 I'm your host Liran the content manager here at AutoDS and I am of course your proud host for these live QAs helping you with anything and everything that you need on your journey of becoming a successful dropshipper or if you already are a dropshipper and want to take it to the next level ready to scale your business ready to make more sales and profit that is what we are here for and our success is mutual. For those of you who don't know the dropshipping business model is a great business model which simply allows you to fulfill orders without having anything in your inventory so there are no upfront investments you don't have any initial expenses or at least you have very few initial expenses it depends on what selling channels you're using and which suppliers you're dropshipping from but at the end of the day it is a low risk high reward business model for those of you who don't know about it yet and of course we're always updating our knowledge base at autoDS.com slash blog and our youtube channel at youtube.com slash autoDS and for those of you who have been with us here before you know what the purpose of these live QAs are for it's simply to help you boost your business or get help getting started if you haven't gotten started yet and as you guys know we always start these live QAs by addressing the questions that you asked on our Facebook community group which is exactly what i'm going to start off this live with but before that before that first of all guys drop me a message in the chat let me know that you guys can hear me well because the reason that this live started six minutes late is because i'm starting it on a new laptop that i just bought over the weekend and i wasn't able to connect everything the way that i thought that i could and would but now everything is fine so let's go ahead and get started i want to give you guys a quick update before we start there is a new update in autoDS for those of you who are already using autoDS you may have already seen it on the left menu there is a new button a new link called autoDS wallet so if you guys have seen it this is your connection to pioneer autoDS has a partnership with pioneer today and you're going to benefit well you or you probably already are benefiting for those of you who are already using autoDS so for those of you who don't know what this partnership means is you can see all of your transactions from your pioneer account directly from autoDS so you don't have to log into pioneer anymore you can see all of your balance history to the managed orders from autoDS from a filled by autoDS service and if you're joining for the first time you're also going to get a $10 bonus when topping up your balance for the first time and there are more things we're going to implement a video there soon so if you click on autoDS wallet um i don't know if the video was implemented yet but it should be today or tomorrow and you'll also have a how to how to use that wallet how to connect to it if you're a first time user and that's pretty much it that's a new update you guys are going to benefit from this a lot it's going to make your cash flow much easier and smoother when running your e-commerce business let's go ahead guys let's go ahead and start this live so start asking your questions in the chat box let me know of course that you guys can hear me that everything is fine i'm sure that you guys can hear me i can see that you guys are already writing things in the chat but i'm not sure if nobody addressed if they can hear me it or not i'll just take it into consideration that everything is fine so far and i will start off by addressing your questions from the facebook community group so let's go ahead and get started we're already running late with this live qa we're already 10 minutes in so what i'm going to do is share my screen you guys should be able to see it now and this is the autoDS platform of course we keep you guys updated on everything and anything that's going on you guys can also connect to us through our blog page and here you can learn pretty much everything there is about uh let me just log out of let me log out of wordpress so you guys won't see that top banner there pretty much everything that you need to start an e-commerce business everything that you need to scale your e-commerce business we've got so much going on in this blog that's updating at least at least two times a week with fresh new articles new products that you guys need to sell how to start dropshipping on many selling channels like wix shop of five facebook marketplace ebay what products to sell as i already mentioned and so so much more so check out the blog if you like to read and if you don't like to read just go to our youtube page and you can already see that this live qa is already happening right now which just got started and here you have all of the videos that we upload also at least at least two times a week but most of the time it's more than that and we have pretty much anything and everything that you want to learn okay but let's go back to the facebook marketplace to the facebook sorry to the questions that you guys asked on facebook before this live started so first i'm going to address your questions from the facebook from our facebook community and from there i'm just going to start answering your questions here in the live chat i thank you for letting me know that you can hear me so start asking your questions now in the live chat when i when i'll finish up with these questions here on the facebook marketplace i'll address you guys there in the chat too and i'm just going to zoom in a little bit so you guys can see it better since i know you're seeing a little bit smaller one i'm checking the screen okay so live qa i consider there weren't too many questions this time let's go okay zine you pretty much filled in the questions for anyone who didn't ask questions here so let's go ahead oh guys before you start asking your questions in a live chat just remember everything that has to do with technical questions about the autods system how if it's any bugs you guys are encountering or how to use a certain feature on autods something that is that's not working too well for you guys open up a chat support ticket for that i'm not technical support we have for that we have a technical support department here at autods with many people there who are just waiting to get your questions and help you out with anything that you may need so if it's a technical question about the autods system please open up a live chat or open up a support ticket and here i'll help you guys with anything to start run and manage your online business so let's go ahead and get started what should i use for hiding my ip on ebay vps or dedicated ip address or dedicated proxy so another thing that i'm not going to be talking about is things that have to do with self accounts not because it doesn't work but just because you're selling channels wherever you want to sell they don't like you using proxies and vpns and people who don't do it the right way get their accounts banned and then they don't understand why their accounts got banned and i want to leave those questions on the side so anything has to do with the autods system and stealth stealth don't ask and autods system open up support tickets can we use cashback websites with fulfilled by autods service you cannot use cashback if you're using the fulfilled by autods service but if you're using the fulfilled by autods service the amount of time that you're saving from those automatic orders is definitely definitely worth more than that cashback that you may or may not get from your supplier so think about the amount of time that you're saving when you're using the fulfilled by autods service while you're sleeping while you're traveling your orders are being fulfilled 100% automatically not even using your buyer account so you don't have to worry about your accounts getting locked at your supplier's websites some suppliers don't want you to drop you from them some are dropped in front and some are not the ones who are not can lock your buyer accounts when they see that you that you have too many orders to different addresses that's why we have the fulfilled by autods service which pretty much eliminates all of those problems and fulfills all of your orders not using your buyer account so the amount of time and money that you're going to save when automating your orders like that you won't even notice not getting cashback okay let's go back to the questions I want to know about sales tax because drop shipping paid tax twice first buying on amazon another supplier and secondly on ebay also collect sales tax what is the solution that's a great question so okay regarding the sales tax yes you are being taxed twice when you are an e-commerce business owner one time if you're selling on ebay and even if you're not selling on ebay even if you're selling on Shopify and other selling channels like that you still probably have to collect tax from your customers but let me go into detail and you'll get a bit of understanding so when you are purchasing a product from your supplier you're paying tax for your to your supplier so for example if you're purchasing right now from amazon there's a good chance that you're going to pay around an average of 10 tax from the source price and when the customer buys the product from you for example on ebay ebay automatically collects tax from your buyer from your transaction so if you're selling the product for for example for 20 dollars then you may notice that the buyer's paying you somewhere around 22 dollars and those extra two dollars that he paid you ebay deducts that from your final value fee so if you go to your payments and you see the fees that you're paying you'll see that ebay is deducting that tax from you so you're not really feeling it it's coming in to your account and it's going out of your account that is when you're selling it on ebay when you're purchasing from you when you're purchasing it from your supplier as i mentioned there's also a tax that you need to pay there so you need to add that to your break even so for example if you know that uh if you know that your break even is around 15 percent for example then take another 10 percent from the source price add that to your break even and break even is mainly also taken from your selling price so maybe add a little bit more but that should be the more or less so take that into consideration when uh when uh taking it when you're calculating a break even and if you guys need help with that we also have the ebay calculator so the ebay calculator helps you also uh know exactly what your break even is and how much you're going to profit and all of that so just search for ebay fees calculator audible ds on google uh and there's more taxes besides that let's talk about the other taxes that you have to be aware of i'm going to share my screen again okay and here if you go to our blog page we just have an article that we released this week on uh monday if i'm not mistaken uh or last thursday dropshipping taxes a beginner's guide for 2022 it's this article right here and if you click on that and you guys will notice you guys may notice that a lot of questions that you're asking me i'm going to refer the answers to the blog page just to show you guys how you have all of the answers there in advance and it's going to help you answer your questions before you even ask them or before you even knew that you had to ask them that's why we have the blog pages a huge knowledge base and what you're going to get here is all types of information on what type of tax you need to pay there's more taxes on top of the source price and the selling price there's also what about your income tax okay and what about your customs duty if you're importing from and to another country you also have to take that into consideration and think do i want to charge my buyer for that or am i going to be responsible for paying that so if you want to learn about all of this and how to go around all of the taxes that you're paying when drop shipping check out the blog article that we have once again head over to autodesk.com slash blog and that will definitely help answer your question everything regarding drop shipping taxes okay moving on to the next question i can see as you guys are starting to ask many questions in the chat very nice i'll address all of you soon okay which service should we use for international drop shipping ebay on gsp or hip shipper from increasing seller profit can be used both at the same time so another good question i'm i know that a lot of people are using ebay gsp i think it's a perfectly fine program i personally am using hip shipper because of the automation i really enjoy the automation we also have a video i'm pretty sure on how to connect it let me create a i see that i'm still sharing my screen so that's good hip shipper so just on our youtube channel i'm going to search for hip shipper i remember recording a video on it right here how to increase ebay sales by making your listings available for global shipping so this video here is going to explain how to connect to hip shipper and how all of that works and my recommendation is to definitely work with hip shipper and the reason for that is because it's going to make your life easier when you have an order from hip shipper what hip shipper does is it takes all of your listings on ebay it zooms in on them and it and it's and it sees it has a robot that scans your listings and thinks and calculates if it can ship this order internationally or not so you have your listings on ebay you don't have international shipping enabled in your policies and what once again what hip shipper does first of all it's a it's a physical warehouse in the united states and what the robot does is it scans all of your listings on ebay even your current listings and your future listings that you will add later it scans them automatically and sees which of these products they can ship internationally and then they'll automatically create a shipping policy for those products and assign them to them assign the listings to their international shipping policies so once you shine once you sign up to hip shipper and integrate with them with autodes it's going to be very very easy autodes as soon as you get an order you can fulfill it manually or you can use the fulfillment by autodes service to ship that order to hip shippers warehouse and when ship when hip shipper gets that package they know exactly what to do with it all you have to do is fill in the domestic tracking information that you're getting from your supplier are going to hip shipper and hip shipper will recognize that order as soon as it comes in and they'll ship it automatically to your buyer and even send automatic messages to your buyer that the package was shipped and that's pretty much it you can also make an extra profit on the shipping prices you can in hip shipper settings you can simply you can simply configure in hip shipper settings that you want all of the orders all of the shipping prices you want to make an extra profit on the shipping prices and you can make an extra profit by a fixed dollar amount like for every time i i get an order i want to make five dollars a fixed profit on the shipping price or by percentage i want to make an extra 20 profit from the shipping price i and i and i also do that so my strategy is to add another 20 that's what i do on my stores and it works well i make an extra profit on every international order you can also enable returns with hip shipper so they'll also make international returns easier for you i must say knock on wood that i've been dropshipping for over five years now and i've had zero international returns thank god for that so make sure that your product your item recommendation your product descriptions are well and that they correspond with the item that you won't have any item not item not as described cases internationally you don't you don't want to deal with those but in in general you can work with hip shipper you can work with ebay gsp my recommendation is hip shipper it just works really well i've never had any problems with them and they also have a good customer support and it's free i forgot to mention it's free hip shipper makes their commission from the shipping price that they charge your buyers and one last note about hip shipper is hip shipper also adds that shipping price to to your listing so for example you have a listing they'll add another let's say $30 shipping price whether you're profiting or not whatever and once the buyer purchases it from you they'll pay that shipping price to you and when the product reaches hip shipper then hip shipper will want you to pay for the shipping price so whatever the buyer paid you're gonna have to pay the hip shipper okay minus your profit if you if you have extra profit there and that's it so you're not spending money in advance and the service doesn't cost any money there is no monthly subscription it's absolutely free so go ahead and check out that video that i just showed you to learn how to sign up for it and uh that should answer your question quite well please make a video on how to set up hip shipper with ebay and auto ds done just showed it to you so just go to our youtube channel and search for a hip shipper how to show my listing on ebay and all websites like dot com dot uk ca etc well for that once again you need a hip shipper it's not going to show it on those websites if you want to listen to show up on those websites then you have to sign in to ebay.co.uk or ebay.ca you need to sign up for your ebay account you can also use your current login information so right now for example if you have an ebay seller account on ebay us then you can take that login information and create an account on ebay.uk and other regions but you also have to know how to drop ship to those regions and also find suppliers in advance that can ship quickly to those regions most likely domestic suppliers so for example if you want to drop ship on ebay canada then you should look for good ebay canada suppliers that you can work with and to help you with that guess what i'm going to direct you to none other than our blog page like let me just show you right here let's go back to the blog and for whatever supplier you want to look for just search for them on our blog so for example if you want to go with uk we also have articles on uk you also have it on canada here drop shipping in canada a beginner's guide and here you also have canada suppliers if we look here on the left side here canada drop shipping suppliers we recommend some of the best ones and yeah you have all the information there everything that you need yeah so to answer your question you can definitely open it you can definitely open ebay accounts on those websites but you do have to you do have to create your account there you can just say i have a listing now put it there on the other hand if you're going to work with hip shipper and gsp based gsp program then those countries will be able to see your listings on ebay us can i add more than one supplier in one listing in autods yes you can so okay my screen is shared so right now for example let me show you the products page on autods okay so these are the products that you have on your store for example so let's open up this listing right here okay and here we have this listing and in the variations we only have one variation as you can see zoom in a little bit so here you can see we only have one variation but what i can do here let's see who is the supplier here amazon so i can go to a different supplier now like aliexpress and i can get another product from from aliexpress from a different supplier let me just change the language here sorry about that okay so go to aliexpress and just look for any item like let's say you want to add uh this tent right here okay let's say we want to add uh this variant right here so uh one we can look for the item id but i don't have the item id here because i don't think that i have the autods extension installed here no i don't okay so this is the item id it should be this you can also take the whole url but i try to make things a little bit easier so i'm going to click here on add variants and i'm going to paste that id item id and then i'm going to tell that the supplier is aliexpress and the region is china then i'm going to click on add variant now what's happening is that variant is going to be added to this product now of course it doesn't make sense because this is a portable folding dog crate and i'm adding a variant for a pet tent house so it's not the same product but this is just an example in your example what you would do is you would take other products that are similar like other folding dog crates and add those variations here and that's it as soon as it finishes loading the product's information you're going to see it here on the variants as an added variant and then you can continue adding more and more variants from different suppliers and even from different regions for example this is amazon us and i just added a product from aliexpress china so in a couple of minutes when it loads up you will be able to see that variant here and continue from there okay so that should answer your question there let's move on uh fulfill by autods service for suppliers that trade in great britain crown can I use the service for ebay uk no at least not yet um you will be able to use fulfill by autods today for us suppliers with us dollar currency and besides that that's what the fulfill by autods service supports today so every or almost every supply that we have today that charges a usd currency like amazon aliexpress cj drop shipping a home depot walmart walmart you can use the fulfill by autods service there maybe in the future maybe soon we can do it for our uk and for other regions for that I suggest I suggest that if anyone has a request that they want to see an autods simply head over to the voting system on autods it's internal let me show you here so you got the autods system and here you want to click on this circle on the top right and here you can create a feature request so if you want to see things like that like fulfilled by autods uh being supported in the uk then you can create a feature request here I don't know why it's not loading now but it usually works and once you make the feature request you'll be able to people will be able to upvote your request and once they do that it will move on to the development team and from there um we will just create that feature for you uh once again i'm not sure why it's working now we may need to refresh logout login but in any case this is the place to do it um and that's it we get a lot of feature requests and we uh see them from there and that's also how we know what to do next okay let's move on we created the ebay account in uk but the order came from usa and we fulfilled the order from usa supplier and sent it to the buyer and put shipping cost in our pocket okay so what what is your question there or did you just uh let me know about something that you did either way a good job oh sorry i'm not sharing my screen all right let's move on guys start not not starting already started but continue asking questions in the chat i can see your guys questions uh keep going and we'll keep the slide going how to fill up the pricing for ebay you mean how to get to the price let's see fees percentage equals selling fee plus add promo fee no there's more fees on top of that hannah uh there's also your listing fee if you're if you added more listings than what's included in your ebay subscription and there is also a final value fee but that's only after the customer purchases purchases it from you but you have to take that into consideration there's also the the final value fee is also taken from the category so the cat of each category also has its own fees so how do you know exactly how to price your product okay it also depends on what payment processor you're using the managed service or paypal and it also depends on more factors like if you're a top rated seller if you're an international seller or a domestic seller so let me show you uh let me share my screen and help you out with this so what you want to do here is uh you can do it from auto ds's website let's let's keep things simple autobs.com guys all of this information is free i'm not asking for anything i just want you guys to if you're taking interest into the drop shipping field then uh maybe this will give you the boost to go ahead and get started whether you want to do things manually or automatically uh our purpose here is to really help you guys out get started with your business or or scale it from there so here on autobs.com we're gonna hover up here to resources on the top manner and here you have the ebay fees calculator so i'm going to click on that and as you can see here you have a fees calculator depending on whatever configurations you have for example what region are you from the us are you on ebay uk ebay australia and what category drop shipping in one of these categories if not then choose other categories what payment processor you're using do you have an ebay store subscription are you a top rated seller are you an international seller zoom in on the screen a bit what's the selling price for example you want to sell it for $50 the product costs you $30 let's say you're not paying uh shipping and you're not charging for shipping and let's say you're giving ebay 2 percent from your promotions so here you'll know that if the product costs $30 and you're selling it for $50 your profit obviously is not going to be the difference between them it's not going to be $20 but it's going to be in this case almost $13 okay and here you also have a breakdown of your expenses and your fees and and that's this this is going to help you know exactly how to price out your products so that should answer your question there hannah anyone can use that tool anyone who wants it okay so that pretty much covers everything that we had on the facebook community now i'm going to move over to uh the live chat so let's go ahead and begin using autods start of ebay ebay ban us hi afrid so is your question why did your account get banned on ebay us to help you answer that question uh you need to know how to start drop shipping on ebay ebay is very sensitive to new sellers if you start drop shipping right away from retailers they'll notice that right away and they'll temporarily ban your account the first time and they'll want you to get them on a phone call and explain to them exactly who you are and about your business and where you're getting your products from and all of that they just want to know that you're working with wholesale suppliers and that you have contracts with them and all of that and that's pretty much you have to know how to get you have to know how to start the right way so to help you with that search on our blog page for how to drop ship on ebay we have a full step by step tutorial guide also teaching you all kinds of tips and tricks like how to upload your first products from home and that you may know that you're you're selling products from home and that you need to upgrade your listings because of that your limits and much much more tips there but if you want to get started on ebay us it's a great market and that is why ebay is so sensitive about it they want to just take care of their customers and know that you know what you're doing with your business and that you will also take care of their buyers all right so you want to take it slow and check out our blog to get more help and answers on that how to reinstate ebay accounts please tell us yeah pretty that's pretty much you need to call ebay you need to call ebay on the phone don't do it on the chat don't do it in the mail do it on the phone and you may even have to do it a few times jump through a few representatives until one will actually be able to help you and that's pretty much how it works on ebay it's harder to get started now compared to other selling channels like Shopify and wix or facebook marketplace if you live in the us because those those places they don't really they don't they won't give you starting seller limits you can list even a thousand items on your first day and they pretty much if you do anything that you want with your drop shipping business you don't owe them anything i mean you owe them something but not as much as ebay they're not as sensitive as them and they won't be bad in your accounts every other day until they get to know you if you have an ebay seller account it's much much better for you there's a much there's a fewer there's a lesser chance of getting suspended there unless you're selling copywriter items or something like that but what you want to do is get them on the phone let them know that you are a business and that you're working with wholesale suppliers and follow what we write in our in our blog article on how to start drop shipping on ebay y'all link with wise who's wise ct who's wise we can hear you thank you that was from the beginning of the life how do i get started with drop shipping i don't want to buy on amazon that's perfectly fine judy if you have an aged account i definitely recommend to start from there because it'll help you with your product research but if it's a new account let's start from other places it's much much better judy getting started it depends on a few factors first before i'll be able to help you if you want to get started it's very general to get started but let's try to narrow it down a little bit so let me know where you're from and where you'd like to drop ship to to what region for example you could say i'm from the uk and i want to start a drop shipping business right here in the uk or maybe you're from canada and you want to start a drop shipping business in the us or maybe you're from the us and you want to start a drop shipping business in the us in this case i would tell you to start on facebook marketplace because you'll get free organic traffic and there are no huge restrictions and limits that you will have to deal with in the beginning and there are there is a zero initial investment on the facebook marketplace there's no subscription costs to post it on the facebook marketplace and facebook just started this not too long ago to become a commerce platform and now that is that it's working really well they're taking it a few steps further by creating facebook shops which you can also integrate with the facebook marketplace and we will soon once they integrate that we will also integrate it into the autodesk system just like the facebook marketplace is already here and when you and when you'll do that if you're from the us only because you need to be a us resident unit of the us ip address that's why i need that information in advance but if you guys are from the united states and definitely recommend starting the drop ship on the facebook marketplace you don't need to pay traffic sources to market your products you don't need to have any marketing skills you just include bestsellers from our suppliers which i can recommend to you if i know that that's your direction and i will definitely help you out more even from there but let me know where you want to get started just so i'll know that i'm not answering an irrelevant question judy choose a platform to host your site do product research okay so ct kind of answered my question answered in advance there so choose a platform to host your site just like i mentioned you need to know you need to think about where you want to drop your two first if you have no idea just let me know where you're from i'll give you some some good options that you have there and product research is all about product research it's all about product research and especially if you're uh dropshipping on places like shop or fight or wicks you'll need to market your products and if you want to market your products you need to put some money down you need to have a budget for marketing you need to pay to host facebook ads or youtube or google ads for your products and if your products are no good you're going to start wasting a whole bunch of money until you start to learn what products are working and what products are selling and then you'll be able to save that money that you lost but nobody likes to lose money especially not in the beginning even though uh starting new businesses usually comes with losing money in the beginning but with a dropshipping business model it shouldn't be an issue it's not like running a brick and mortar business you're not having any inventory here so um uh yeah it's all about product research you want to research your products really really well because if you're not selling products people are looking to buy that's pretty much it for you right there no one is going to buy anything from your store and it's not really going to work how to avoid a hold on facebook marketplace dropshipping that's also a great question so how to avoid the hold in the first place like not get the hold you need to know how to drop ship correctly on the facebook marketplace like i mentioned they're not as sensitive as ebay but there are some things that you need to know like what products can i not sell you can't sell ammunition you can't sell alcohol you can't sell vitamins and supplements uh you can't facebook doesn't like you showing before and after pictures like oh this is how fat i was before i started taking this whatever and this is my after picture look how look how skinny i am now they don't like those stay away from those and uh what else if you already got the hold on facebook marketplace then let me show you what you need to do once again go to our blog page and here search for facebook marketplace here you have how to drop him on facebook marketplace a full step by step guide okay so first of all this will help you uh getting started and knowing what you can do what you cannot do how to do what you want to do uh adding your listings uh even add out of automation so if something goes out of stock on your supplier's website it'll also go out of stock on facebook and same thing uh or the prices will raise a really high on facebook so nobody will buy it price monitoring stock monitoring so that works the same way uh very soon we're also going to have a full sale by auto ts for your uh facebook marketplace orders but if you're a few if your account is already on hold then what you want to do is head over to youtube whoops head over to youtube for our channel and in the videos search for facebook marketplace hold and then you have this video facebook marketplace account on hold here's what to do okay and this video as you can see it has quite a few viewers only 6000 and 140 likes i'm not in a show voting i don't really care about that but the thing is you'll see here by the commenters that this is actually working and it's something that i did on our facebook marketplace account it worked we were able to get the account out of the hold and not only that we were also able to update tracking numbers so for example if ebay if facebook marketplace uh suspended your account because you're tracking because you didn't uh provide tracking numbers then what you can do here is even though your account is locked i'll show you a little trick on how you can still log into your facebook marketplace account and add tracking numbers to those orders and then tell facebook hey take a look there are tracking numbers and then facebook will also uh put your account not it will put your account make your account active again not on hold and yeah not only that so as you see here it worked out for all the commenters uh you literally saved me this really worked i'm so grateful that you shared it thank you very much for this it really helped me thank you for this awesome video it worked i was able to access again my marketplace so as you see it works uh check out the tips that i sent there and that's pretty much it as you guys know we're here to help and this is one of the one of our ways of doing so okay uh next question i can't raise the selling limits on ebay any solution yeah sure so there's a few things that you can do here uh one if your ebay account is uh flagged it's going to be harder to raise your limits uh so what you want to do is first try to unflag it before trying to raise your limits and one second i'll talk to you about that so when your account is flagged ebay won't allow you to raise your limits in most cases before that they even have automatic limits limit raising they would raise your limits automatically if you're selling well if you're not selling well the old method will suggest reach out to them once a month and ask them to upgrade your limits but if they if your account is flagged it's going to be harder that way so the first thing you want to do is try to unflag your account and one way to try to unflag your account is by using tracking services with ip with uh item location mass create and what this means is when you have a listing on ebay and you're saying oh the zip code for this item on the ebay listing is uh is this and that and then when you when that when somebody buys that product and you add a tracking number to that product to the order with that product in it ebay checks out the tracking number the first tracking event and they're like that's not the same zip code that you said in your that you specified in your listing and that's one trigger for them to flag your account so we have a solution for that uh if you're working with the automatic order service or the fulfilled bottle ds service here in auto ts then you'll also have a tracking conversions by aquiline and what aquiline does is it'll first of all take tracking numbers that are not supported by ebay and it'll make them supported so if the buyer opens an item not received case then you can prove to them that the item did uh ship and did get delivered to their address and if you wouldn't be using tracking conversion services and you got a tracking number that's not readable by ebay you won't be winning that case so that is one reason why you want to use aquiline's tracking services and the other reason is for the item location mask rate which i just mentioned so they'll make sure that all of your products all of your orders all of your tracking events are being shipped out from the same zip code that you have specified in your listing so whatever zip code you have there that will show up on the first tracking event and then people will say okay there is no item location that um uh they're not lying about the item location here so there is no reason to flag it or now let's unflag it you'll need to reach out to them for that um once you do that you will be able to raise your uh you will be able to raise your limits uh and to help you out more with raising limits then once again what i suggest to do is uh head over to our knowledge base at our blog and here in the search search for selling limits and then here you have ebay selling limits how to check get around and increase seller limits and once again this will help you out with what you need to know before during and after raising your uh ebay limits you also have embedded videos inside our articles so if you want to watch you can watch if you want to read you can read and this should help you out with pretty much everything you need to know about raising ebay seller limits i'll be reading that blog that's great ct uh let me know how it goes hi leon how are you hi ibrahim tarik how are you doing today i just want to do facebook marketplace and facebook shop for now okay that's great judy uh but you didn't answer the the most important question here are you from the united states if you are i'll show you how you can uh i'll show you great tips on how you can get started but if you're not from the u.s and you don't have a u.s social security number you won't be able to drop you on the facebook marketplace okay so answer me there and i'll continue helping you should i start international dropping from amazon to ebay if you have some tips international from amazon to ebay so starting ibrahim is going to be uh difficult especially if you want to specifically if you want to start on ebay and drop you from amazon if you have an ebay account that already sold some time before in the past and it has selling policies and you already passed the verification or didn't pass because you didn't need to in the past it'll be much easier or very easy for you to drop you from amazon to ebay uh guys that you should know that dropping from amazon to ebay is easy want your account to set up for it because it's so easy and so profitable ebay is making it difficult for new sellers to get started because they have more than enough drop you per drop from amazon to ebay of me included so if you have aged accounts then i definitely recommend to to use that for drop shipping from amazon to ebay if it's a new seller account you really really have to take it slow and for that once again go to our blog page uh check out the article on how to drop ship on ebay if you guys want to see what it looks like so just once again resources blog i wonder if you guys are thinking by now how many articles we have here how to drop ship on ebay right here how to drop ship on ebay step by step beginners guide okay so this is uh this article is definitely going to help you guys out and of course there's a video embedded inside of it and the video is also very very helpful i can just show you guys a quick sneak peek so this video was uploaded a couple months ago january today we're in the end of january today we're at the end of march uh yeah and this video with over 15 000 views 600 likes and so many comments you'll see the type of value here that you are getting uh this video is an hour and 23 minutes long and it takes you step by step but if you're not the watching type just read the article okay it's very very in depth and you have all the steps here okay signing up listing your first item manually product research selecting the best suppliers learning to calculate your profits importing your first products fulfilling your orders customer service makes it sound quick but it's not quick it's a very long and detailed article very long in detail video so start there and let me know how it goes in the next live q al continue helping you out from there can other vendors be contacted like for example shane chick me i'll do this etc of course or you can contact any supplier that you want in the world uh suppliers are happy when uh people reach out to them and try to do business if it's uh if you if you don't have a drop between business yet most of them especially the big companies like shane and so forth they'll want to know if you uh if you're established if you're not established they many well at least the big companies may not want to work with you but even if you start with the small companies you'll slowly start to build a reputation knowledge and experience in running an e-commerce business and then you can tackle bigger suppliers like the ones you mentioned all right oops i pinned it out of my accident let's unpin it hi based on your experience how many ebay stores should we have just in case our account got suspended so then most likely if you're not running stealth accounts then once one account gets suspended the rest are going to go down like dominoes so to answer your question how big uh how many stores should you have i think that having one good working store is better than having 10 not so well working stores because it's easier to manage once when you have one store that's working really well only then you should start thinking about opening another store one store is definitely enough to get started on ebay i started with just one store today i obviously have more than that but i never opened another store before the store that i opened before that uh isn't it didn't work really well so once the store starts working well you should consider opening another store otherwise you're just adding a whole bunch of mess to your day-to-day tasks and it'll be very very hard for you very challenging to be able to succeed that way so don't worry about account suspensions too much as long as you're doing everything carefully and by the book and if it's a new ebay seller account take things slowly and take the tips that i talked about a few minutes ago would like to sign up but your tool doesn't work with card see okay james so uh first of all i'm not i don't think i've heard of card see let's check them out and uh you can make a request for that and if you make a request and people will upload it we'll work with them too let's check out card see everyone should we add card see to auto ts start selling in minutes with card see so it's it's an e-commerce platform you can also use them in a shopping card solution build buy markers for marketers okay so um i haven't heard of them before um there's many companies that are like this uh so i'm giving the same services okay i'm running for me a celebrity secure payment and they integrate with all of these suppliers so um yeah it's it's similar to auto ts the only difference is i'm only seeing here one two three four four just four suppliers so here we have over 25 um do they have products i'm not sure i don't see this is a big supplier that you should uh maybe want to work with but um feature requests uh if you think it's the one that uh that's good that's worth it make a feature request enough uploads we'll definitely add it to auto ts like we did do in the past with other feature requests can i use auto ts if i'm located in canada sure takota you can use auto ts if you're located in canada you can use auto ts if you're also located in other places definitely yeah uh auto ts is not locked to any specific region you can drop ship uh from canada to canada you can drop ship from us to uk you can do pretty much anything you want with a drop shipping business model as long as you have the right knowledge and the right tools those are pretty much the most important things in order to really be able to succeed in this business so you can definitely drop ship from canada and you can definitely drop ship from many more places and too many more places so once again auto ts is not locked to any region and you can do it from anywhere is auto ts like obelo yes johnson it is the only difference the only differences are that obelo uh works with aliexpress as a supplier and uh and um obelo works with Shopify as the selling channel so that's pretty much it you can drop ship from aliexpress to Shopify obelo will help you with price and stock monitoring um and with importing your product from aliexpress to your Shopify store and with semi automatic uh semi automating your orders using your buyer accounts so they're using your credit card whatever you have set up in aliexpress whatever payment method you have they're going to use that so that's it obelo will help you drop ship from aliexpress to Shopify auto ts helps you not only drop ship from aliexpress to Shopify with full order automation including not using your buyer accounts but you can drop ship from over 25 drop shipping suppliers not one 25 and to as of today for selling channels Shopify ebay facebook marketplace and wix uh soon you've got amazon coming up you've got WooCommerce you've got I don't think I can talk about the rest of them but yeah there's a significant difference between us um auto ts does what obelo can do and so much more I hope that you can understand that by now okay how much is auto ts judy you can just head on over to our pricing plans so um auto ts.com all right guys I like talking about auto ts but let me know how I can help you guys upgrade your drop shipping business how to get started uh as much as I love talking about auto ts I don't want to make this feel too marketing like I'm trying to push you guys uh but uh there's a huge advantage when using auto ts and automation and all that but I really want these live QAs to help you guys uh run and succeed with your drop shipping businesses so um yeah here we have the pricing plans you have a starter plan starting at $16 a month um but that's just one plan you can have the importer plan starting at only $8 per month you have all of the features and all the information here so yeah it doesn't cost a lot of money it doesn't cost a lot of money to start a drop shipping business especially even when and after you add drop shipping automation which is a great great tool to scale your business and without it it's not really scalable if we're drop shipping from walmart how do we provide invoices to ebay when they ask for it um if you're drop shipping from walmart to ebay okay so you're drop shipping from walmart to ebay how do you provide invoices to ebay you don't have much of a solution there if you're drop shipping manually but if you're using the fulfilled by autodesk service then autodesk can generate an invoice for you using um not walmart's company's name so uh ebay will have no way of knowing that your drop shipping from walmart but if you're doing it manually uh it's going to be a lot more challenging you're just going to have to show them um invoice and invoice from walmart and hopefully that will work out well I have I have 400 products listed and no sales okay Gabriel first of all that's fine don't worry about it work on your product research how long ago did you did you list those products was it just a week ago was it a few days ago you should wait at least one month before coming to any decision on those 400 products and always work on your product research of course if you're selling something that no one's were willing to buy you're looking to buy nothing that's in demand to that target market then you're not going to make any sales but check out how much viewers you're getting how many watches you're getting and after one month if you're getting products with less than a few views per day it's probably not interesting remove and replace them with other products continue working hard on product research and um and of course if a product does sell for you then what you want to do is go to more suppliers and and add more products that are similar to that one in order to uh increase and multiply yourselves but you you're only in the beginning 400 listings is just getting started it's perfectly fine let me know how long it's been uh on your selling channel and uh we'll continue from there but basically what you want to do is work on product research if you want to know what products you want to sell what products should you sell then once again head over to Autodesk.com slash blog click on the product finding category we have many many articles on what products you should sell with one big one in particular that we just um posted not too long ago so let me show you back to the drop shipping blog right here you have 100 plus best products to sell in 2022 and if you click on that you can see the post content just to see the uh categories but basically you have all of the items here so we split up to two categories like for example furniture okay you have these products beauty drop shipping products you can see how much how well it's trending you have all of these products here like IPL hair removers nail kits air brushes uh detailing detailing curly hair hair extensions and so forth and continue going down the list you have more than 100 best selling products that we added here of course information from our databases and from our experience and from our knowledge in the drop shipping field so take advantage of what we have here and once you add those best sellers or niches that are in them or narrowing them down and getting more similar products you're going to start to notice those cells so don't worry about that don't worry about it just keep your eye on what people are looking at what they're not looking at replace items with more trending ones and you will still see the cells that start to roll in by the way you didn't tell me where you're selling them but i i i'm just going to take into i'm just going to think that you're trying to sell them on ebay us okay great judy start on facebook marketplace first read our tutorial or watch our tutorial on facebook marketplace drop shipping how to do it how to get started watch it before you get started get to know all of the ins and outs all the requirements all the things that come before during and after and one more tip that i want to show you is a live case study where you can actually see everything that happened on on on our facebook marketplace dropshipping account so once again i'm going to head back to youtube.com slash auto ds and here on the videos you want to search for facebook actually i think we have a playlist for it let's go to playlists here facebook marketplace live dropshipping case study here you have what is it seven videos so it's a day-to-day process of what happened on my dropshipping facebook marketplace account where i got the products from how much i sold how much i profited um what product research method i methods i use as you can see here these are the items that are waiting to be shipped so i showed you the items of course i also showed you where i'm getting them from how much i'm profiting customer service payments bank account information everything that you need to know and i haven't seen anyone that actually did this and that actually showed everything in full transparency as i did here so this is definitely something that's going to help you out be sure to watch this before starting to drop ship on the facebook marketplace for the first time okay let's move on on a new u.s account which suppliers should we start with to avoid suspension since we already have low limits and selling fast can lead to suspension not just selling fast can lead to suspension but not knowing what to sell can also lead to suspension and more so on a new u.s account for this one i recommend to first list items that you have from home and call ebay a few times and get them to upgrade your limits more than one time because once they'll see that you're dropping from retailers then they'll flag your account you'll still be able to sell but you won't be able to upgrade your limits anymore so if you have like a limit of 500 items you won't be able to exceed that limit so keep upgrading your limits keep telling ebay you have more items to sell and they're not giving you the room that you need to sell and that you're selling on other marketplaces really really well and that if they want you to succeed also on ebay then you they need to upgrade your list make them understand that you are a real business and that you are here to make an impact and to give great quality service to your buyers ship out your items quickly you supported shipping services and so forth so you want to upgrade your listings a few your limits a few times okay before before before starting to really drop you from retailers and so forth if you can work with wholesale suppliers that's even better and if you guys need help with wholesale drop shipping suppliers if you guys don't know there's the product research tool that's already implemented inside the out of the system soon enough we're going to start adding private wholesale drop shipping suppliers to that product research tool so the product that you'll see there you can also view them from wholesale private drop shipping suppliers that that are working specifically with autodesk so it'll be exclusive to you to autodesk members and that way you can start new ebay u.s. seller accounts start from day one listing item from those private suppliers you can get you'll get private contracts and everything that you need so whatever ebay whatever ebay tries to land on you it won't work because you'll be going one by one you'll be going by their policies and not breaking them so you won't have to worry about low selling limits and things that lead to suspensions okay i need to wrap this up well there's many more questions so let's start moving fast i'm ready i'm already selling on amazon fba okay that's good judy you can sell also those items on ebay or on facebook marketplace how can i know how long it will take from a product from china to arrive to others other countries except the us so check out your suppliers so if you're using for example aliexpress us aliexpress china and you want to ship your product to us then make your ship too on the top right change that to united states and when you're on the listing on aliexpress it'll show you in the tracking in the shipping methods how long it will take to reach the us you're looking amazing is this the autodesk headquarters where is it can we have physical meetups hi rizwan where are you from that way we'll be able to see if we can meet up do you have what other platforms do you have experience with and how has it been uh ct i have experience on uh Shopify i have experience by the way if you want to learn on Shopify you also have a free course okay so uh rds.com slash guys i'm not marketing anything right go to the courses it's free watch Shopify course it's free decide what you want to do from there but here you will we also just added facebook but here you have the Shopify course it's free click on uh that you want to learn take the free course uh here you just need to add your name and email and then you'll have access to all of the almost 40 videos that we have here taking you step by step including marketing uh including how to create your store product research audience research and everything that goes along with that besides that i also have experience dropshipping on the facebook marketplace i've experienced dropshipping on wix and i've experienced with over 25 suppliers when will the wholesale be available on autodesk hi blazing goddess thing i remember you from the previous live qas hello everyone so hello to you too um i don't know exactly but we're working on it really hard don't worry it'll be available okay i sent my customer an item with a tracking number now i can't you didn't receive it the tracking number shows that the item reached us in new york but doesn't show the buyer picked it up should i refund him in this in this case okay ferrita wait before refunding him check out the tracking details and see what's going on there is it stuck somewhere in the ui in the in new york is it still in transit or does it does the tracking information say delivered to new york in that case it should also have some information on the delivery like delivered at the front door at the porch or delivered to the local mailing company so see look at the last tracking event and see what happened there but if it is delivered and the customer really lives in new york then there's a good chance that they did get it so is it on ebay did they open a case or what if they open the case simply go to the ebay case and say that you have tracking information add your tracking information to that ebay case and say and and then you can also write a message in the case and say that the park arrived to the buyer here's the tracking information and so forth and that's it you'll you'll win the case you won't lose the case as long as it really reached its destination for no resident sorry i don't know what your question is do you think running an ebay store is a one-person job with automation ferrita definitely a one-person job i'm running my ebay store stores alone i used to have a va but i stopped with that because i realized that i can also do it myself but many people also like to have uh vas there's nothing wrong with that they can actually even help scale your business a bit more i'm even looking for a new va if someone is willing um it's a one-person job if you have automation yes definitely for sure yeah it's why not with automation think about it you don't have to worry about the prices you don't have to worry about the stock it's automatic you don't have to worry about your orders it's automatic uh you only have to do customer service so when a customer reaches out to you and product research you need to add products to your store and remove the ones that aren't selling but your va can also do that but you need automation you cannot do without automation does autodesk work with a groove card nope but you can make a feature request if i want to start a one-product store what apps would you recommend on Shopify including autodesk that's a great question so first of all to kota before starting a one product store i hope that you did very very very well conducted product research because otherwise you're going to spend a whole waste a whole bunch of time and money but if you you are 100% sure about your product and you're 100% sure about your audiences and how you're going to market it and all of that um apps that you should use are um upselling apps for sure okay upselling cross-selling upselling is changing the product with a more expensive version of that product with a more upgraded one uh recommending the buyer to make that switch uh cross-selling is telling the buyer okay if you're going to buy this computer for example then why not buy also these bluetooth speakers just mouse and this keyboard for it so it increases the average order value so you want to use upselling and cross-selling apps um a card abandonment apps so if someone added the item to their card and then added their details and then they're like ah you know what maybe i'll purchase the tomorrow close the browser you can retarget them with card abandonment apps and get them back to your start get them to buy give them some promotional offers of course using promotional offers that wheel spinner but don't use too many one pop-up is enough don't use more than that it's going to ruin the user uh experience and for that also go to our blog page we have uh Shopify the best Shopify apps the best Shopify upselling and cross-selling apps i won't share my screen because i'm out of time but you also have answers for that there non-residents as us it's important to need a company LLC um you don't have to know you can also register for a company at your own country that where you reside in but do talk to a local accountant and ask them what the rules are for where you live auto DS price is very reasonable thank you judy good luck if you're getting started let me know and also join me on the next slide let me know how it's going my drop shipping center is not working my dropping center is not working every time i analyze the product it shows the product doesn't exist oh you mean the aliexpress drop shipping center if so let me know but uh you should try reaching out to aliexpress if that's the case if ebay is smart enough to flag us by our mismatch item location do they not flag us for using autodesk which is built for retail drop shipping and ebay autodesk is not built for retail drop shipping on ebay autodesk is much more than retail drop shipping but if retail drop shipping is what you want to do then autodesk will support you with that uh ebay doesn't mind autodesk you guys need to also understand this uh autodesk is an api it's an api connection between ebay and your suppliers ebay allows autodesk to be an api connection to them if they didn't like it they wouldn't allow it and they've been allowing it for years it's definitely not going anywhere um yeah there is there is there is nothing wrong with that ebay 100 fully supports it but if you're going to use autodesk and then you're going to start doing things that you're not allowed to do like copyrighted items uh and things like that your account will get banned it has nothing to do with the autodesk api um if your account gets flagged it's because of item location and it's because of drop shipping from retailers just because autodesk allows you to do it doesn't mean that ebay doesn't allow autodesk to allow you to do it ebay has no problem with it but if you're going to do it it's under your own responsibility your account will get flagged and your account will get banned if you're drop shipping items that you're not allowed to okay autodesk is out of the question autodesk is an approved api and ebay has 100 no problem with it they even increased our calls the amount of actions that you can take per day they're always upgrading it for us because we're getting more and more uses in the system and we need more and more and they're always allowing it i think there's absolutely no problem we've got connections with them for a while now and yeah it's not going anywhere we're 100% supported by ebay don't really need to worry about that you need to worry about if you know how to drop ship correctly i never mind the tools that you're using there was a tool that i'm not allowed to maybe i don't know uh that did get banned from ebay two or three years back uh one of our competitors because they were doing shady things but we are not we're not like that we know what ebay expects and we know how to deliver thank you i said i'm going to look at it again okay judy good luck can upload my first product into my ebay store using autodesk you can um but if it's from a retail drop shipper then you i advise not to do that for the first item if it's a wholesale supplier if it's sorry if it's a retail supplier i don't recommend to do it if it's a wholesale supplier for your first item yeah you can share why not i'm from canada i believe i have enough experience to start however would you recommend i get fast shipping for my customers order preferably in the seven a day ten range get the fastest shipping to kota that you can to your buyers if you can even handle one or two day shipping do that your buyers will pay more for faster shipping they'd rather do that than pay less and get their item within two to three weeks which is not good so if you want to get your business off the ground offer very very fast shipping blazing fast shipping times and that way you're also going to get happy customers repeat customers return customers and better customer satisfaction for your store which is much better for the long run thank you for the response yes i'm using us on ebay you're recommended to increase the limit of products or start on facebook marketplace gabriel first of all why not both if you're from the u.s facebook marketplace is a great place because there are low fees and you're they're giving you free organic traffic and there is no there is pretty much no competition there you don't need to see what your competitors are doing just go to the uh to your suppliers see what's selling well at your suppliers websites and import those these things to the to your facebook marketplace account um and for ebay for ebay to uh yeah increase the limit of products increase the limit of products as much as you can before you start dropping from retailers if you're not dropping from retailers it really doesn't matter you can um uh you can start from the first day start dropping from all sellers and it's fine the run can i be your va rizwan your your um you're answering yeah really fast uh send me an email leonardoutofds.com i'm thinking to start with out of the s9 api and on the express if i start slow and work good what is the real percentage to get flagged or banned on ebay ebay doesn't necessarily like starting with all the express right from the start they used to have no problem with it but now they see it as a retail marketplace like amazon so if you're going to start with that there's a high chance that your account will get banned or at least temporarily suspended until you get ebay on the phone and explain to them who you are and what you are but besides that i recommend starting with different suppliers okay you can definitely work with all the express you can work with amazon but i recommend to start with different suppliers first guys it's live qa needs to end i'm sorry let me try to zip through this very helpful q and a can you will you do another one of these yes dakota i do them every couple of weeks so join me in the next one a couple weeks from now we also send updates on autodesk when the next live qa will be and you can go to autodesk.com slash live hyphen qa to see the countdown timer for every one of our live qas i'm from ganna i want to find out from you if i can drop you to facebook marketplace sorry no you can't you have to uh have the usip address and ssn for verification once you reach 500 in sales yes i express drop shipping center okay try reaching out to the support and see what's going on and i haven't checked out recently i purchased your course on udemy is the course up to date hi tenisha are you talking about the ebay course uh if so uh it should be but if it isn't let me know the ebay course is relatively older compared to the other courses that we have there how many stores do you monitor can you tell us statistics do i monitor with my account uh i can talk numbers if you want if you really want let me know i'll do it in the next life all right i can even show you showing them if you want um yeah let me know okay guys i need to end can you please name the top three wholesale drop shipping suppliers in the us okay rizwan that's a great question um we have also articles on wholesale drop shipping suppliers but i recommend to wait for a new product research system we're going to add private wholesale drop shipping suppliers from there from the us and also from other regions and that is going to answer your question for who are the best and you can start a new ebay seller account start dropping those suppliers and you'll have a pretty good time so we're going to solve the problem with creating new ebay seller accounts and it's getting banned right away because i'm dropping for retailers and so forth okay guys this is going to wrap up our video for the 17th live qa thank you for watching don't forget to subscribe at youtube.com slash autodesk to continue learning about drop shipping and autodesk.com slash blog stay tuned thank you for watching and i'll see you in the next one