Q&A Christmas 2017 Prep for eBay Dropshipping

what's up fellow dropshippers welcome to this week's Q& A this is a new segment we are doing where we will answer any questions you guys have like any questions you leave in the comments or email us or on our Instagram we've been getting a lot of questions from you guys same questions over and over again so I thought it'd be better just to make these videos so that everyone can get the answers to them so we'll try to do is every week probably on Tuesday I was trying to think of a good day a week to do it but couldn't think of anything clever enough like five question Friday or what do you want to know Wednesday those all sound of cheesy my husband is laughing at me so I think just Q& A Tuesday keep it simple and sorry about the background our normal brick background is obscured by all these returns because eBay recently made a change that if a buyer has buyer's remorse and they open up a return case against automatically approved and the buyers then told to ship the item back to us not to our source so if you're able to email the customer or message them right away with the label from the source from Home Depot then they'll send the item over to Home Depot but we were away last week so we came home from our vacation to a lot of boxes which did not make our neighbors happy so let's get into this

week's questions the first is from Michael emailed us and asked how do you deal with VO items on eBay for those of you who don't know Bureau items I don't know if I'm saying that right V er Oh our items that you're not allowed to list on eBay because the images are copyrighted I'm pretty sure that's the reason why so certain products you're not allowed to list for that reason and they'll get taken down so there's two approaches I know of the first is what we do is which we have Hydra Lister which we use for our listings and it won't let us list these banned items the other thing that people do is that they just list the item anyway and then hope they don't get in trouble but there is the setting and Hydra Lister that will prevent you from listing the items if that's what you want the setting to be so that's what we do there's also if you don't have use Hydra Lister there are websites that will give you the whole list of veero and items eBay does have a list as well that you can cross-reference if I can find that list I'll put it in the description Michael also wants to know

when did you start to see your store really take off so we started drop shipping in January of 2017 it's currently November first few months you know made a couple hundred dollars then in like April we only me like 80 bucks so really took about six months before we really took off and the key difference is that we just start listing more and more so there's really like to take off points when I was about six months in when it really started to do well and then once my husband really started helping out with the listings that's when it took off again so it's really like a two stages to our success I guess you could say so but the only real difference was that we listed more which kind of answers the next question

which is from DJ flips yes what method you guys took to grow your store he wants to know what methods we use to grow our store and what we did was what we've been saying all along we just listed more and more we found a source that works well for us that has excellent customer service that ships out the items on time and that's Home Depot and we just list a ton of products from them anytime the product sells if we try to find a similar item that we think would also do well and we use a similar title for that so that way you know we can capitalize on that and that's all we do we list a lot we give excellent customer service and we have a team of VA s that are essential for our business to grow because they take care of all the tasks that take up a lot of time that take away from us being able to focus on growing the store and the last question we have is what we are

doing to prepare for Christmas and really the short answer is not much we did talk about doing more for Christmas you know listing a bunch of items that are more gifts because items from Home Depot a lot of times home improvement items aren't really gifts for most people in the traditional sense gifts you're thinking like toys or I don't know I guess toys yeah obviously they don't sell many toys at Home Depot they do sell some like decorations like Christmas trees wreaths decoration and stuff like that and we have listed some of that but we listed a lot of seasonal stuff for Halloween and it did sell really well the two problems with those items were one they went a stock really quickly and we had to cancel a lot of orders which made a lot of unhappy customers and - now that Halloween's over we have all these listings that are making us any money anymore so even though we might have made a bunch of money from them in October they're not making any money now and it's gonna be the same thing for Christmas presumably so we are listing some Christmas decorations but we're not worrying about too much and the other reason that we haven't really done much is because we just kind of dropped the ball and kind of screw it up a little bit not really screw it up but you know like I said we went on vacation last week which really would have been the week for us to prepare and list a bunch of items that we thought might have sold well during Christmas in the weeks leading up to our vacation we were working really hard with our VA he's trying to get the whole system as automated as we could so that while we were away on vacation we wouldn't have to work too hard in the store and now that the vacation is over we are trying to catch up a little bit and Thanksgiving is already Thursday and today's Monday so we've kind of dropped the ball a little bit but in the long run I think it's ok because like I said we don't want just seasonal items we want items that are gonna sell all year long so those are the questions that we had this week sorry there was no video last week yeah like I said we were away and I will be making a video soon all about our trip and how eBay paid for the trip how we didn't you know have to pay for airfare and ice all the points we got through drop shipping I don't know if they'll be ready this week but hopefully by next week so thanks for watching if you have any questions for our next Q& A leave them in the comments here or send us an email and we will answer them and I hope you guys have a great day subscribe if you want to see more give us a thumbs up if you like this and we'll see you guys in the next video