 drop-shipping business, whether it's getting it off the ground, making more profits on the sales that you're already making, or anywhere in between, I am here to help you guys jumpstart your drop-shipping careers or help you scale. So if you've joined any of our previous live Q&As, you know that we usually started answering questions that you asked 24 hours ago on our Facebook community group where we posted about this live Q&A. I will address your questions there first and then I will move over to the live chat right here on our YouTube channel and on our Facebook channel where the live is happening simultaneously. So welcome to our 18th live Q&A and I'm going to start before I get to the questions on the Facebook community. I'm going to start with some of the newest updates that recently came out in AutoDS. We're also going to release a page soon, a part of our website where you can read about all of these updates and learn about them before everyone else and really get ahead of your competition. So let's go ahead and see about some of the most recent updates that came out here in AutoDS. Then I will head on to the Facebook community to answer your questions and then the live chat that we have right here on YouTube and Facebook. So start asking your questions now so that I will be able to address it really soon and for anyone who has joined any of my previous live Q&As, all 18 of them, then you know that I answer each and every one of your guys questions. I only have one request and one request only. Anything that has to do with technical issues on the system, features that are maybe not working well or bugs or things that you don't know exactly how to make it work on AutoDS, please open up a live chat support ticket, a live chat or a support ticket, whatever suits you best, and our live representatives will help you with any case that you may be having. So please guys, anything technical on the AutoDS system, leave that for the support team and anything else for helping you in your dropshipping journey, that is what I'm here for. So start asking your questions right now in the live chat and let's get this show on the road. Okay so I'm going to share my screen and we're going to go over some of the most recent updates that came out in AutoDS. I'll zoom in a little bit to give you better visibility. We're going to start with the updates. Okay so some new updates that just recently came out. First we've got the AutoDS wallet. So for those of you who haven't heard about this yet, this wallet is going to help streamline your finances and here's a demo screenshot from one of my eBay stores where you can simply see all of my payments coming from eBay and I can also add balance to my Payoneer account. This wallet by the way is formed from the partnership between AutoDS and Payoneer which is a recent great partnership that we created with them and with this partnership you are going to profit even more. How so by using the AutoDS wallet for withdrawing funds from your bank account to Payoneer if that's what you need to do and then you can load balance from Payoneer to AutoDS directly from your AutoDS wallet so you can easily top up your balance for using automatic orders the fulfilled by AutoDS service and if you are a new user in AutoDS you will also have a $10 bonus when loading balance for the first time. So once you top up your balance for the first time if you top up let's say $50 then you'll get $60 if you'll top up $100 you'll get $110, $510, $1,000, $1,010 and so forth so that's just a little welcome bonus to help you guys get on the right track with your drop-in business and help you profit as soon as possible. Besides that like I mentioned you can withdraw easily to your AutoDS balance you can send and receive funds from your bank account to Payoneer to your Payoneer account and then to your AutoDS account or to your AutoDS account and there are no landing fees so you can do everything with no fees whatsoever except for a 1% fee when you load balance and this is something that is well we can't really do anything about it it is not for us our API connection with Payoneer makes because of that Payoneer takes 1% from us we will take that 1% from you we're not making any profit off of that but that 1% so if you're loading a hundred dollars right now to your fulfilled by AutoDS balance if you're loading a hundred dollars then you'll get charged a hundred and one dollars but how was that compared to what we had up until now which was PayPal which took 4% every time we loaded our balance so 1% instead of 4% is a huge difference especially if you're already drop shipping with big numbers okay so that's pretty much about the wallet we also have a full explanation about it we have a help article about it we have a view about it on our YouTube channel I can see that you guys are already writing in the chat I will address all of you guys soon do not worry keep that chat running and I will get to it soon the second update is sending a message to your buyers from the order screen so now simply go to the order screen on AutoDS and there you will have an option to send a message to your buyer instead of looking for their names on the order screen and then opening up eBay and then sending a message there now you can compose a message and do it directly from the order screen so open up the order details and find that send message to buyer and there that way you can easily update your buyers what's going on with their packages if there's anything you want to tell them if it's not a part of the automatic messages that you have with AutoDS you can easily send them that message now the update number 3 is supplier update notification so when you have variants that are on hold in the products menu on AutoDS you can simply hover over that yellow exclamation mark and then you'll have a pop-up message of what's going on why this product is on hold what what's going on on the supplier side so here for example you can see that I hovered over this shower head over here and I got the message that for one the supplier changed their product ID from X to Y so now I know why it's on hold and also the title changed from X to Y so if they changed their titles it's an important thing that you need to know because maybe when they changed the the product ID from one product to another maybe they change it to a different product with different dimensions and now I need to update my listing before putting it back online because right now it's on hold so it's fine no one can buy it but I want it to be updated and then have it go back online make it active so here you can read about all of the changes that happen and why your order is on hold while your product is on hold okay let's continue I can just see the chat moving so update number 4 is plans and add-ons so we just did some improvements there and the way that you see it and what you'll see update number 5 is order cancellations unfulfilled by auto DS which you can now do it while the order of before the order is shipped and not only after of the number 6 is the new editing option for mobile phones or if you're using the mobile version of auto DS you can now easily edit things from your listing of the number 7 speed improvements not going to go over that update number 8 new resources page so you can now see it in auto.com slash resources and this is on top of our blog page on top of our YouTube channel both of which have great pieces of content but here we're actually combining everything that we have in auto DS also our ebooks let's see what else we have yeah right and our podcasts of course and different tools that we have like the eBay fees calculator and what else did we have there the insertion fee calculator and more things so here you can see all of our resources everything on one page so here you can for example say okay I want to have let's see only the ebooks that we have okay so I'll just uncheck everything and now I can see our ebooks we only have four at the moment but we're working on making more but there are some great ebooks for you to start off already we have of course podcast you can watch you can watch both to see the ebooks and the podcast or let's say you only want to see articles and you want you want it on the subject of dropshipping tips so these are all the articles of dropshipping tips and the best suited for so let's say I'm just getting started so I'm going to click on getting started and this is all of the articles that are on the topic of dropshipping tips that are for those who are just getting started so this should help you narrow down on what type of content you want to see what you want to learn when you are dropshipping and that will just make it that much easier to find the right content for you to take your next step in your e-commerce empire the last update is the ebay insertion fee calculator which is another tool that we added which is 100 percent of course free to use whether you're an Autodesk member or not you can also get to it let me just log out of wordpress so we won't see this log out really quick okay I won't see that top order okay so the insertion fee calculator will simply help you understand when is it when it is the right time to move to your next store so if you don't have a store right now and let's say you you want to list a thousand products and you're going to pay ebay $262 above what they're giving you as free listing fees as soon as you sign up so of course that is not a good idea and this place will simply help you understand what is the when is the right time to move to the next store instead of paying ebay all those insertion fees and then finding out the hard way right now we have it available for the united states but if you want to see more regions open up a feature request and let's see how that goes okay guys keep asking questions in the live chat I will start very very soon to address them that is just some of the new updates that just came out in auto ts but that is not the point of this live q&a the point here is to help all of you start your drop shipping businesses if you haven't gotten started yet scale your drop shipping businesses if you're making sales and simply want to make more start asking your questions now in the live chat and I will address it very very soon okay so now let's go over some of the questions that you guys asked on the Facebook community before this live q&a so I'll share my screen again okay so let's begin I'm starting with the questions from the Facebook community and after that I will move on to the live chat okay so there weren't too many questions this time so that's fine let's get started hello I'm looking for advice on how to get the first sale I have been watching the auto DS YouTube channel videos for advice but still not having much luck is it a waiting game or am I not doing things right hello Oscar first of all you started with a pretty good question how to get your first sale so from what I understand you already started your drop shipping store you launched your store I don't know what selling channel you're using so once again guys when you start asking questions right now in the live chat let me know what selling channel you're drop shipping on or you're interested in drop shipping on and also let me know what suppliers you're thinking of using what platforms you're using give me as much info as possible what regions you're drop-shipping from and where you're targeting give me as much information as possible so I'll be able to give you guys a very detailed answer for it for your case and not a general answer since I don't have enough information but in this case I will think Oscar I will take into consideration that maybe you're starting your store on eBay since most start there and if you haven't been making your first sell let me know also how many listings do you have on your eBay store do you have only 100 or 200 or 400 because usually around a few hundred months you should start getting sales if you're a cave complete beginner and haven't done any good product research yet but if you have done good product research you should sell after your first 10 or 20 items that you add to your store but anyway I don't know how many products you have I don't know what selling channel you are using so take into consideration once again that you're probably using eBay and you don't have too many selling limits to start off with you do want to make some those first few cells and then call eBay and tell them to upgrade your limits so that you will have more and more and it is a numbers game I don't know what product research methods you are using but what I would suggest to do at this starting point is to wait one month it is a waiting game especially in the beginning wait one month and then look at your products see how many views they got how many watchers and take the average of one view per day it's not a great number but if you're not making at least one view per day that product is not interesting and most likely not going to sell if you have at least 30 views after waiting for that after waiting one month whether you have watchers or not you should wait with this product keep it in your store maybe see go to the product page see if there's anything that you can optimize there and just wait another month and see how that goes now if the next month you make it to 60 views and still I mean 60 views which means you are getting this still the same average of one review per day and no watchers then maybe this product is not that interesting and you should look for other product research methods and categories and niches now if your product has a watchers that means that someone clicked the I want to watch this product button that means that the product is pretty interesting there's something there that caught one of the viewers viewers eyes now if they didn't check out if they didn't perceive what the checkout process you should still know that this product had someone's interest in mind which means that you should check out this product see what's all special about it and then try to add more variations from other suppliers this is the number one rule to do once you sell but if you're still only not making any sales yet and you're still looking around and waiting to make your first sell that is one of the things that you should do once you have people that are interested in your products next you also want to create promotions so if your drop should be on eBay you have promoted listings standard you have promoted listings advanced both are two different promoted promotion methods standard doesn't cost you any money up front only after you make a cell from it you give eBay a certain percentage and eBay promoted listings advanced the PPC is pay-per-click ads where eBay will sponsor your products even more depending on how much of a daily budget you're willing to pay them but this means that you will have to pay them up front before you make sales so you have to put a budget aside for that but it's a great marketing tool you can also send offers to your buyers there's there's more ways to promote your products and eBay by the way we have plenty of blog articles on that so head over to our blog page and search for eBay articles you will see it there some of the many ways to promote your eBay listings besides that product research and this is more important than anything else that I talked about so your product research needs to be on point Oscar and you want to work really really hard when it comes to product research this is something that you're always going to learn new ways new products new categories new niches to sell in your store it's always going to help you get great ideas and the best way to product research to research for great product well there's a few different ways one way you can use the sharing my screen now yeah one way is that you can use the product research platform is integrated into the the product research tool that's integrated into the AutoDS platform you can get some great ideas from this tool we have the greatest and most trending products right here and you can have you can use the smart filter system to filter by different category by where the product is being shipped from or to see new products get products from a specific price ranges products for holidays before they start so you'll beat your competition to it and prepare accordingly in advance US suppliers China suppliers and soon to come also drop shipping suppliers this is a great way to just get good product ideas and even if it is interesting to you and you know you went inside you read about the details you saw the item specs you saw how fast or how unfast the product ships and then you can easily import it to your store by clicking on import store that is just one product research method. Another is by using the AliExpress drop shipping center that's also a great method to use I'm not going to talk I'm not going to go too much in depth about that but search for AliExpress drop shipping center you can also use paid tools like ZIC analytics if you want to learn the market especially for the first time besides that but that's of course you have to have a budget on the side besides that more product research tools you can see what is selling well on your suppliers websites and then search for that on eBay and see if that certain if those certain keywords for for that product is selling on eBay and you can filter on the left side to see sold items after you create a search so this way you'll only see listings that are selling when they sold and then you can see if this product is in demand and also how much competition it has those are some of my most popular those are some of the the most popular and my most favorite product research methods but of course there are more and we also have a product research spreadsheet that you can use let me just find it before I share my screen you can use our product research spreadsheet to help you out whether you're dropping on eBay but especially if you're dropshipping in other places like Shopify or Wix so let me just yeah here it is let me show my screen with this product research tool with this product research spreadsheet I have to just click on file and make a copy so that you can edit it and I just made it available offline by accident so you only have one demo here but basically what you want to do is put the products title whatever you found put the sources link and then answer all of these questions are you passionate about it is it hard to find in stores is it hard to guess the price is it a safe product that you can sell it can people buy this product without doing much research does this product I'm sorry that you guys are seeing everything small in the zoom in does this product solve a problem or stand out does it cost less than $30 if you're starting off you don't want to go to the high ticket products and does it comply with Facebook's ad policies which is important because this way you'll know what you can and what you cannot sell and what you can and cannot do on your Facebook ads and once again you can do this for every selling channel it's really good for some type of fine words but you can still help and you can still use it to help narrow down your product research on eBay let me know if this is interesting for you guys and I'll leave a link to it in the chat if not then just don't say anything okay so if I'll say it in the chat I'll leave a link okay next question hey there wondering if anyone else is able to get the marketplace Chrome extension to repressor items this is a technical thing so please reach out to our support highly running all out of the S members hi Vincent we have a few pretty good items that are selling a few times a day great what can we do to increase the sales quantity of items that sell regularly great okay so we have two different questions here and these are both very very good questions by Oscar and by Vincent so Oscar had a problem of I got listings on my store but I need help to make my first sell I hope that my answer will help you get your first sell at least and in the next live QA I want you to join and tell me how good it went for you and then we've got Vincent on the other side asking how can you increase the making more sales on products that are already selling for me so this is a great question and I don't know what selling channel you're using so it really depends my answer of course greatly depends on that but let's just go over them in general if you're dropshipping on eBay the product is selling well for you first of all I would up the quantity from one to two if your quantities are only one on eBay and the product is selling well I'm not sure what type of product it is but many products are sold in couples or many buyers are looking to buy more than one more than the quantity of one so first of all upgrade your quantity to more than one next add more products that are similar to that product that is selling for you I don't know what's selling for you but you need to add more products that are like it because you just found something that is selling quite well for you and this is great news now what you want to do is multiply your success by selling more items and you can do that by adding more variant more variants more variations that are similar to that one for example you can upload different specifications of the same product like a different weight different size different colors different dimensions and of course look for what is interesting in that product what problem is it solving for your buyers and are there other products doesn't even need to be similar to that but other products that solve the same problem or even a similar problem because once again you just found something that's trending quite well that probably doesn't have too much competition and you want to hold on to that as much as possible so before your competitor start grabbing you by yourself what you want to do here is add as many products as you can from this best-selling product and this way increase your chances of making more cells and multiplying them if you're running PPC ads on that product and of course this is the right time to scale your ads by adding more to your daily budget and do that gradually and slowly see where that goes analyze it every day and make sure that you've got to find that sweet spot where you are putting the most into your daily budget but also getting the most sales conversions from that once again since I'm not sure what's in China using I'm not sure which way to go but if it is on Facebook market place then you can just add more products that are similar to it pretty much like eBay but same thing goes for Shopify and Wix once again it's really hard for me to answer your questions without knowing what's on China you are using but I hope that the advice that I did give you will help you make those extra sales and I would like to hear about that in the next live QA okay there are I'm going to move over now to the live chat we're done with the Facebook community questions so let's go ahead and start with the questions in the live hello lads I remember you from the previous QA's is Amazon fixed tell me what needs what's looking for improvements on Amazon but anyway it seems like a technical issue last is there a limit on the number of listings to place on Facebook marketplace per day to not get flagged or restricted if so what is the number great question Adam so there is no flagging on the Facebook marketplace as far as I'm concerned that's just something that's happening on eBay but you can still succeed with it on the Facebook marketplace in order to not get suspended you want to you want to follow Facebook's commerce policies so if you're not familiar with them just type on Google Facebook commerce policies and go over them they don't like it when you do all kinds of things when you're running Facebook ads so you want to watch that and also on your listings on the Facebook marketplace almost the same rules apply one sec next stay away from products that you are simply not allowed to resell just stay away from them don't try selling ammunitions anything that has to do with weapons accessories to them tobacco firearms flammable liquids toys with choking hazards for babies anything that's just dangerous that could impose a danger to the person who will receive the product the recipient you should just stay away from that product even if you see that there is like no competition and so much demand for that product stay away there are tens of millions of products for you guys to resell all with a certain amount of competition and to be honest the competition doesn't really matter at least not for me I've been dropping for the last five years my first couple of years I worked really hard especially on product research annoying what products to sell and it takes a while to get that to get that moving my first sell granted did come only after three days if i'm not mistaken and i was really ecstatic about it but this is not everyone's case and it doesn't mean that i knew everything back then i'm still learning up until today especially when it comes to finding more great issues to sell on my drop shipping stores so there is no in order to not get restricted on the facebook marketplace just don't sell products that you're not allowed to sell and there is no limit to the number of listings that you can list per day i don't know if there is a limit i am uploading 30 products per day and i have no problem with that we also have a free live facebook marketplace case study on the youtube on our youtube channel where you can see everything that i did day by day the products that i sold how i was able to make more sales where i got them from how much i profited everything is 100 percent transparent there so definitely check that out and yeah that's my number i'm not sure if there is a number i'm sure that if you have a thousand listings anything like that in a day there there will be some kind of a trigger there some bot that will maybe temporarily suspend your account but i'm not sure if that even exists i can't seem to add products from the age getter alibaba specifically pcell phone accessories i have problem okay technical issue so please forward that to our technical team and see what they can do about it i'm not even sure if you're using auto ds but we still have our technical team that can help you if you are when using fulfillment on amazon can you order fulfilled by amazon fulfilled facebook mic fbm fbm or just prime when using fulfillment or amazon can you order fbm i think what you mean by this question last is can i drop ship products that are not just prime on amazon and you want to drop from amazon then the answer is yes all you have to do is let me just show you right here on a system where is it right here let's go back to the auto ds platform okay and then you want to head over to the settings and uh on the lister because we're talking about the lister so what you want to do is let's see i want to choose amazon as a supplier okay let's see where it is upload variations allow marketplace sellers if you allow marketplace sellers the mobile happiness even if the product is goes out of prime or isn't prime it will stay in stock in your store it won't go out of stock okay so that's that option there i'm sorry if you didn't see it let me just give you a huge zoom okay it's right here allow marketplace sellers under settings store settings and lister okay i am from us dropshipping to the us on ebay okay that's great and okay yeah you asked this question right here i can't seem to add products from dh get a rally baba and you are dropshipping from uh us dropshipping to us on ebay okay so once again open up uh open up a chat support ticket because it's a technical thing us to us ebay okay thank you also for answering me there last okay let's keep it going hi you and i've been i'm sorry hi you and i have the ebay store starting to have traffic okay your ebay store started having traffic my question is does facebook marketplace have auto order service i have to pay additional service or the ones that i have an ebay works to okay so hi hi gabriel i'm glad that your ebay store is starting to have traffic the most important question is are you also having to are you also getting cells and uh and do you need help making more cells uh what's your status right now how many cells are you making per day how many listings do you have okay and regarding your question uh does facebook marketplace have auto order service we are working on it and i even said in my last live to it we are working on it our developers are working around the clock to have that feature available soon so it will be available soon i don't know exactly what the date is but you will have fulfilled by amazon for the facebook marketplace and to answer your last question yes you can use your auto order credits and also your auto order subscription in your plans and add-ons the same one to also fulfill your orders on the facebook marketplace so no extra expenses for you just that eight dollars a month for processing your orders automatically and of course your auto order credits and topping up your balance to pay for your orders that's pretty much it so yeah it will be under the same service and i hope that you will enjoy that i know that i will the products and ebay store can be sent to the facebook marketplace that is a pretty good idea so if you guys have good ideas this is what i want you to do on the autodesk platform click on that circle right here on the top and click on feature request here i can request new features that i want to see on the on the autodesk system so for example let's create a search before we create a new thing to a new feature request we want to see if anybody already created that request so facebook and ebay together doesn't look like we have something with both of them but i'm not sure if the search works for both it's only checking out ebay now so let's check out facebook marketplace this is in the selling channels anyway this is live already but this is an example of a previous feature that we had a feature request that we had so joel ramirez asked us to make a monitor for facebook marketplace dropshipping 13 people upvoted that feature so if you want to vote for someone's feature click on that up arrow since many people voted for it then it went live our developers worked on it and then it went live so that is how the feature requests work and what you want to do again is search for your feature see if it exists if it doesn't then you can create that feature and once it has enough upvotes it will move over to the planned category as you can see here to that column as you see right here facebook marketplace auto order fulfilled by autodesk it's planned okay so it's not in progress yet but it's planned also dropshipping on amazon it's planned so soon you guys know that this feature will be available okay and there's more things here that are already planned then we have the things in progress or developers as we speak are working on these features the bundling option for importing products auto balance taught how fulfilled by autodesk managed orders so if in the middle of the night your orders are being processed automatically and your managed balance that you use to that autodesk uses to pay for your orders from for to the your suppliers the source prices if your balance runs down to zero in the middle of the night or while you're traveling or whatever and more orders come in they won't be fulfilled because you don't have any balance to pay for those orders so what this feature will do and it was a great idea is to simply automatically top up your balance if you have that feature clicked in and that way as soon as your balance runs out it will automatically top up using your payment method like pay or whatever and that way your orders will never stop running even when you run out of balance uh so more things that are here in progress and things that went live so live is after in progress the developers finished working on it and now it is live okay so that is basically how that works so that is a great question can the ebay products be synced to the facebook market place in any case what i would suggest for you to do is if you like those products and you want to sell them also on the facebook market place then on the product screen on autodesk just click on the source price click on the source item id that way you'll get to the suppliers website to the suppliers website for that product and add that product again to autodesk add it to your facebook market place store the importing process is really quick anyway so as long as you don't have this feature and you want to have it you can import really quickly with autodesk you know that it only takes a minute and your product will already be live on your facebook market place store okay next question is it okay to proceed dropshipping with china supplier after their government make lockdown with some city out there okay what i can that is a nice question i don't have any problems right now dropshipping from chinese suppliers i always always always recommend to work with multiple suppliers and this is the one of the biggest reasons why i always recommend on doing so chinese suppliers are not always reliable it's a different world and what within what we live in yes we can make substantial profits dropshipping from china and that is not going to go anywhere but to put all of our eggs in one basket in chinese suppliers baskets that is not the greatest idea one reason because sometimes they have problems with their government sometimes they have problems shipping out delivering products exporting them from china sometimes they have chinese holidays a few times a year where you won't be able to talk to your supplier for a couple of weeks so nobody wants to rely their business on that and that is why you should always work with multiple dropshipping suppliers so to answer your question i haven't heard of anything bad yet coming from china but do add more suppliers add us suppliers if you're dropshipping to the us add canadian suppliers if we dropshipping to canada try to keep it as domestic as you can keep everything under the same country to increase your shipping speeds decreased shipping costs and having more satisfied customers okay can you change bank account to payoneer las please ask our support team i'm not sure can you explain the auto ds wallet sure tanisha so there's already a video on our youtube channel that can give you a great explanation of how that works so our youtube channel is youtube.com slash auto ds and here you can click on new feature auto ds wallet and here i pretty much gave you a full explanation of what this wallet is and how it works so i went over it in the beginning of this live i went over some of its features if you want to learn how to connect your wallet the whole step by step process of how to connect your auto ds wallet to payoneer and start working with all of that synchronization just check out this video i did a full step by step process from the first oh and i forgot to mention of course 153 auto order credits for anyone who will try out the wallet for the first time so here i went on a step by step process of how to add that wallet and all of the steps that you need to take so please go ahead and watch that and that will definitely give you the explanation that you are looking for okay guys keep it going hey give me some likes in this video if you guys appreciate the value um i don't like asking for it so i won't but thank you can we have the suppliers for auto ds fulfillment yes let me show you the suppliers for auto ds fulfillment sharing my screen again uh fulfilled by auto ds so you can head over to auto ds.com slash suppliers and here you have all of the suppliers that auto ds supports today so if you want to know what we support um in the fulfilled by auto ds service you can click on united states okay usa these are all the suppliers that we have from the us region um basically we shouldn't have any problem even with these suppliers that not too many people are using today with the fulfilled by auto ds service as long as it's a us supplier that charges a us dollar currency we shouldn't have any problems so for example what works really well today many dropshippers are using the fulfilled by auto ds service is on aliexpress amazon walmart and holm depot that is our top four but once again we also support cga dropshipping banggood and anyone else that you want to use here as long as they are from the us and they charge a us dollar currency okay so that's regarding the fulfilled by auto ds service and experience ebay seller explain about a flyer warning that ebay put your account when you dropshipping it limits your emissions by 70 percent how do you handle that hey gabriel so you're asking great questions i i don't remember you from the life uh from the past live qa so welcome don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel you'll learn so much more about dropshipping than what i'm doing in this quick live q&a so yes ebay flagging is a thing it's been a thing for over two years now i remember the day it was april 20th if i'm not mistaken uh two years ago when ebay just flag accounts in one day anyone who's dropshipping whether you're doing retail wholesale private whatever your your account is now flagged because they want to give more visibility to people who are not dropshipping and spending a lot of money on inventory and they may be getting increased views but they also have much much much higher investment for their inventory so that is the separation that ebay did now to answer your next question limit your impressions maybe around 70 percent around 50 maybe but yeah it limits your impressions i remember that i asked my wife that same day i'm like something happened i'm like i'm clicking on the traffic on my ebay seller dashboard and everything just plummeted and i'm trying to find out why i mean i didn't make any changes to my account and you know and and i'm connected to so many dropshipping communities and i saw this problem that many people are complaining about not having as much sales as they used to now let me answer your question what can you do once your account gets flagged first you can try to unflag it by following ebay's policies and not doing retail dropshipping and working with private wholesale suppliers but the most important thing is your item location this is most likely what triggered ebay's flagging of your account so you've got your item location in your ebay listing right and if you revise it you'll see you have the ebay you have the item location you also have a zip code and ebay checks your tracking information and they check the first tracking event and they want to see where that came from and if they see that that first line of your tracking event is not connected in it's not in the same location as the zip code provided in your listing then they know that you're lying about your item location which means that they will flag your account you can undo that by using aquilines tracking number conversions i also have a video on that on our youtube channel and with aquiline they will simply make it so that your first tracking event will be the same will come up from the same location as what's in your zip code so that will fix the problem for flagging in item location policy you can also try creating a new ebay seller account okay but in this case you're going to have to start all over from the beginning and do it the right way but the ultimate solution if you have lots of lots of limits on that ebay seller account is to simply use up your limits and list as many products as you can it is a numbers game so if you have 1000 listings without a flagged account and you are making 10 cells per day now your account is flagged and you're making two cells per day okay it's it's not really 80% right but now you're making two cells per day then instead of having a thousand listings try having five or 10,000 and you'll make much more than what you did before your account got flagged and that was what happened in my case i only had 400 listings today i have several thousand and it's a much different ball game totally totally different so that's how you can handle that and automation if i uploaded $500 and sold over that will it turn to my listing out of stock if nothing else is sold yes tenisha so if ebay gives you $500 in in listing when you create a new ebay account they limit you to about 10 items and $500 if i'm not mistaken and what will happen once you pass $500 once you uploaded 10 once you imported 10 items or $500 which ever comes first and you make a sale on one of those products then what ebay will do is it will take one of your products out of stock so that you will be able to make another sale and if you do make that other sale they'll take another product out of stock and they'll keep doing that while your limits are in the red zone but what you want to do after making your first sale is get ebay on the phone and get them to upgrade your listings to as many as they can tell them that you are a big business you just started out your business on ebay you're already selling on other platforms it's working really well we want to try out ebay and you need more than 10 and more than 100 listings okay because that's just not going to be enough to make some great profit here okay so that that should be your next move yes love to have a copy of the spreadsheet okay there we go michel you asked for it so let's get it i'm gonna share that copy and to everyone who is in this live qa here you go and enjoy product research shop shipping spreadsheet click on file make a copy and and enjoy okay i'm a man of my word so there you go you got that product research drop shipping spreadsheet now let's continue where i left off it was somewhere up here it was somewhere here i answered you i answered you and michel i answered you okay so there you go you got that link yes the link would be great okay dt7 so there you go it's right now in the live chat enjoy that guys looking at my ebay store it's obvious that i'm a drop shipper how can i increase selling limits first of all it doesn't matter that it's obvious that you're a drop shipper it's perfectly fine it's been going on for 10 years now it's nothing new how can you increase your selling limits so there's a few ways to increase your selling limits let me share my screen if your account is flagged by ebay it's going to be much much more difficult so i hope that your account hasn't gotten flagged and that is why i also advise to upgrade your limits as much as possible before your account gets flagged because then what ebay does today is they don't they give you a much harder time to upgrade your limits once your account is flagged so be sure to get as many many many limits as you can before your account gets flagged before you even get drop shipping you can list products that you have from home it's one of the best ways to start off your ebay sell your account and call ebay and then they check out your listings and they see that you're just a dude trying to sell some items that you have laying around your house and they won't have any problems with that but if they see that you're drop shipping from the first listing that you imported they're going to ask you questions like where are you getting the products from they don't want to hear retailers they want to hear wholesale suppliers they want to hear that you are shipping out your products quickly and on time they want to hear that you are customer focus customer oriented they want to know about all these things and that's what they're going to check in that first call they want to make sure that you're also not going to list items and categories that they don't like new seller accounts starting off with and even electronics is not something that they like to hear i learned that off of my own experience a few years ago and that was really weird because i opened a few ebay accounts no problem at all and then when i tried to open another one and for that reason they didn't let me open it but of course i was still able to do it but you know so uh how do you increase your limits what you want to do is go through a blog page at autobs.com slash blog and here search for the word limits or selling limits whatever and you will have the search results ebay selling limits how to check better get around and increase your ebay selling limits you also have an embedded video where i went over that explanation and all of the different methods that you have to increase your ebay selling limits i'll just go over it really quick so first there is a prerequisites things that you have to make sure that you have before asking ebay to raise your limits first is make sure that your limits are in the red zone so you listed all of the items that they allowed you to list your items are also in stock otherwise the representative will tell you hey but your product your products are not in stock anyway so remove them add more products and that's it you've got more limits make sure that you don't have any open returns any cases or unresolved by a request so check out your returns and replacements okay and check out the resolution center make sure that you have nothing open there that everything was resolved to the buyer satisfaction and of course make sure that your seller level isn't good standing so you want to be above standard and yeah auto top rated of course make sure that your items are in stock i already mentioned that okay and verify PayPal account it's not as relevant anymore since today we're using more panier now once you meet those prerequisites now you can start thinking about now you can start implementing the methods of increasing your seller limits so this is how you're going to do that there's the automatic method which is when you're making enough sales and ebay just sends you an email like this one hi iran congratulations you've been doing a great job selling on ebay and we've noticed how would you like to receive even more now you can here's how much you can list now every month in this case they up my items from 370 to 710 this was way way way in the beginning and the amount from 9500 to $18,500 okay which is great so i got almost a times two on both and that helped and that's just the automatic method so if you're selling well your account isn't good standing everything is working well ebay has algorithms to see this and give you an automatic seller limit request this is of course the best way to get it done if that doesn't happen you can simply go to your ebay seller dashboard and click on request to list more once you do that the automatic system will see if you're eligible for a limit increase and send you the answer on the spot if you will get that limit increase or not the third method is to contact ebay through the phone and we definitely recommend this method and not through the chat and not through a live chat not through sending them an email and that is because they usually keep a record of all those sentences you reach out to them and then they'll wait at least one month before even checking your account again to see if they should upgrade your limits but if you contact them by phone they're most likely not recording those calls or even if they are they're not going to listen to it so there you can even try calling them every single day all right and this is how those service providers do it and you have to be really consistent until you reach out representative that will say okay you know what here you go get that limit increase if you don't really deserve it if you do deserve it you'll have a much easier time okay and of course you can try where were we how to get to them by phone so you got a few different methods over here just read the blog there's a step by step process of how to get their phone number it changes now and then and the methods also change now and then and you can also contact them through email but leave this as the last last and also from chat as the last last method because once like I just mentioned they will record those conversations and if they tell you no you'll have to wait one month before you're doing that before you can do that again okay so that's pretty much it now what are you going to do if you're not eligible for a limit increase you try reaching out to them they said no what steps should you take next so one make sure that you're eligible for a limit upgrade go over what was written on top okay go over the periodic visits make sure that you answer them okay next what you want to do is well make it more sales so if you're not making enough sales this was my dashboard from one of my previous screenshots if you're not making great sales like what you're seeing here it's a pretty good what one of the you know one of the stores that actually started selling pretty well for me back then it's still alive today by the way so if you're making more sales then all you have to do is get eBay back up on the phone tell them hey I spoke with your representatives a while ago and they told me that if I make more sales they will upgrade my limits check out my store now my items are in stock I'm complying with all of your policies so now please give me that limit increase that we talked about okay that's another way to do it try instantly again by phone so I already said that you can get them on the phone as much as you want or only after one month if you're doing it by chat or by email and that's pretty much the basic steps of how to increase your limits those are the best practices that we know of today so check out those methods let me know if it helped you my ad account is disabled what can I do so mb9 legends why was your ad account disabled mine actually was never disabled let me know what happened there with your facebook ad account what did you do there what kind of ad did you show did you do like kind of things that facebook doesn't like to see like showing them some supplements like what happens if you take this vitamin or if you take this item if you take this take this pill or take this whatever and this is my before after all it's really fat and after now I'm skinny check out this ad click now to buy those are the things that they really don't want to see but also you have to follow facebook's commerce policies I'm not sure what you did wrong and nobody will be able to give you a direct answer only you will know what you did wrong with those with that ad because you know what you did there so read facebook's commerce policies and try to avoid that from happening again we also have some videos on actually that's how to unlock your facebook marketplace account you're talking about facebook ads so it's a different thing just reach out to facebook and appeal and make another appeal and try to make an appeal every single day until the representatives finally answer you and give you that appeal but once again I don't know what you did wrong so I don't know what you need to do what steps you need to take how you do on my ad account is disabled how can I active please tell this okay so I just talked about that product research doesn't tell you if the product is available at the source for example all the express if the source is reliable something you can add maybe wait lots I think you're trying to say something here let me try to understand it product research doesn't tell you if the product is available at the source and for all the express the source is reliable something you can are you talking about our product research tool so if you want to know if it's available at the source price if you want to know if it's available at the source you mean so right now I'm using the product research tool I see a whole bunch of items but I don't know if they're in stock or not in stock at the suppliers website I think that's what you mean let me know but that if so that is a good idea of something that we should add and of course that needs to come with a future request okay and how can you tell if this Ali express if the source is reliable you can't tell that because you can see the product reviews from the product research screen so click on the product and you can see the reviews you can also read the customer's reviews directly from the product research screen and not clicking on the supplier and going to their page and looking for the reviews there so you can know if the product is reliable for sure man it kind of disabled okay that's mb9 again can I don't just roll out the order fulfillment for facebook marketplace okay so it is planned it is planned right now and as I showed you guys it's in the feature request section and it is in the plan section lots of people are actually talking about this lots of people are requesting it I'm glad to hear it I love seeing demand and being able to provide the solutions and this also creates of course better opportunities for both sides because we can provide you with the service that you're looking for and you can make more profit from that so it's always a win-win situation and believe me we want to get that featured rolling out all right how do you three times four times was it enough thanks you welcome lass oh and that's about the fifth time I will do that in the run I'm using fulfill by out of yes and absolutely love it it's a game changer for sure thank you thank you DT7 I'm also using the fulfill by out of yes service and to be honest I've been using out of yes even before fulfill by out of yes and I was even a customer and out of this before I even you know join the team so I was always really happy with the system and with how everything works just like everything else there are bugs and those bugs get fixed and then there are patches that solve problems and then more added features and I always felt like this tool was always one step ahead of the game and with the fulfill by out of yes service it just blew everything else out of proportion so I agree with you and thank you for the compliments I really take it to my heart even when you guys have negative things to say I completely understand that and just so you guys know without the hate that we won't be able to appreciate and and and put our goals more on the love and of course provide real solutions to real problems lovely system thank you lass it's nice to hear that from you too and one more thing that I would like to add to that thank you for the compliments guys usually from the way that I see the world and the way that everything works from my perspective when people want to complain about something they complain about it really quickly and on every place possible that they can't complain but when they're happy about something they usually keep it to themselves so there is not a lot that there is not a lot that would go out and compliment just like how rich people who really made it and you know they're millionaires and billionaires and trillionaires they're most of them are quite modest you guys don't know about them because they don't go out and telling the world about their problems but people on the other side on the other glass right on the other hand on the glass half empty the ones that don't have a lot of money that are trying to make it month by month and are big complainers about many things in life they don't have a problem to complain so thank you for the compliments guys and I will not waste any more time talking about that hello I just dropped in I want to ask if you guys have more variety of vendors like Shane, Chikmi, Aldis and Target hello Farahona so thank you for joining the live QA and we support Target from what you just mentioned but if you want to see some others like Shane and Chikmi and Aldis we have a feature request on AutoDS I won't share my screen again just please watch this live again and I showed you where you can make a feature request on AutoDS that is where we listen to you guys to everything that you guys want to see on AutoDS and then we actually implement it into the system so make a request for that what is the provider on mentorship program what do you mean Richard hi what do you mean and what is the provider so we have Daniel he is a great mentor he is running around 20 e-commerce stores if I'm not mistaken and he's doing it from different regions around the world he's dropshipping from X to Y using all kinds of different suppliers using virtual assistants and he'll help you get your dropshipping business off the ground from any region to any region so you can easily differentiate yourself from your competition start making sales and profit on your first day or on your first week that really depends on you I don't know if I answer your question I'm not sure what you mean by provider but you should definitely check out our mentorship program when is AutoDS going to do wholesale Blasey and God is hello from my previous lives I remember you AutoDS is moving towards wholesale that is a part of the new feature that we're going to roll out in our product research system guys these things take some time but if you've seen what AutoDS was one year ago to what it is today and what it was two years ago compared to what it was one year ago and what it was three years ago compared to what it was two years ago you guys will understand how fast things are moving here so in the day to day it may not seem so fast to you guys asking what about fulfilled by AutoDS for Facebook marketplace what about wholesale for the product research system for you maybe we it may be moving slow but if you look at the long term you'll see that we're always fulfilling out these new features and methods and that is another one that we're going to have coming out soon hello so hello oh we've got five minutes left let's run will you be hiring mentors to match time zones when mine is awake I'm asleep I would be nice to have a chat instead of emails that's a great question Michelle I'm not sure if we are right now in the process of getting new mentors but we do we should want to fix this problem so does our mentor does our mentor know about that first of all and if he doesn't please send him an email and try to find a good time zone that will make it for you guys I don't really have any more advice for that but that is a great thing to ask and let me let me ask more after this live QA and see what can be done about that how to find US suppliers other than Aliexpress on the store together okay we're talking so there are many more suppliers from Aliexpress let me share my screen so one way to see them is by simply going to outofds.com slash suppliers and here you can learn about about 25 suppliers that we have here something like that give or take and you can use all of the products from these suppliers websites so tens of millions of products okay at a glance and you can use any of these suppliers and all of the products that they have from all of their different regions okay from all of these regions to drop ship their products on eBay or Shopify or Facebook or Wix and we're going to add more selling channels soon but like WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Amazon and more but these are the best suppliers that I would recommend working with we added them because of their popularity because of their product range because of how well they are doing in the market today so you can easily automate your business you know price monitoring stock monitoring quick product importing automatic orders get all of that done okay with these suppliers and drop ship into these different selling channels so these are the best suppliers that I would recommend using but besides that you can also once again head over to our blog page at outofds.com slash blog and here in the blog make a search right here for suppliers and you'll get all of our articles on suppliers like the top 16 to use for your Shopify business from the United States top 15 European suppliers best suppliers in Florida best eBay drop shipping suppliers top 21 clothing suppliers top pet suppliers and click on show more to see more important supplier recommendations but there are more than enough so just head over to our knowledge base it is a great place to learn okay yes exactly so I guess I entered you well there last I hope is eBay strict on drop shipping Amazon items and betting after the seller doing so so Darth eBay will suspend your account if you're not providing great customer service if you're not shipping out your items on time those are permanent suspensions that's going to be hard to get back your account after that but you do have temporary suspensions which they will do when you start drop shipping from Amazon from day one you don't have to drop ship from retailers like Amazon from day one eBay at the end of the day they'll simply flag your account but you can still survive here for the long term and make those sales if you have enough product listings so eBay is strict on it does it make it impossible no but you do have to have the right tools and knowledge much of that many of that all of that which we provide in our blog channel in our YouTube channel so my recommendation is to start maybe with products which have laying around your house maybe sell with products that you have from wholesale suppliers if you're in contact with any get those limits up as much as possible even 10,000 listings if you can and only then you should start retail drop shipping you can even do it with a couple of thousands but if you do those are the big numbers but yeah so it's possible they are strict but it's definitely possible I need that I read that they will ban you and I have many items in my store on eBay okay so if you have many items in your store in eBay so you already have an established eBay account which is a good thing it's not that you created a new seller account right now and the first thing that you did was started importing from Amazon to eBay so but what will happen at the worst case from what you are saying here but it's a seasoned account from what I understand so you won't have this problem but even if they did give you a temporary suspension they simply want to verify your account details know who you're working with and what you're here to do so I already answered on how to put up with that phone call in this live so watch it if you started late but in any case you shouldn't have any problem if you already have many products in your store as you said it's probably an HDB account and you won't even have to go through any verification process just happy drop shipping so as you see they didn't ban you up until now they won't ban you unless you are not treating your customers correctly not chipping out your products on time not answering to their cases or resolutions and and and any more reasons for banning of course vero-operated items don't sell those those are temporary suspensions that you can't get out of but temporary ones are easy when will the eBay Unimi class be updated things change so fast great question Michelle and I have an answer for you we are already I already recorded some videos and I have a few more that I will record next week and the eBay course will be fully updated and up to date on average what do you guys tend to set your profit percentages and do you guys do free shipping on eBay items so I see that you're asking the people in the chat which is great after the end of life QA so I'll make it quickly don't worry about your profit percentage don't worry about others profit percentages profit percentages okay I'm working at the 50% profit range but before being charged tax for my supplier so I for example when I'm drop shipping on eBay I see that my break even is 15% and then I add another 50% profit on top of that about 10-15% from that gets eaten up from the source price tax but that's still perfectly fine I'm still making great profits but it depends what you're selling who you're selling to what you're selling to them and many more factors so there is not a scientific fact for what your break even needs to be and what your profit needs to be but however do not sell below the 20% profit margin range that is just not fit for the drop shipping business model it is a very profitable business once you get your product research intact and you know what you're selling and who you're selling it to you'll make some great profits here even more than what I just said last, Lior Posen where is he? Lior did not go anywhere he's still here he is definitely definitely still here if you want to ask him something you can just ask here and I'll make sure that he sees that question do you miss him? by sending up an amazon drop shipping item to GIFT does it erase all traces that it is amazon or just a receipt so if you drop if you mark your product as a GIFT then it will simply go in gift packaging which means that your buyer will not know how much you paid for that product but it'll still come in an amazon box your customers will not care and you will see that after you make a few for sales but it doesn't erase all traces that it was from amazon your buyer will still know but once again 99.9% will not care so don't worry about that I can see as you're asking this question because you're just getting started but you'll see what I mean once you make those first few sales do you recommend Spocket or sell who as suppliers? nope nope go to autoDS.com slash suppliers those are my recommendations and I also talked about why you won't have any problems making substantial profits and also automating your business at the same time which means you can sell even more thank you for answering my questions big fan of the channel thank you Darth Shreds and this is going to sum up this video for you guys it went over a little bit over an hour so thank you for watching don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel and we are always here to help you guys take the next step in your e-commerce business subscribe to our channel check out our blog page let me know how else I can help you and I will meet you guys in the next live QA I want you guys to have more questions ready and I will happily answer them and help you take the next step in your e-commerce empire thank you for watching