Is Dropshipping on Facebook Marketplace Really This Easy (Dropshipper Reacts)!

so i recently came across this video by another youtuber who's claiming that making money online with facebook marketplace drop shipping is pretty easy so i decided i would check out her video and see if what she's saying really makes sense hey what's up everyone paul here from dropshippingtitans. com where i teach regular people just like you how to start your own successful drop shipping store recently this video by the meg rye showed up on my youtube homepage and the title really shocked me because she said i tried drop shipping on facebook marketplace make money online easy 2021 so i kind of want to check out this video and give you my in real time reaction to it and to see if what she's saying makes sense if making money online with facebook marketplace drop shipping the way she explains it really is this easy now just to give you some context i've been dropshipping with facebook marketplace for months now i'm doing pretty well with it i've taught it to a lot of other people as well so i think i have a lot of knowledge that i can bring and compare it to what she's talking about in this video so let's not waste any more time let's check out her video right now what's up guys i tried drop shipping on facebook marketplace from retail stores like walmart home depot and lowe's and in this video i'm going to tell you guys what happened because i think that this is all right so right away it seems very similar to the way that i do it i'm also drop shipping from other retail websites specifically mostly amazon and walmart. com she's losing lows which is actually one of the retailers i usually don't recommend that people go with because their website is notoriously pretty terrible a lot of technical glitches not the greatest customer service but you know it does work if you can get it to work so props to her if she got it to work this is one of the easiest side hustles for beginners to start in 2021 and that's a pretty bold claim one of the easiest for beginners to start in 2021 but if you guys have watched any of my recent videos i've also said the same thing i really do believe it is one of the easiest ways to start making online in 2021 and she's probably gonna explain why that is this is actually an update to a video that i posted a few weeks ago so for those of you that are new here or maybe it's your first time watching one of my videos i do have experience at drop shipping on ebay and up until about a month or so ago when i started watching videos about facebook marketplace i thought that there was no option for shipping on facebook okay so i've checked out some of her other videos in the past you know she definitely has a lot of experience with drop shipping so you guys should definitely check them out later um but she's talking right now she's starting to talk about how you can't ship items with facebook marketplace or the how that wasn't the case in the past book marketplace so i thought that was just the place people went to buy and sell things locally but it turns out i was wrong so after watching a few videos about this i felt pretty comfortable so i jumped right yeah so recently within the past year or so facebook allowed us to start shipping items to our customers they call that the shipping option so that now unlocked the ability for us to do drop shipping because in the past you had to sell items locally just like meg was saying here and now when someone buys it from you can have your supplier that you're drop shipping from ship the item directly to the customer so it's a big game changer right in and started listing products from these retail stores and now it's been a few weeks since i started this and i was actually gonna wait a little longer to make this update video because i wanted to wait until i had more results to document for you guys but i've been getting asked about this a lot so i decided to just make the video now and i'll just make another update video if things really start to pick up so today i'm going to tell you guys how much money i've made so far on facebook marketplace how much in sales how much in profit and i'm even going to share with you guys the exact products yeah so i really appreciate that because a lot of people just post up their sales not really talk about the profit you know i made a similar video to this kind of similar where i talked about how well i did my first week doing facebook marketplace drop shipping and in that video i not only broke down the sales but also the profit as well if you guys do want to check out that video we'll have it linked up in the card right up here that i've sold always super jealous of that intro i think it's so cool and so much better than my intro what's up guys welcome back to another video for those of you that don't know me already hello my name is meg and on my channel i make videos testing out different online business ideas as well as different side hustles basically non-traditional ways of making money so if that's something that you're interested in please consider hitting that subscribe button down below turn on the bell so that you're notified when the next video drops and while you're at it you might as well hit the thumbs up button for the youtube algorithm because it helps out a lot more than you know and i really appreciate it okay so before we get any further into this video for those of you that don't know what drop shipping is an online business model where you don't have to keep an inventory of the products that you sell instead you are simply listing products

from other online retailers for a markup in your own store and then whenever you get a sale you just go back to that other retailer order it and put your customers information in at checkout and that other retailer will ship the product directly to your customer so you never have to actually see or touch the products that you are selling and also i think that's a perfect explanation you can say better myself another thing before we get into the results i just want to be completely straightforward with you guys and let you know that the results that i've gotten so far are not anything crazy i'm not making 200 a day drop shipping on facebook marketplace it's honestly been kind of slow and i've only gotten two sales so far but that could be because i haven't been listing consistently i've just been working on all right so yeah i do know that there have been a lot of people who are making really great sales really fast now megazory said she's not listing consistently and that has been one of the keys that we've seen that when people list items consistently they get more consistent sales so meg that would be my advice to you it sounds like you already know that i know you do a lot with youtube and other side hustles so you know it's probably more of a time thing more than anything else but you know just keep that in mind that you know the more you list the more consistent you are the better the results are so many other side hustle projects that i actually forget to list on a facebook marketplace also there's something but that's actually one of the other cool things about facebook marketplace is that's very easy to just kind of uh put it aside for a while and then come back to it i've been able to do that when i've had other projects going on just kind of put it to the side have my sales slow down and then when i'm ready to get back into it start listing products and get the revenue and the sales start generating up so for that reason i really feel like it's a really great side hustle i can't figure out about facebook marketplace and i haven't seen this talked about in other videos i mean maybe this is an easy fix and i hope that i don't sound dumb for saying this but i don't know how customers can actually go and buy the item through facebook marketplace because before i got my first sale i had a lot of people hitting my dms first to make sure that the item was still available and someone even asked me how to purchase the item that i was selling and i was like you know what that's a good question and even when i go on marketplace myself and scroll through the listings i've noticed that i don't have the option to buy the items right away instead i have to hit the seller with a is this available and most likely never hear back but i know that facebook is still making some changes to marketplace and still working on it i've heard in other facebook marketplace drop shipping videos that only certain people have the option for shipping and that there are still a lot of random glitches that need to be worked out on the platform in general so maybe not everyone has the option to purchase products right away on facebook marketplace at the moment i don't know what's up with it all right so a couple of things that i want to kind of break down there so yeah you're right about a lot of these things first of all not everyone has the shipping option available to them and also facebook the platform in terms of marketplace and the shipping option is still very new so there are still a lot of glitches uh so that could be one reason but let me actually show you so i'm gonna actually hop onto facebook right now and go into marketplace and then what i'm going to search for some products here and because you got to search for something in order to get into the filter so now i'm going to come into the filter here on the left and in the item condition i'll choose new just doesn't really matter but in terms for drop shipping and then i want for delivery method shipping now again this is one of those strange glitches not everyone has the ability to filter by shipping for some reason but it's available to me and now if i click on one of these ones we know all these are going to ship so which we know that means that what's going on with this just like some weird uh gotta have one of those warnings at the beginning of this video about psychedelic kind of flashes let's try it again all right finally got that to work so as a buyer i'm coming to here looking at the photos looking at the right where they have the title and the price and the description and there's a big button down here on the bottom right that says buy now if i were to click this i could purchase it right here or i could make an offer the payment goes through facebook and to this seller now this seller because they have this buy now button and because once i click buy now they will then ship it to me which it says right here ships for six dollars in this case sometimes it's free that means they have the shipping option they have the option to offer shipping on their listings other sellers do not have that option why don't they have that option well new accounts will not have that option or if you've violated some sort of community guidelines you won't have that option as well and usually the reason that gets taken away the reason that the violation usually occurs if you've been running

facebook ads in the past like if you're doing shopify drop shipping and had your uh ads account shut down in that case you wouldn't have the shipping option available either so i hope that makes sense but if any of you guys have any knowledge of why this is happening please feel free to leave a comment and let me know because i did try to google how to purchase something on facebook marketplace and nothing helpful came up anyways after getting a lot of is this available messages from interested buyers one day someone just randomly bought one of my items so i got my first sale on december 4th for this classic six drawer all right so right here i could see that you've sold this product for 160 bucks and you have the option to upload a tracking number which means that yet you had the shipping option available which means that you had that buy now button they clicked on it they sent you money that money is now inside the facebook account until you upload a tracking number and then a few days later facebook releases that money to you drawer dresser by mainstays i sold this for a hundred and sixty dollars the buyer paid a hundred and seventy two dollars altogether so that was twelve dollars and eighty cents in state taxes however when i went back to walmart to fulfill this order the white dresser that i had listed was actually out of stock and i know that this is a problem that a lot of people are worried about and this even deters a lot of people from starting drop shipping i get asked about this a lot and how you deal with it so even though this isn't like a one size fits all solution this is what i did in my situation i noticed that even though the white dresser was out all right so let's back up so this item was out of stock this color so what you could have done beforehand is we use software and that software will actually alert us when these items go out of stock so you took this item from walmart you listed it onto facebook marketplace i would then input this item from walmart into the software and then as soon as this item goes out of stock that software will alert us and say hey it's out of stock so that way you don't sell an item on facebook marketplace that's out of stock or if the price changes it will alert you about that as well so that's what i would recommend that you do so that mistake doesn't happen again but i'm curious to hear how you actually uh solve this out of stock there were other color options available that were still in stock there was a gray color a walnut color and an espresso color so i sent the buyer a professional sounding message that went like this hello and thank you for your interest in my classic six drawer dresser unfortunately it has just been brought to my attention that the white finish is out of stock currently so sorry about that however i do have other colors available including a gray that looks close to white would you be interested other colors include walnut and espresso let me know if you would like to see photos of the other color options and about i think that was really smart idea to do that i've done that a lot myself so big thumbs up for doing that i would have sent photos right away but hey not a big deal a half hour later dude just responded gray is fine so i was like bet say less then so one of the really cool things is that if you try to do this on other marketplaces the customers usually get more upset it's more likely that they'll get upset on facebook marketplace they're awesome the customers on facebook marketplace are really cool much more understanding and you'll get a lot more of these yeses than you would on other platforms i went back to walmart and bought and shipped the dresser to the customer for 151. 20 now for those of you that don't know the great thing about selling on facebook marketplace right now compared to other platforms like ebay and amazon is there are no fees for sellers currently on facebook marketplace alright so this video was made uh very late last year and basically like a few days after this video was made facebook started charging a fee it's only a five percent fee which is extraordinarily low especially considering they have to pay at least probably about three percent uh transaction fee with the credit cards so probably less they probably get a little bit of a deal on that but still that's a pretty good deal just five percent place however that is going to change next month january 2021 which is really only in a matter of days and that's pretty crazy to think about but then they're going to be taking a five percent fee from each sale that you make so still compared to ebay and amazon i believe ebay fees are somewhere between 10 and 12 and i really should just shut up because you're saying everything that i just said in my commentary anyway amazon is about 15 so it's still pretty good compared to those other platforms and another thing i should mention about facebook marketplace is they're actually really strict about uploading the tracking number within a few days after the sale so i did that as soon as i could facebook also doesn't release the funds from your sales until a few days after your item has been delivered to the customer so in the case of my first sale the dresser was delivered on december 11th but the funds didn't hit my bank account until december 16th but then when they

did release the funds i got paid 160 dollars which means i only made a profit of eight dollars and 80 cents since yeah so first of all if you don't upload tracking numbers they'll cancel your orders even if you've already bought it from like walmart so make sure you do that uh eight bucks you know that's not nothing i mean that came out of basically thin air and you know if you had gotten done everything right you could have gotten it much higher right now the margins on facebook marketplace are excellent so you shouldn't be going for the very low margins mark those items up because they're still selling on facebook marketplace at the higher margins the product cost 151 151. 20 on walmart and personally i want to make more of a profit than that on each sale so i've been marking up my prices on each listing a bit more now so the second sale that i got was a bit better i sold this bathroom medicine cabinet shelf thing from home depot and i love that we don't even always know what it is that we're selling but it still works 450 when it was only 98 on home depot so shipping was free but there was a sales tax of 5. 88 so the total cost for me was 103. 88 so the profit on this item i've actually become tax exempt on home depot so i don't pay sales tax when i purchase items from them was 46. 12 so in total i've made a profit of 54. 92 in the past few weeks of drop shipping on facebook that's not bad for just two sales i mean you should be really proud of that really i think shows more than anything the potential of this especially when considering the first sale you know the margins weren't that great and you figured it out for the next one marketplace like i said the results that i've gotten so far aren't anything crazy so if i decide to step it up and start devoting more time to this i'm sure that i'll see better results and i'll make an update video for you guys then if sales pick up all right meg so congratulations on your success so far i mean i really love your videos and love all the different side hustles that you do because you really go for it you really at least try it and show people the potential of what it is that's out there and the potential for them to make money online so big two big thumbs up for you now underneath this video i'll have a link to the meg rise youtube channel i've actually have a link directly to this video so you guys can check it out and leave a comment after you subscribe to her channel saying hey paul jaylipsky sent me and told me to subscribe and then guys underneath that i'll have a link to a free video series i'm hosting all about facebook marketplace drop shipping there are multiple videos in the series so you sign up for it you get access to all those videos these are not videos that i put on youtube these are exclusive videos just for this free video training series that's only available for a limited time so click on that second link sign up for that free video series and i'll see you there once the videos are available thanks so much for watching see you guys next time