How To Dropship on eBay as a Complete Beginner in 2026! ($300/Day)

eBay Drop Shipping is an amazing opportunity if you're looking to start your first online business because you're able to create a relatively passive form of income for pretty cheap sadly though what most people are teaching about dropshipping just doesn't work anymore so in this video I'm going to show you what actually works in 2024 and how you can get started with just a laptop and an internet connection now

before we get into the strategies for 2024 I first want to cover what eBay drop shipping even is this is basically how it works you have a customer here that's shopping on ebay. com looking for some items to buy and she's going to go ahead and buy something let's say for $100 from you you're a seller on eBay you have an item listed up for sale now the catch here is that you don't own this product you don't have this product in stock like a warehouse here that you bought beforehand instead what you're going to do after that purchase comes through on eBay is your you're going to then spend money let's say $60 in this example buying the item from your supplier who will then ship the item directly to your customer so this means that you are never going to touch the inventory or buy it upfront until someone first buys it from you on eBay your supplier down here handles all of that for you all you need to do is list up items for sale on eBay and as soon as they sell you can then get your supplier to fulfill the order for you and ship the item directly to the customer so it's a relatively simple business model and because of that I really believe that anyone who starts doing this can make at least one sale with eBay Drop Shipping and if you can make one sale then all you have to do is do it again and just keep repeating it over and over again

now obviously one of the first things you're going to need to start doing this is an ebay account so head on over to ebay. com and you'll see on the top left you can click on register to create your own account Now eBay is going to ask you if you want to create a personal account or a business account if you have the option you should go with a business account it comes with some additional benefits that you're not really going to get with a personal account now if they don't offer you this option then a personal is fine you're going to be able to sell with that with no problem and if you already have an existing eBay account then you should go ahead and use that existing account older accounts tend to be a little bit better because you tend to have higher limits but again if you're brand new just come in here register for a brand new business account so this may be a good idea to talk about why we're selling on eBay of all places after all I think a lot of people assume that eBay is dead but the truth is there is still a lot of money that can be made on eBay there's still a lot of money being spent on eBay every single day and a lot of people visiting the website and for beginners who are looking to start their first online business eBay off offer some unique advantages that a lot of other websites out there that you could sell on don't offer first eBay is a Marketplace which means that there are already customers here looking to buy things so instead of worrying about building your own website and running ads to try to get people to visit that website and then hopefully selling products to those customers you can instead sell here where there's already customers with their credit cards looking to buy something right now it's much more beginner friendly than trying to set up your own website in addition to that you're going to be spending a lot less money to get started because you don't have to pay for all those ads like you would if you were trying to drive traffic to your own website that adds up very quickly and it's often times just a sunk cost because if you're brand new you don't know how to run those ads and often they will result in no one actually buying from you now of course eBay isn't the only Marketplace out there Amazon for instance is another Marketplace but eBay without a doubt is one of the simplest marketplaces that you can start selling on it's really simple to set up an account with them it's very beginner friendly and it's not as strict as other marketplaces like Amazon in general you're just going to be able to get set up and running with eBay a lot quicker okay so now let's get into the

actual strategy that is working for 2020 4 the first thing I'm going to say is that most beginners make eBay Drop Shipping way more complicated and difficult than it needs to be and when they do that it slows them down and many times it makes them so confused and overwhelmed that they just give up on the whole thing if you know what you're doing though you're going to see that many parts of this business are actually really simple there are a lot of things that you really don't need to be worrying about that you really shouldn't be worrying about when running an eBay Drop Shipping business and that's because we actually have automation software that handles those things for us so this is a software that I use it's called autods and what I like about autods is that it will automate the entire Drop Shipping process for you everything from listing items to repricing them and monitoring them even Auto ordering items for you now I started using autods about five years ago and since then I haven't really found anything else out there that's even close to as good as autod DS that's why every time I make one of these videos I always recommend them to you and why I'm happy that they've reached out to actually sponsor this video so if you want to try them out for yourself I'm going to leave a link for a free trial of autods in the description box down below but let me show you now how easy they make it to actually add items into your eBay store so when you first create an autods account and you log in you're going to see that you have this dashboard right here called Marketplace we're going to come back to this in just a moment but I first want to show you kind of basically how you can add items into your store so in addition to this I also have added the autod DS helper which is a Chrome extension so now anytime I come to an item on a supplier's website like let's say on Amazon right here this product right here all I have to do is click this button which autod DS adds for me and this item will then be listed in my eBay store and it's a lot faster than coming over here to eBay creating a listing and copying and pasting all of this information so normally you'd have to copy on the title bring that over download every single image and then upload it into eBay copy the description and paste that over as well and even do the math right you have to take the price mark it up make sure you're actually going to be profitable and then put the new price on eBay but autod DS will actually do all that math for you so you make sure you actually make money every time you sell an item so oneclick upload is much faster but if you really want to level up your store faster they even have bulk upload as well so if you come over here to a search result page on any of your suppliers website so let's say I was looking to sell dinner tables right well there's a whole bunch of different dinner tables here let's say I just wanted to list all of them up for sale well all I have to do is click on this autods icon right here and click on extract and it pulls in all of the item identifiers and I can go ahead and copy them and now coming back here to autod DS I can click on ADD product and I'll click on multiple products now I'll go ahead and paste in what I just copied which are the item IDs I'll change the supplier source to Amazon in this case and then I'll go ahead and click on ADD as draft or you can just go ahead and create and publish so they'll instantly be added to your store now I'm not going to do that for this one because I don't want all these items in my store but you can see just how quickly this will allow you to add so many items into your store and I'll show you the last way you can add products as well actually there's two other ways let me show you this way first so if you click on single product right here then anytime you have a product you want to add like let's say this one again all you have to do is copy down the URL and we'll come back here paste it in and again you can either publish it to your store or click on edit now quick and that will pull in all the information for you and allow you to edit it if you want and edit the images if you want edit the variations if it's available in different colors and then go ahead and save an import now another feature I really love about autods is that it helps protect your account on eBay so you see when I tried to add this item here it gave me a warning it says that this is a Vero item because this is a brand that you really shouldn't be selling on eBay so if it sees you trying to sell that brand it will warn you say Hey you probably don't want to sell this because this may get you in trouble with eBay so I'm going to heed that warning and I'm not going to sell this product and I'm really grateful that it kind of gave me that warning to help me protect my account now like I said there is another way that you can add products in here as well and that is by going directly to the marketplace so if we come back here to Marketplace which is where you land usually when you first log in you'll see that there are a whole bunch of different products down here so what autods has done is it has actually done some product research for you here it has found products that it can tell you are best sellers so you can go ahead and sell these same items in your own eBay store so let's say I wanted to sell this animal costume it's coming up as a best seller here I can click on import draft and now I can come over just like before and we can see it right here I can go ahead and open it up to actually edit it and then once I'm ready I can actually import this item into my eBay store and by the way this software works with a ton of different suppliers so if I come back here to the product uploader you can see that there is a long list here of different suppliers that autods works with and this is

really important because one of the things that's been working really well for drop shippers lately is spring out your listings between several different suppliers instead of putting all your eggs into one basket and because autods works with so many of these suppliers you can easily find some in here that aren't as popular with other drop shippers now once your items are actually listed with autods will continue to monitor those listings as well so this means like let's say I listed all of these tables up for sale how many tables do we have here 77 new listings I would have created now the problem with that of course is what if this item goes out of stock tomorrow and then and then what if this item goes up in price and then this one goes down in price right you can see the problem I would have to manually check all 77 of these listings every single day in addition to all the other listings that I have check them every day for price changes and stock level changes and then update those on eBay myself but I don't have to do that because Auto DS in the background automatically is doing that for me multiple times a day so if this item goes out of stock 1 hour from now well autods is going to make sure that it goes out of stock in my eBay store automatically and then once it's back in stock it'll update that if there's any price changes those will be reflected as well and personally I think that this is the most important feature that autod DS has because honestly without this I don't think you could run a successful Drop Shipping Store without this feature the monitor feature you literally have to check dozens or hundreds of items every single day to see if the price changed or the item went out of stock and at a certain point that's just impossible and you're going to end up selling items that are out of stock or accidentally selling items at a loss but autods protects against that with the monitoring and it can even automatically order items for you as well so there's actually two different ways that it can do this first is with fulfilled by

autods with this add-on autods will automatically fulfill all your orders for you with their buying accounts meaning you don't even need to have your own Amazon or AliExpress account or whatever they will automatically order it with their Amazon account now anytime an order comes in on eBay you can come into autods and see it by clicking on the left where it says orders and if you have Auto ordering set up under the status column it will say in order progress now once autods automatically processes the order for you this is going to change to ordered and you'll be able to see the order ID automatically filled in here as well there's also going to be an icon to represent that it was fulfilled by autod DS and the estimated arrival date once

the item is actually shipped out by the supplier autod DS will automatically update that as well they will automatically upload the tracking number to eBay for you and it will be changed to shipped right here on the orders page so you'll be able to see all the information like the tracking number here as well and if your customer ends up wanting to return the item you can also do that here in autods what this means is that your entire ordering process can be automated for you by autods now finally if you want autods they can use your buying accounts if you want so like your amazon. com account that can be done and you can go into the autods settings in order to set that up so I do want to thank autods for sponsoring this video like I said before I would not have taken them on as a sponsor we not for the fact that I've been using them and recommending them anyway for the past 5 years so if you want to try autod DS out for yourself you can get a free trial of it at the first link in the description down below underneath this video so with all of that on autopilot there's really no need for you to worry about listing items manually repricing them checking if they're in stock or even ordering items unfortunately I see so many beginners focusing on these little things and getting hung up on them instead of spending time doing the one thing that actually matters which is adding items into your store now if you want some more help on product research and how to find winning products make sure to check out this video right here and I'll see you there in just one second