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Hey everyone, as some of you may remember I make outdoor furnishings. I have been designing articles that can "break down" to easily ship and assemble. While not all my products are shipper freindly some of the newer stuff is.

I`d like to sell on Ebay but really don`t want to spend a bunch of time learning how right now, I have other things to design and build.

So the question is; does anyone here have an ebaystore that re-sells and "drop ship" for manufacturers (however small)?

If so what is the cost of outsourcing this work?

you can search here for something specific to eBay and there are more and more places that will handle everything for you (e.g., more and more self storge facilities are offering eBay services as bolt-ons; they are more one-off auctions and fulfillment only services and not storefronts).

I can`t tell if you`re asking for someone here to receive, market and distribute your  products, but that would be something I`m sure you can find and cost; it will be set and varible fees based on a lot of stuff ... you know what they say about the idea being the easy part.

We just added "Fulfilled By Amazon" as a new channel for us to take care of Amazon orders and off-lines (if we want). I like the overall idea as it gets us into a different segment of their buyers, and they can ship cheaper than us for these orders, but you still have to build and maintain a basic store with them; it`s not hard or that expensive if you get orders (duh); let me know if you want more numbers on this as I think you have to have an account to see.

Good luck and have fun. chris.