- Hi, guys, Neil Waterhouse.
In this week's quick video,
I'll show you how to automatically
stop overselling eBay dropship items
in just six steps using Scarcity Manager.
When dropshipping on eBay, Amazon,
or any other marketplace,
it's critical to continually check
your supplier's inventory levels
for every item that you've got listed
so that you don't continually get yourself
into a situation of selling an item
and then discovering that your supplier
is out of stock of the item.
For this reason,
it's critical that your supplier's inventory
is checked at least twice per day, 24/7/365.
But the good news is, these days,
this could be fully automated using software,
as I'll show you in this quick video.
Back in the old days before software was available,
we used to do the supply inventory checking manually
using overseas virtual assistance.
Our strategy back then was our VAs
would check the supplier's inventory in batches of 200.
We did 200 'cause we discovered back then
if the VAs checked more than 200 inventory items at a time,
their percentage of mistakes would rapidly increase.
This is another big reason
or another big advantage of using software.
No human error.
Another big advantage of software is cost.
If you're paying, say, $1 per hour,
and you have, say, 100 dropship items listed on eBay,
the cost is there for $1 per day to check 100 items,
or $30 per month.
And that's only checking the supplier's inventory levels
once per day.
If they check twice per day, that's $60 per hundred items.
If anybody's new to this channel,
my name's Neil Waterhouse,
and I've been selling on eBay for 24 years.
I'm the author of "Million Dollar eBay Business From home"
and creator of Dropship Formula.
So let's launch into it.
Let's say this is your eBay listing for a skeleton,
and this is your supplier.
First, log into your Scarcity Manager account.
If you don't already have a Scarcity Manager account,
you can set up a free trial account to test it out.
I'll put a link on the screen
and at the end of this video and below.
Note that Scarcity Manager, or SM, as we call it,
now offer an eBay API and eBay non-API solution.
If that sounds like gibberish, don't worry.
It just means you can choose
whether you want to have Scarcity Manager
automatically update your eBay listings for you
or you can have an app on your computer
that automatically makes the eBay inventory updates for you.
If you want to know more about that,
I'll also put a link at the end of this video.
Okay, so once you've set up a Scarcity Manager account
and linked it to your eBay account from the SM homepage,
do a search for the product
that you wish to have SM do the inventory checking for.
For this demonstration,
I'll search the keyword "skeleton" to find my listing.
Next, click on supplier to reveal the three supplier fields.
Now copy the supplier URL from your supplier.
And note that the URL is shown at the top of your browser
when you're looking at the relevant item
at your supplier's website.
In this case, the skeleton at Dropshipzone.
Copy and paste this URL into SM
into the supplier URL field.
Next, copy the SKU from your supplier,
and again, paste it into the SM SKU field.
Next, click Save.
Next, check the Enable Supplier Inventory Checking checkbox.
And the last step is to click
the orange Enable Scarcity Manager button.
Note that the orange button will turn green
when it's enabled.
And that's it.
SM will now automatically check the supplier's inventory
24/7/365.
If the supplier runs out of stock,
SM will automatically make the eBay listing go to zero.
And when the supplier gets more stock,
SM will again automatically
add more stock to your eBay listing,
even while you're sleeping.
If you want more information
about SM's new eBay non-API app,
make sure you check out this video up here.
If you need a link to SM,
I'll put a link on the screen and below.
That's all for this week.
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Until next week, stay safe. List more, sell more.
This is Neil Waterhouse.