Is eBay Dropshipping Dead? 🤔 ($45,000 Store Exposed)

so recently someone left a comment on one of my videos saying that eBay Drop Shipping is dead actually I get comments like this every single week but I was doing some product research recently and it came across a couple of eBay drop shipping stores that I wanted to show you because what this demonstrates is something that I think is really going to uh surprise you quite a bit because it surprised me as well so all I'm doing

right here is I'm on ebay. com and I'm looking at other people that are selling products some of these people are Drop Shipping some of them aren't but this person right here is in fact Drop

Shipping and I know that because these fans are Mainstay fans which means that they are being sold by Walmart predominantly so if someone's selling them on eBay it means that they are Drop Shipping them from Walmart onto eBay so this person is Drop Shipping so what is surprising about this well it isn't the fact that they are selling these products these are very popular products on Ebay things like ceiling fans I've sold quite a lot of these drop shipping from Walmart to eBay no what surprises me is how long this seller has been around so if we scroll all the way down here on their page we can see that they've been around since March of 2024 which is just a few months as of the recording of this video so what I did was I plugged this seller into this software called Zeke and what Zeke does is it actually gives us information on how well that store is doing as well as what their most popular products are so I primarily use it for product research but it also can demonstrate to us how well a seller is doing so in this case this seller is actually doing about 13 almost $14,000 a month in sales and they've only been around for a few months so that really tells you that brand new sellers are breaking into eBay dropshipping and are doing very well with it very quickly and if we scroll down here we can see some of the products that are selling for them like that stealing fan we saw that's selling about 60 times a month so pretty much one per day that store is selling those ceiling fans now what's also very interesting about this very surprising is that this seller is based in China now that doesn't mean these products are coming from China in fact if we come over here to the sales page for this we can see that this item says that it's shipping from New York now in reality when we're Drop Shipping from websites like Walmart we are not shipping from one single location because Walmart has warehouses throughout the United States but eBay wants us to put in some location so this person put in New York but whenever the customer orders the item it's just going to ship from Walmart whatever Warehouse is closest so I know a lot of people get hung up on this they think that if there's a mismatch between what it says here and where the item actually ships out from that it's going to damage their store and they're not going to be allowed to sell on eBay but this seller right here is disproving that they're doing 13 almost $4,000 a month in sales and they have a mismatch between where it says it's shipping from and where it's actually shipping from the short end of that is that this isn't a problem people do this every single day now I wanted to point out some other things about this page because I wanted to show you some things that I think this seller could actually improve on to make their sales even better so if you're watching this you can apply these to your own store so first of all the title right here it's not a good title so all this seller did was they copied the title

from Walmart word for word probably no changes in here or very few changes I think that's a big mistake I think words like main stage like brand names A lot of times should be eliminated they're not very helpful I think you can really fill this up with more keywords that people are going to be searching for when they're looking for some sort of ceiling fan so I would have really changed this up quite a bit also if you notice this is only available in one color black despite that though this seller actually shows photos of both the black one and the brown one and you can see that here as well so what the seller should have done is they should have deleted all the photos that show the brown one and only show the black one so that the buyers are more like better informed about what they're actually purchasing and there's less confusion for the buyers if buyers are confused like hey which one am I getting it's going to lead to Less sales obviously this seller is doing pretty well with these products but these are all things that are going to help them and going to help you as well actually sell more of your products especially something like changing up the title now coming down here we see that they do offer free shipping which is great that's standard that's what you should do if we look down here at returns it's 30-day returns and buyer pays for return shipping now different sellers will disagree on what type of return policy you should have for your items personally I always put that the seller pays for return shipping because if someone buys this ceiling fan from me and then want to return it well I'm just going to reach out to Walmart to return it and it's going to be free a free return for me so I'm just going to pass that along to the buyer and in fact if you offer free returns then it increases the number of sales that you're going to get some sellers disagree with me on that they like to do buyer payer return shipping to discourage buyers from actually purchasing sorry from actually returning the item but that's up to you like I said that's not the way that I do it but I understand the logic of the other way so what else do we have here so looking at the product description it's a very plain text description which is actually the way I do it as well some of these descriptions can be quite elaborate with lots of photos and borders and graphics and I found that those don't do that well for some reason my theory is that eBay is more easily able to scan these and pull relevant information that will then allow them to rank this product better so I just think that plain text descriptions do a lot better so overall this seller has a lot of things that they're doing really well and obviously because they're doing quite well for a brand new store on eBay there's just a few small little things that they can change also coming in here to their feedback they have really great positive feedback very quickly which indicates to me that they are asking for feedback as well which is something you should definitely do if buyers are purchasing from you reach out to them and ask for feedback and very uh not all of them will give it to you but enough uh which definitely helps your store okay let's look at another seller right here

so this seller is also selling some main stay products we can see the photos of the box fan right here you guys know it's a theme it's getting warmer out people are buying stuff like this so This seller has been doing some really great stuff but they also have some challenges as well so right off the bat we can see that they are not changing up the titles either so that's something you should definitely be doing uh this seller isn't doing it they are also doing free expedited shipping so I think that's a little bit risky honestly if we look at the previous seller they offer free standard shipping and this seller is doing expedited shipping why I think that's risky is that even though Walmart will ship out items very quickly or other suppliers like Amazon it doesn't give you a lot of wiggle room if you offer expedited shipping or even free expedited shipping will that help you rank in the search results yes it definitely will but I think the risk is too high I would just offer standard shipping and then the customers will be excited and happy when they get their item much faster and we can see that because the previous seller who only offered standard shipping we can see right here in their feedback this person said very fast delivered like they're very happy about that because they got it much faster than they thought I'd rather have that than people expect it faster and not get it as fast as they expected it so also looking here this seller says they're based in San Diego the other Seller said they were based in New York you know opposite sides of the country and they're using the same exact supplier so as you see this isn't an issue at all and they are also doing buyer pays for return shipping so if we actually look at the analytics for them we can see that this seller well first let's take a look down here we can see that this seller has only been around where is it for a few months now this is April 2024 only a couple of months and they're already doing $33,000 a month in sales so they scaled up very quickly quite honestly this is a big bit faster than I would recommend because you do run into some risks there that your store could get flagged so I wouldn't suggest moving that quickly but it is possible and this store is showing us that it is possible the other thing of note here is that this seller is based in China just like the other one and what's important about that is that sellers who aren't based in the United States often times have to pay higher fees to sell on ebay. com which means that if they're paying those additional fees and they're still able to be profitable then if you are based here in the United States and you're not paying those fees that means more profit for you so this just kind of proves that you can still start a new eBay Drop Shipping Store in 2024 and you can still be profitable with it as well now looking at this store what I don't like is that inside the description they've made it very complicated they've added links to other products I wouldn't recommend that I would just have this right here like the previous seller I think that works a lot better and I think it's just getting way too complicated to include all of this stuff in here but overall this seller is obviously doing very well with

their store now they're not the only sellers I wanted to highlight some others that I've noticed as well so right here we have uh this seller right here they're also a drop shipper and we can see that right here on the top left so what this software does is it will identify for you other drop shippers and it'll tell you if they are a drop shipper using this logo so this is really cool if you want to come on and see what other drop shippers are up to see what products they're selling you don't have to guess for yourself if they're Drop Shipping or not the software is literally telling you can see that right here so we can see that and then we can see that they're doing about $22,000 a month in sales so if you're a new drop shipper and you're trying to figure out how this all works you could come in here and scroll down and start to look at some of the products that they're selling you can see all of them right here you can see how often they're selling a lot of really great information and then you can copy the same products or similar products and list them into your own store and kind of copy these sellers strategies here's another seller right here they're doing $41,000 a month in sales and as you see they are a drop shipper as well this one is based in the United States and then we have this one right here who's doing over $45,000 a month in sales so I just

wanted to make this video to show that eBay Drop Shipping is still alive and well it does still work and we have people coming onto the platform for the first time or creating brand new stores and seeing success with it very quickly now not everyone's going to see success like that but certainly if you know what you're doing it helps so to help you out what I've done is I've put together a guide for you that goes over the first steps and the first things you need to know and do in order to be successful with eBay Drop Shipping so maybe you can be one of those successful Sellers as well if you want that free guide you can grab it at the first link in the description down below and also inside of that will be a link to the software that I showed you in this video that I use to help me with product research then if you want a video that actually goes over how to use that software and how to find products every single day that you can drop ship into your own eBay store make sure to click on this video right here click on that I show you in-depth how to use a software all the in ins and outs of it so click on this and I'll see you over there in just one second