HOW DROPSHIPPING CAN GET TRICKY

As established in my previous post, dropshipping is the most simple way of profiting as an eBay seller. However, you must be wary of many "dropshippers" who try and sell you products at a discount, but serve as middlemen, meaning that they are not the direct whoelsalers. Rather, they are individuals who work with the wholesale companies. You place your order with this so called dropshipper who then places your order with the wholesaler. With this, they end up marking up the product as the "wholesaler" which drives up your wholesale cost. As a result, you end up losing out on profits because you are paying a higher cost for the wholesale merchadise. The Search Engines are full of such scam artists who claim to be real wholesalers, so finding a legitimate one is very difficult and requires extensive research. In fact, out of the millions of wholesalers who claim to be dropshippers, there are only 30 that have been approved by EBay as legitimate. The following two are EBay certified and are approved by the Better Business Bureau and offer thousands of products in hundreds of niche categories!

The first resource, DOBA, has been featured on CNN.com, Forbes, INC.com and Entrepreneur Magazine among many other trusted and well respected business periodicals and websites as one of the few legitimate product sourcing solution providers. This quote from CNN.com sums up DOBA's efficiency. "The secret source of product to sell continues to be a popular topic for eBay sellers. Product sourcing gurus from companies such as DOBA share new ideas and insight with thousands of sellers clamoring for a secret sauce. The good news is, finding suppliers for the products you want to sell isn't quite the needle-in-a-haystack task it's envisioned to be." DOBA has well established relationships with the best and largest wholesalers in the country. Although many of these wholesalers would not be willing to work with individuals and small business on their own, they do exclusively for DOBA members because of their well established relationships. DOBA also has an excellent reputation for its legitimacy. "DOBA becomes the first product sourcing provider to offer merchants protection against fraudulent buyers. The Doba Fraud Protection Program is also the only protection program that covers the use of drop shipping for order fulfillment." - WebSite Hosting Directory. DOBA even offers a 7-day FREE trial period so you can check out their services and the easy to use system of product sourcing. Sign up for a Doba Free Trial. DOBA works with 170 distributors offering 1,000,000 products with 3,200 brands! You should definitely consider using DOBA's connections for your own eBay selling business.