Cut eBay Competition for Your Dropship Business

Dropshipping is a great business model but, as for all profitable options, a good market can quickly become saturated.  These tips will help you check for market saturating before introducion a new product to your range:

*  Check competition on eBay for your dropshipping company and their products before planning to sell.  I found a wonderful dropship firm for CDs, there were hundreds of different titles, their graphics were bright and colourful, a more professional organisation was difficult to find.  I joined their program, downloaded their graphics and sales materials, created and uploaded my listings, and waited, and waited, and nothing happened.  Soon afterwards I checked for others selling similar products on eBay and found dozens of them.  Those CDs were already market saturated on eBay.  I should have checked first as in the next tip.

*  Search competition for your product by keying the name, title or maker’s name into the search box top right on eBay’s home page.  No entries for similar products might be good news for you; ‘might’ because others may also be selling these products, just not right now.  But it could also be bad news because others might have tried selling similar products with little success.   Lots of entries signals lots of competition, but view listings first to check similarity to your product.  Where you find just a few people selling similar products, see how much they charge, check completed listings for how many sold and how many second chance offers were possible.  More than five firms selling similar products worldwide, I’d say is one or two firms too many, except where they sell through auction and you choose shop only listings. 

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