Amazon to eBay dropshipping is the easiest way to start selling online: no upfront capital in stock, no ad campaigns, no suppliers to chase.
The idea is one. You find products that already sell on Amazon, list them on eBay with a markup, and when a customer buys you order on Amazon shipping straight to their address. You never touch the product.
It is not magic, it is a volume game. Get the basics right, stay consistent, and in a few months you can build a system that pays €1,000 to €3,000 a month in profit.
Why this actually works
eBay buyers pay for convenience, they do not price-check every item. They search for what they want, click the listing that looks most trustworthy and check out in seconds.
- No paid ads to run or optimise
- No inventory or upfront stock to buy
- No supplier negotiations or minimum orders
- Low daily workload once listings are live
- Scales by increasing the number of listings
Most ecommerce models are needlessly complicated. This one is far more direct.
The 4 main steps
The workflow stays the same forever. Once you understand it, you replicate it across tens, hundreds and then thousands of products.
Find products on Amazon
Look for Amazon Prime items with solid reviews and steady demand. You are not chasing one winning product, you are building a wide catalogue.
List them on eBay
Take the Amazon product and create the listing on eBay with a markup. A good starting point is a net profit margin between 20% and 30% over the Amazon price.
When it sells, order on Amazon
As soon as a customer buys on eBay, order the same product on Amazon and enter their address as the shipping destination. The package ships directly to them.
Keep the difference
After eBay fees and the Amazon cost, what is left is your net profit. We are usually talking around €5 per sale, repeated dozens of times every day.
That is the entire model. No hidden trick: the margin comes from the price gap and the number of live listings.
What to actually expect
This is a numbers game. The more quality listings you publish, the more chances you get to sell every day. Average results follow a clear curve.
| eBay listings | Average result |
|---|---|
| 200 | No or very few sales, you are still in the testing phase |
| 1,000 | First real signal, around €100 of profit per month |
| 2,000 | Momentum kicks in, profit between €250 and €500 per month |
| 10,000 | Consistent system, profit between €1,000 and €1,500 per month |
A lot of sales only return €5 in margin. That sounds small until you multiply it by dozens of transactions a day: that is how a mature store gets to those numbers.
A typical day
Once your listings are live on eBay, daily management is minimal. 30 to 60 minutes a day are enough to keep the whole system running.
- Fulfil the orders that came in during the day
- Add new listings to grow the catalogue
- Reply to customer messages
- Refresh or relist older items when needed
The people who win are almost never the smartest. They are the ones who stay consistent long after everyone else quits.
The 4 most common issues
They are always the same and they all have simple rules. Once you learn them, they stop being problems.
Product out of stock on Amazon
If the item goes out of stock, offer the customer an equivalent product or process a quick, polite refund. Never let them wait for days.
Amazon-branded packaging
If the customer notices Amazon packaging, just say you work with multiple suppliers and use third-party fulfilment. Simple, professional, no over-explaining.
Returns and refunds
Use Amazon's official return process to get the product back. eBay expects a fast response: reply within 24 hours and protect your seller rating.
Shipment tracking
Amazon tracking codes are private: only visible from your account, not from the eBay buyer. To stay compliant you need to convert them into public tracking numbers that anyone can read. Dedicated services like Aquiline Tracking handle this conversion automatically. Later on I will show you how to get them and plug them into your workflow.
What now?
This was just a brief introduction to eBay dropshipping with Amazon: the model, the numbers and the typical issues.
If you want to take it seriously, I have prepared a complete 90-day guide to follow step by step and build a profitable store from scratch.