Do Not Dropship These 5 Items onto eBay!

I talk a lot in this channel about the right items that you should be listing into your eBay dropshipping store but let's talk for a minute about some items that you need to avoid and in fact I'm going to cover five of them in today's video if you don't know who I am my name is Paul and I run a website over at drop shipping Titan is calm where I've taught hundreds of students now how to drop ship successfully onto eBay now I hear a lot of people asking what types of items that you should be listing onto eBay but I don't hear many people asking what types of items they should avoid and I

think that could be really important as well so we're gonna make a game out of this today what I'm going to do is I'm going to put up on the screen five different items one at a time and you're going to have five seconds to try to find out or try to figure out what's wrong with it and why I don't think it's a good idea for you to list this item or these types of items into your eBay dropshipping store each different product is going to have a an assigned number of points so if you get that answer right if you figure out correctly why you shouldn't be listing it you get all those points so at the end of the video make sure to drop the number of points that you won

write it into the comments section of this video because I'm going to pick one winner and they're going to receive a $25 gift certificate to Amazon you guys ready to start you understand the rules okay this is product number one it is going to be worth fifteen points this is a big one for this game so you ready here it is so the problem with this item is that it is a liquid and a lot of times when companies ship liquids to customers they break apart in transit and they cause a huge mess and then the customer gets this wet soggy box it's not good customer service the customer is very upset there's no way for them to even return the item so you actually will operate at a loss there because they're unable to return it and you then have to ship them out a full product because the supplier is gonna want to return something even if it is a soggy wet broken box so for that reason I highly suggest especially if you're a new seller for you to avoid drop shipping

liquids at least at first until you get more experience and kind of have a little bit more room to experiment but definitely in the beginning liquids are a really huge hassle and a big headache when you're drop shipping onto eBay so if you got that question right you just got 15 points but let's move on to product number two here and this one is going to be worth eight points

did you figure this one out this is an item that falls under eBay's Bureau Program v ero and that stands for

verified rights owner program these are brands that do not want you listing onto eBay if you're going to use their photos their stock photos and their stock descriptions because those photos and those descriptions are actually copyrighted so you don't have the copyright owners or in this case which in this case is the brand you don't have their permission to use those photos and descriptions so if you do list those items up the owner in this case 3m has the right to ask eBay to remove that listing and eBay will do that for them if you get enough of those you could get in trouble with eBay so it's just not worth it at first when you're beginner I do see more experienced sellers selling zero items that violate zero but that again that is at their risk and I highly suggest if you're a new seller not to take that risk with a new account luckily if you use a software like DSM

tool it's going to automatically alert you if you are trying to list a viewer item and will actually block it if you try to do that if that's what you want them to do so if you got that one right you got eight points but let's move on to number three see if you can figure out what's wrong with this item did you figure out what was wrong with that one it's just too cheap too inexpensive there's just not enough room in there for you to make a margin if you try to mark it up enough to actually make a profit it's going to be too much for a consumer to reasonably pay that much for the item remember you have to pay your eBay fees paypal fees and included with that PayPal fee is not only a percentage but also a 30 cent markup or a 30 cents for every single transaction so at the very least even if you think you're going to make 10 cents on the sale remember you still have to pay 30 cents to PayPal in addition to that you also have to account for your time or your virtual assistants time is it really worth you putting in the time to fulfill this order and only making a few pennies now as you grow your store more and managed to automate more of the process you might be finding that it's worth it for you to list an item that's only going to make you a dollar profit or even 50 cents worth of profit because you've automated your business to the point where you can scale it up and sell 100 items a day at 50 cents and that might be worth it for you but definitely in the beginning I don't think it's worth it for you to sell items that are so cheap there's just so little room for you to make any money with it so if you've got that one right congratulations you just got 8 more points if you didn't get it right no big deal because the next one is going to be worth 12 points and that's coming up right now did you see what was wrong with that item it was the handling time the

item it was the handling time is just way too long for this item see when you're selling an item on eBay you want your handling time to be at most four days any longer than

that and customers are going to start to complain even if you put into your listing that the handling time is longer now how do you make sure that your handling time with your supplier is good now do some test runs order some products from your supplier have them ship to you first and see what the handling time is like see what the shipping time is like or just start out slowly selling from that supplier or ask

the advice of more experienced sellers like for instance I know that if you drop ship from Home Depot Walmart or amazon. com your handling time is going to be very quick turnaround on those but if you drop ship from other websites like Aliexpress where the items might even be coming from overseas those handling times are going to be much longer and that's going to make customers upset because they do want their items quickly so just keep that in mind when you're getting started that you might want to avoid having items with longer handling times we only have one more item up right now one more item to go one last chance for you guys to get some points and win that $25 gift card for Amazon so this last one is going to be worth 10 points and here it

is right now all right do you know what's wrong with this item it has a bad review and if an

item on the sources website then it's also going to be a bad product to dropship onto eBay and the

reason for that is because chances are there's some sort of quality issue with this item it's probably breaking or it doesn't work well it's just something wrong with it this increases the number of returns that you're going to get the number of upset customers the number of negative reviews it's just not worth the headache so I would avoid anything with three stars or less because those just aren't worth that those aren't good products so if you've got that one correct congratulations you got another ten points so make sure that you guys add up all your points and drop how many points you got into the comment section of this video I'm going to pick one random person who participated and they're going to win a $25 gift card to Amazon you don't need to have gotten the most points you know I trust most of you but I do know that there's some other people out there who aren't being honest and they're just gonna say they won all the points and if that's the case I'll to prevent that from happening I'm just going to pick a random person who participated so even if you got 0 points you still have a chance of winning so drop it into the comment section also let me know if you want if you learned anything here and if you found this video useful if you found it fun make sure to give the video a thumbs up if you guys liked it I'll make more kind of games like this in the future so if you don't want to miss those make sure to subscribe to the channel I of course always have a ton of great content about ebay and amazon drop shipping so thanks for playing the game with me have a lot of fun and I'll see you guys in the next video