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I’ve been dropshipping on eBay for 8 years now and built multiple profitable stores from scratch.
When I started, I didnt have any money, just a laptop and a bit of time.
If I had to do it all over again, here’s exactly what I’d do:
**1. Start with a business account.**
Make a new eBay account under a sole proprietorship. This gets you higher listing limits from day one, way better than starting personal.
**2. Find 90 profitable dropshippers.**
Reverse search amazon listings titles onto ebay to find sellers dropshipping from Amazon.
Only pick the ones with decent margin, where their eBay price is clearly above the Amazon cost.
**3. Snipe one dropshipper per day.**
Each day, take one seller and go through their sold items.
List the exact or similar items on your own store.
Use ChatGPT to optimize your titles (just ask it to make it better for eBay SEO).
Aim to list **100 items per day**.
**4. Repeat this for 90 days.**
It’ll take a few hours daily, but I will hit 10,000 listings in 3 months.
At that point, I should be making $1–3K/month in profit.
**5. Hire a VA and duplicate the system.**
Once the income is stable, I would outsource the store management.
Then create a new store and repeat the process.
That’s how I would start again.
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