay as a Complete Beginner! (2026)

if you're brand new to making money online then I want to show you the simplest way I found that actually works and all you need for this is a laptop and an internet connection let's start by coming over to ebay. com and we're going to create an account here now if you already have an ebay account you can obviously skip this step if not you want to click on the top left here where it says register and once on this page if it gives you the option make sure to choose a business account and just give them all the information that they ask for it's pretty straightforward from here so I'm not going to walk you through it step by step now signing up for an ebay account is free but once you're signed up you have the option of signing up for an eBay store subscription and that's going to save you money as you begin to increase the number of items that you have listed but in the beginning you really don't need that you're not going to have that many items listed up that quickly so just stick with the free plan it's going to save a bunch of money so because we're talking about eBay you may be thinking that I'm going to tell you to go drive around to thrift stores or garage sales buy some stuff there bring it all home create listings take photos of it and then individually ship out each item that Sals but that's not what I'm talking about here like I said in the intro all you need for this is a laptop and an internet connection you don't need to be driving around to garage sales to get all your products and you really can do this from anywhere in the world and that's because we're going to be dropshipping on eBay dropshipping allows you to sell physical products online without ever buying any of the inventory up front in fact you're going to create listings on eBay for items you don't even own yet or have in stock when the item actually sells you'll then purchase it from A supplier who will ship the item directly to your eBay customer this means you never have to touch or handle the package or the items ever which is why this can be done from anywhere now you may have heard of Drop Shipping before but most people are only familiar with Drop Shipping on their own website using something like Shopify and that method is great but it does create a lot of challenges for beginners so first of all if you start on your own website that means you have to actually build the website yourself now that's pretty challenging for beginners to do and if you build a bad website then if people actually find it they may not actually purchase anything from you but of course the initial problem is that you have to get people to actually visit your website that means you have to pay for advertising or marketing and that can really add up very quickly now if you pay for all that advertising and then people visit your website and don't actually buy from you you're just losing a lot of money the other problem is that you have to do really careful product research if you find one product you want to drop ship you create a website around it but no one wants that product that is a lot of time and money wasted there's really no leeway for mistakes when you're doing that type of Drop Shipping that's why Drop Shipping on your own website is so hard for beginners luckily though you can drop ship on a Marketplace like eBay because they don't have any of those issues so with eBay Drop Shipping you don't need to worry about building a website because you're going to be selling on one that already exists you just have to sign up for an account and get started with it this is going to make your life a lot easier because there's already customers on eBay looking to buy stuff that means that you don't have to pay for any ads or marketing yourself basically you're going to go where the customers already are instead of trying to force the customers to go where you are when you combine that with the ease of Drop Shipping which again doesn't require you to buy any of the inventory up front you can see why this system is much lower risk than a lot of the other online businesses out there now I'm going to be throwing a lot of information at you in this video so to help you out what I've done is I've put together a sort of cheat sheet and it's going to cover everything that I'm talking about in this video that way you can just pay attention look at what I'm showing you how to do and then just reference that Cheat Sheet later if you need a reminder of what we went over so be sure to grab that it's the first link in the description down below and then come back to this video to actually learn how to find the top products to sell on eBay now let me actually show you how I find items every single day to drop ship onto eBay and I start out by using this software right here it's called Zeke analytics and what I like about this is that it's actually able to pull data from eBay to give us realtime information on which products are trending and doing the best so we can just reverse engineer that and sell those same products ourselves at the same time I like to have another tab

open with whatever supplier I'm using so in this case I want to drop ship products from walmart. com so I'm going to have Walmart open so returning back over to Zeke what I like about this is that they actually have a bunch of different product research tools built in and I'll show you some of my favorite ones so here on the left there's a section called trending drop shippers right here on the dashboard and what's cool about this is that this actually identifies for you other people on eBay that are already Drop Shipping pretty well and you can actually see which of their items are selling the best so we have this seller right here for instance they're doing over $42,000 a month in sales here's another one that's doing about 20,000 $115,000 a month in sales so if you wanted to all you had to do is click this button right here and that would scan through all of the products in their store and show you which ones are the most popular so coming here to the results I can see that this mascara has sold 23 times in the past month it is sold 14 sorry four times in the past 14 days and two times in the past 7 days so this software is able to break that down for you that's not available anywhere else I've ever seen and this is very helpful because what I'm looking for are items that are selling now if an item maybe has sold 50 times but it's sold 50 times 2 years ago and hasn't sold since I'm not interested in that item I want something that's selling recently and this not only show shows you items that I've sold in the past month but really will show you if they're selling in the past week or two weeks as well which I really like another tool I really use a lot on Zeke is the trending eBay niches section so back here on the dashboard on the left it says trending eBay e Bay niches right here and I can look at which categories of items are doing the best right now so I can see that moving boxes are very popular electric fly bug zappers are very popular for some reason we have men's wallets we have Christmas ornaments or Christmas decorations I should say wireless Bluetooth headsets what I'll do is I'll click on one of these so let's go ahead and click on portable car vacuum that will then open it up and what I like to do is I like to look at the results because what it's going to show you is at the top the most popular one down to the least popular one I like to look at the top few results and see what they all have in common so right here I can see that this one these few have sold hundreds of times in total over the past month and they all look very similar right they sort of have this kind of looks like a hair dryer but it has like this long spout off of it that you can really get between the cushions of your car so the top two look very similar so does this one even this one looks similar yeah they all have a very similar look so what I'll do now is I'll head over to walmart. com and I'm going to search for car vacuum and I'm looking for something similar that's as low in price as possible so this one right here this one is just $759 plus $5. 99 shipping now generally I don't buy anything from Walmart unless it's actually sold by Walmart not a third party seller which this one is um and I know that because these ones say save with Walmart plus this one doesn't and the shipping isn't free either so I avoid that let's see if Walmart's actually selling something similar to this yeah so this one right here is 20 bucks you can see it looks very similar to the ones we looked at so is this one is 20 bucks so again what I'm looking for here are uh something that looks very similar but is as low in price as possible but still has good reviews both of these have decent reviews this one's a little bit better let me just see if I can find this for a little bit cheaper maybe we'll get lucky here but I'm not seeing anything too great oh here we go this one is about $18 so it's like a dollar cheaper so this is the one I would probably list up for sale myself now I'm looking for items ah here we go right here $7 okay I think we found a winner right here it's $17 it looks very similar it's sold by Walmart doesn't have a lot of reviews but they are good reviews so then this is the one I would actually list up for sale myself now notice I'm not looking for this exact match I haven't come over here where do we go for that one right here and I'm not trying to find this exact same one it doesn't have to be as long as it's very similar

that's what you're looking for because if it's very similar then you're introducing a new item to the marketplace without being in direct competition with the person that's already selling it so let me show you another example we'll return back to Zeke over here and I'll come over here and we're looking at outdoor solar wall lights so I'll click on that will go ahead and open it up and coming down here to the results I see that the first two look very similar these look like ones you can mount to your wall right and this one as well this one's a little bit of a different shape but these ones are still popular so I'm looking for ones that look like this light motion sensor outdoor lights so let's go ahead and try to find those on Walmart so maybe outdoor mounted solar lights so what I'm seeing here are these ones which look similar to one of the top results really the top there's two of them in the top results here but not quite what I was looking for ones that look more like this wouldn't be a bad choice because we see that these are doing well for other sellers on eBay I was just trying to hope to find the other ones so I would probably list these ones up for sale for sure because they're nice and cheap great reviews they match one of the top results so list up this one for but I'm going to try to find something similar to the top results we see on Zeke so maybe outdoor solar lights and I was able to find it right here it's $18. 50 here 193 reviews sold by Walmart so this is what I'm looking for right here they call an outdoor street light am I seeing anything cheaper than that I'm not unfortunately so I think that would be the one that I would list up for sale as well because we know that these are doing well again not an exact match but you don't want it to be next we're actually going to list some of these products for sale into our eBay store now in the past this was a very tedious process we used to manually copy and paste everything from our supplier website into a new listing on eBay and it was pretty annoying luckily this is much easier now because we have software which can do it for us this is a software I use it's called autods and what I love about this is that this allows you to list products into multiple eBay drop shipping stores multiple drop shipping stores even if you're Drop Shipping on Facebook eBay Tik Tock Amazon all of that can be organized and done inside of this one software so you don't have to have like five different software for like five different drop shipping stores for when you get to that point but for now we're just going to stick with the one store on eBay because you are a beginner and luckily this really helps you out so the first thing that it does for you is it allows you to add products to your store very easily so I've already set up my account I've already linked it with my eBay account so now if I want to actually list this any of products that we found all I need to do is go over to the product like this one right here and I will copy down the URL for this product the www part then I will come over to autods I'll click on ADD product single product I'll go ahead and paste in that URL and then I'll click on this orange button and what this is doing now is it's pulling all of this information from Walmart and by the way it doesn't just work with Walmart it also works with like Amazon uh Wayfair uh Home Depot it works with a lot of the these different websites and suppliers but anyway it's pulling in all of the information like the title the picture the description the price and it's bringing it over and it's taking the price and it's increasing it by enough to cover my eBay fees any shipping costs and more so I actually make a profit so you can see all of that information right here it brought in the title it automatically selects a category for me automatically adds tags automatically sets up their shipping policy I mean you don't have to do any of the stuff usually the only thing I would change is a title I want to optimize that for eBay but that's it you can even see the description right here the different variations if there are any like different colors all the images so it really does all of the heavy lifting for you the great thing is that if you list your products using autods then if the price changes on your supplier's website then autods will automatically change the price on eBay for you similarly if the item goes out of stock that will be updated on your eBay store and the software can even automatically buy the item from your supplier's website every time you get an order in for a customer and it'll ship it directly to your customer for you if

you want to try this software out for yourself a link for it will be inside that cheat sheet and if you use that link you can get a $1 trial so again that can be found at the first link in the description down below now I started my first Drop Shipping Store about 9 years ago now and it was a complete failure and I think that was because I was Drop Shipping on Shopify and once that store failed I was kind of ready to quit and throw in the towel but then I heard about eBay Drop Shipping I thought what do I got to lose it costs almost nothing to get started and I really want to be successful with an online business so I went all in with it I was able to make sales with it pretty quickly which validated that it worked now after that point I still had a lot of setbacks I didn't know what I was doing there wasn't anyone on YouTube like I am right now explaining to you how to do this but through a lot of trial and error I was able to make it work and about my first year I did about a million dollar in s so and most of that was at the end of the year once I really figured it out so all that's to say that if you've struggled with online businesses in the past give eBay Drop Shipping a try it's a lot different than a lot of the other online businesses you'll find out there so I really think especially for beginners it is a really fantastic business to start and if you want tips on how to get started with it do be sure to subscribe to the channel because I make videos about eBay Drop Shipping all the time but there you go that's step by step how to start an eBay store this year for Drop Shipping if you're a complete beginner if you want to use any of the software I mentioned in this video make sure to grab that cheat sheet I mentioned before in fact there going there are going to be additional tips and tricks in that cheat sheet that I didn't have time to mention in this video so definitely grab it at the first link in the description down below then I'll see you in the next video bye for now