[mrswahm]

I will ramble a bit on this topic as there is much to say about dropshipping. I will also provide and eBay seller who is successfully dropshiping products on ebay – See bottom of my rant-

Remember the old saying about thinking out of the box? This is truly what one must do in order to find success online, especially selling on eBay. Forget about the thousands of dropshippers out there who are advertising the same products!

I know of several large multi-million dollar Ecommerce websites that do not stock a single item; they have several suppliers who ship merchandise for them! They do not use dropshipers that charge a “program fee”, in fact most the suppliers that they use were sought out and not found in some dropship directory.
You can be successful finding suppliers and using the dropship model to ship from virtual warehouses across the country, but it takes great effort on your part to set up a fulfillment arrangement.
Call on prospective wholesalers, distributors and manufacturers and let them know you are interested in selling their product line. Make sure they understand that they have one responsibility, which is shipping. Your company will handle the sale and follow up with customer servicing of the account!
The key to a successful dropship arrangement is spending the time needed to source unique products and selling the concept to your source about the advantage of having an outside sales team sending orders daily!

Look up eBay seller mcgrrrrr - This is a fellow names Skip Mcgrath who is a best selling author of many eBay "How To" books. He is also an eBay certified instructor.

Skip has set up dropshipping arrangements with several manufacturers and you can see this from his auctions for Fire Pit Grills.

You can do this as well, but you must do the leg work involved in finding a unique product and making an agreement with a manufacturer.