Have you sold all the items in your home and sold everything not nailed down in your friends homes ? Well if you have the eBay bug I guess the answer maybe yes. So what next ? Well you could just close up shop and have a rest, but something tells me you enjoyed the extra money this new hobby has bought you in. Yes ?

Another way you can take this business is go to a local wholesaler or cash and carry and spend some money and buy some stock to resell. At the end of the day this is often the best way to go as you have the stock to hand, you can see it, touch it and you ship the items out every time an item sells. But if you work from home you may have limited space to store items and also you may be low on funds to buy stock. Do not worry there is another way. A way that allows you to carry thousands of items, you never touch these items, you do not ship them, all you do is promote, sell, and then send details of the buyer along with your buyers price. The difference between what you charge your buyer and the price you pay is your profit.

Of course I am talking about the wonderful world of Dropshipping. Drop shipping allow people to get started online from small or no costs upfront. Just while we are talking about this please be very careful if you see a dropshipper and they want to charge a lot of money to sell for them, normally stay away from these companies. Most drop shippers do not charge anything to set up an account.

So What Is Drop Shipping ?

You can do a search online for companies that offer the product you are interested in and on their site they will say they offer drop shipping. But another way is if you have found a product you want to sell and do not have the money to buy stock, pick up the phone and ask if they do drop shipping – they can only say no !!

@ You open an account with the company.

@ Most companies will send you on a disk or via email copies of images, product codes and your price and retail prices.

@ Also they will tell you how to order. Most will ask you once a day to email or process online the separate orders for each client. You enter their names, address, and products they have ordered. And when you have done all the orders, you make one payment.

@ The drop shipper will then package the items and send out the items with an invoice in your name, so the buyers do not know it has not come from you.

It is that simple. You can be drop shippers for many companies and just list all day long, sell and make some nice profits, without ever seeing the items. That is the beauty of being in the drop shipping business.