 25th time I am around the content manager here at AutoDS and the point of these live Q&As is to help you get your e-commerce business off the ground. Any questions that you have, any obstacle that you are facing, no matter what selling channel you are selling on, and no matter what suppliers you are using, and no matter what region you are trying to sell to, this is the place for you to ask questions live. I have over five years of experience in dropshipping. I'm still doing it to this day and I don't think that I'm ever going to stop to tell you the truth. I enjoy the extra bonus and I'm sure that all of you dropshippers who are also into the e-commerce scene that are still doing it today, I'm sure that you're also enjoying your time, especially the ones who have been doing it for a while, the ones who have been through some obstacles in the past, those who know how to create a and run a and also manage a successful e-commerce business from the beginning until the end. We all know that every business, no matter what type of business it is, we all have our obstacles and I don't even see it that way. When I reach an obstacle with my business, I'm always seeing it as an opportunity because obstacles show you things that can go wrong and also give you an opportunity to fix it and then you'll also learn from those steps. Obstacles are more like stepping stones to the success of your business and I've been helping thousands of dropshippers in the past, I think it's already in the thousands, I don't think it's in the hundreds anymore, to help them get their business off the ground and really get it to start running, selling and profiting. Once again, even if you're dropshipping on eBay or Shopify or Facebook Marketplace and I've got some nice new updates for you in this live Q&A. There is a, actually I'll talk about it soon. So first of all, as always, I ask all of you to ask your questions in the live chat where you're here, we're live on YouTube and we're also live on our Facebook community page. So ask your questions in the chat no matter where you're seeing this live and I will address it very soon as I do in all of my live Q&As. To start off, as I usually do, we have questions that you asked on the Facebook community 24 hours prior to this live. So I will first address them and if you want your questions answered first, be sure to ask it in our Facebook community post that we always publish one day before the live Q&A. And after that, I will get to your questions. I can already see some people in the chat. Hello, Sabrina. Hello, Geo Price. So for everyone who is joining the live chat, let me know what your name is and where you're from. That way I feel a little bit more personal when I answer you, when I talk to you and that's a little extra touch that I like. So leave me your name, where you're from. I'm Liran. I live in Israel. So let me know what questions you have. How can I help you create, manage, run and scale your dropshipping business no matter where you're at, no matter what you are thinking about? All right, so let's get this party started. What do you guys say? So first of all, I want to go over once again the questions that you asked on the Facebook community group. So I will start there. And my only request from you guys is to leave the technical questions on the side. If you have a technical question, something about the auto-DS system or features that are working, not working, if you have anything that's technical, do not forget to simply open up a support ticket. When you open a support ticket, we have live representatives that will answer you and provide you with the solution that you need. Okay, so let's go ahead and get started. I want to mention one thing before. Give me just a second. Okay, yeah, sorry about that. Had to read a quick message. So I'm going to share my screen. We're going to start with the Facebook community. Hello to everyone who's joining the live Q&A right now. Ask your dropshipping questions below. Let me know your name, where you're from, what question you want to ask, and I will answer you very, very shortly. For those of you who have joined the live, the past lives, you know that I get to all of your questions. I don't leave anyone unanswered. So let's go ahead. Okay, so I'm going to share my screen and we're going to go ahead and get started. Hello to everyone who's joining the live Q&A. This is the time right now to ask your questions, so I will answer them. Okay, so let's go ahead and get started with the questions from the Facebook community group and then I will address all of you guys in the chat. Let's get started. Ahmed asks, how can we increase the account limit if it's flagged? Can you confirm that the method that you presented to us is still working? They told me you are located outside the USA and you shipped to the USA, so you're doing dropshipping. I do not see anyone succeed to remove flag as it is removed only by the system and I can see that people already also replied to you. So let me see what people said before I give my answer. It's an easy way that you have to request to eBay that I have sales and now I want to increase the limit so they will surely help you. That's true. Not if you are flagged. In that case, we don't know too much. Okay, so the flagging issue on eBay is an own thing. It's been for a couple of years now, a few years maybe and yeah, I also remember the day it started. It was April 20th, 2020 or 2019 and that's the day that eBay started flagging accounts. Even people who are not dropshipping get flagged, people who are dropshipping get flagged, people who are working with private wholesale suppliers get flagged, people who are working with retail suppliers get flagged, everybody is getting flagged and you can unflag your account by simply talking to eBay, talking to them on their support, asking them what you need to do in order to get your account unflagged. They can see what triggered the flagging of your account. It could be that your item location policy, you are breaching their item location policy, that's the number one trigger to get your account flagged. Or if you are saying that you are, by the way, you can fix that with Blue Care Express and Aquiline, you can just head over to our blog page and read more about that. So it really depends on the reason that you are being flagged and if you're kind of flagged, it's much harder to get it unflagged than it is to get it flagged in the first place. So you can try opening a new account, it won't get, your accounts will get linked if you're not doing it with the stealth method, but it doesn't really matter because they won't flag your second account just because you're linked to a flagged account. So the second account won't get flagged and then you can simply upgrade your limits the right way and we have great tricks and tips on how to do that so that eBay will quickly, automatically raise your limits until you get to the limit amount that you want and once you reach there then you can start retail dropshipping and the arbitrage and everything and start making those easy sales. But anyway, I'm sure that you've already tried out how to increase selling limits, the article that we have on that. So for those of you who are not familiar yet, you can simply head over to autods.com, hover over resources, you've got the dropshipping blog, click on that and here you can run a search for what type of article you want to read, something that you want to get help with and we are updating this this blog page two to three times a week with new content, new blog articles that are coming out all the time and we're also recording videos to give you also the how to the step-by-step tutorials and also embed those videos inside these blog articles so if you're the type that likes to watch, you can and if you're the type that likes to read you also can do that. So here what you want to do is simply create a search for limits since that's what you're interested in and then you've got this eBay selling limits, how to check, get around and increase seller limits. We've got all of the best methods here and all of the right ways to do it. Okay so try that out, check out the methods, see what you need to do and that will definitely help you along your way of increasing your eBay limits. Okay, auto orders, not placing orders, that's a technical thing, a variant selected not showing my store technical, I open the app in Shopify, can't find my products, also technical, everything is working by the way guys but I'll give you a small update regarding the auto orders, the automatic orders are fulfilled by AutoDS, I see that three people wrote about it so let me address that really quick. So for automatic orders and hello to everyone who's joining the live Q&A right now, let me know your name, where you're from and what questions you want answered and I will address it in the live chat so ask your questions right now, this is your chance. So regarding fulfilled by AutoDS, this or the automatic orders if you want to call it that so fulfilled by AutoDS service for those of you who don't know is a service that simply automates your orders for you, so when you get an order from your US supplier, you can get that automated for you 100%, the order will get processed automatically, it doesn't use your buyer accounts, so we don't need your AliExpress account or your Amazon account or your Walmart account, we don't need the account information, AutoDS has enough accounts as it is and we process the orders from those accounts. So that means that you do not need to open up a buyer account which means you don't need to worry about your accounts getting locked, you don't need to worry about calling the bank every week and asking for another credit increase because you have more orders that you need to fulfill, you don't need to worry about all of those things. Also tracking gets updated 100% automatically and of course for more information on that simply type fulfilled by AutoDS on Google and learn about that. Now for the issues, now these are issues that we started experiencing in the last day and a half and for those of you who have been with us for a while you know what it's like when you are upgrading a system and sometimes you have a few inconsistencies, a few inconveniences and you patch that up, make it work again and everything starts to work. Now the reason that it is happening now is one, we're also upgrading the systems, you will see new features soon and two, we have a wave of new incomers from people who joined the fulfilled by AutoDS system and this is creating a lot of pressure on the servers and of course we're working to upgrade that and continue expanding and scaling. Now there is to my knowledge no other company out there today that's fulfilling your orders 100% automatically without using your buyer accounts, updating tracking information automatically and doing all of that work. So you need to understand that sometimes and also recently another big company that provides the service closed down and all of the customers or many of those customers also moved over to us which also created another wave of incoming customers for the fulfilled by AutoDS service. So we're going through this, we're going to get past it, it's no problem at all. I am also a fulfilled by AutoDS customer myself, I don't get any type of VIP support, I open up support tickets just like you guys and I also wait when there are problems, I just wait, I handle my business, I let my customers know that there are a few delays coming up, I change my shipping policies if need be until the problem gets resolved. So let's get back to the live Q&A. Let's see if there are any other questions from the Facebook community but once again guys just a little bit of of patience and that'll be behind us, do not worry. Okay so there's no more questions on the so there's no more questions from the Facebook community, I'm going to start answering the questions in the live chat before that I will, hey hello, hello to everyone who's running the live Q&A, okay so let me just say hello to some guys and then I will get back. Okay so hello to Sabrina already said hello to you, hello to one truth, I see you there, hello to adopted by Bitcoin, hello Danny and hello Tracy, I will get to all of you soon and for those of you who haven't asked your questions yet now is the time, drop your questions in the live chat and I will answer you very very soon. Let's talk about some updates that recently came out and this is a huge one. YouTube and Shopify now have a partnership, I will repeat Shopify and YouTube reverse that now have a partnership, what does that mean? So we all know Shopify, Shopify is a big host and they simply allow you to create your own online store, customize it the way you want, you don't need any coding skills and you don't need any customization skills, even if you haven't ever built a website before in your life, you can get your website up and running in less than a day with Shopify. You can also connect your own domain name, so you're going to have your own www.yourstorename.com and you can import as many products as you want from day one. So that's different from marketplaces like eBay who limit you to 10 products when you sign up for a new eBay account, making it much more difficult to work your way up. Of course it's also got its advantages like they also give you free organic traffic which Shopify, on Shopify you're going to have to work to bring traffic to your website, you're going to have to pay traffic sources in the beginning until you can work up email campaigns and more things like that, but that's another issue, that's another topic. So Shopify and YouTube, so YouTube has nothing to do with e-commerce and neither did Facebook up until a couple years ago, but these giants noticed that e-commerce is a growing giant, just like we noticed six years ago was it when AutoDS was created, when Leor posing created AutoDS. There is a huge boom in e-commerce and it's always been this way. Some companies it takes them longer to realize it than others, but what's happening now, Facebook also joined the e-commerce scene a couple years ago with the Facebook marketplace, right? And now many people are dropshipping on the Facebook marketplace, those who live in the US because you can now ship your product to 50 states and now YouTube, YouTube also wants in on this action. So what they did was instead of trying to reinvent the wheel and try to create some marketplace under them, like Facebook did and like other marketplaces did, YouTube simply reached out to one of the biggest e-commerce giants in the world, Shopify, and created a partnership with them. For those of you who don't know what this partnership means, it simply means that you can host a YouTube channel, sell items on your YouTube channel, and the same items you can also synchronize with your Shopify store. So what you can do here is you can have a Shopify store and then you can, for example, host a live event on YouTube and show your products on the screen and let people click on them and engage with it. So this way you can build your audience organically because YouTube gives you an organic audience and Shopify doesn't give you an organic audience. Shopify wants you to use PPC ads. Shopify wants you to use influencer marketing. Shopify wants you to spend your budget to bring traffic to your website and now with YouTube, that pretty much changes the game around because now you can host lives, you can host videos on your products, and you can do many more things once your Shopify store is connected to your YouTube account. You even have a YouTube marketplace that showcases your Shopify products. So when you get an audience to engage with your YouTube channel, that is pretty much all that you need or it's a very, very nice organic bonus that you will need to make much more sales and profit on your Shopify stores. So that's another great reason to move over to Shopify. Hello to everyone who's joining the live Q&A right now. Hello Luc Van. Hello, Danny Valentin. I see you guys, everyone else ask your questions in the live chat. I'm going to address it very, very soon. I see that I'm sharing my screen this whole time for no reason whatsoever. Sorry about that. I need to pay more attention to that. So once again, YouTube and Shopify, big partnership coming up. Let's take a small look at this partnership. Now is the time to share my screen. So I thought I had it open, but I see that I don't. Yeah, it's right here. Ready, set, shop on YouTube. We're launching a new partnership with Shopify and giving all eligible creators access to live shopping tools. So check this out. Every day people come to YouTube to shop. This includes me a self, okay, you know what? I'm not going to go over this, but just like I mentioned, take a look at this screenshot right here. Okay, so this guy shows an example of hosting a live, a live Q&A live event. And this may not be comfortable for everyone and that's fine, but this is a huge update that's worth mentioning. So here you can see that you have a live shop. So you're talking, you're talking about your products, you're talking about your business. And during that time that you're talking, the customer could shop right here, okay, and see what and take what they want. They can shop, they can check out, and they can proceed to check out and continue the checkout process, all while still watching your live event. Okay, so it kind of creates a window in a window and it gives them that. So that is really, really nice. And here's a video. Okay, where she gave a small, okay, well, this is another example where you simply search for active wear and you can see all of the results on YouTube. So you can simply open up a YouTube shop that is synchronized with your Shopify store. So if you already have a Shopify store, you're thinking of creating one, you're automatically, you can automatically have a YouTube store and generate organic traffic. Guys, this is a huge update. I don't know who's heard about it yet, but you do not want to miss out YouTube and Shopify together. All right. So let's begin with the live chat questions. For those of you who haven't asked your questions yet, now is the time in the live chat, ask your questions, let's go. Hello and good morning. What is the best way to do Facebook product research? I am a beginner and no sales during summer, which is safer to start on Facebook, Walmart or Amazon. You mean as a supplier? I would go with, they're both good. I prefer Amazon, but they're, they're both good. They both have a wide range of products. Amazon has a little bit more. That's why I prefer them. Let's see your other question. Product research on Facebook marketplace. Okay, so Facebook marketplace is an untapped marketplace. We've been talking about it, I think for about a year now, and there's a lot of drop tippers who have joined since then, but it is still what you call an untapped marketplace. Meaning you have very, very small competition there. Meaning it's much easier to sell products, especially best selling products using drop shipping suppliers. So the way that I would do it on Facebook marketplace and the way that I do do it and the way that I also shared, I also want you to check this out. So if you head over once again to youtube.com slash auto DS or just search for auto DS on youtube. Here you can search for our videos. Actually, we have a playlist. Just go to our playlists and we have a Facebook marketplace live drop shipping case study. Okay, so here you have day one, day two, day three, day four, where you can see everything that I did on my Facebook marketplace store and you know, all the sales, all the profits, how you sign up, how I conducted my product research and, and how I import my products really quickly to my store. And we also have it in one longer video. So that one might also work well for you. So just search for Facebook marketplace on our videos. And here you have the full case study from zero to 35 sales in one week. Okay, so you can see that this one is this one here shows how to okay, this is how to add the products importing. You have to look for the product research section. Another way to help you here, by the way, I show everything there. I show my store, I show what I sell, I show how much I profited, I show everything there. Another way to do it is to head over once again to autoDS.com slash blog. And here you also have a full Facebook marketplace article. See, I'm just going to click on Facebook right here just to make it easier. Let's also write on the search Facebook marketplace. And here you'll have a full tutorial. Okay, let me show it to you. Right here, how to drop ship on Facebook marketplace, a step by step guide. This also includes product research. This also includes a video embedded inside the video that I just actually started to different video. And you also have the audio version. So if you just want to listen without watching without reading, you can also listen to the audio version. And this is a full tutorial, you can see it's a very, very, very long article. I'm just scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. It's all very, very valuable information. But at the end of the day, if you want my personal and of course professional, I need to continue sharing my screen. Simply head over to Amazon.com. Check out their best sellers, get acquainted with the right categories. If you're not sure, I just sold another product for $54 on my eBay store. I would show it to you guys, but you know, you know what, let me try to show it to you just to kind of show you what it's like. Let me see what I can blur out. Sorry for the blur, but I'm sure that you guys can. So there is another sale. You guys can't see it. All right, never mind. So anyway, what you want to do is simply go to Amazon and check out their best sellers. Okay, you can also go to the movers and shakers. It's another great place. These are all of their biggest sales in the last 24 hours, and this simply gives you an understanding of what products are trending right now. Now on top of that, from here, you also need to know what products are good for dropshipping, because not all are good for dropshipping, and not every manufacturer wants you to sell their product, wants you to resell their products or dropship their products. So you need to get acquainted with the right categories. And for that, once again, simply head over back to our blog page, search for Facebook, Facebook Marketplace. You've got the six best, not the suppliers requirements, the best Facebook marketplace categories for dropshipping. Okay, and here I simply go over the best categories that are very good for the dropshipping business model, along with what subcategories you have there that are also very, very good. That will be very useful. And if you're using AutoDS, you've also got the vero protection. So if you try to add a product that you are not allowed to add, you'll get an error message, you'll get a warning message saying, hey, the manufacturer here doesn't want you to resell their products. It's a vero product. Are you sure that you want to import it to your store? Then you can choose yes or no. Okay, I hope that I answered you there, Sabrina. Let me know if you have any more questions. And guys, hello to everyone who just joined the live Q&A right now. This is a live dropshipping Q&A. If you have any questions, if you need help with your business, let me know what part you're stuck on, and I will help you to the best of my ability. Hey, bro, when will you have a Shopify course mentorship? Great question. So if you guys want to see a feature on AutoDS that simply isn't available, then what I suggest to do, let me share again, what I suggest doing is heading over to the AutoDS platform. Either way, you have a free Shopify course. All right, I don't know if you know about it, but simply head over to autoDS.com slash courses or just autoDS.com and hover over resources and click on courses right here, dropshipping courses. And then you've got the Shopify course right here. You've got 35 lessons over four hours of learning. It's 100% free. So even if you're not an AutoDS member, even if you just want to learn, and that is all you want, you can have this course 100% for free. We also have it on Udemy. It's got a very high rating. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people already reviewed this course. It got a 4.8 if I believe average. So it's one of the highest rating Shopify courses. And it is the highest rating for the free one. So here you have 35 lessons to take you step by step, everything that you need to know. But after you take this course and you learn how to build your store, how to conduct product research, how to research your audience, and how to build your store from the ground up, how to create all of your policy pages and fulfill your orders and create your ads of course. So you learn everything about how to create ads, everything on how to run them, how to budget them, how to do the creatives. You got everything here. So if you watch this and you still feel like you need one-on-one mentorship for Shopify, then that is a good reason, that is a good thing to add. So what you want to do on the AutoDS platform, where is it? Click on this lifeguard up here. Get this circle. And then you want to click on feature request. And here we have a lot of people who are creating feature requests. And what we do is we move them over to plan once there's enough votes for it in progress, once it's in progress, which by the way, guys, today, this feature moved to in progress, using credit card for auto fulfillment service. So for everyone who asked and who upvoted to be able to top up your managed balance with credit card and not just PayPal and Payoneer, it is now in progress since today, I believe. So the developers are working on it as we speak. Hello to everyone who's joining the live Q&A. I like seeing the amount of people that we have right now. Let me know what questions you have in the live chat and I will get to you. Okay, let's continue. We are 26 minutes in. We've got 34 minutes out. So guys, there's still enough time. Ask your questions right now in the live chat and let's continue. So create a feature request and say that you want a mentorship for Shopify, just strictly and specifically Shopify. But on the other hand, you should know that we do have a mentorship program. So if you want to join the mentorship program, you can also do so from the AutoDN system. Simply go to the settings and in your plans and add-ons, you want to add the mentorship. Where is it? Maybe it's not here. Maybe I'm mistaken. Yeah, it's right here. So you got the mentorship program and then you'll have our mentor for one-on-one and to learn how to build your business from the ground up. So if the blog is not enough, if the videos are not enough, if the content is not enough, if the courses are not enough, you still have that. And of course, our mentor Daniel also runs many Shopify stores so he can definitely, definitely help you on that. Okay, hope I answered you there. Hey, AutoDS, good for use for Shopify dropshipping, definitely. Yeah, we're all about Shopify dropshipping and I just showed you many examples. I just showed you many examples of Shopify dropshipping and let me know if you want to know anything else. And from Jamaica, I want to do Shopify dropshipping in the UK, no problem at all. So all you need to do is create a Shopify store. Before you create your store, I highly suggest to watch the course because it'll take you step by step in all of the steps that you need to take because you need to know also when to register for a store because if you create your account right now, Shopify is going to give you a 14-day trial and while you're learning how to create your store, your 14 days are going to just be wasted on those days. And when you're ready, when you'll be ready to start building your store, your trial will be over. Now you have to pay Shopify $29 a month and it's not fun to do that when you haven't even created your store yet. Okay, so watch the course first and it'll give you a great, great explanation and full how to tutorial on how to do it the right way. I am Italian, but in Texas now. Nice, Sabrina. I always wanted to visit Israel. I had very dear friends in high school from Israel. I hope to go there one day. Thank you for your help. All right, great. Yeah, if you come to Israel, I'm sure that you're going to have a good time, especially if you're around the Tel Aviv area, but I'm going to go back to the live right now, but good to know Sabrina. Hopefully you'll be here soon. Hello, hello. When you choose the shipping and drop shipping and import in DS and auto DS and import the product, when you choose the shipping and auto DS and import the product, will this be the default or other options will still show on Shopify? Thank you. It's a technical question, guys. You can leave, you will have a full support center for that, full help pages, but in general, you just want to go to settings and then go to store settings. I think I'm on the right account. It's a demo account, so you might see some errors now and then. Yeah, I would show it in my store, but not yet. Okay, sorry. So inside the store settings, you have the importer settings. And in the importer settings, you have your default shipping option. So in the default shipping option, you want to choose the default shipping that you want to use, the default shipping policy, and then save it. So when you're in the store settings, you need to choose what store, of course, you are referring to, and then choose your default shipping policy. How would I just save the product in auto DS, but not import to Shopify? How would I just save the product in DS, but not. So you just leave it in your drafts page. Okay, let me just, guys, again, it's technical. So I'm just going to talk about it like for a second. So you have your drafts page right here. Okay, you have all your products. Just leave it in the drafts page. So right here, you can optimize your product, the title, the description, the variations, the images, and the item specifications. And when you're done and you don't want to import it yet, simply click on save and keep it in your drafts page. Once you save an import, it'll move over to the products page. And then it'll be live on your store and anyone can see and purchase it. Best teacher ever. Thank you. Adopted by Bitcoin. Bitcoin will be on the rise very soon, but that is not financial advice. Hello to everyone who's joining the live Q&A. I see you all. Say hi to me in the chat. Let me know if there's any questions that you have. Let me know your name and where you're from so I can get a closer personal touch when I give you my answer. How much is the price for the training and how long is the time? The training, I believe, is $40 a month, Danny. And it's for as long as you want it to be. So you'll always have a mentor by your side. Daniel will be with you. And anything that you need, you'll have a real person to help you instead of just reading content and reading articles and watching courses. So if that is for you, of course, you can definitely take that road. Everyone has their own process. Everyone has their own way of learning things. Why am I still sharing my screen? Everyone has their own process. Everyone has their own way of learning things. Some people learn a lot from just reading. Some people will learn a lot from watching. Some people learn a lot by listening to audio podcasts. And some people need the one-on-one mentorship. And that is completely fine. I understand all of them personally. If I was new to the scene, I would touch each and every one of them, including the mentorship, because you never know what you might miss if you don't take that direction. Okay, so let's continue. Hi, I am in the UK. Does auto-fulfilling option DS work in the UK not yet? I don't know if they're working on it, but right now it works only with US suppliers that charge with a US dollar currency. Hello from Texas. Can you help me with eBay fee? How much should we consider? Great question. Is 15% enough eBay plus taxes? I think 8% taxes. I only had one order and I made 40 cents profit. Okay, first of all, stop making 40 cents profits on your orders. My first order I profited about 50 cents and that was about five years ago. And I thought that you just really need to be cheap in order to sell. But then when you realize what the dropshipping business model is and how you can really take advantage of it and leverage it to your side, you realize that making profits of 40, 50, 60, 70% is much more possible than you ever thought. So let's talk a little bit about break even. It's a great question and a lot of people are stuck on break events. So first of all, I will give my own answer and then I will also show you a place where you can go to calculate your profits and you won't have any problem with it anymore. So for me, I am what you call an international seller because I sell on eBay US domestically, but I am not from the USA. I don't reside there. I'm a US citizen and all of that, but I don't live in the US. I live in Israel. So I am what you call an international seller. For that I pay another 2%, I believe. And then you have your category fees on eBay. So it depends what category you're selling in. And also if you're using eBay's managed payment system or another one, all of these have an effect on the total break even that you will, or your total expenses that you will be paying at the end of the day. I will show you a calculator that you can calculate it easily, but in general, the way that I do it, I set 15% break even for my products. And then I add the extra profit that I want on top of that. Now the 15% does not cover source tax. So when I order something from my supplier, for example, when I order something from Amazon, instead of it costing $20, suddenly I see that it cost me $22. So what about those extra $2? What about that extra 10%? So what I do personally, and everyone has their own way of doing it, but what I personally do on my store, I set 15% break even. And then I set another 50, 50, 50 to 60% profit. And whatever I lose on the tax, I really don't care because I made enough profit as is. So that's the way that I do it. And it really depends on the niche that you're in. It depends on the audience that you're targeting. It depends on many factors. So you're going to have to play around with the settings a little bit, but stop making 40 cents profits on your orders. You are not reinventing the wheel. You're simply killing some competition by being competitive, but not making any profits. And that just goes nowhere, not to you and not for your competitors. And the eBay calculator. So what you want to do is head over to Autodesk.com. I bet you that you guys saw that coming. Go to resources, guys. All of this content is 100% free. I want you guys to learn. I want you guys to succeed. Hover over resources and click on eBay fees calculator. Once you do that, you'll be taken of course to the eBay fees calculator. So here you'll be able to see exactly what your expenses are. So choose your category and say what marketplace you are selling on. So are you selling on US, Australia, UK? So in this case, I'll keep it in the United States. Choose the category that you're selling in. So let's say you're selling a necklace. So I'm going to go to jewelry and watches. My payment processor is managed. I'm not using PayPal. I have an eBay store subscription. I'm not top rated, but I am an international seller. My selling price. So I'm thinking about selling this product for $19.99. The product costs me $9.99. Of course, I'm not going to make $10 profit because I have my fees. I'm not charging for shipping. I'm not paying for shipping. And I'm not currently running any promotions on this product. So let's leave it like that. Here is the profit breakdown. So your total fees are $3.11, which comes to 15.6%, which is why I always advise I'm using 15% as your eBay break even. And then you've got your total profit of $6.89, meaning about 35% profit if you sell for $19.99 and you buy for $9.99. Now, this does not include the tax, the source tax. So we don't care about eBay tax because your buyer pays you the tax and eBay reimburses it. eBay takes it away from you. So it comes and it goes. You don't really need to worry about it. The source tax, you don't need to worry about. So let's say that you sold this product for $19.99 and you're buying it for $9.99. So in this case, you had to pay up to $1 tax, right? 10% average. So you paid $1 tax. So the product actually cost you $10.99. And instead of profiting, what was it, $6.89, you're actually going to make $5.89 after that $1 tax. Of course it makes sense because that $1, but that's usually what it comes down to. So if you're purchasing the product for $9.99, you don't want to sell it for $12.99. You don't want to sell it for $13.99. You don't want this type of profit. So that's why you should have that 50% to 60% extra profit with the 15% break even. That is what I do on my store and I hope that I helped you out there. Okay, I'm going to try to move a little bit quicker. The chat is getting bigger. More people are joining the live Q&A. Hello to everyone who's joining right now. Ask your questions in the live chat, Q&A, and I will in the live chat. And of course, I will get to it just like I'm getting to everyone here. I don't know if you guys heard that, but that was another to Ching. And this time it's for $103. So yeah, it's a pretty good hour to sell. Let me see if I can... You know what? I want to show it to you guys, but then we've got the thing where people copy and paste and I don't like the copying and pasting style. I like people to think of their own strategies, to think of their own products, to learn from people, learn practices, and you can see that right there. So you want to learn from people and copy... You can learn from their practices and then turn it into your own success story, but I don't like copy and paste. Now every product, if you guys would see my eBay store by chance, you would see that I have a lot of dropshippers who are following me, meaning every time I import a product, every time I import a product, I don't even have to sell it. As soon as I import it to my store, I have people with bots and I don't know what. As soon as I list a product, five other dropshippers list it and break my price. Still, I'm the one making the most sales. I don't know if you guys have an explanation for that, but I'd rather always be the head of the fox than the tail of the tiger. And the tail of the tiger are those who are simply mimicking and imitating what the successful people are doing. And that is fine. It's good to imitate. It's good to mimic, but you need to find your own way to do it. I do not like copying and pasting. So even though dropshippers do it, as soon as I list a product, I see five others with the same title and the same product, I listed it first and I'm getting most of the sales. Now granted, they are making sales and they see that copying me works, but they're making small sales. I'm making a lot of sales. And if you want to make a lot of sales and not get stuck in the, why am I only selling one time per week, one sale per day, stop copying and pasting. Start with your own strategies, but don't reinvent the wheel on the other hand. Don't try to kill the competition. Don't make 40 cents profit. You won't withdraw anything to your bank account. Don't copy and paste, but do learn from their strategies and then implement it in your own way. Okay. Let's continue. I'm from Puerto Rico. How easy could be for me to join and sell item in website allows me. Then your question is kind of confusing, but I think that what you're trying to understand is you're in Puerto Rico and you want to have an online store. So it is definitely possible. Just let me know what you're interested in. Do you want to have a Shopify store? Do you want to have an eBay store where you don't have to worry about traffic, but it's harder to get started because you need to raise your limits. Do you want to, well, you can do it on Facebook marketplace, even though Puerto Rico is close to the U.S. I mean, it's, it's like, it's, it's even connected, but you could sell. I don't think it'll work. I don't think it'll work. It only works in 50 States in the U.S. and Puerto Rico unfortunately isn't one of them. So let me know what you sell, what you're interested in. Any tips for beginners after 100 items listed? Can we increase to 150? Of course. How much should we wait? So look then, uh, first of all, eBay likes, uh, when you wait one month before asking for limit increases, otherwise they'll tell you, Hey, wait a month before asking for another one. But if you get them on the phone, if you get an agent on the phone, you can get it done even every day. Let me know what suppliers are using, what region you're targeting. And yeah, good job though. Good job getting your limits to 100, but you need to keep going. It's not nearly enough. Okay. If you guys want to start making substantial profits from this business on eBay, you're going to need a few thousand listings. And with good product research, it's more than enough. Your business is going to be automated. You're going to enjoy it. You're going to do exactly what I'm doing. So I've got a few thousand products up out there. Everything is being automated. My product research is on point. And, uh, I don't look at what other sellers are doing because I've been in the game for about five years now. And, um, I know exactly what categories to dive into. I know what products to import. I know how to optimize the titles, which is very important on eBay. And, um, once you learn how to do everything right, it's, it's, it's really a fun, it's really a fun thing to have. Hello to everyone who's joining the live Q and A. I really like to see the engagement here. I like seeing how many people are joined this specific live. Ask your questions before time runs out because I'm getting to all of you. Let's continue. Thank you. You're definitely welcome. Hello. I'm missing the drop shipping t-shirt. Where is it? I think I put it in the laundry. Yeah. So in my videos, in, in the videos on YouTube, I use the auto DS t-shirt, but for the live Q and A's, I like having, you know, a, a regular t-shirt just to give you more of a personal touch. But, uh, if you guys really liked the auto DS t-shirt, I'll wear it all the time. Just not as pajamas. How do you end? Can we drop ship from eBay to eBay? If yes, what about tracking number and how to convert? And that is the problem techno, techno, uh, design. Yeah. That is the problem with dropping from eBay to eBay. And that way it won't really be possible because once your seller provides a tracking number, you won't be able to use the same tracking number again on eBay. eBay will give you an error message saying this tracking number is already being, uh, used. So that is the problem with that. And, um, I don't advise working on, uh, fake tracking numbers because, uh, eBay can also pick up on that. So you can't really drop ship from eBay to eBay. We haven't found a way to do it, but we are doing pretty much every other variation possible, especially Daniel, our mentor. He has, I don't even know how many stores he's handling right now. Uh, and, uh, yeah, it's crazy, but eBay to eBay doesn't work. Can I use Amazon prime to drop ship or where they close my account? Good question. Sabrina, they will close your account. Unfortunately up until two years ago, this wasn't a problem. And we all had just one Amazon prime account and we simply used to abuse it. Sorry for the, for that word, but that is what we did. We used to just load gift card balance. Hey, anyone in the chat right now, were you guys here when we were playing around with all of those gift cards on Amazon? And we only had one Amazon account and we would buy a discounted gift card. So we would buy a gift card for $100. We'd pay only $75 or $80. And then we'd also make that profit. And it was just crazy back then. And this used to happen for a long time. Like this kept going on and on and on. And I mean, it was seriously, it was a huge goldmine. But that was before we had, uh, automated services. We did have, have automatic orders, but it was using your buyer accounts today. Uh, it's, we've got to fulfill by auto DS service. So that pretty much solves the problem for you there, Sabrina. Uh, you won't be using your buyer accounts. You don't have to worry about your accounts getting locked. It will simply never happen because it's not using your buyer account. So simply check out fulfilled by auto DS. Okay. That's the only solution. And I've been using it since day one before I even came and started, uh, working for the company. Hello again, when I dropped from Amazon UK, do I always use the gift option? Thank you. So you can use the gift option. By the way, you guys can still order from Amazon, but if you have, once you have multiple orders per day, then it will start to become a problem, especially if you're using their prime membership, because they simply see you as someone who's, uh, um, uh, not listening to their dropshipping policy. They don't mind dropshippers, but if it's, of course, uh, with full agreement and they don't want you to use their prime services to dropship to other people from one marketplace to another. So, but you can always use the gift option for sure. Amazon, that, that, that has nothing to do with anything. So, uh, I have my Amazon buyer account. I still use it. I only process one or two orders per day there and I don't do them prime. So that, for that I use fulfilled by auto DS, but sometimes I have international orders. So I just simply ordered them by myself using, uh, my credit card on using my buyer account in Amazon and I've had no problem with that. Uh, I use hip shipper by the way to manage my international orders. It's free to, to work with them. So I've been doing that for years and, um, yeah, you can use the gift option. No problem. Thank you. You're so kind. You're welcome Sabrina. Hello to everyone who's joining the live Q and A right now. We've got 15 minutes left. That is still enough time to ask your questions in the live Q and A. Let me know how I can help you with your dropshipping journey and let's continue. Hello, Amazon block. My account in Italy. Please add auto orders for Italy. eBay home bizarre store. That's a great request. You can make a feature request on auto DS. I already showed how to do it, but I'll just show it really, really quick again. So on auto DS, click on the circle for those of you who are just joined right now, click on the feature request and let's see if anyone wrote it. So first you want to make a search. So let's search for Italy. Advaita XL Italy supplier, automatic order for Amazon Italy. There you go. So somebody already created a vote for this, but only four people upvoted it. Please enter automatic orders from Amazon to Italy. So what you want to do? eBay home bizarre store. Hey, I know you. I think I know your store. I've seen it before. So, um, I simply go here and upvote it. So I'm going to help you. Okay, I'm going to upload this one too. So from four, let's bring that up to five. I need to log in. I need to log in. I'm not logged in. All right. Sorry about that. But just go there and upvote it. Okay. And when it gets enough votes, it'll move over to the planned and then in progress and live once it's live. How much is the price in U.S. dollars? Sorry, Danny. The price for what? The supplying auto DS helps sells for drop shipping. I started dropping with eBay from CJ drop ship about a month ago. I got views, but no sales yet. Okay. So first of all, it's good that you're starting to dip your feet in the water and, and trying to make some sales. There are many, many suppliers that you can use out there, not just CJ drop, CJ drop, shipping is good. Don't get me wrong. They can also help you storage your products. They can also help you, um, get print on demand up and running with your store, but it's a new story. You should try some, you should try various suppliers and you will notice that with the more practice you put in it, the more products you research, the more you'll start to see what starts to sell. And because it's a new account, I'm guessing you don't have too many listings yet. Cal Cal, I'm guessing you get, you got about a no more than a hundred listings and that's simply not enough. Not, it's not going to be enough. So, uh, what you want to do is focus on two things, raising your eBay limits and working on your product research. After a month, see what, see where you got views, see where you don't got views, remove the slow move, remove the slow movers. If anything's sold for you during that time, then look for more products that are similar to that product that's sold for you and try to multiply your success while still researching the market and looking into more product niches. Okay, so don't get stuck on one product. Don't get stuck on slow movers. Learn how to work your way forward. I'm sure that the content that we have on our blog page and on our YouTube channel will also help you out, but Autodesk simply going to help you automate your business. So what you're going to be able to do is scale. So you cannot have a hundred or a thousand or 10,000 products on your store when yours and do everything manually because when your supplier changes the price, what happens to the price on your store? When the, when products start going out of stock on your supplier store, what's going to happen to the product stock on your store? So you want everything to be automated for you and that's just price and stock monitoring. What about importing the products? So importing a product takes about five minutes, 10 minutes, 20, 30 minutes if you want it to be nicely optimized, but what happens once you want to have thousands of products? There is no scalability here because that's going to take up all of your day. You won't be able to handle your orders. You won't be able to handle customer service. So if you want to scale the way to do it is with automation and guys, automation, AI, all of this is where the world is going. The world is moving in this direction. I don't know if you guys read the news. I don't know if you guys see what's going on around the world, but AI is taking over, automation is taking over, and this is the way to scale, okay, your e-commerce business through drop shipping automation. Hi, I see many sellers listing food and water and cleaning supply on eBay. Are they all allowed? Any brand we should avoid? Will AutoDS vero the ones not allowed? So great questions, relax energy. First of all, you do have that extra layer of protection. When you are using AutoDS, you try to import a product that is vero, that is copyrighted, that the manufacturer doesn't want you to resell, that's been patented or trademarked, then you will get a warning message that you are not allowed to import this product, but you can choose right there if you would like to continue or not with the import process. On top of that, I personally don't sell food, I don't sell drinks, I don't sell groceries, but I do know about dropshippers who do do it. I haven't tried it myself, so I really don't have experience. My only drawback from this idea is that you can't really have many variations of a certain food product, you can't have many variations of a certain beverage because you have one company or some company is making like, let's say for example, Coca-Cola. How many of those do you have? There's only one and then there are many imitations that are not selling too well. So who are you going to compete with here? So it's much easier to sell things like appliances, replacement parts. You can also sell big things like furniture and many things. Read about high ticket dropshipping on our content, on our blog page and not just that, not just high ticket, right? There's many many categories that are good. Let me just give you a quick example. So you don't need to just go to things like food and water. It's good that you're researching, it's good that you found eBay sellers who are selling that. The only thing that I would recommend from what you asked is cleaning supplies, definitely. So cleaning supplies is a perfect example for a dropshipping product but just stay away from big brands, okay? Stay away from Mr. Clean. Stay away from Clorox. Okay, but what about this? What about this mop right here? It's great for the dropshipping business model. What about these microfiber cleaning cloths? Of course, of course you want to sell those. Okay, you have many different types of variations of them so it's not like you only have one big company that's taking all those cells and then once again who are you going to compete with? Okay, what about these bowl toilet cleaners? Great product for dropshipping. You have so many different types of variations of them and cleaning brush sets, it's very very simple but with the amount of variations that you have for these types of items it'll be a crime to not make any sales and just look at the amount of reviews. It gives you a small indication of how many people are engaging with this product and buying it and also happy with the quality. So there are many many cleaning products, okay? Just stay away once again from these big brands but you also have that extra layer of protection and continue researching eBay sellers. Another way to do it is the reverse method. So what I like to do is go to, I'm not personally, I used to use these methods a lot, it's what got me to the niches that I'm selling today. So just go to bestsellers, go to movies and shakers or new releases and look for categories that are good for the dropshipping business model, okay? Let's just go to let's say like home and kitchen right here, okay? And what you're going to do here is just find a good selling product like this one right here, blackout curtains. It's going to be hard to find this same exact variation because there are many blackout curtains but let's just take the main keywords here which is blackout curtains for bedroom and then try to see who's selling it on eBay. So I'm going to go to ebay.com, make sure that my ship too is the country that I'm targeting and run a search for that product. And here you can see all of the sellers who are selling blackout curtains but it's not enough to see the sellers. You also want to see if this product is even making any sales. If it's worth it for you to import this product. So what you want to do is look for sold listings right here on the left side, sold items but you want to unclick completed items because those are the items that went out of stock after they sold. So now only have sold items clicked in. Let's zoom in and today we're on June, July 20th. So check this out. These blackout curtains sold today. These blackout curtains sold yesterday. So did these, so did these, so did these. By the way, July 20th is just right here in Israel in the U.S. it's still the 19th or it's just starting to be the morning of the 20th. So all the sales we're seeing are on the 19th. So it makes sense. This one July 19th, July 19th. So blackout curtains as you can see is a product that is selling a lot on eBay. That is a good idea of a product that you should be researching. Okay. So that's a quick glance on how to do it. I wish I had more time. Hello to everyone in the live chat in the live Q&A. I'm really happy to see this amount of users and I'm kind of sad that you guys didn't join an hour ago. So let's continue. Let's continue. We don't have that much time left. Can we sell food, water, cleaning supplies on Facebook as well? Same answer. Same answer. Great session. Thank you. Thank you, Abdel Rahim. Thank you for the tip for the percentage to add. So you add 50% on the price of the item you sell. Sabrina, in my case, yes. That is what I do. That is my strategy. So for example, it comes out that if my source price for a product is about $50, I sell it for around $90 if I'm not mistaken. Something like that. Okay. Almost two times the price. Almost, but not. Does anyone know why my products won't import? Shiva opened up a support ticket. I promise you will get help and your problem will get resolved. Hello, this is Abdel Rahim from Australia. Hello, Abdel Rahim from Australia. Is AutoDS working in Australia? Definitely. Yes. What you're wearing is okay. Change is better. One shirt is boring. Okay. Thank you. So for the live Q&As, I'll always use a different shirt. And for our videos on our YouTube channel, I'll continue with the AutoDS T-shirt. Where can I find the course on setting up a Shopify dropship store? Okay. So I showed it. I will show it again. Simply head over to autodes.com, hover over resources, and then you've got, sorry, hover over resources, and you've got the drop shipping courses right here on the left side. Okay. You've got the course right here. Shopify, click on learn more. Okay. And then click on take free course, enter your name and your email address, click join. And that is all there is to it. The course is 100% yours. And now you can start browsing the different lessons that you have here. Fast forward. Just check it out. You guys have an amazing amount of content here. And just to show you how well this course has been working for others, well, we have three parts on Udemy. So let's just show you part one. This is the same course. So check it out. We've got 508 ratings, six and a half thousand students, 4.7 rating. That is very, very high for a free course. Usually people don't put a lot of effort on to the free courses because it's free and they don't give you all of the information. They just give you some of it and then they want you to pay to give you all of it. This course has it all and it has one of the highest ratings for free courses out there. Amazon is offering me Amazon business account. Is there any advantage using it for dropshipping? You can try, Alvin. I haven't signed up for Amazon business and I'm still processing my orders there, but not too much. As I mentioned, only one or two orders per day and non-prime. So this account has been working for years now. But you can try the business. I don't know if it helps more with the account locks, but you can definitely give it a try. Hi, Robert from France. I started my trial and stopped. How to jump into it again? I couldn't make any brahmas. I'm sure that our representatives would like to give you another trial. Just talk to our support, log into your account on AutoDS, go to the support, and ask for another trial. They will give it to you. When you do automatic orders on AutoDS, does that do a gift on Amazon? Yes, Stephen Graham. You also have in the AutoDS settings, in your order settings, if you want to go to the settings, order settings, choose your store, and you have also a gift message. You can customize the message that you want to write in the gift message. That way it also helps you brand your store and get your brand known to your customers when you write your brand name in that message. Just give them a really nice personal and professional message to help them remember you. That's a good way to help also brand your business, even if you're dropshipping and you're not really branding your products. Is there a way to shorten the delivery date on Aliexpress? I see a delivery date on your videos in July. Why mine are in August or worse September? I don't know what videos exactly you're looking at, but to improve delivery times on Aliexpress, my first recommendation is to look for the same products using other suppliers that have warehouses in the country that you are targeting. Now Aliexpress also has this. Let me give you a quick preview. Hello to everyone who's joining the live Q&A. Wow, nice amount of people today. It's supposed to be all over and I made it. I can't show you the example. Sorry. So AJ, go to Aliexpress and you have your ship too on the top, ship from when you create it. So search for the item that you want, and then on the top you have a ship's from. Choose a warehouse. See if they have a warehouse in the country that you're targeting. Aliexpress today has warehouses in the US and they even have warehouses here in Israel. I ordered an item, a green screen for the videos and I got it in four days because the seller, the Chinese seller, has the product in a warehouse right here in Israel. So Aliexpress also has warehouses worldwide. Let's continue. So look for your warehouse in Aliexpress and also look for other suppliers. Check it out on Amazon. Check out other suppliers who have warehouses in the same location of the target audience that you are targeting. Hi, bro, I watch a tutorial when you advise, do manual listing and get product from home. I don't have any products at home. I'll have it. If I have it, that would be used as you said, list as new. No, if it's from home, you can't have new products. I mean, I have products that I haven't opened before like this one. Hold on. So I've got this digital inflator that I bought from Aliexpress. Okay, just to, if I have, if suddenly, I don't know, I run over some nail on the street and now I don't have any air in my tire. So that's what that is for. It's portable and all of that, but I haven't opened it. I haven't used it yet. It's completely brand new. So if I list this product, this is a new product that I have laying around at home. So you still can do that. But if you don't have any products like that, like if you want to sell these sunglasses that are open and used, then you have to import it with a used condition. Okay, so it really depends on what you have and what you can do. All the products I got in my draft are not seasonal. Some of them are pricey with one Euro profit and they don't look appealing. So okay, you need to work on your product research, work on your product research. We have a lot of content on product research. Let me know what you're stuck on. Hi, again, it seems that there are so many people on eBay, UK dropshipping from Amazon. I don't know how they're doing this. If Amazon doesn't allow multiple orders via Prime. Right, Tracy, but everyone who wants to find a way finds a way. If Amazon doesn't support something, it doesn't mean that it's not possible to do it. And we have been doing this for a long time now. And it's going to keep working. It's going to keep working. There are ways to come around things. And we have all of the content on that. All of the content on that. Just let me know exactly what you want to know. I see people asking if Autodesk is a useful example for UK or Germany. What for France? Dropshipping from France. Yes. Guys, Autodesk is not in just for one location. You can drop ship from anywhere around the world. Your only limitations are the limitations that you have in your country. For example, I know some countries where that don't support Payoneer or don't support PayPal. And then people are looking for ways to manage your payment solutions. So it really depends on where you're from. But at the end of the day, eBay allows you to create an account. eBay allows you to create a store. Shopify allows you to create a store. The only one that limits you is Facebook marketplace that wants you to live in the United States. But if you want to create a store on eBay, on Shopify, on Wix, in other marketplaces, you can do that. You can host your products. You can sell to anywhere you want around the world. You just need to learn the rules of the countries that you want to target. For example, UK, there is a VAT. And every country has their own thing. So you need to also get acquainted with that. Start selling to the US. The competition is super high, but they also buy a lot. So it kind of balances it out. Learn the rules, see what sells, and start targeting also other countries. eBay won winning product, please. Good suggestion, Muhammad. See you in the next live Q&A. Say that and I will show it to you. I just don't have any more time. This one is pretty much over. Hello, what is the listing limit for Facebook marketplace? No listing limit Jordan, not any listing limits that I know of. Watch our Facebook marketplace case study, learn how to do it the right way, and work your way up from there. Can I use Autodesk dropshipping to Amazon soon? Amazon, as a selling channel, is going to roll out this year, I hope. And you guys will also be able to dropship on Amazon. I already have my Amazon account set up and verified and ready. Great, Leeran, thanks for this renew of my trial. Robert from France. Robert, you are welcome. Let me know. Join us. Join our next live Q&A. Let me know if anything, if you still have any problems. Is $5 profit a good profit? It really depends. It depends on your selling price. If you sell a product for $1,000, but you're only making $5 profit, I really don't think it's worth it. I have been listing a $10 to $12 profit and getting no sales, so maybe too high. It depends on the product that you're selling. It depends on the audience that you're targeting, and it depends on what is this product. And when you're listing as a $10 to $12 profit, also from what price? If the customer paid you $100, then it definitely makes sense for you to make $10 to $12 profit. I make more than that. I make almost $20 on an order on a $100 transaction. But everyone has their own way of doing it, and it really depends on your niche, and it depends on who you're targeting. It depends on many factors. Don't get one number stuck in your head. It is not a one answer solution. There's not one perfect profit percentage, and there's not one perfect fixed dollar price profit. This doesn't exist, but you can tweak it in order to make the most amount of profit while still gaining those sales. It requires some profit. It requires some practice, but definitely, guys, we need to end this. Thank you for joining. Thank you. You are so knowledgeable. Thank you, Tracy. Thank you for everyone to join. Who joined? Please like this live Q&A if you enjoyed it. If I don't see those likes, we may not continue doing it. I want to see those engagements. I don't want to force it on you. 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