While sellers list their wholesale dropship products on their own website, some resellers prefer to list dropship products on both their site and a marketplace while others promote items exclusively on a marketplace, like eBay. When you sell on your website, you need to focus on efforts that improve your SEO or CPC/PPC campaign management, but when you sell on eBay, your focus changes to ways to improve the product details and category selection. However, the biggest questions most eBay sellers start with are: "What wholesaler will be best for my eBay sales?" or "What is the hottest dropship item to sell on eBay?"

The first step is to make sure your product source is a real and verified wholesale distributor. If you use a fake supplier (and they can be harder to spot then you think) or a middleman pretending to be the product source, not only will you not have control over your supply chain and delivery times (If they are your only point of contact and they don't stock or ship the items directly, then you are forced to rely on them to resolve any issues or provide updates.), but you will also have higher prices then normal. A middleman "supplier" has their own markup in place on the cost, shipping prices, or additional fees. This means you won't sell as much of the item as you could going to the direct source, or you won't have as much profit margin since you are basically sharing your profits with the "supplier".

If you use Inventory Source to verify your suppliers or find new dropship distributors, then you have already avoided the first trap in the challenges of launching an eCommerce business and you are on your way to becoming a successful eBay dropship product seller. Another approach is to visit the suppliers at some of the national trade shows for your product industry, like the CES show which is held every year. If you cannot afford the time or money to get to a show, do not worry. It is often easier to locate the best trade shows online than it is to determine which supplier is a legitimate source when doing some Google searches. So, if you can locate the website for some of the larger or even regional trade shows, just review the list on the trade show of the exhibiting companies. Not all of the exhibiting companies do single item dropship, and some might be the manufactures and not distributors, but it is still a great source to start with while working from home without needing to get dressed or book a flight and hotel to begin your research.