Dropshipping On OfferUp | Shipping Available

About this video

RJ Martinez explains a new dropshipping opportunity on OfferUp after the platform added shipping. He is candid that he had listed roughly six to ten products, received a message within five minutes asking if an item was still available, but had not yet made a sale when filming. The model is middleman arbitrage: a buyer pays through OfferUp, you then buy the same item from a supplier such as Walmart or Amazon and have it shipped to the customer, uploading tracking. He demonstrates reverse-image searching a listing in Google Chrome to find its source, showing a tent listed at a higher price on OfferUp that matched a cheaper Walmart listing with free two-day shipping, and walks through estimating tax and margin. He notes keyword titles work much like eBay, that OfferUp’s search-bar suggestions reveal what shoppers search for, and that listing had to be done from a phone with screenshots because desktop listing was not yet available. He also says enabling shipping failed for his smaller city, so he set a larger city, Los Angeles, to unlock it, and admits he was unsure about fees, having seen a possible 8%.

Key takeaways

• Use OfferUp’s new shipping option to dropship beyond print-on-demand, acting as the middleman between the buyer and a retail supplier.
• Right-click and Google-search a listing’s image in Chrome to find the cheaper source product on Walmart, Amazon, or similar sites before pricing your own listing.
• Write keyword-rich, general titles the way you would on eBay, and mine OfferUp’s search-bar autocomplete suggestions for researched listing ideas.
• Creator admits he had not yet made a sale and was unsure about fees, so treat his margin examples as estimates to verify, not proven results.
• Listings had to be created from a phone using screenshots, and setting a larger city may be needed if shipping is not enabled for a smaller city.

Episode details: published April 8, 2019 · 15:39 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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