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  1. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    You can use a fulfillment company to do all your orders if your profit margins can handle it. Fulfillment by Amazon is super popular because you can use it for sales on eBay.com, Amazon.com, and even your own website.
  2. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Anytime you don't get a sample you are opening yourself up to all of the items quality being crap. The problem is some manufactures make it as cheap as possible and will fall apart in your hands and other will make quality products. If the item is $10 each then you stand to lose $500 for 50...
  3. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Awesome! What a great feeling to get your first sale! Just be careful, making money can be addicting lol.
  4. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Sold at normal eBay rates just in super bulk! Saves me tons on shipping so actually will make more than by selling them individually!
  5. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Gotta love it when people use you as their source of merchandise. Had someone (who found me on eBay originally) just make a purchase of over $2,000 for products that I paid $1,025. Now to find a box to ship them all in!!!
  6. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    I import from China/ wherever into the USA. Shipping costs will vary from country to country and you really have to do your own homework as to what products/ shipping will work to your country and in it. Every country has it's added issues (high shipping, added import taxes and on and on) but...
  7. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Please feel free to pm me with any questions. To US buyers buying from China or Europe wouldn't make much difference so only list on Ebay.com if you can beat the Chinese sellers prices (if there are any). Unfortunately most US consumers view overseas as overseas and it wouldn't matter where...
  8. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    The first way to make sure people see your product is keywords. If there are no competitors yet then you have to be the one to make up a great title using as many keywords as possible. Let's say the item you are selling is a wallet. You want to try and think of as many words as possible that...
  9. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Awesome way to find ideas. You don't have to reinvent the wheel. Find what someone is doing wrong and do it better! You are welcome to pm me with any questions or ideas. I would be happy to help in any way I can.
  10. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Actually that looks like a decent product. The cheapest US seller is selling it at 15.99 and he has sold 45 of them. Even if you decide to go 12.98 to be the cheapest over even China it works out to you paying about $1.50 in fees and i'll estimate $5 in shipping so $13 - $6.50= $6.50 total to...
  11. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Well at least you figured it out. I'm sure the buyer will be pleasantly surprised to receive it faster than expected as well.
  12. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Thats a bummer. Returns are a part of the business but when you have tons because of junk it's really a pain.
  13. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Your hypothetical situation will never happen. They only way to get name brand products like these at any discount would be either they are stolen or they are stolen. All major companies such as these have very strict rules on what discounts items can be sold at (hence why around Black Friday...
  14. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Perfect answer!
  15. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    I ask the seller for a price including express shipping, customs, etc to my door. So if fast shipping adds $x and customs adds $y I don't have to worry about it. I just want the complete price shipped to my door for x number of products then i divide that by the number of products and I know...
  16. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Coupons are a super good way but idk if 1% is enough depending on how expensive your products are. If you could direct them to your own website in the form of a coupon that would be the best. Even if you just have a simple shop set up on a website that doesn't charge you the 10% fees eBay does...
  17. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Assuming you are making good profit per item I would use fullfillment by Amazon or another fulfillment company. You send all the products to Amazon's warehouse and they can fulfill all your orders from your personal website, eBay, Amazon, etc. That would certainly free up a lot more of your...
  18. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Great answer. As always see your local CPA or tax professional. There are many different ways you can structure your business to pay less taxes. If you are going to run your own business you need to understand the costs and taxes involved in doing so and which legal entity is best for your...
  19. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    2 things about that story, 1. It is illegal for paypal to keep that money unless he was selling stolen merchandise in that case they would turn the money over to the authorities. They can put a hold on the money for a certain number of days but after that you are allowed to withdraw it. 2. Yes...
  20. Ecom man

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    Yeah I actually try to kinda hide my profitable items. I have a ton of listings that are just a bunch of random items that I have listed about $50+ higher than anyone else. If someone dug enough they could obviously sort through all my listings and see which ones have sales and which ones don't...

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