So what exactly is this so much talked about eBay? How can one make money online with eBay? On their website, they define themselves as “…The World’s Online Marketplace, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis. With a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses, eBay offers an online platform where millions of items are traded each day.”

As mentioned above, eBay is a large online auction forum where items of almost any definition can be bought or sold. Usually it is the highest bidder who ends up buying the item (but there are other buying options like the ‘Buy Now Option’). For you to be able to conduct business with eBay(TM), you have to open an account (register) with them. So how can one make money online with eBay? Making money online with eBay is fairly simple and straight forward. You will either have your own products and/or services to sell or alternatively you can sell other people’s products and/or services.

So where do you get these products and/or services to sell if you don’t have your own? You will have to find a reputable drop-shipping company from whom you can obtain products to sell. Drop-shipping companies sell their products at wholesale prices to its customers. Those customers (normally those conducting business on eBay) will in turn sell the products to their customers at a retail price. Their profit is the difference between the wholesale and the retail price. There is a real potential for any serious person to make money online with eBay. It is just like the way you would normally run any business. The only difference with drop shippers and ordinary wholesale businesses is that the former will normally deliver the products to the retail customers directly without going through the retailer, hence their name drop-shipping. Once you have registered with these drop-shipping companies, they will give you a catalogue of their products. All you need to do is to use the images on the catalogue to promote the products.

Remember that drop-shipping companies don’t deal with retailers directly except when they deliver the products (usually using international couriers).