What is Drop shipping?

So you like the idea of selling on eBay or setting up your own web store, but haven't got the time or the space or the facility to buy, post and send. Well here is the perfect solution.


I have recently stumbled of a really good way to make money. It combines all the things people like, selling on eBay, setting up a web business, all of these things, into a painless and hassle less process, where you essential just flip money to make more money.


Drop shipping involves you selling a product which you don't have and then buying it when somebody buys it from you and then sending it straight on to the customer. Sounds pretty illegal right? Well that is where you are wrong. There are several wholesale drop shipping companies set up around the world to do just this very thing.


As a British citizen, I found ATS distribution to be the best source for this, and while their prices are quite expensive, they are very reliable. All you do is sign up, put some money in the pot, not as a registration fee or anything, but as a balance to buy stuff with, and then put an advert on eBay or your personal eCommerce website, and there you have it. It is a virtual stockroom, which somebody else manages for you, and I am sorry but nobody can say no to the convenience of it all. 


what I did was I put some items on eBay intitially, for the asking price of the Drop Shipping company, and then watched people bid and quite often the item sold for 20 or 30% more than the RRP, which is really good to see. You just need to choose your items carefully. Remember the bigger the audience, the better the sale, so electronic gadgets and headphones sell best, but there is most competition.


Another thing to be wary of it the postage and packaging, but this is a piece of information which is given to you by the  drop shipping company in most cases and therefore is less of an issue to worry about.


So it really is that simple to make money selling things now. I would say this is a great place to start because you have nothing to loose until you sell something, and then you gain if you see what I mean, so everyone is a winner. It gives you some experience of selling before you start buying real stock and gives you more headroom when you do.


I would advise this to anybody who asks me what the best way to start selling on eBay is. all your products are new so there is no worrying about that, and it is all done for you. Just sit back relax and watch the drop shippers do all the work!