eBay Drop-Shipping

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Bluedot

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3,587 posts

107 months

Thursday 19th July 2018
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A couple of months back I decided I'd try my hand at running a drop-shipping business on eBay as a spare time thing, I'm good at manipulating data and spreadsheets, calling API's etc. so thought I could utilise these skills.
I identified a Chinese website that did drop-shipping and opened an account with them.
Then the fun started rolleyes
I'm under no illusions that it'll ever make me rich or whether there would be any actual future in it but what I thought would be fairly simple has turned into a right pain, what I'm talking about is the ability to import data into eBay. I gave up trying to import direct into eBay and started using a 3rd party but these weren't much better and wanted $27 a month for the privilege.
Anyone on here doing something similar ?


DSLiverpool

14,742 posts

202 months

Thursday 19th July 2018
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Are you paying the Chinese company for a premium feed? If not you’ll need to do work.

Bluedot

Original Poster:

3,587 posts

107 months

Thursday 19th July 2018
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No, the feed is free. I can download what I like from their website API as a CSV, I thought it would be quite easy to then manipulate that data into a format that eBay would take rolleyes

Ean218

1,965 posts

250 months

Friday 20th July 2018
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Sussed Amazon out years ago, have never managed to get on top of feeding EBay.