I'm assuming most people buy things online through amazon and the like instead of someone's drop shipping site.

I keep hearing about dropshipping on the internet; Everyone is saying they are making six figures, but I am skeptical. If this works with Amazon or any other website, can you refer me to a resource or explain the steps so I can test it for myself?

Thank you!

Hey everyone,

I recently had the chance to interview someone who's absolutely crushing it with Amazon dropshipping—he's pulling in $250,000 a month. I thought I'd share some key takeaways from our conversation for anyone interested in the world of e-commerce.

1. Finding Winning Products: One of the biggest challenges he mentioned was finding products that have a high demand but low competition. He spends a lot of time on product research, using tools like Jungle Scout and Helium 10 to identify trends before they blow up.

2. The BIGGEST TAKE AWAY: I have known this dude for many years and the biggest difference that I have found with him that is different than many other people was the time he took to find suppliers that will fit the amazon dropshipping policy. Honestly I think this is his biggest advantage.

3. Scaling Operations: What really impressed me was how he scaled his business. He didn’t just throw money at ads—he focused on optimizing his supply chain, negotiating better deals with suppliers, and automating as much as possible to handle the volume.

4. Dealing with Amazon's Policies: He also shared some hard lessons learned from dealing with Amazon's strict policies. He talked about the importance of keeping up with policy changes and maintaining a solid account health score to avoid getting suspended.

5. Mindset and Hustle: Finally, he stressed that the dropshipping game is not for the faint-hearted. It's a constant grind, especially when you're aiming for high numbers like his. But with the right mindset and a willingness to learn, it's definitely possible.

If you guys want to see the interview I will post it on request.

Have any of you tried dropshipping on Amazon? What challenges have you faced, and what strategies have worked for you? Let’s discuss!

Dropshipping is a heavily over saturated industry. You have either come in with a ton of marketing knowledge or a ton of cash to market to really get anything worth waking up everyday for off the ground. Why don't more people sell on eBay or Amazon? Or do they? And they're just not in this sub?

About to try drop shipping, I know everyone probably uses Aliexpress or private supplier but I was wondering what are the legal challenges and ramifications doing it through Amazon?

I was reading you can't use certain brands like Adidas of buying for like 25$ then reselling for 35?

Right now I don't have a customer base but with google ads/facebook ads I think it can work. Its going to be a lot of backend stuff at first. Lets say I get Woocommerce and I list a bunch of brands, the customer buys for $X on my website, I buy on amazon for $cheaperX, then ship it to him, make a small profit...any legal challenges I might face?

Also if I go through amazon, would you recommend I ship it to my location first then redo the box/shipping label so they don't know I'm buying from amazon?

Another problem I'd face with this is delayed shipping times because I have to ship the item twice?

Reason for not using Aliexpress is personally I think all that stuff is just cheap junk, not all but most.

I am going to start selling a new product very soon. The cheapest place I can get the product is on Amazon and with the quicker shipping times, it just makes sense.

In a perfect world, I could buy the product from Amazon whenever (if) I get orders. I would make money and so would the person on Amazon. Seems like a win-win. But I felt like something could go wrong with it (seems too good to be true). Has anyone else done this? Were there problems or was it smooth sailing?

And before someone says dropshipping is not a sustainable business, I know. I am just in the testing stage. Let's say I get 50 orders, I will be purchasing the product in bulk and doing the fulfillment myself.

I have found some items that I see off of Amazon could be cost-effectively fulfilled by Amazon for less than I can buy them. For example, with their prime shipping it cost me more than to buy and ship on my own.

Is there a method I could use to enter an order on Amazon to have them fulfill on my behalf, either deliver in a brown box or treat it like a "gift" so the buyer doesn't see the prices I paid?

Example:

I get an order for an item for $10 but I bought it for $8. Amazon will currently fulfill on with Prime for $9. They drop ship the order for me. My cost for direct fulfillment is more than $2 so having Amazon fulfil is more profitable.

This isn't actually hypothetical -- I found multiple examples where I'm already capturing customer orders at the higher price, charging shipping, and could improve my own profitability when I suspect that Amazon item is likely a loss leader for them.

So I was wondering, with the long shipping times of Aliexpress hurting my business, is it possible to find the same product on Amazon, and just have it shipped to my customers address? Should I message the person on Amazon to check that they support dropshipping? Thanks

Started selling on Amazon last week and hit 25 orders selling supplements ($750AUD revenue). I am based in Australia and it’s heading to the winter months (great time to sell supplements).

Should I scale to Shopify in the future or continue with Amazon? I’m not doing FBA so it’s 100% dropshipping from Alibaba.

Any suggestions.

I’m fully prepared you get flak from the usual users on here selling their dropshipping services/courses and YouTubers — the point of this post to provide info to those thinking about starting Aliexpress>Amazon dropshipping and provide a save space for discourse.

Before I begin, what I say below pertains particularly to that specific pathway of dropshipping that many companies try to sell you on (like AutoDS, YouTubers, Amzscout)- I’m not going to be discussing the other pathways like Shopify>”Ad-promote entirely to get sales” or parroting the often said dropshipping is dead.

The key issue on selling on Amazon is how saturated nearly every product catalog category is and how many branded items there are that are “duplicates”.

In other words, for folks not getting it, when you look at what’s on aliexpress or others, you’ll see 20 listings for the same item — maybe a couple of those are “legit”, the others make slightly more 5-10% simply by arbitrage (which of course is what you’re also trying to do).

Then you go to Amazon, you basically do the same thing. For any product with decent margins you’re going to find from China, you’ll always find 5-20+ “brands” selling it. Most of these brands are simply resellers like yourself, but they’ve legitimized themselves, likely FBA-route if it’s a good product (which you can’t compete with) and “gated” their product best they can so you would have to request approval to them in order to sell the same thing, which if course they won’t approve, why would they?

You’ll then MAYBE find a couple generic listings where you can technically list your product under them but they’re not going to make much if anything at all and it’s not a winning proposition for the time it takes to do this, and frankly you’re not providing much of a value proposition to Amazon and they don’t want your duplicate items on their market so they’ll likely axe you at some point.

The only way to win, is to find a good product early enough, preferably outside of Aliexpress, and go the harder route through brand registry and “brand it up” like they all do, if you really believe in it— you go ahead and put down capital expenses to buy it in bulk and FBA it before your competitors do, but you’ll find that your competitor workflows are really quick and they’ll swoop in to undercut and get any piece of that pie and in months you’ll have 10+ branded sellers in your product niche and eventually Amazon who you can’t compete with if your margins are good. But hopefully you’ve made some decent money in that timeframe and have some albeit lower residuals that keep coming.

I just want folks to understand the realities of what selling on Amazon is really like these days rather than a pipedream being sold. Simply doing “trending products” from Aliexpress to Amazon isn’t going to do it.

FWIW, I’ve got nothing to sell you, I’m just a full-time software dev who looked into this the past few months as a venture like most on here and wanted to give feedback. I’ve got a busy Saturday planned, so don’t expect a whole lot of replies but I look forward to seeing any discourse.

Curious if anyone is still doing Amazon Dropshipping and any advise you can give for someone who want to get started. Thank you!

Not in the sense that I send Items from manufacturer to buyer,

I would buy the Items in bulk, test a few out for functionality and quality and then try to sell them on Amazon.

Question is.. how easy is it to sell on Amazon as an Individual (rather than a company)

And secondly is it possible for me to ship my Items straight to an Amazon Warehouse and have them take care of the shipping?

(Would these Items if shipped to an Amazon Warehouse be eligible for Prime?)

for context: I wanted to sell a portable neck fan since it's summer. However I checked that same product on amazon and there were tons of listings already selling the product or similar to it. I'm pretty new to dropshipping and my goal is to start dropshipping and transition to Amazon FBA. Anyways the real question is , why would anyone buy from my store instead of going to amazon and finding that product ?

Hi expertise enterpreneurs, i've found some negative voice in dropshipping since the beginning of this year. Negative blogs about dropshipping, less people in this community online...Is dropshipping dead？

How do people do it without packaging being an issue? Do they like tell the person selling not to package it in amazon boxes?

Please say yes or no and explain your answer.

How did they get away with it? A whole shop full of products with Amazon photos and a price markup of over double what Amazon is selling it for. Buy it on eBay it arrives in a prime package. Is eBay okay with this?