Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Dropshipping business expansion

The dropshipping business has sold 30 items via ebay so I've decided to expand to other platforms. Today I opened accounts at Bonanza and eCrater because they both offer automatic import of items from ebay. However eCrater only imports from ebay when if you have a minimum of 50 items listed. I only have 40 items listed so my goal is to list 10 more today to get the eCrater store activated. Bonanza has no minimum requirement so I started that process and am just waiting for the email to let me know everything is done.

I've considered dropshipping via Poshmark but the only issue is the shipping times and receipt of funds. My items are shipping from China and I'd need to receive them first in order to ship them out to the customer using the Poshmark shipping label. I'd also need to front the money for the items and wait until after the customer receives the order to get paid. That kind of risk makes me cautious. I'm still researching to see if anyone is successful with Poshmark using their own labels, because receiving and then reshipping seems like it might turn into a pain.

Update at 3pm EST: I've enough items to the ebay store to enable the import to eCrater. It may take a few days to complete, but at least I don't have to take the time to do it myself. So now this dropship business is on three platforms yay!

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