eBay Dropshipping Expenses with Auto DS Automation. Is it Worth It???

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If you are an eBay dropshipper then you probably know about Auto DS. This software is used to fully automate your eBay dropshipping store. But you should consider the costs of automation and what it means for your business. You might be surprised how much it really costs!
Option 1 - USE THE SOFTWARE. If you decide to use the software then you need to make sure your prices and profits are high enough to cover the costs. This is not always as easy as it sounds because today the market is highly competitive. This is especially difficult when your account is new or your feedback is small since eBay buyers are all about trust.
Option 2 - DON'T USE THE SOFTWARE. If you don't have the money today to commit to using the software then consider some other options. This is important because it will take time to build a profitable store but the expense of this software will be immediate! This means you will spend considerable money before you even earn any profit.
So if you truly don't have the money or just don't want to spend it then here are some other options and I'm going to provide spreadsheets and/or recommend other software to help:
1) Product Listing: List products manually on eBay or use a spreadsheet to bulk list. I actually just created an automation to pull products data from Amazon in your browser which will help with bulk listing. • Get Amazon Products Da...
2) Orders: Do orders manually or use browser-automation to reduce the physical actions in ordering products. (I actually just created such an automation for this and plan to share it in the near future)
3) Tracking Shipments: Manually upload or use a cheaper software that uploads tracking numbers to eBay. bit.ly/try-tra...
This is the best software for automatically uploading and tracking your shipments from Amazon, Walmart and other suppliers. If you do the math the cost-per-tracking is way less than what you pay with AutoDS since Trackerbot provides a bulk rate. So if you do orders with your own method then this will be how you will take care of the tracking numbers.
FOR TODAY START BY DOWNLOADING MY FREE PRODUCT RESEARCH TEMPLATE. I ALREADY HAVE SPREADSHEETS AND CHEAPER SOFTWARE TO HELP WITH EBAY DROPSHIPPING. BUT YOU'VE GOT TO GET ON MY LIST SO I CAN LET YOU KNOW...
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@Sswervyy 4 месяца назад

if you're making $32,625 (after fees) and you're spending $29,363 on the products??, that means you're only getting $2.17 of profit per $25 item that is sold... you would definitely need to make those margins a lot bigger because the buy and sell prices are way too close to each other. so you would either need to sell the product at a higher price or buy the product for a cheaper price. also the average ROI's most people get on average is around 20% because no one is making money from buying something at $20 and selling it for $25.

@markteachsellers 4 месяца назад

Thanks for your comment. This is a popular software for Amazon to eBay dropshipping and so I went with the typical ROI of this model which is 10% due to high competition and the fact that the products are being bought at retail prices, not wholesale. While it is entirely possible to get 20% ROI on some orders in this model there is still the issue of volume. Higher ROI tends to lead to significantly less sales volume. And you can actually make a large absolute amount of money with low ROI if the salesvolume is high. But the target issue here in this video is how the software expense eats a significant portion of the profit. Hence, the question, is it worth it? I have left this question unanswered because I think it depends on the person.

@Sswervyy 4 месяца назад

@@markteachsellers "the software expense eats a significant portion of the profit" ya because you have a low ROI, even without the software you still have a very low ROI. you could change the price of the products that is being bought or sold by only a few dollars and your ROI would be drastically bigger. and theres plenty of things to increase your ROI and still have good sales volume like researching better prices from cheaper suppliers, addressing feedback from customers, how well you advertise and market your product, hiring more people to show off your product. ect... so the automation is definitely worth it but of course you would have to work around it like everything else. also i just did the math and if you were to buy a product at $15 instead of $20 and sell it for $25 and make 1,500 sales per month?, your ROI would jump from 10% to 30% and take home around $10K profit instead of $3K, just from that $5 difference... but of course if you dont want to work around it or change anything about your product and not do any research then auto DS isnt worth it like how you explained.

@markteach5632 4 месяца назад

@@Sswervyy So I agree and I know what you mean because I had reached good profits using Auto DS back in 2019. I'm well aware of all the methods of sourcing products from obscure suppliers etc. and even built automated Google sheets to help snipe products. But this video is meant also for those who are just starting out possibly with smaller accounts. And on eBay it is more difficult to demand high profit and get volume simulatenously on a newer account without history and feedback. And a few dollars increase in price will drop volume tremendously especially on new accounts. I have seen that raising prices by just 50 cents can completely reduce sales on a product because it is just that competitive today. And we also have to consider the desired time/money investment of the seller for doing research, hiring people, marketing etc. However, I'm also a coder so I have been able to replicate some of the functionality of AutoDS without the expenses. I dropship 1,000s of listings while using only the listing feature of AutoDS although I can also list without it. I do the monitoring with Google sheets driven by apps script and use browser automation to help reduce the manual labor on orders. I don't do detailed research nowadays and some orders do have higher ROIs at/above 20% while many are lower down to 10% or even lower but all I care about is the net profit. These days if I can earn the profit with less time, less expense and less work then that's my main goal. The software is great in terms of functionality but might not be as necessary (in it's totality) as most of us think it is. I plan to release some spreadsheets/systems/tutorials to help others see how they can dropship without so much expense.

@AJ-S 4 месяца назад

Hi, Would you recommend AutoDS to beginners that are planning to dropship items on eBay through Alibaba?

@markteach5632 4 месяца назад

Hi. AutoDS is a good software that actually works. I mean that it does what it claims to do. It lists products very well, does monitoring, auto orders and shipment tracking for some suppliers etc. So as long as it works with that supplier I would say it is a good option. You just need to understand how to set your repricing wisely and consider the effects of profit vs. volume. Hope this helps.