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

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 drop shipping just doesn't work anymore so in this video i'm going to show you what actually works in 2022 and how you can get started with just a laptop and an internet connection what's up everyone paul here from dropshippingtitans. com where i teach regular people just like you how to start your first successful drop shipping store now before we get into the strategies for 2022 we first have to

cover what ebay drop shipping is to

begin with so if you're not familiar with ebay drop shipping this is basically how it works first we have a customer who is shopping online here she is right here and she is buying an item on ebay so she's going to pay let's say 100 to purchase an item from a seller on ebay and that seller is you now the interesting thing here is that the item that you just sold you don't even own that item you've never even touched or handled that item instead as soon as that customer purchases the item from you then purchase the item from your supplier so here's your supplier and you are only going to spend a portion of that let's say about 80 or 75 purchasing the item from your supplier and at that point supplier will then ship the item directly to your customer so this means with this model you never touch the inventory you never handle the inventory you don't have to buy the inventory up front or store the inventory your supplier handles all of that all you have to do is list the items up for sale on ebay as soon as it sells you then get the supplier to fulfill the orders for you so it's a relatively simple business model and the really cool thing is that i believe that anyone can really make one sale using this model and as soon as you make one sale all you have to do is go round and round and round and continue to do it over and over

again now the first thing you're going

to need if it wasn't completely obvious is an ebay account so just come on over to ebay. com and click on the top left where it says register and this is where you can sign up now they give you the option for both a personal account or a business account if you have that option available i would go with a business account but it really doesn't matter you could sell under a personal account as well so if you already have an ebay account that you're not using anymore that's a personal account you can go ahead and use that one for ebay drop

shipping as well so this might be a good

time to talk about why we are selling on ebay to begin with now i know a lot of people probably assume that ebay is dead with amazon taking over and shopify and etsy and all these other websites are people still buying stuff on ebay well the truth is yes there's still a lot of money being spent on ebay every single day and what really stands out about ebay is a few things first of all selling on ebay is not like selling on shopify or your own website because ebay is a marketplace which means that it already has customers there purchasing items instead of building your own website and trying to get traffic to visit that website and then trying to get that traffic to actually purchase from you can actually go where the customers already are it is a lot easier to get started on a marketplace than to build your own website in addition to that you're going to spend a lot less money because you don't have to buy ads like you would if you're driving traffic to your own website now comparing ebay to other marketplaces ebay is one of the simplest places to get started one of the lowest barriers to entry and they tend to be not as strict when it comes to other websites like amazon. com amazon if you mess up as a seller you can really just get banned pretty quickly you can get in trouble with amazon ebay is a little bit more lenient and forgiving i just find them to be a lot more beginner friendly so ebay is an excellent place to start drop shipping if you are a complete beginner looking to get started selling products online now during the registration process with ebay they are going to ask for your bank account information that is necessary so that they can pay you the money that you receive or that you get for all the sales that you're making in the past ebay used to work with paypal so all the money would go flow through paypal that's not the case anymore you don't have to have a paypal account in order to sell on ebay now everything is integrated in one and you will receive your payments directly through ebay which is why they need your bank account information before we actually find

items to sell and list them for sale up on ebay we first have to find a supplier that is actually going to sell those products and dropship them for us now there are primarily two types of different suppliers we have retail suppliers and we have wholesale suppliers so you have to choose whether you're going to do retail drop shipping or wholesale drop shipping now retail drop shipping is when you buy the item directly from another retail store such as amazon. com or walmart. com or homedepot. com and have them ship the items to your customers on the other hand wholesale drop shipping is when you connect yourself up with a wholesale supplier who will then dropship the customers the orders that you receive on ebay now with wholesale drop shipping it is definitely a bit more difficult to get set up because you have to contact the suppliers you have to ask them if you can work with them and they have to approve you so in terms of setup it's a lot easier to do retail drop shipping and it's harder to do wholesale drop shipping in addition to that we have a lot of software that we use to help us run our drop shipping businesses now that software primarily only works with retail drop shipping and this software is awesome because it really automates so much of the drop shipping business for us which is why so many people that do retail drop shipping are able to scale it up so high because of the automation software so retail drop shipping has the benefit of automation software wholesale drop shipping has some software that works with it but it doesn't really work that well at least not as well as retail drop shipping and it's a lot more money so my opinion there isn't great software for wholesale drop shipping now the third thing up here though is competition so right now you're looking at this and saying retail looks pretty good but here's where things start to kind of muddy the waters a little bit the competition with wholesale drop shipping is really low because it is harder to set up most people aren't going to go through all the steps necessary in order to start doing wholesale drop shipping and that lowers the competition if you are willing to take the action necessary to set up a wholesale drop shipping business so in terms of competition wholesale drop shipping definitely wins here in addition to that and really because of that the margins with wholesale drop shipping are better as well when you are drop shipping from retail websites like amazon. com i mean think about this amazon is getting those items from a wholesale distributor themselves so they're taking the wholesale price and marking it up and then you're going to take that price and mark it up even more in order to make a profit but when you're buying it directly from a wholesale supplier you're getting it at the wholesale price so you can sell it at a markup and still be at or below the amazon price and definitely below what other people are selling it for if they're doing retail drop shipping so the margins for wholesale are much better than retail in general of course there's always exceptions to this the last one i want to talk about is what is allowed now selling on ebay they do allow you to do drop shipping that is totally allowed if you read their rules but they've explicitly said that they do not allow retail drop shipping but they do allow wholesale drop shipping now with that said people still do retail drop shipping you might be wondering how they get away with it ebay says it's not allowed and basically what we found is that ebay even though it says it's not allowed it's really it's more that it's discouraged they really just don't like it as much as if you're doing wholesale and in years past yes they kind of crack down on it but we kind of see them pulling back on that a bit where they don't really seem to mind as much as long as you are providing good customer service and doing everything else right in order to run your drop shipping business but yes if you want to get technical the exact rule is that wholesale is completely allowed if you want to be as safe as possible when drop shipping on ebay then you should do wholesale drop shipping because that is what's allowed and i really believe that if you put in the effort and the energy necessary to set up a wholesale drop shipping business not only will you be safe but you'll also get lower competition and higher margins and it is definitely worth it so for the rest of this video i'm going to show how to drop ship using wholesale suppliers because i really think that is the future how to build a kind of bulletproof ebay drop shipping

business one of the challenges of wholesale drop shipping is finding good suppliers to work with that will actually drop ship products for you to your ebay customers now inside my course i teach a few different ways to find different wholesale suppliers that aren't really saturated on ebay but a really simple and easy place just to kind of get started and kind of feel this out is by setting up an account with a website called inventorysource. com so if you come over here it's free to sign up and what they give you is actually a supplier directory that shows you a whole bunch of different suppliers who have historically said that they are willing to work with small business owners like us and potentially even dropship for us so you can kind of look through and see what some of these suppliers are this is one that i've worked with right here called cwr wholesale distribution so there's a whole bunch of suppliers listed out right here so coming in here you can see all the different products that they sell like all these kind of shackles you can go into lighting here and see some lights that they sell it's a whole bunch of different products and at this point is when you really want to buckle down put in the work and do some really good product research to find items that are actually going to sell really well on ebay now let's assume you've done that you found a good product so let me find a random one all right i found a product right here it's this set of electric speedometers honestly the funny part about drop shipping is you're going to sell a lot of products and have absolutely no idea what they are or how they work or even who would use them but as long as they are selling well and you did the product research and they check off all the boxes then you go ahead and sell them even if you're not quite sure what they are so this is a product that we're gonna sell so what we need to do now is actually create a listing on ebay for this product and let me show you how easy that is so over here on ebay i'm

gonna click on the top right where it says sell and then i will click where it says create a listing over here and create a single listing now your page should look like this is a blank listing on ebay a blank slate for you to fill in with any item you want to sell and literally all we're going to do is copy everything from our supplier's website or in this case from inventory source and paste it over here so i'm going to copy the title paste it in here but then i'm going to optimize this title i'm going to fill it with keywords that i think people are going to search for when they're looking for this item i don't like to use the stock title they're never really that good it's really important that you optimize your titles and put them in here i'll make sure i choose a good category and download all the images and upload them here i'm gonna copy the description and paste it over as well now there's also about the price so over here you can see it tells you the wholesale price this is what's really cool about wholesale drop shipping is that they will give you a wholesale price meaning they are selling these for between 82 61 and 97 19. i think it depends on kind of the variation that you buy but this msrps this is what people sell for over 300 so you see how much of a markup there is there so i will list it for that price as well let me go ahead and copy everything over all right so all done now i picked out a good title filled it with some good keywords have a good category found the upc photos there's only one photo which is a bit unfortunate you want as many photos as you can the more photos you have the greater the chances that the item is going to sell so that everything else made a great nice description have the price in there as well so all i have to do now is click down at the bottom where it says list item and that item will now be live on my ebay store and now if that item sells the fulfillment process is really simple so a lot of these wholesale suppliers they now have online portals that you can log into and place an order directly on that online portal just like you would buy an item from walmart or amazon or homedepot. com so during the checkout process you would enter in your credit card information and your billing address but for the shipping address you would use the address that is supplied to you by ebay for the customer that purchased that item other suppliers might have you email that information to them and they'll hold your credit card on file either way it's very simple because you're just giving the supplier the address that you want the item shipped to which is the customer's address on ebay and then supplier will ship that item directly to the customer and you never have to touch or handle it

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 drop shipping just doesn't work anymore so in this video i'm going to show you what actually works in 2022 and how you can get started with just a laptop and an internet connection what's up everyone paul here from dropshippingtitans. com where i teach regular people just like you how to start your first successful drop shipping store now before we get into the strategies for 2022 we first have to cover what ebay drop shipping is to begin with so if you're not familiar with ebay drop shipping this is basically how it works first we have a customer who is shopping online here she is right here and she is buying an item on ebay so she's going to pay let's say 100 to purchase an item from a seller on ebay and that seller is you now the interesting thing here is that the item that you just sold you don't even own that item you've never even touched or handled that item instead as soon as that customer purchases the item from you then purchase the item from your supplier so here's your supplier and you are only going to spend a portion of that let's say about 80 or 75 purchasing the item from your supplier and at that point supplier will then ship the item directly to your customer so this means with this model you never touch the inventory you never handle the inventory you don't have to buy the inventory up front or store the inventory your supplier handles all of that all you have to do is list the items up for sale on ebay as soon as it sells you then get the supplier to fulfill the orders for you so it's a relatively simple business model and the really cool thing is that i believe that anyone can really make one sale using this model and as soon as you make one sale all you have to do is go round and round and round and continue to do it over and over again now the first thing you're going to need if it wasn't completely obvious is an ebay account so just come on over to ebay. com and click on the top left where it says register and this is where you can sign up now they give you the option for both a personal account or a business account if you have that option available i would go with a business account but it really doesn't matter you could sell under a personal account as well so if you already have an ebay account that you're not using anymore that's a personal account you can go ahead and use that one for ebay drop shipping as well so this might be a good time to talk about why we are selling on ebay to begin with now i know a lot of people probably assume that ebay is dead with amazon taking over and shopify and etsy and all these other websites are people still buying stuff on ebay well the truth is yes there's still a lot of money being spent on ebay every single day and what really stands out about ebay is a few things first of all selling on ebay is not like selling on shopify or your own website because ebay is a marketplace which means that it already has customers there purchasing items instead of building your own website and trying to get traffic to visit that website and then trying to get that traffic to actually purchase from you can actually go where the customers already are it is a lot easier to get started on a marketplace than to build your own website in addition to that you're going to spend a lot less money because you don't have to buy ads like you would if you're driving traffic to your own website now comparing ebay to other marketplaces ebay is one of the simplest places to get started one of the lowest barriers to entry and they tend to be not as strict when it comes to other websites like amazon. com amazon if you mess up as a seller you can really just get banned pretty quickly you can get in trouble with amazon ebay is a little bit more lenient and forgiving i just find them to be a lot more beginner friendly so ebay is an excellent place to start drop shipping if you are a complete beginner looking to get started selling products online now during the registration process with ebay they are going to ask for your bank account information that is necessary so that they can pay you the money that you receive or that you get for all the sales that you're making in the past ebay used to work with paypal so all the money would go flow through paypal that's not the case anymore you don't have to have a paypal account in order to sell on ebay now everything is integrated in one and you will receive your payments directly through ebay which is why they need your bank account information before we actually find items to sell and list them for sale up on ebay we first have to find a supplier that is actually going to sell those products and dropship them for us now there are primarily two types of different suppliers we have retail suppliers and we have wholesale suppliers so you have to choose whether you're going to do retail drop shipping or wholesale drop shipping now retail drop shipping is when you buy the item directly from another retail store such as amazon. com or walmart. com or homedepot. com and have them ship the items to your customers on the other hand wholesale drop shipping is when you connect yourself up with a wholesale supplier who will then dropship the customers the orders that you receive on ebay now with wholesale drop shipping it is definitely a bit more difficult to get set up because you have to contact the suppliers you have to ask them if you can work with them and they have to approve you so in terms of setup it's a lot easier to do retail drop shipping and it's harder to do wholesale drop shipping in addition to that we have a lot of software that we use to help us run our drop shipping businesses now that software primarily only works with retail drop shipping and this software is awesome because it really automates so much of the drop shipping business for us which is why so many people that do retail drop shipping are able to scale it up so high because of the automation software so retail drop shipping has the benefit of automation software wholesale drop shipping has some software that works with it but it doesn't really work that well at least not as well as retail drop shipping and it's a lot more money so my opinion there isn't great software for wholesale drop shipping now the third thing up here though is competition so right now you're looking at this and saying retail looks pretty good but here's where things start to kind of muddy the waters a little bit the competition with wholesale drop shipping is really low because it is harder to set up most people aren't going to go through all the steps necessary in order to start doing wholesale drop shipping and that lowers the competition if you are willing to take the action necessary to set up a wholesale drop shipping business so in terms of competition wholesale drop shipping definitely wins here in addition to that and really because of that the margins with wholesale drop shipping are better as well when you are drop shipping from retail websites like amazon. com i mean think about this amazon is getting those items from a wholesale distributor themselves so they're taking the wholesale price and marking it up and then you're going to take that price and mark it up even more in order to make a profit but when you're buying it directly from a wholesale supplier you're getting it at the wholesale price so you can sell it at a markup and still be at or below the amazon price and definitely below what other people are selling it for if they're doing retail drop shipping so the margins for wholesale are much better than retail in general of course there's always exceptions to this the last one i want to talk about is what is allowed now selling on ebay they do allow you to do drop shipping that is totally allowed if you read their rules but they've explicitly said that they do not allow retail drop shipping but they do allow wholesale drop shipping now with that said people still do retail drop shipping you might be wondering how they get away with it ebay says it's not allowed and basically what we found is that ebay even though it says it's not allowed it's really it's more that it's discouraged they really just don't like it as much as if you're doing wholesale and in years past yes they kind of crack down on it but we kind of see them pulling back on that a bit where they don't really seem to mind as much as long as you are providing good customer service and doing everything else right in order to run your drop shipping business but yes if you want to get technical the exact rule is that wholesale is completely allowed if you want to be as safe as possible when drop shipping on ebay then you should do wholesale drop shipping because that is what's allowed and i really believe that if you put in the effort and the energy necessary to set up a wholesale drop shipping business not only will you be safe but you'll also get lower competition and higher margins and it is definitely worth it so for the rest of this video i'm going to show how to drop ship using wholesale suppliers because i really think that is the future how to build a kind of bulletproof ebay drop shipping business one of the challenges of wholesale drop shipping is finding good suppliers to work with that will actually drop ship products for you to your ebay customers now inside my course i teach a few different ways to find different wholesale suppliers that aren't really saturated on ebay but a really simple and easy place just to kind of get started and kind of feel this out is by setting up an account with a website called inventorysource. com so if you come over here it's free to sign up and what they give you is actually a supplier directory that shows you a whole bunch of different suppliers who have historically said that they are willing to work with small business owners like us and potentially even dropship for us so you can kind of look through and see what some of these suppliers are this is one that i've worked with right here called cwr wholesale distribution so there's a whole bunch of suppliers listed out right here so coming in here you can see all the different products that they sell like all these kind of shackles you can go into lighting here and see some lights that they sell it's a whole bunch of different products and at this point is when you really want to buckle down put in the work and do some really good product research to find items that are actually going to sell really well on ebay now let's assume you've done that you found a good product so let me find a random one all right i found a product right here it's this set of electric speedometers honestly the funny part about drop shipping is you're going to sell a lot of products and have absolutely no idea what they are or how they work or even who would use them but as long as they are selling well and you did the product research and they check off all the boxes then you go ahead and sell them even if you're not quite sure what they are so this is a product that we're gonna sell so what we need to do now is actually create a listing on ebay for this product and let me show you how easy that is so over here on ebay i'm gonna click on the top right where it says sell and then i will click where it says create a listing over here and create a single listing now your page should look like this is a blank listing on ebay a blank slate for you to fill in with any item you want to sell and literally all we're going to do is copy everything from our supplier's website or in this case from inventory source and paste it over here so i'm going to copy the title paste it in here but then i'm going to optimize this title i'm going to fill it with keywords that i think people are going to search for when they're looking for this item i don't like to use the stock title they're never really that good it's really important that you optimize your titles and put them in here i'll make sure i choose a good category and download all the images and upload them here i'm gonna copy the description and paste it over as well now there's also about the price so over here you can see it tells you the wholesale price this is what's really cool about wholesale drop shipping is that they will give you a wholesale price meaning they are selling these for between 82 61 and 97 19. i think it depends on kind of the variation that you buy but this msrps this is what people sell for over 300 so you see how much of a markup there is there so i will list it for that price as well let me go ahead and copy everything over all right so all done now i picked out a good title filled it with some good keywords have a good category found the upc photos there's only one photo which is a bit unfortunate you want as many photos as you can the more photos you have the greater the chances that the item is going to sell so that everything else made a great nice description have the price in there as well so all i have to do now is click down at the bottom where it says list item and that item will now be live on my ebay store and now if that item sells the fulfillment process is really simple so a lot of these wholesale suppliers they now have online portals that you can log into and place an order directly on that online portal just like you would buy an item from walmart or amazon or homedepot. com so during the checkout process you would enter in your credit card information and your billing address but for the shipping address you would use the address that is supplied to you by ebay for the customer that purchased that item other suppliers might have you email that information to them and they'll hold your credit card on file either way it's very simple because you're just giving the supplier the address that you want the item shipped to which is the customer's address on ebay and then supplier will ship that item directly to the customer and you never have to touch or handle it yourself now there's a lot i couldn't cover in this short youtube video everything from how to set up your ebay account the right way how to use the software how to find the perfect items that are almost guaranteed to sell so what i do have is actually a course that teaches exactly how to do this and for what it is it's relatively inexpensive and it goes over everything you need to have a successful ebay drop shipping store and it's the only course out there that teaches both retail and wholesale drop shipping so if you're not sure which one you want to go with you don't really have to choose you can join the course and you'll get information about how to run both of those different stores and if you want to learn more about how i do my product research for ebay drop shipping and check out this video right here and i'll see you over there in just a few seconds