Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Dropshipping on eBay in 2026! (For Beginners)

all right today we're talking about ebay drop shipping and how beginners can get started with it with no experience as long as you have a laptop and an internet connection so ebay drop shipping was actually the first online business that i had tried that had actually worked in fact i eventually was able to quit my job as a lawyer to do drop shipping full time and this was despite having absolutely no experience with this when i started but the cool thing about drop shipping and ebay drop shipping in particular is that it is so beginner friendly i see so many of my students who are stay-at-home parents and digital nomads and they pick this up because the idea is just so simple to understand let me show you how it works all right this all starts with

a customer who's shopping online looking for something to buy and in this case she's shopping on ebay and there she is right there and let's say she finds something she wants to buy so she buys it and it cost her 100 now the cool thing here is that the person selling the product that the customer just purchased was you are the seller here now what makes drop shipping so unique is that at this point you go ahead and spend a portion of that at 100 let's say it's 60 and at this point you buy the item from your supplier so notice that you're not buying the inventory up front you are waiting until after someone purchases it from you until you actually go out and buy the product from a different supplier now in addition to paying the supplier for the item you're also going to give the supplier the shipping address for your customer that way the supplier will ship it directly to your customer that means that you never have to touch the item handle any packages you never have to worry about any shipping labels all of that is done by your supplier for you which makes this a very hands-off business you can do it from anywhere in the world i traveled full-time for two years doing this because i didn't need a warehouse garage full of items i didn't need to spend thousands of dollars on products that might never sell i list products up for sale once they sell then i purchase them from my supplier so the risk is super low with this and we are selling on ebay which means that ebay is giving us their customers instead of trying to build their own website by doing something like shopify instead we are selling where the customers already are and there's already customers on ebay all right now that you understand what drop shipping is let me actually show you how to do this now the first thing you need

to get started is an ebay account so come over here to ebay. com we're inside my computer right now and by the way this is how i teach all my students in my courses how to get set up selling on ebay i actually do all screen recordings so you're basically looking over my shoulder as i show you click by click what to do so for instance i'll say hey come over the top left if you don't have an ebay account and click on register and then go ahead and enter in all your details and actually show step by step how to do this but it's pretty straightforward right here just creating an account and getting set up of course if you already have an ebay account you can go ahead and use that but i would only do that if you don't use that account for anything else just to stay organized but if you use it for something else i would go ahead and set up a second ebay account which is totally allowed now once you have an

ebay account set up you have to start finding suppliers that you want to work with remember suppliers are the ones who are going to ship your customers their items they are going to handle all the labels all the boxing up of the items and actually returns as well because if the return happens you just get a return label from your supplier and the customer sends the item right back to your supplier so again you'd never have to touch or handle the items now traditionally we used a lot of other websites as our suppliers so walmart. com homedepot. com i mean that makes it very simple because you could just sell any of these items and then just buy them from home depot or walmart once they're bought from you on ebay now ebay has specifically said they don't allow this type of retail drop shipping as they call it retail drop shipping but we still see a lot of people doing it with a lot of success so it does still work drop shipping from walmart and home depot it is just technically against the rules on ebay but what is totally allowed on ebay is wholesale drop shipping and this is when you work with wholesale suppliers so instead of buying it from a retail store like homedepot. com you go higher up in the chain of production actually get it from suppliers who are going to sell it at wholesale rates which means that you get better prices on these items which means that you make more profit it's definitely a little bit harder to set up but again this is totally allowed by ebay and it's worth it because you do get better margins in the end so once you find a supplier start finding some products doing product research to figure out which of the items that you want to sell let's say it's this item right here now you're ready to create a

listing and this is one of the easy

parts on ebay because all you have to do is come over to ebay and take all the information and plug it in so i'm going to create a new listing here just like this new so i'm literally going to download all the images in this case it's only one and then upload it here into ebay i'm going to copy over the title now the title is one of those things that we change i never like the stock titles given to me by any of my suppliers so actually come in and make this title better then i'll actually copy the description and paste it in here as well so let me do that real quick the next thing we need is the buy price so how much are you going to sell it for on ebay now obviously there are a bunch of things you have to cover so i need to cover the cost of the item here from my supplier i have to cover my ebay fees any taxes i might pay and i want to make a profit as well luckily there's a lot of calculators out there that will do this and you can just plug in the numbers so in this case the item cost let's see how much it's going to cost me the most it can cost me is 57. 68 so that depends on how many you buy usually or how long you've been buying from them i'll go for the more expensive one plug that in item costs and the other thing it has is this msrp so i will set that as how much i'm going to sell it for the shipping charges you have to find that from your supplier and what their rate is but i think this is this one is about 10 for this that goes in here and then i have an ebay store and so it tells me my total profit here is 24. 41 if i list it for that much so that's how much i will list it for the 104. 99 and then that's pretty much it so what i've done was i have the photos in here the title the description then i can just come down here and click listed and that item will now be listed for sale on ebay now you might be wondering why would someone now buy this item from me when they could just come over here and buy the item for cheaper or one of these other places there's a few reasons for that one of the reasons is if you're working with wholesale suppliers those prices these cheaper prices are only available to us because we went through the steps and the time like this is what i teach my students how to do to actually gain these connections and get these better prices but even if you're using these retail websites a lot of people just don't shop around they like the convenience of shopping in one place they don't want to learn how to shop on home depot or walmart they only shop on ebay not everyone but enough people so that it does work and what we're doing as drop shippers is we are connecting these products that are on these websites and definitely from these wholesale suppliers connecting these items with these buyers on ebay who normally would not have access to these items if it wasn't for us listing them for sale on ebay so we

do that once someone purchases the item

from us all i'm going to do because ebay is actually going to give me the buyers shipping address all i'm going to do is buy it from my wholesale supplier with my credit card and then give them the shipping address and they will send it directly to my customer or if you're using retail supplier all you have to do is add the item to your cart go through the checkout process and then when it asks you where to ship it to put in the buyer's shipping address and then home depot will ship the item directly to

your customer now obviously there's a

whole lot more to ebay drop shipping that couldn't cover in this short youtube video like how to set up your ebay account how to find products that are almost guaranteed to sell and how to set up software that will pretty much automate your entire ebay drop shipping business for you so if you want to learn more about ebay drop shipping if you want a step-by-step guide i have a course that teaches you exactly everything you need to know about ebay drop shipping and for everything it offers i think it is a really cheap price because i teach you both how to do the retail drop shipping and the wholesale drop shipping so you can choose for yourself which one you want to do all the information about that is in the description of this video the link is down there for you to check it

out but hey if you're just here for the

free stuff that's cool just know that you'll have to master product research if you want to be good at ebay drop shipping which is exactly what i teach you how to do in this video right here