Question about selling on ebay? Need answer as soon as possible.? -

Ok I m new to selling things on ebay, and i was going to sell my old electronics. Well I was in a conversation with a recommended seller on ebay, and he told me how he became successful at selling on ebay. He told me that when selling on ebay, you don t necessarily need the product you where selling. He sad that you would list a product on ebay at a price, and go find it cheaper on a different website. Then when somebody buys the product, you go back to the website that you found the product cheaper at, and you send it to the buyer. So you should be a making a $20 profit or more each time. I was wondering if this was illegal.

Hello there,Is this legal? Depends on how you do it. There are a great many factors that must be covered to protect yourself. Whoever you spoke with made it sound much simpler than the problem actually is. This is a business venture and you must do the same things you would do to set up any business venture.Later,

Course you can, that s how business works, if you re making a $20 per item and you sell enough of that item then go for it, I wouldn t have thought it d be that hard. I d be concerned however, that once the item makes it to the buyer they see it s been purchased cheaper from the invoice, that s your main concern.

It s not illegal it is unethical. There is a form of merchandising called drop shipping which allows you to sell NEW merchandise as if you owned it - but you have an arrangement with the MFG to ship to your customer, after you have received the funds for the product. This may allow you to pay MFG with your credit card, to assure shipment to your customer. What you are asking about doing can be done, but how many shoppers on ebay, wouldn t know that they could purchase the item at wholesale (or a lower price)? if they just looked around a bit? In order to earn a living on ebay, you must be able to sell in volume and have a good reputation also. People do complain, about the items sent, and if you have too many complaints - Ebay and also Pay pal will shut you down.