Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation with dozens of stores throughout the US. You can find just about anything related to daily use. Whether it’s groceries, furniture, toys, clothing, or shoes, you’ll find them in Walmart. As a multibillion dollar company, Walmart has dominated the retail sector in the US. It’s a great opportunity for sellers to sell Walmart products on other markets and make a living out of it. With unbeatable pricing, fast delivery, and best customer service, Walmart is the best place to dropship items from. In this article, we will look at how Walmart dropshipping by selling their products on eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Depop, Mercari, and Facebook Marketplace.
Where to Dropship from Walmart?
Before we go into the nitty gritty of listing from Walmart, let’s discuss where to sell those products? What you can do is sell those products on an existing marketplace with buyers already visiting it. For example, eBay, Etsy, Depop, Poshmark, Mercari, and Facebook Marketplace. Now, you can also create a website and host it using a personal domain, however, you will need to run ads to send visitors to your website (there are other tedious organic ways too though), which is pretty capital intensive. Instead, starting with eBay can be your best bit.
What You Need to Start Dropshipping From Walmart to eBay?
Dropshipping from Walmart to eBay is easy. All you need is an account on the target marketplace. In this case it’s eBay. In this article, we will cover eBay mostly as the target marketplace where you will dropship your products. However, the process is the same whether you sell on eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Depop, Mercari, or Facebook Marketplace.
Go to eBay and sign up for an account using this link: https://signup.ebay.co.uk/pa/crte
The process of creating an eBay is pretty basic and instructive. All you have to do is follow the on-screen instructions to create a business account and you’ll be good to go. In case you need a step by step guidelines on how to do it, here’s a video for you:
If you’re creating an account on Etsy or Poshmark, or Mercari, the process follows a pretty much similar pattern.
Do you Need an Account on Walmart for Dropshipping?
For this specific method of dropshipping, you’ll see that we do need an account on Walmart. However, it’s not for listing products from Walmart to eBay or Etsy or Poshmark. Rather, it’s to buy the item from Walmart and ship it to the customer after the product is sold. We will discuss that process later. Now you have an account on eBay already. We do suggest signing up for Walmart too just in case. You will be ordering dozens of products and updating your address accordingly.
Can you Dropship from Walmart to eBay?
Theoretically speaking, you can dropship products from anywhere and sell them on eBay. However, eBay prohibits dropshipping from a retailer. As Walmart is a retailer so you’re not encouraged by eBay to do that. There’s a workaround for this restriction. However, you need to be cautious and research the potential consequences before starting.
How to Find Hot Products on Walmart and Sell on Other Marketplaces?
You have all the information to start dropshipping from Walmart to eBay. But what you sell in the first place. This is where product research comes into play. There are various tools you can use to find in demand products such as ZIK Analytics and DSM etc. However, I have a completely different approach to finding those hot items. You can use both automatic and manual methods.
Here’s my manual method that works:
Walmart Products to Sell
Best Sellers Page: On the Walmart website, you’ll see the “Best Sellers” section. Click that and filter through different categories you’re interested in. You can start with those items first, without complicating the process.
“Trending Now” Section: There are some other sections on Walmart such as Toys or Electronics, where they have this “Trending Now” section. This section highlights what items are trending now. This is also a great way to find some hot items.
Daily Deals: Walmart has been “generous” enough to offer items at a discounted price. These can be found in the “Daily Deals” section. Not only are people looking to buy those items at a discount, which will increase the demand, but you also get them at cheaper price and make even more profit.
Customer Reviews: One of the best methods to find hot products is to see which ones are being talked about. In the ecommerce space, you can recognise them by the number of positive reviews and customer ratings. You can filter items based on a specific rating and find some good products to dropship on eBay.
Reverse Method to Find Hot Items on eBay
You can also use this reverse method of finding what best sells on the target marketplace and start selling more of those. As you will be selling the items on eBay, let’s see how you can manually find best items on eBay to then sell on there.
1. eBay Trending Section
eBay has a trending section called “Trending on eBay” which you can find on the homepage or under the “Discover” categories. In this section, you’ll find products that have high demand and are popular? Isn’t it what you want to sell?
2. eBay’s “Research” Tool
With your seller account, you can access the “Research” section by going to your eBay Seller Hub and use the “Hot Items” tool to view those top selling items in different categories. You can also filter products based on pricing, category, and rating etc.
3. Sold Items
If you have ever followed Gary Vee’s garage sale videos, you’ll know this method of finding items. You can basically look up any item on eBay and filter them by “Sold Listings.” This will show you those specific or similar items sold by other sellers.
Listing Products from Walmart to Other Marketplace
After you have done your research and know exactly what to sell, you can start listing on the target marketplace.
How to List manually?
So the manual listing method is as follows:
1. Go to Walmart website and click on the product you want to dropship.
2. Download product images, copy product title and product description.
3. Open eBay listing page and paste all images, write title, description etc.
4. Fill out all relevant details and proceed to list your item.
While this seems pretty straight forward, the process becomes pretty daunting and time consuming. Especially if you’re listing dozens of items daily. To succeed with dropshipping from Walmart to other marketplaces such as eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Depop, Mercari, and Facebook Marketplace, you have to automate the listing process.
Automate Walmart to eBay Dropshipping
To automate the whole process of dropshipping from Walmart to eBay, we will use NabPush. NabPush is a one click cross listing tool that helps you cross post items between Walmart, Target, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Depop, Poshmark, Mercari, and Facebook Marketplace. Instead of manually copy/pasting product description, title, pricing, categories and images, NabPush will do this for you in just a few clicks without doing any copy/pasting and downloading work.
Sign up for an account on NabPush here:
https://www.nabpush.com/my-account/
Once done, go to the pricing page and start with a free 7-day trial here:
https://www.nabpush.com/pricing/
The final step is to download the Chrome extension so you can start dropshipping from Walmart to eBay.
Here’s a link to download the NabPush Chrome extension:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/u/1/detail/nabpush-one-click-product/ajmmnginoegpealjpidjmcjokilheklk?hl=en
Now you have the best tool to automatically list hundreds of items from Walmart onto eBay and start dropshipping.
Go to the product page on the Walmart website and you’ll see a list of icons (eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Depop, Mercari, and Facebook). These are the marketplaces, where you can copy this item and post it there. If the items are grayed out, make sure you’re logged into your NabPush account and then refresh the product page once more to enable the icons. Now, all you need is to click the eBay icon (if you’re dropshipping on eBay). This will copy the product title, description, images, pricing, and category for you and auto fill out the listing page on eBay. All you do is watch as it does all this in 15 seconds. No download required, copy/pasting, or pricing correction needed.
You can use the NabPush profit calculator tool on the listing page to calculate how much profit you want to make and update the selling price accordingly. Once filled out the page and final checks have been done, simply list your product.
Order Fulfillment and Shipping Dropshipping Items from Walmart to eBay
So now you have listed your items and are waiting for them to be bought. Once someone buys a product, you’ll get a notification. For example, on eBay you’ll be asked to ship the product to the address after an item has been bought for a specific price. Once you have these details, go to Walmart and order the product by entering the buyer’s address as the shipping address. It’s that simple. You can also use some automation tools such as OBERLO, which can automate order placement and updating tracking information etc. However, these tools may not be fully compliant with eBay’s policies. Your best bet is to do it manually.
Customer Service and Support
Providing the best customer service is key to success with dropshipping from Walmart to eBay. While you can be upfront about your products and where you source them from. It’s important to avoid mentioning Walmart anywhere on eBay listing. Make sure to communicate with your buyer in a timely manner and update them on the tracking information. You can also build relationships with suppliers on Walmart who can give you best prices in future and reduce the friction related to dropshipping on eBay. eBay return and refund policy is pretty strict too and you’ll need to clearly outline yours to avoid any disappointments.
Conclusion
So that’s it for this article on how to automate Walmart dropshipping and sell products without storing any inventory. Rather than selling from a self hosted website, you can list your items on eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Depop, Mercari, and Facebook Marketplace. You need to research products that will actually sell. Once you know what to sell, simply use NabPush to list products on your target marketplace. And finally, provide the best customer service as this will improve your chances of making more sales with repeat customers.