I read your post so you basically arbitrage from US retailers to amazon/ebay? It seems you are doing retail arbitrage? Like when there is a sale on Toy R Us, you list that same item on Amazon/Ebay. But don't you need to keep the stock you buy at some place first? How do you deal when AMZ just price matches it?
I am currently reselling alibaba stuff but after amazon PPC and shipping, it seems it's just break even, not including my effort. It's mostly PL so I can control my price but there is a lot of competition because I don't have patent on my product. It's a white label basically.
In your post history, you said 300K sales. That's all from drop shipping?
> you basically arbitrage from US retailers to amazon/ebay?
Yes.
>It seems you are doing retail arbitrage?
Retail arbitrage has a technical meaning in the industry, it refers to physically going into stores to buy inventory. What I'm doing is referred to as drop shipping or "online arbitrage" (where you buy inventory online then take possession and sell it).
>Like when there is a sale on Toy R Us, you list that same item on Amazon/Ebay. But don't you need to keep the stock you buy at some place first? How do you deal when AMZ just price matches it?
First of all, it's not all sales. Many of the items I sell are a regular price at the source, amazon just doesn't have stock or charges more. Items where Amazon isn't on the listing are much better.
For drop shipping, the point is that you have the retailer ship directly to the customer, so I don't need to keep the stock. There are some things I do buy, have it sent to amazon warehouses for fulfilment.
>In your post history, you said 300K sales. That's all from drop shipping?
Around half drop shipping, around half either FBA or MF but with shipping it myself (or a warehouse). Did over 100k in November, and 50k in December. I'm hoping to build up to 250k a month or so over the next year.
I've never done PL so I can't help too much there.
I am currently reselling alibaba stuff but after amazon PPC and shipping, it seems it's just break even, not including my effort. It's mostly PL so I can control my price but there is a lot of competition because I don't have patent on my product. It's a white label basically.
In your post history, you said 300K sales. That's all from drop shipping?