This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Bingo, one o'clock, block. This is Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel. And today we're going to talk about, gee, I guess it's Think Tech Asia, because Xi Jinping is so clearly involved. Russell Hanma, the author of the APEC Master Plan, right here with us today who follows all the diplomatic events, international relations, and meetings, all kinds of meetings. Welcome to the show, Russell. Yeah. Thank you, Jay, for inviting me. I know today is a very important subject. I know that all the G20 leaders are all meeting in the Ernest Harris, Argentina for the Economic Summit meeting with the leaders. So I know there's a big, crucial concern between the U.S.-China relationships. I know that President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping is going to meet on the sidelines. So that would be interesting how they're going to try to resolve this issue. No, he's warming up to it. He hasn't given any slack on the existing tariffs. He said he's happy with the existing tariffs. I'm talking about Trump. And then he has threatened another $260 million billion, excuse me, of additional tariffs going into the meeting. It's a way to make friends, you know. So let's talk about that meeting. Is that meeting going to happen? Is that meeting set up so that it's likely to succeed in some way? And what will they talk about? I think if you look at it, I know David, the trade delegates between the trade officials, both China and the United States are United States trade representatives office. Robert Eisenhower has a, we have a trade group there, discussion with the Chinese officials already. This has been going on since last year when we tried to work with China prior to that bringing the tariffs on board. So I think the key issues are going to be, I know, like you said, there's a lot of ramification impact from the tariffs that Donald Trump imposed with his executive over. It all started from the aluminum steel kind of tariff, 10% of the aluminum, 25% of the steel. Agricultural products. Right. And the farmers in the Midwest are starting to lose confidence in him. And I think we had a lot of ramification because like I said, our agriculture, our farming industry, especially with soil beans, our cattle, our poultry, that we can be exporting abroad. And a good thing is some of those things that we're going to export to China, where China was going to extract it out from our, because of imposing our tariffs. We kind of diverted, just a lot of them went to some South American countries or even to European Union, especially with soil beans. Yeah, yeah. Well, they can get them somewhere else and other countries are happy to supply them. It's a vacuum and make a lot of money. But you know, one thing is, it's my impression, either confirm or reject, but my impression that when Trump started to impose all these tariffs, especially on China, he kept on increasing them. There's never been a time when he, you know, rolled the back. It's always forward. It's always more, it's always more products and more money. Am I right? Yeah, I think if you, I guess how the Trump administration is moving forward, trying to work out the deal with China, we want to impose the tariffs just to make sure that we want to balance the trade deficit. I think we had all like over $500 billion trade deficit. So I think right now when he imposed all those trade deficits that in order to balance it, I think just that we did the numbers and the U.S. consumers and Commerce Department looked into it and said that there's about three, but impact is going to be about $360 billion so far without a terrorist debt. So in other words that, but tip to tat, China is trying to impose all these tariffs just to make up on the deficit. Yeah, so it's a war. Exactly. So what's happening? Is it working? I think from this point of view, when I look at it in the long run, I think it's sooner or later because of law, dimension and returns, there won't be another marginal benefit. If you keep on imposing tariffs, eventually we're going to have a negative impact and you've already seen that with our general mortars, with the auto vehicle industry. Well, let's talk about that. And they're going to be closing four factories and 180,000 jobs going to be lost because there's going to be four factories. They're going to close one in Mexico, one in Canada. And I think there's going to be the rest going to be in the U.S. or the manufacturing plant. So because of the price of the steel and imposing tariffs on that. So you might see a lot of these impacts from the multinational companies that were manufactured that rely on raw materials from China. And he's mad at them already. They should reject their business analysis, keep those factories open and lose money. So I mean, if you look at his international tariff and trade policy, it hasn't helped General Motors. And General Motors is obviously there in some distress that they should close all those factories and put all those people on the street. This is bad for the country. What do they say, Russell? It's coming back to me. General Motors goes, so goes the nation. This is not a small thing. Yeah, I think, yeah, because I know that GM was investing a lot in Asia. I know they're trying to set up manufacturing plants. And not only General Motors, but even Ford, Chrysler, even our Boeing corporation, they're going to start up some kind of manufacturing fuselage for their 737, 787. That's been undermined seriously now. Now they're taking that back out. And so everything's kind of whole because we don't really have a technology transfer agreement with China yet. So we need to impose that. And hopefully, after this tariff thing with the trade negotiation goes, it might take a while, but the working groups got to set up some kind of time frame of phasing out the tariffs on the schedule. Some of these things are permanent things.  You can't put Humpty back together overnight. So that's a one-way street. And I think to the extent that this whole arrangement with him has damaged GM's possibilities of selling outside the country, that's not a short-term deal. That's a long-term deal. So the damage to GM is long-term. Yeah, I think so because you look at some of these parts of materials, they hire a lot of these subcontractors. They bring up these automobile parts of materials. And a lot of them are manufactured and overseas where labor is cheap and a lot of them come from China. So you see that kind of impact. So the pricing structure is going to change. And I think they might, from x-factory price to wholesale, from wholesale to retail price. So there's going to be some markup prices. And I know that there's a concern about trucks. I know that I guess this morning our administration, I guess our president, made a press release saying that we're going to try to put more tariffs on the automobile parts from China. So that's like, right now they're like pickup trucks. We're paying a lot of things that's brought in. There's 25% tariffs. So that puts more stress on the automobile industry here. American automobile manufacturers, am I right? Yeah, if they're going to actually build in overseas and bring it back to United States, that would be a problem. But if we're going to manufacture it in the US soil, 100%, then export it out. And then we can benefit on that one. Right. And to say nothing about all the parts suppliers that are American parts suppliers, who are going to be out of work soon because all those factories close, they'll have no market at all. What a great thing he's done. It's really impressive. So if I go with him, you know, to Buenos Aires in Argentina, by the way, let's take a moment and sing the song. What is it again? Don't cry for Argentina. No, we should cry for America. Not Argentina. Go ahead and sing it. Go ahead. Well, you know, I don't think I could sing it, but I don't have the big lungs there. But I want to clarify that neither Russell nor I can sing. OK, so what's going to happen in Buenos Aires? Got G20. Talk to me about what is G20, and why are they meeting, and who's involved, and how likely are they of reaching some success?  You know, that you don't really get anything done if you have all those people trying to do economic agreements. No, not necessarily. There's actually 20 countries who are civilized, or industrialized nations. Just like we have our G7, G8 summit meeting, but these are G20. And I think if you have the top 20 countries, you're going to have more saying, because they're not only the Western ally countries. And you're going to see countries from India, Indonesia, China, South Korea, Japan. We're not going there to deal with those countries. I know, but maybe they'll talk to each other. You got the European countries as part of the G22, with the European Union. So I think you're going to see more voice and concern. And a big concern with the platform of the agenda, I know that when we had our APEC conference in November, the joint statement from the leaders of the 21 countries, they didn't come up with a joint statement, because they were so influenced because of US-China trade relationships. No general agreement on anything. So they couldn't do anything, because they don't want to pick sides with the China or the United States. But I think in this G20 summit, they're all concerned about the similar thing, where between US-China relations, it's going to overtake the platform. But if you look at the platform of G20, we're going to be talking about our climate change. Make sure all the leaders follow. Well, the US has a very clear position on climate change as far as this administration is concerned. It isn't happening. So what kind of a conversation can the rest of them have on climate change when the United States is not part of that conversation? I think those countries are going to be moving forward anyway, besides the United States. From the US point of view, we've got our private sectors already developing these products for energy alternative sources. We're in good hands. What? Never mind. We've got our wind power. We've got our solar power. We have a geothermal. We've got all these alternatives. Electric cars are doing good. The world, though. Climate change is global, Russell. OK, so let's look at Trump. Let's follow him around. He gets to Buenos Aires tomorrow. And he has meetings. The meetings start a couple of days after that, to the extent he has meetings. And the big meeting is Xi Jinping. What is he going to say in that meeting? And what is Xi Jinping going to say to him? Take us there, Russell. I think this morning, according to the press release, Donald Trump did speak with Xi Jinping already on the phone. And they were going to discuss about it. But when he left Washington, DC, to go on his Air Force One, to go taking a flight to Argentina, he mentioned that he likes that China doesn't come out with a concrete measure. He's going to stay with the tariffs. Because right now, tariffs are he's bringing in billions of dollars into our resources in the US Treasury's department. So he thinks that the tariffs kind of burn. I hadn't heard that, yeah. But I think in terms of we've got to see what the working group is going to be coming up. Not only between the leaders, but we've got to rely on the working group. What's a working group in the context of a G20 meeting? I think you've got our trade officials, our American trade officials, trade officials from other countries like China. Exactly. And they meet. And they've already been meeting in the past. So they've just got to come up with a concrete measure of how to approach this tariff thing, some kind of phasing out, period. Some leaders are saying that maybe we should postpone the tariff for right now until we resolve the issues. So in other words, picking off the tariffs, like, say, we'll go back to what happened two years ago. Well, you mean take them off? Yeah, take them off until we resolve it, because there's so much ramification impact right now, globally. He didn't say that. He said they're going to put more tariffs on. Yeah, but he didn't say that. But I think some of the other trade officials are kind of suggesting. The whole tariff thing is his initiative, Russell. Doesn't he control it from day to day? Yes, he does that. So I think that's another ways in order to persuade Donald Trump or try to make him realize what the consequences are. I think the China side, under GZPING's trade delegations, got to come up with a concrete measure, making sure that they are going to be working together. They're going to be some kind of phasing out, period. And they're going to be invest. Good example is one. In order to resolve, there's three issues on this with U.S.-China relations. One is a trade and tariff issue and how to resolve it so that we can have this technology transfer agreement so we can work with China. The second is freedom of navigation. There's a big problem right now with all these man-made island-sized China seas. And just recently, they had an incident with Taiwan, the China Naval Force, and the U.S. is sending our fleet over there now and going around the South China Sea right in the Petroleum. These are not happy times. So my suggestion is on the man-made islands, on the 9-9, they can all open up to the international community. China can say, hey, we got this man-made island that we built. We're going to have restaurants. We're going to have merchant marines can come here. They can rest. They can have some kind of safety-free mall. Or anything to open up to the general, to the international community, that they're not going to be using that as a post or military purpose. OK, that's going to give them a change of China. I think that's just a perfect time to segue into it. Exactly. And the third is the humanitarian aspect. Let's take a short break. And Russell has an idea that has as much chance of surviving as I can possibly imagine. What are you even smoking? Never mind. We'll take a short break. We're going to come back very soon. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Truth is, I'm impressed. I haven't been asked such intelligent questions in a long time. Thanks. So we'll do it. Hello, I'm Yukari Kunisue. I'm your host of New Japanese Language Show on Think Tech Hawaii, called Konnichiwa, Hawaii, broadcasting live every other Monday at 2 PM. Please join us, where we discuss important and useful information for the Japanese language community in Hawaii. The show will be all in Japanese. Hope you can join us every other Monday at 2 PM. Russell, it's not going to. It might happen. Back with Russell, he's really exercised about this. So Russell, you mentioned that there was supposed to be this agreement on technology transfer. I mean, if you were there, and if you had any control over this, you would suggest we try to make that agreement with China. What is that agreement supposed to look like? I think if you look at the technology trend, it was started from the technology information agreement, where we were sharing information, make sure there was going to be meeting the right IT information technology agreement. If you do proceed, make sure you pay your intellectual property rights and all that kind of infringement of copyrights. So those kind of things got to be included in the technology transfer agreement. In whose interest does that work? I mean, does that work for the US, or does it work for China? Who wins by an agreement along those lines? That is a very important agreement, because between US and China, for example, let's look into our space technology. I know China has their international space center station. China has their own little moon jade space station. And they're all working separately, but I know between NASA and the Chinese space program over there, they want to work together for the Mars mission or the moon development. So I think in terms of technology transfer agreement, if you want to bring the space technology together, so China working on one way, we have our international coalition of group working on the international space station. If they can work together with the resources, I think that'd be a better way of approach. I sure hope so, from your lips to Trump's ears, so to speak. Well, OK, let's put that aside for a moment and look at the larger context. It seems to me that there are only two meetings of major consequence in Trump's visit to Buenos Aires. One of them is China, where he's building up more and more attention. And they are too. They are too. They're getting tougher too. And then Russia, with whom he has this love-hate relationship. God knows what the bottom of that swamp is. But now with Putin, it gets very complicated with Putin. Putin is making very aggressive moves in the Ukraine. Not only shutting down Ukrainian shipping, but seizing ships in a location through those straits there. Kurtz, I think it is. And the Kurtz straits, where he's going to strangulate them in terms of their shipping. He's already taken a good part of their geography. And now he's going to take their economy. They must be really upset about this. And then Trump says, well, he made a meeting with Putin. And then he terminated the meeting with Putin. And then he made a meeting again with Putin. The meeting in Buenos Aires. And then he terminated it.  And the present condition of it is off. Is this directly related to the Ukraine, or is it something else? Could it be related to the Russia investigation in this country? Why is Putin having so much trouble making his mind up as to whether he wants to have a meeting with Putin? I think the meeting was canceled because of our president, Donald Trump, mentioned that because of what happened with Ukraine and Crimea. And one day, I think there were some couple of sailors from Crimea, Ukraine, that was overtaken by the Russian navy. And so they haven't returned them back yet to the Crimea or to Ukraine. So this is in protest. Yeah, so they're actually kind of integrating them still. So what happened was our administration thought about it and said that, hey, if they're not giving them a freedom to return the sailors from Ukraine, we're not going to have this meeting. So that's why we canceled the meeting. Because that's not going to stop Putin. Yeah, so I think a relationship between US and Russia is very important, too. Not only China, but because of our past history, our nuclear arsenal, the Cold War issues, those kind of things. So we need Russia to work together, especially with the issue with North Korea still, because there's the Communist Party within China, North Korea, and Russia. They've got the triangle of the Communist Party. Well, on North Korea, although we haven't seen much news about it, and Trump has trumpeted that everything is swell in North Korea, fact is the satellites show the North Koreans are still doing it. They're building missile launching sites in various places in North Korea. So although there's not that much breastfeeding coming from Kim Jong-un, fact is they're doing it like they were doing it before. So I'm not sure you can say that Trump has succeeded in that element of his foreign policy. Maybe he's confused us and deceived us, but he hasn't actually achieved anything there. In terms of our relationship with Russia, this is a great concern that Russia is back at it in the Crimea and in the Ukraine. And it doesn't sound like putting the meeting on and taking it off and putting it on and taking it off is going to have any salient effect on Putin's strategic policy in that area. We're at great risk in running a fowl of Russia, of having a real contention where the love and the hate turn into hate. So what's going to happen? I mean, if he doesn't have a meeting with Putin, how can we resolve this tension? I think it's already getting between the North and the South Korean. We want to let the Koreans resolve the major issues. I know that Kim Min-un and Moon Jae-in of the South Korean president is working together right now. They have a unification committee there. And he has seen that even with the POWs, MIS, from the Korean War, they didn't return some of the verdicts of the remains. So I'm sure that- Is that important? Yeah, exactly. We did identify a lot of these missing in action soldiers. When you compare that to running nuclear missiles- Yeah, before, it doesn't seem to me to be very important. I know, but before they didn't even give us a chance of giving back the missing in action remains. But now, they even blew up their own old facilities. So it's a start. I think in the Korean way or the Asian way, they're going to take their time and see. But to me, still, they're moving forward, but slowly. And I think at the end of the day, we'd like to see the North and the South Korea work together. Yeah, oh, sure, but it doesn't seem like we're close to that. Yeah, it doesn't take, that's not going to happen overnight. South Korea would love to see- Is South Korea going to be part of the G20 meeting? Oh yeah, they're part of the G20. So maybe Trump can talk to them there, or at least his team can. So what do you think? I mean, they're going there, there's a lot of people involved, there's a lot of press involved, a lot of Trump's bluster so far. And it's deep water in dealing with Xi Jinping, in dealing with Putin, whether he deals with it or not is an open question. But what do you think is going to happen here? Is this as historic a meeting as I think? Is this going to result in any day-to-mom that we can have and treasure going forward? Is this going to make the world safer for America or not? I think if you look at the location and to be realistically being on a Saturday night, having a dinner in Argentina where they've got the tango and all that. You tell it makes romantic. It might be hard for making a deal right there, but it's going to take a while. But they can kind of gesture to the working group people, say, hey, this is the way we want to approach it. And maybe from there, it's going to take time. It's not going to happen like, hey, the issue is so important right now, the US-China relation with the trade. So we've got our number one and number two countries in the world battling it out. We want to make sure that we do it right and so that we can continue on. And as you know, we've got world leaders. You know what leaders got to do? They have to be the problem solvers. They got to resolve the problems of the world for our human race here. But I think this was G20. And I wish President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to come up with a better measure and see if we can come up with a working group or better agenda and see in order to bring the world peace. Yeah, I'm with you on that. I mean, I hope there's something good come of it. You know, one of the things that I'd like you to assume with me for a moment, just for a moment, is in Argentina, despite the romance and the music and the tango and what have you, and don't cry for Argentina, cry for America. Let's assume nothing much happens in Argentina. There's a lot of posturing, okay? But no deals are made. And everyone says that the United States is not capable of making an agreement with China or Russia. Nothing happens, okay? These meetings, I never know when they're gonna happen. Do you know when they're gonna happen? Like the G20's like popped up. So if it doesn't work, okay? When is the next meeting? I think they already scheduled. I think the next meeting is gonna be in next year. They do it annually. So it's gonna be in Singapore, I believe. Oh, is that right? Yeah. Okay, well, Singapore, that's where he met with Kim Jong-un, isn't it? He's familiar with Singapore. Singapore has a special seat to be part of the G20. And so they can be also an arbitrary kind of country for, but you know, they've been promoting a lot of the free trade agreement for Indo-Pacific region. So right now, and we have our headquarters of APEC is in Singapore. Right. I think they can oversee within the Asia Pacific in terms of policy. Well, maybe we have open next year, you know? One last question is about Brexit, okay? Theresa May wants to get it done. There's all kinds of consternation still in Britain over this. How does, and I'm sure Britain is gonna be there at the G20. Right, right. How does the G20 play on Brexit and on Brexit's trade relation, or rather UK's trade relation with the US and for that matter with Russia and China? Oh, I'm glad you brought that question to me, Jay. Just last week, the UK and the European Union met and Theresa May made an agreement with them that they're gonna try to keep everything intact in certain ways, especially with security issues with immigration and working visa and those kind of things gonna be intact. So I think in terms of Asia Pacific region, I know that United Kingdom or the England wants to be a member of the TPP as well, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Retreat Agreement. So they wanna have their voice of concern. They wanna be part of Asia Pacific region. They wanna move into that. Historically, they've been there, you know, so if you look at the history, that we have so much influence from United Kingdom, from Britain, so. You know, at least in the neighboring country of Mexico, Trump's biggest expression of America's policy is with the caravans that are knocking at our door on the California border. Oh yeah, that's a big concern. And I wonder, and we know that most of those people are from Central America. Yeah, a lot of them from Honduras. Honduras, El Salvador, and so forth. Does the venue of this meeting in Argentina offer any possibilities for him to try to resolve all the trouble that's happening in South America from the South side? Do you think there's any possibility that this meeting can involve countries in South America, Central America, or countries near those countries that can have an effect on these caravans and all the trouble that's happening in Central America? Yeah, I believe so. I think if I looked at the agenda, I kind of glanced at it, and there is a migration measure in the, so I know they're gonna be talking about the people from South America migrating up to the North and see what kind of impact. I know right now, because of the people in Mexico, because they want asylum, and the United States has a procedure with immigration, how to go with asylum with the political prisoners or that kind of aspect. So that's why we have to turn them around and tell them to go back to their country. Even we get their name, their list. I remember like in Barack Obama's administration, last administration, there was some leniency, leniency towards children and women coming in. So we gave them a break, but on this administration, we're not giving any leniency to children or women, so they end up. No, we just lock them up. That's what we do. There was an article about all the people he wants to lock up. Anyway, thank you very much, Russell. I hope you follow this as closely as you have previous meetings. And I hope when it's done, we can regroup and review what has happened and what has not happened. Thank you, Russell, honey. Thank you. Great to have you here. Aloha. Aloha.


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And one second before we start, let me just make sure that this works also now too. Okay, so I see here questions that you guys asked before the live started and Rakesh, I can see you here too. Okay, so I'll address you guys here too. But first, once again, I'm going to start with the questions that you guys asked on the face on our Facebook community group and we will continue from there. Okay, so let me just get that community back up here. Okay, so let's begin. Let me zoom in on the screen so you guys can also see it. All right, hello, what product sourcing tools do you recommend to use along with AutoDS? Other programs or extensions you recommend for making Dropshipping more automated? Your overall favorite tools that work together to help the process along, thanks so much. So Nick, first of all, that's a great question that you asked there. 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Anyone not gonna go too deep into that but that's another tool that I am using for my drop shipping journey. Besides that, I'm not really using any other tools because AutoDS pretty much has it all, price monitoring, stock monitoring, quick product importing, automatic order fulfillment, easy one click returns, price automation settings, so much more, the templates. There's, I don't really see the need to use another tool unless you have something that you wanna add to your e-commerce stores or some strategy that you wanna implement and you can't do it because maybe you need some feature that's not there. So why don't you go ahead and help me out and let me know exactly what you're looking for and that will help me help you also. But one more last thing regarding extensions. So we have an article on the best Aliexpress extensions for you to use. 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So it's a new idea that I have, let me know what you guys think, but I'm gonna show you guys my trending product of the day. I will show you guys something that's selling really, really well on eBay and how you can, and where the seller is getting the product from, the supplier. And you guys can just go ahead and take that and sell it on your own stores. And of course, products similar to that because once we create a high competition on just one product, it's not gonna be that useful. Unless of course, you're targeting other countries, not just one specific country that has a lot of competition on a certain product. So dropshipping, trending product of the day coming up after I address all of you guys' questions. All right, let's go back to the community. Hi there, I'm from the UK. I start to list some items into eBay.com with the same login as for UK. Also I have listed items into UK. Is it good to use same login details for every marketplace is it best to create a separate account for each marketplace, start to use Amazon as suppliers I can understand for US marketplace. I don't need to have Amazon account if I'm using AutoDS. How then do I know if it's prime delivery selected? Okay, so we have a few questions here and I will address them all. So for your first question, Marija, you're signing into your eBay account with the same login details. So it doesn't really matter. You don't have to create a new eBay account for a different marketplace. You can, you can, but you don't have to. My voice just cracked. So I'm going to take a sip of espresso. So yeah, you can do it both ways. If you already created it on the same account, just continue with that. Okay, now separate account for each marketplace where I address that, start to use Amazon as suppliers. I can understand for US marketplace. Yeah, Amazon is a great supplier for the US market, not just, but also, how do you know if it's prime delivery, if you don't need an Amazon account. Okay, so you're talking about the fulfilled by AutoDS service. For those of you who don't know about it, the fulfilled by AutoDS service simply fulfills all of your orders automatically and you don't have to have your own buyer account for that. So here, for example, let's go to, here we go. I had it open here. So the fulfilled by AutoDS system is actually really, really helpful for suppliers like Amazon, Home Depot, AliExpress, Walmart, and any other supplier that has, that you can work with the US currency. We support them on the fulfilled by AutoDS service. What this service means, and I will answer your question regarding prime, what this service means is all of your orders will be processed automatically as soon as they come into the system or you can process them, or you can tell the system when you wanna process them, whatever is comfortable for you. But the main key takeaway here is it's not using your buyer accounts.  AutoDS has enough buyer accounts. We fulfill them from our buyer accounts. We've been, the service has been working, if I'm not mistaken, at least for a couple of years. Now it's working very smoothly. All you have to do is load balance to fulfill, to pay for your orders. And of course, auto order credits. Each order costs one auto order credit which comes to about 18 cents or 20 something cents. Depends on what package of auto order credits you purchased, and that's pretty much it. Your orders get processed as soon as they come in. And with Amazon now to your question, yes, they will get fulfilled in the prime service. So quick today shipping, easy 30 day returns, no questions asked, just switch the status to the order status from delivered to request a return. So your order track, your order statuses will get updated automatically when the product is purchased, it will move from pending to ordered and from ordered to shipped once there's tracking information available and to delivered once it actually reaches the buyer. So it's actually very, very simple. And of course we're using the prime service for that. I don't think that, I mean, without the prime service, it won't be worth that much. But it's still either way, you can use the prime service and that's pretty much it. Let me show screen again. Answered you, let's move on. So it's prime delivery selected. Oh, and you can also, you can also in the auto DS settings, let me share my screen is shared. So you don't have to only fulfill prime orders. If you go to the settings, let me show you guys. You can also fulfill orders that are not prime if you want to, you know, enable marketplace sellers. So in order to do that, just go to the settings right here on the left side. By the way, everything's loading really slow while I'm streaming and sharing my screen. So excuse these small delays, select your store. So let's go with an eBay store. Even though we also automate on Shopify and then we'll go to orders using Amazon as a supplier and tracking conversions, I'm just looking for the option. I don't remember exactly where it was, but there was an option here, here we go. So choose from suppliers table. If you click here on prime only, then your orders will only get processed if it is a prime product. Okay, and choose from suppliers table. You can go prime first or cheapest first. If you're not using the only the prime service, you can go with cheapest first. And so if the system finds this product at a cheaper price from a different seller and he's not a prime user, the system will process the order from him and help you make more profit. Okay, so that's one way to do it. And of course, if you don't want to monitor products that are not prime, then you can change that of course in the settings of the Lister. Tell him, hey, if it's not prime, get it out of stock. I don't remember exactly where the option is, but you guys, pretty sure you guys get my flow. So there's an option of course to not, I don't want to, if the product is not prime, then just, I mean, don't even list it. I don't want it there. Okay, just take it out of stock. Okay, so answered you there. That was only the second question I have to move faster because I can see that the chat is starting to blow up. Okay, my screen is shared. I have contacted eBay to remove the flag after using the Aquiline number service. They give me an appeal every 30 to 60 days. And each time they deny, they say since our system can detect this, we no longer ask for any documents. So Ahmed, what are they saying that their system can detect? And the second thing that I want to tell you is, you should get eBay on the phone for situations like this. Now, if it would have been a new eBay seller account and you would have went with Aquiline from the start, you wouldn't have had to deal with flagging in the first place. But since your account was flagged, it was already flagged and now you're trying to unflag it, the process is a little bit more difficult and using their chat service or their emailing or contact us service that's not by phone is not very efficient. You want to get eBay by phone and that way, you don't even have to do it every 30 days. You can even call them every couple of days because mostly eBay is not recording, they're not recording the calls or they're not listening to them, but they do have an easy history log of the times you contacted them through by filling a contact form or by reaching out to them by live chat. So if you're using those methods, you're probably going to get the same answers every time, get them on the phone, be consistent and you will get it. Okay, next. Okay, then are there any plans to add an integration to Autodesk so we can upload product videos? There's a new feature on eBay that allows the product to be showcased in a video and many suppliers also provide a video. So great question. I also noticed that eBay gave me also that little notification on the top right saying that they now support videos. This is something that I already brought to the attention of the relevant Autodesk team, but still what I suggest you guys to do every time you wanna see a new feature added to Autodesk and we always listen to you guys and we're always paying attention to this feature over here. So we've got the, I'm gonna click on this circle here on the top right of the Autodesk system. And I'm gonna show you guys how you can make a feature request.  And this is an internal upvoting service that we integrated into the system. So as you can see here, we have a whole bunch of requests. I'm not sharing my screen, sorry guys. So what I did was I clicked on us. Let me just do it again. I click on the circle right here on the top right. Then I clicked on feature request and here you guys can request what features you wanna see on Autodesk. So as you see here, we've got a whole bunch of different requests in different places, in different categories for suppliers, for orders, products, drafts management, dashboard, settings. And so what you wanna do here is first of all, search if someone already created a feature request for what you wanna see. So I'm just going to search for the word video. Okay, there's no posts about it. So you can be the first one going right after watching this live, Kaden and make a feature request for that. And then you'll notice that people are going to start to vote for your feature because they also wanna see it. If you would have seen it here, if someone already created the request for you, then all you would have had to do was to upvote that request. Once again, since someone created that request, you can be the first one and people will vote on it. Now what happens is once it gets enough votes, like here for example, dropshipping on Amazon, a selling channel. So we know that you guys want to dropship on Amazon. We had 20 people vote for that feature. So it moved to the plan section. So this means that the developers will get the assignment to create Amazon also as a selling channel in AutoDS. So if you guys know or if you guys don't know today, we support eBay as a selling channel, Shopify, Facebook Marketplace and we just added Wix. Amazon is next in line. So as you can see here, this is the upvote system. In progress means that it moved from plan to in progress. So we're adding bundling options to the import process, auto balance top up for the managed orders. So if you run out of balance at midnight and you want your orders to continue processing, when you wake up in the morning, you don't want to lose time on those orders that you didn't have enough balance for. So it will automatically do that. Send messages to buyers from the orders page and more things as you can see here. So all of these things are currently being worked on from our developers team, from our development team. And live is features that we're working on and now the feature is now live on AutoDS. So for example, add eBay Australia as a supplier, done. Change the currency on the dashboard, done. Ability to edit the name of the variations, done. Grab all details in V2. So change the product to another product, done. And this is how the upvoting system works. So what you need to do right now, Kaden is create your voting request for that feature feature request for that feature and that's it. People will vote for it and it will be one of the next things that will be available on AutoDS because once again, we're always listening to you guys. Let's share my screen again. I see a long comment here. Somebody put the work in and I appreciate that and I will address you. Okay, Tamil, I have one paying your account. Now I'm selling on eBay.com. Okay, here we go. I admire your work here. I can see that you're really hungry for information. Do I need to create an eBay.UK account with the same email ID I use for eBay.com? So that's the same thing that Ms.Mereja did up here and there is no problem with that. It's completely up to you. It doesn't really matter. Either way, the accounts are going to be connected to one another. eBay will know that you are the one running these accounts so it really doesn't matter if you create them on different separate accounts or under the same email address and password.  Yes, but both of the accounts or all of the accounts will be suspended either way whether you created separate accounts or whether you kept it all under the same email address and password. So it doesn't matter. There's no reason for you to get suspended. If you know what you're doing, you know what you're selling, you know how to take care of your customers and you're shipping out your products on time and answering all of your customers' cases and inquiries. There should be no problem and no suspensions. I've been doing it for years now. I have personally knock on wood, never been suspended from eBay. If I create an account on eBay.com and eBay.UK with a different email ID with the same pioneer ID, if I get suspended on eBay.com, will eBay.UK be suspended? The pioneer ID doesn't matter. Once you have an account on eBay.com and eBay.com and eBay.UK, one gets suspended, the other one will also go down. Now I have a monthly limit of 100 listings. They said ask 30 days to increase the limit. That's right. Is this the right time to create a seller account in another region on eBay with the same email ID and proof? You can create another account right now and when they start to have with 10 listings you can call them up right away and tell them, hey, look, I already have an account. You see, I have that one with 100 listings. Why don't you go ahead and give me 200 here because I have more products to sell here. And then they could go ahead and do that. Once again, get them on the phone. This is the best, it affects them even more. When you speak with a representative on the phone, it's much easier to convince them to increase your limits and do all those things rather than just writing something in the contact form or sending an email as I said earlier, those aren't always the best methods and usually the eBay representatives have their finger on the trigger to just tell you, hey, no, try again in 30 or 60 days. How do selling limits work when I open seller accounts in a different region? Do they share my limits from eBay, US to UK or limit support work for US and UK? So when you create the account, you'll have lower limits, but you'll need to call eBay and let them know, as I just mentioned, that you already have an account. They'll see it right away. You don't need to prove anything and they will upgrade your limits. So if you have a thousand limits or 10,000 limits, you can easily open another account and get the same amount of limits or at least half of that when you're starting off and quickly get to what you had in the first account. So yes, I uploaded the edited main image to eBay, US and UK. eBay meta detect that they're the same person. They're not going to detect from the images. If I get a flag in eBay, USA that reflects on eBay, UK. Now the flags don't move from one account to the other. Only if you're breaching eBay's item location policy, you'll get flagged and whatever other triggers that they have there, but that's the main one. Either way, the flags don't connect from one account to another. Suspensions do, the flagging doesn't. I am from India. Do I need to open VAT to open an eBay seller account in Europe, Union countries? So we have an article on drop shipping taxes. It's going to be published soon, but we already have other articles. I think it's, how does, I don't remember which one it is that has all of the, oh, eBay, UK drop shipping, but that's for the UK. It answers all the questions on VAT requirements and do I need to open a business in that country and all of that. Regarding for Europe, Union countries, I suggest to open up a quick Google search for the exact country that you want to drop ship to or the countries and check it out there. That's option number one, option number two. If you're drop shipping, you probably know that you have to have a local accountant that will take care of your taxes and your filing because you're creating an income. When you're creating a flow of income, your government wants to know about it and tax you for it. So when you get that, I don't need to share my screen when I talk to you guys about this. So when you get a local accountant to take care of your files and your taxes, when you're drop shipping, you can also ask this accountant if they know if you want to drop ship to a certain country, if you need to open a VAT or a business there too, and they'll give you the answer there. But in my case, for example, I'm drop shipping to a few different regions. Right now I'm in Israel, but if I'm drop shipping, for example, to the United States, I don't need to open a business there. I open a business here where I live and it's not the same all around the world. That's why you need to get an accountant to check that. You can also try checking on the country that you want to drop ship to, just contact accountants, several or a few of them in that country just by sending emails, free a conversation that doesn't cost you any money. And the ones that will reply to you will give you the answer. So that will also help you there. I just don't know because I don't know exactly what country you want to drop ship to. Is there any region of eBay that directly tracks Amazon's tracking number? Or do we need an Aquan or BluKa tracking number to track the Amazon tracking numbers in all regions? Yeah, I don't think there's any region in eBay that directly tracks Amazon's tracking number. It doesn't have anything to do with regions. It just has to do with whether eBay system wants to track Amazon's tracking numbers or doesn't. And eBay doesn't want to track Amazon's tracking numbers because they are direct competitors of one another. So yeah, you're going to have to use either BluKa Express or the Aqualine tracking conversions. If you're drop shipping in eBay, I personally would recommend Aqualine because of the zip code masquerade. If you guys don't know about it, check out our YouTube video on Aqualine. And we also published an article this week on BluKa Express versus Aqualine. So head over to autods.com slash blog and go ahead and read that article and see what's best for you. Okay, next question, let me show my screen. Are there, are all other regions of Amazon the same as Amazon, USA? Do they suspend Amazon accounts when ordering more in a single Amazon account in a day like Amazon to USA? So from my experience, yes, that's why you need to use services like the... I also used Amazon, and I also used to use Amazon with gift cards, with discounted gift cards about three years ago. And that was simply a bad idea. I lost a lot of money. Well, I didn't really lose, I just profited much less from the money that was locked into those locked accounts.  That is why, of course, I highly suggest to use the fulfilled by auto-DS service. You won't deal with any more account locks. And I think that after you guys will give it a try, you'll see exactly what I mean, and you'll think to yourself, why didn't I start this before? Okay, next question. Using a different warehouse and suppliers in a single or seller account is good. Example are Express USA to USA, China to USA, et cetera. Using a different warehouse and suppliers Yeah, sure. Just make sure that your item location policy is that your wrong camera. Just make sure that your item location is correct. For example, if you're listing an item that you're sourcing from China, make sure that the item location shows that the product is coming out of China and don't lie and say that it's coming from the US. Those things are going to get your account suspended pretty quickly, but you can definitely drop you from multiple regions on the one eBay seller account for sure. Okay, last question here. Amazon Australia has not had an Aquiline and Blue Care Express tracking number in Autodesk is okay for drop shipping. All region of eBay is also taken seriously care about where the item came from like eBay US. Okay, I didn't really understand that last question, sorry, but I answered 11 out of 12 of your questions. You can rephrase this question maybe here in the live chat and I'll answer you. Okay guys, I need to address the live chat. It took me 30 minutes just to go over your questions from the community, which is great first of all, but I still want to be able to reach you guys in the chat. So let's do this. Let me stop sharing that screen and let's open up the live chat. Okay, so here we go. Hello to you too. Any untapped wholesale supplier for drop shipping in eBay with official agreement? Rakesh, I think I remember you from the previous lives. So untapped wholesale supplier, I think you've heard about the AutoDS product research tool that's embedded inside the system. Right now we have a few suppliers there, but soon we're going to integrate with private wholesale drop shipping suppliers, which only you guys in AutoDS will have access to them, to their products. You'll be able to import their products really quickly to your stores. You'll have all of the policies, the shipping policies, return policies and everything cleared out for you. And when you're using these suppliers, you'll be one of the only ones who have access to these products and you can market it to different markets and make substantial profits. So you're not going to be using retailers like Amazon, you still can, but for those of you who want wholesale drop shipping suppliers and private contracts, we're working around the clock to have this feature for you guys soon. We're already signing up with some really good suppliers and more coming up. And when that feature will be ready, you guys can be sure that I will be the first one to let you guys know. Okay, let's go. Let's go, let's go. Yes, I can hear you and see you. Thank you, Brenda. Hi, hi, Rakesh. Everyone liked this video. We all know we wait a whole week for this free stream. Yes, Zayn is ahead. I agree with Zayn's ahead. So usually what I do after the live QA's is I go and I check the likes and if I see that there are not a lot of likes, I go to sleep sad. So if you guys don't want me to go to sleep sad today, please give me likes in this video, but I don't want to force you guys to do it, only if you maybe forgot to do it, if you appreciate the value, you appreciate the content, go to youtube.com slash autoDS, go to autoDS.com slash blog, see what kind of content we deliver 100% for free, even if you're not a member, even if you don't want to be a member, go and learn about drop shipping. Do not do it without knowledge. Once you have that down and you're starting to make sales, start automating your business so that you can really start to scale. Okay, I'm going out of context here. Thank you. My question is that if I want to start selling on eBay, what requirements must I follow before I become a bona fide seller on eBay? What requirements must I follow? Okay, so this is a great question. You want to start off really slow when you start selling on eBay. I highly suggest to go to our blog page and check out our full eBay tutorial on how to get started. We have more than enough articles on that and also videos on our YouTube channel. If you're the reader type, go to the blog. If you're the viewer type, go to our YouTube channel. But mainly, let me just summarize it for you. When you're creating a new eBay seller account, do everything slowly. Make sure that all of the information is correct. Register to the managed payment service. Connect it with Payoneer or with eBay managed payments, whatever it may be. And make sure that all of your information is correct. And when you're adding your first items, their eBay is going to start you off with about 10 listings and about $500 in sales and items that you list. So what you want to do there is start off by with products that you have in your home and actually just list real items that you have in your house. And of course, put the right shipping price. So if it goes to international or from one country to the other, make sure that you also have the correct shipping price so you won't lose money on the shipping. But mainly my point here is, add items that you have from home. And once you do that, call eBay. Once you have 10 items listed and tell them that you have much more items that you need to sell, please free up my listings. Give me a thousand listings even if you can. Most of them will not give you a thousand on the first try. But if you set the bar high, they're going to give you the maximum that they can instead of the minimum that they can. After you upgrade your selling limits, you want to continue upgrading your selling limits. That's one of the most important things. Once eBay gives you a few thousand selling limits and over $100,000 in sales and in products that you list, you're going to start making some real good profits here. But the start in eBay is slow. Make sure that your item location is correct. So if you're, like I mentioned, if you're sourcing a product from China, then in your eBay listings, say that you're sourcing it from China. Don't lie and say that it's coming from the US so that your US audience, for example, will think, oh, I'm going to get my product in a few days because it's shipping from the US. And in the end, they'll see that it's coming from China and it's going to take a couple of weeks. They're going to get really mad. And also your eBay account is probably going to get suspended. Especially once you do that after a few times, it will definitely get suspended. So make sure that your information is correct. Do not lie, especially when it comes to the item location. And use tracking services to convert your tracking, like the automated order service that automatically converts your tracking information. Once you have all of that down, of course connect with automatic orders. It'll make your life much, much easier. And you want to focus on getting more listings. At the end of the day, it is a numbers game. The more items you have, the more you're going to sell. The more trending your products are, the more you're going to sell from the more you're going to sell. So it's all about product research. It's one of the most important things, customer service. And listings, more and more listings. Those are the top three things to run a successful eBay dropshipping business. But of course, if it is a new account, you have to start slow and gradually, gradually build it. Thankfully, I started my accounts over five years ago. So today they've been flourishing for a while now. And I hope that I don't see it going anywhere bad because it's just been a few really good years for dropshipping and dropshipping, of course, is here to stay. So enjoy that. Go once again to our blog. Go, we have enough free information and our YouTube channel. Learn a lot before you get started. We have everything that you need to really start a successful business there. Here and see you loud and clear. Thank you, Direct Save. Glad I'm able to make it. I recently had a return on dropshipping from Amazon to eBay. The customer requested a return. Okay, that's no problem at all. Direct Save. So there are two options here. If you process the order manually, then simply log into Amazon and go to your orders and start a return on that order. You'll have the option there. And when Amazon will supply with a return label, it usually happens right away, save that return label to your computer and send that to the buyer on eBay. Let him know that he needs to stick this return label on the returning package and give it to UPS. Most buyers know what to do once you send them a return label. But after they do that, there's a tracking number on your return label. Save that tracking number and check to see that the buyer really shipped it back. Once the product returns to Amazon, Amazon will send you a refund. And of course, you can send a refund to the customer. In some cases, it takes Amazon, it can take them even a few days to send a refund. And if the customer opened a case in eBay, you may have to send them a refund first, but that's completely fine because at the end of the day, you're gonna get your refund also. Now, that's if you're processing your order manually. The second option is if you use the fulfilled by auto-DS service or yeah, the fulfilled by auto-DS service, you can also use automatic orders which uses your buyer account. So it's the same as you going to Amazon and requesting a return label. But if you're using the fulfilled by auto-DS service, then it's actually really simple. Just go to your order and change the status from shipped or delivered to request a return. Come back a few hours later or the next day, you'll have a return label attached right next to your order. Click on it to download it and send that to the buyer. It actually makes your job much, much easier with the fulfilled by auto-DS service. Okay, so let me know if you understood that or if you have any more questions. How can we best optimize pricing? Can you expand on fees versus minimum profit versus profit percentage and profit in dollar? Okay, let me share my screen here. So first of all fees, guys, when you ask questions, let me know what selling channel you're referring to and what supplier, what suppliers you guys are drop shipping from. Okay, just in general. But if you're, I'm going to take it that you're talking about eBay, okay? Because most of the questions are on that. So I'm going to search for eBay. Actually, you know what? Let's just stay on the auto-DS website because it's there. So here I'm on the auto-DS website. On the top, there's resources. And I'm going to click on eBay fees calculator right here. By the way, you guys have more things here that will help you. For example, the e-commerce calendar. If you guys want to see what holidays are coming up and not miss them, so you'll sell trending products, trending holiday products in your drop shipping stores before the holidays come, before it's too late and grab those extra sales. So use that. Once again, guys, everything here is completely free. So we've got the eBay fees calculator and this will help you understand exactly what your fees are, how much you have to pay and everything else that comes along with that. So here the page just loaded up. You also have a video explanation here, frequently asked questions, but mainly what you need to do here is choose whatever region you're drop shipping to. So in this case, let's say I'm targeting the US audience with my eBay account and choose whatever category, the item that you're adding now belongs to. So if you don't see the category here, then just keep it on other categories or just choose the right category. The payment processor.  So use that because everything here has a different effect on your total fees. Then click if you have an eBay store subscription, click if you are a top rated seller and click if it is an if you are an international seller. So for example, I am from Israel in my example and I'm selling on eBay US. That means that I'm an international seller. Okay, then you've got the rest of the information. So the selling price, how much are you selling the product for? So let's say you're selling the product for $10, $20 and the product costs, it costs you $10. So you'll notice here that the algorithm is already starting to work with our correct fee. Then you've got shipping price. Let's say in this case, the shipping is free. The shipping price is how much we're charging the customer. The shipping costs is how much it costs us. And promotions, if you have any promotions running on this product, for example, I'm giving eBay 5% on every sale, then I will put it on 5%. In this case, let's just say it's zero. So I have all of this filled in. I'm selling a product for $20 and I'm buying it for $10. My total profit will be $7.35. That's about almost 30 cent in profit. And you have the rest of the information here, but mainly you have everything here and this will help you understand how much you should be pricing your product. Now, if your question now is, how can I optimize my pricing? So I have my price, but how do I know if $20 is a good price? Maybe it should be a little bit less to make more sales. Maybe it should be more because I'll sell it anyway, but I want to profit more. So what you're gonna do here is go to the AutoDS system, let's find it somewhere here. Okay, then I'm gonna click on settings. I hope I'll get to all you guys, all you guys' questions. I think that I will, I think that I will. Okay, then I click on pricing. So pricing settings. And here I can add dynamic profit. Okay, so that's one thing that I can do and set price and say that's fine. There was also pricing automation. So what this does with dynamic profit is I'm just telling AutoDS, hey, so from every product that I add from $0 to $100, let's say I want to make 20% in profit and another $5 in profit. Okay, so, and then you can add another rule. Okay, for any item from $100 to $200, let's bring it down to 18% profit and another $4. And you can continue that. That's just the dynamic profiting. But besides that, you also have pricing automation. So here in automation, I can add a pricing automation. So I'm gonna click on add automation. I'm just gonna call it Leeran live test. Okay, so this is what we have, general settings. Okay, I gave it a name. Now, I'm telling the system, okay, I want you to raise the price. Okay, raise the price for my products if I'm selling more than one, per one day. So if I'm selling more than one item every day, then I want you to raise the product price by a certain percentage up to the limit of a certain percentage and increase the product price by a dollar amount up to a certain dollar amount. So you can limit it. Okay, and of course you can change the variables here, the numbers. Then you have the same thing to decrease the price. So when the number of sales is lower than one every day, well, I wouldn't say every day. Here I would make it every five or every 10 days. So if I'm not selling the product at least once every 10 days, then I want you to decrease the price by let's say 5% down to a limit of 50% because anything lower than that, for example, I will start losing money and decrease the product price by dollar amounts instead of percentages. Okay, so then you got next and then you can assign what products you want to add these rules to. And of course you can select all of your products and that is pretty much it. That is how you can automate your pricing and profit more on products that are selling well while increasing your chance to sell products that are not moving or not selling so well for you. Okay, so I hope I answered you there. If you're wondering about fees, how much fees you have to pay, it really depends on your selling channel. So let me know. All right, next. I need to set up an eBay store for a business selling account to AutoDS to work on our AutoDS works for standard business selling account without an eBay store. Let me read that one again. Do I need to set up an eBay store for a business selling account? It doesn't matter if it's business or individual if that's your question, but if you're serious about this business and you want to go for the long run, just create a business account for AutoDS to work. No, it doesn't matter. Standard business selling account without an eBay store. I'm not sure what you mean. Oh, no, you don't have to have an eBay store. You can start, you can create a new seller account and connect it to AutoDS right away. You don't have to subscribe to a store in order to connect it with AutoDS. Just want to make sure I didn't skip any questions here. Okay, let's continue. How can I offer one day processing time on eBay? Most suppliers take two to three days to process an order. One day processing Natasha, first of all, it will be available on some suppliers, some wholesale private drop shipping suppliers that we're going to add soon to our product research system. Right now we have regular suppliers or retail suppliers, but when we'll start adding them, you'll also have one day shipping. For now, I suggest using Amazon's Prime Service and fulfill by AutoDS for your accounts, never get locked. You'll get two day shipping, which I still think is good. I'm making a lot of sales with two day shipping and buyers are really, really, really happy when they get their products within a few days. So that should be good enough for now and soon you will be able to have one day shipping. Glad I'm able to make it. I recently have a return. I'm drop shipping for, okay, direct save. So I answered you there. That customer requested a return, but the address is my home address. How do I change that to Amazon correctly? Okay, now you address the question even better. Okay, let me share my screen. So when you sign up for eBay and you have your account up and running and everything and someone wants to create a return, eBay started automatically accepting returns on your behalf using your home address as the return address. What you want to do here is simply enable RMA options on AutoDS and we have an article on how to do that. I don't remember what it's called. Let me try Google here. AutoDS blog on, I forgot the name of the article. Automatic returns, eBay, if I'm right. Here we go. How to avoid eBay automatic returns policy. Let me click on that. So how to avoid eBay's automatic return approval policy in 2022.  You have the explanation here. Let me just, I think it's somewhere down here. Okay, so how to avoid the automatic returns. What you want to do is go to your return preferences. So you have the link here right away. Then here's the option that I wanted you to have there the RMA number. What you want to do is click it. Give me the option to add an RMA return authorization number to each return label. Then eBay will stop automatically accepting your returns and you will be able to accept the return and provide a return label and the buyer won't ship it to that address. For now, what I suggest for you to do is go to your preferences and in your home address change the name to do not ship to this address. The seller will provide a return label so that until you get this resolved which should only take a minute. If anyone else opens the case until then, you can, they will see that message and they will wait for you to provide a return label. So that's a temporary fix for that issue. Okay, we don't have too much time left so I'm gonna start moving fast. Interested in drop shipping to US Facebook Marketplace. If I reside in India, the requirements, can I change location for listings? No, you won't be able, I'm sorry Rakesh, if you live in India you will not be able to drop ship on the Facebook Marketplace. One of the requirements which we have, it also says that on our blog and on our videos is that you have to be a US citizen with an SSN verification number, with an SSN number for verification once you pass $599 in sales on the Facebook Marketplace. And of course to have the shipping options available to be able to show your listing to all 50 states and get great organic traffic and sales. Otherwise you won't be having more success on the Facebook Marketplace. Is there a way to add balance with something different from PayPal or Payoneer? The percentage fees is a pain. So I agree that PayPal's 4% is kind of high, we worked with that for years, but Payoneer there's only a 1% fee. So if you're adding $100 into your balance account into your managed balance, it'll cost you $101. If you're adding $200 it's gonna cost $202 and so forth. 1% is really not that much especially if you know how to make a great profit drop shipping. So right now those are the options. Not sure if we should be also adding the credit card as an option, but if you want that make a feature request as I showed in the beginning of this live. And if you know people will vote for it we'll definitely have it. Also I'm selling tech accessories, what supplier do you recommend to use so that I can compete with the big sellers on eBay that have fast shipping and drop shipping from the US to the US, I'm new. Okay, so if you're new, the first thing that I would suggest is to not go into one specific niche. You should check out different categories and different niches. This way you'll also expand your knowledge and you'll be able to find products that don't have so much of a competition. Second, you need to optimize your eBay listing. So if you see a lot of competition on a certain product but you can change and add better keywords that are relevant to that product that people are searching for, then you will make sales rather than instead of your competitors or at least you'll share some of those sales with you because buyers will get to your listing instead. So that is my suggestion. But also, so go more on a general, sell general products and not only tech accessories. Besides that, you should also consider more than one marketplace. US is great, it's fine, I drop ship mainly to the US but not only but mainly because the sales there are still crazy even when there's competition but you really need to get down and dirty on product research and if you're only selling tech accessories there will be a limit to how much you can succeed there. So take that into consideration. Let me know if there's more questions because I know in the beginning there's a lot of questions, there's a lot of uncertainty when you're starting off. Thanks for the life. Can I personalize my shipping label? Thanks. Amir, I'm not sure that you can personalize your shipping label. What do you mean by shipping label though? You mean custom packaging? So when you send out a package you wanna have it under your own brand. So in this case, go to auto.ds.com slash blog. We have an article that was released, I think last week or two weeks ago, unbranded drop shipping, how to brand your products and increase yourselves that way of course because you have a trust customer base there. So go ahead and check out that article but just so you know, in most cases suppliers that can customize your logos on your packages and things like that will require a minimum order quantity. Not all of them, but most of them. And one of the best suppliers is Alibaba, for that matter. How do you delete a listing on the auto.ds orders page if it is canceled? I don't see a delete on that page. Yeah, there's no way to delete it, Michelle but you can just switch the status to canceled and that's it, it shouldn't bother you much. Hi, by the way, Michelle, I think I remember you from the previous lives. Your screen when you share is still small. Okay, thank you for the, by the way guys, if anything is not practical in these live QAs, please. Of course, let me know just like Michelle did there. So I will zoom in more and if it's still not good enough, I will just remove the background that I have and show you guys everything on a full screen. What features in auto.ds make it easier to avoid getting banned? The thing that will avoid you getting banned is the way that you work. It's not what tool you are or aren't using. The tool has nothing to do with you getting banned. What does have to do with it is if you're selling channel, by the way, I guess is eBay. So if you're shipping out your products on time, you need to maintain an above standard or top rated status. If you're below standard, it's still fine but eBay is gonna, you're gonna make less profit because eBay is gonna charge you more fees on categories, but it's also not so fine because it's very sensitive and close to dropping below that and then your account will be banned again. So to avoid getting banned, don't import products that you're not allowed to resell. No trademark copyrighted products, no patented products. Don't sell products from brands that you know from big brands. There is billions of products that you guys can dropship that other sellers will be happy for you to resell but stay away from those things that I talked about. Weapons also, no tobacco, no ammunition, no vitamins and supplements. Stay away from all of those things. You guys are not doctors. You cannot resell medicine. You're not pharmacists and you are not official resellers of any weapon type and you cannot also sell alcohol. Don't sell Sony Play Stations. Don't sell Microsoft Xboxes. Just don't make these mistakes that beginners usually make because, oh, I have a store. Let's start selling things that I know people are buying. So what do I think people are buying? Let's see what I have around here. Oh, I have a Samsung Galaxy. Lots of people are buying Samsung Galaxy. Let's sell them. Boom, your store is banned. So once again, the tool really doesn't matter. Just take care, know what you're adding to your store and also take care of your customer services, complaints, cases, respond to them on time, maintain a high seller account status and you shouldn't have any problem in the long run. When will the Fulfill Baro Diaz feature come for Facebook Marketplace for our favorite suppliers? Very, very soon. Very, very soon. I can't pinpoint an exact date. People also asked on the previous slide, we're working on it very, very soon. We really want this feature yet. I know you'll get it soon. I promise. Hello, can I list products start selling and fulfilling orders during the trial period? Sure, of course during the trial period you can do whatever you want. Hey man, I started doing drop shooting on eBay Australia. Please guide me if you can. Thank you. I don't know what your question is, but once again our blog page is gonna help 99. Something percent of your guys' questions is already answered here. So this is the AutoDS blog page. If you guys haven't seen it before, I can see what you mean when you're saying the screen is kind of small. So yeah, I'll fix that for the next slide. For now I will just zoom in on the screen. So this is our blog page and here we have a whole bunch of articles and what you need to do is simply, by the way we're updating these articles a lot at least twice a week, new articles. Our content team was working around the clock to get these articles up and running for you guys. So what I did was I just searched for Australia in the search bar and here we've got the top nine Australian drop shipping suppliers and how to drop shipping Australia. eBay Australia drop shipping, how to find products, suppliers, set policies and sell, top 12. No, this is not Australia. That's it, that's what we have for Australia. So those two are gonna help you with Australia and inside you might also have embedded videos because I usually record videos for every piece of article or content that we push out there. So if you just scroll a little bit in each article, like you see on this one, eBay Australia drop shipping already embedded into this article so you can read, you can watch, but you have all of the information here to help you get started drop shipping in Australia even on the legal issues. Of course it's legal, but profitability and also how to get started and how to do it. Sorry, I gotta run fast. Hi, I'm from Peru. I have a PO address in my US. Can I use this address on USA for not be an international seller? So why not, hi Veronica. Why not just start an eBay account in the US? You don't need to have any PO addresses in the US, but let me know for something that I missed there. Hey, when I started doing drop, yeah, I just answered you. Okay. Okay, I already showed this one. Do I need to use non-API or API is okay with eBay? API is completely okay. We also have an article. I am still sharing my screen, sorry guys, but if I'm still sharing my screen then on our blog page, again, search for API and you'll see our article on API versus non-API and what you should use, but our recommendation is to go with API because eBay has no problem with it. And by the way guys, I can't find the exact one, but we have some API to non-API here. Here, non-API versus API. What should I use when I'm dropping in eBay? But mainly what you should know here is eBay approves APIs and if there's any APIs that is against what they want or they're against our interests, they simply ban the API. They won't keep the API active, but ban users who are using it once they, but you'll have more information in that article. We already ran our tests. We have our answers for that and it's in there, but once again, our recommendation is to go API. Hey, man, I started doing drop, oh, third time on that one. I got suspended, I can't list it according to eBay. Will I get suspended if I open a new account with the same PNR account? Is there something I can do? Yeah, there's something you can do. Get that suspension uplifted, find out why they suspended you and give them what they need in order to unspend you. I don't know why they suspended you so it'll be hard for me to tell you what you need to do to unsuspend it, but if you create a new account, it'll get suspended right away or after you list your first product. Why may listings make a lot of views, but no buyers? So I don't know what you're listing, but if you're getting a lot of views, that means that there's something interesting about your product. And after they enter your product, something throws them off. So you need to understand exactly what that is and without me knowing what product you're adding, it's in what selling channel and what market you're targeting, it'll be really hard for me to help you, but you need to understand the basic concepts here. Something is interesting and it's making people click on your product. After they click on it, something is putting them off. Try to find out why and you will get the solution there. Give me more information and I'll also try to help you. Bro, the unique tracking mail doesn't work. You don't need to really use the high team. You don't really need to think about the unique tracking mail. It's something internal, you don't need to touch it and it doesn't need to work for you. It works for us, you don't need to worry about that. But open a support ticket. Guys, anything that's technical in the system, open a support ticket. Okay, I entered this one. I must add tracking number manually. No, I'm using the automated services. No problem with the tracking services. Just open up a chat support. Maybe there's something with your specific account there. Hey man, I started doing drop sheet. Wow, you said you wrote this a few times already. Okay. Does the product have to be private label products? Oh, by the way, I noticed that you guys even asked questions before that and I didn't see it, so I'll get to it. It was at autodesk.com, live QA, we'll get to you. I saw that some people asked questions before and I didn't see it yet and I may have skipped it, so I'll come back to it. Does the product have to be private label products or use items? Private label means you're actually labeling your products and branding them or use items, those are two different things. They don't really have anything to do with one another. Go with new items, don't sell used items. You can, but you might as well go with new items. Can I log into my ebay selling account from my mobile and laptop is ebay objective for an IP addresses? No, they don't object to it, they'll just make the connection. So if you connect with your mobile and also your laptop, they'll know, they'll be like, okay, so we know that Rakesh has this and this IP for their ebay accounts. Yes, I need to scroll up all the way here because I missed some things here in the beginning. It's not showing it to me anymore. So anyone who wrote anything and I didn't address it yet, even though the live QA is over and I didn't address all you guys yet, I'm sorry, I will get you guys in the next live or just ask it again. I noticed that you're always mentioned that I'm tracking number due to item location policy. I've used it in the past, but there's been an issue with tracking updates to deliver on ebay. Any insights on this, the drop ship family? Nick, is that you? Is that you, Nick? Let me know, send me a message on Slack. But besides that, delivered on ebay. I don't have any problems with our aquiline tracking use. I can use, open up a ticket and see if there's something wrong there. Virtual hug. Thank you, Sarit, virtual hug to you too. Should I cancel orders to be blamed on the customer? I never give the reason as out of stock. First of all, why are you selling items that are out of stock? I hope that you're using price and stock monitoring and then that will stop happening. If you have a lot of orders like that, then every day you should cancel one order and try to give a reason, but don't use the out of stock because you will get a defect and you don't want those up. I've had that situation a few times and I was always able to overcome it without saying that it was out of stock. But if you abuse one of the reasons too much like the buyer doesn't want the item and the buyer goes to you and says, hey, that's not the reason. I don't know why you cancel this order. Then eBay will come back to you and tell you, hey, you're breaching this policy. So be careful with what you're doing. I answered that one. After creating a seller account on eBay, I should list 10 items from home. If those 10 products are not sold, can I request eBay to increase your listings? Yes, Raheem. Good question. And yes, you can. Just call them up on the phone. Let them know that you're out of listings and that you need to add more products. They will upgrade your listings. I am Kim from Morocco. I sell products to friends. When I order to clients, I get a tracking number. I send it right now or I wait when it appear in official website post. If I understood your question, as soon as you get a tracking number from your supplier, you should add it. And if using an automated like the fulfill by Autodesk service, the tracking is being updated automatically for you, so you don't really have to worry about that. But as long as you have tracking information, you should update your buyer. After creating a seller account, even if they put the tracking number on the website and they don't see any tracking services yet, any tracking events yet, you can let the buyer know that tracking will start to update in 24 to 48 hours, but they want to see that the product was shipped. After creating a seller account, yeah, we answered that one. Sorry, I forgot to mention, I'm using Autodesk automation. Yeah, I think I answered you there though, right? Great, I understand I'm having trouble adding variations to listings that I'm importing from Amazon to eBay. When I add variations, they do not show up on my listings even after a few days. So open up a support ticket for that, but adding different variations even from different suppliers on one product listing works absolutely fine. If I've been in eBay account with an individual account later, we should change it to a business account. I hope the account won't get flagged. Now, flagging doesn't have anything to do with that. And I also changed my account from personal to business because I connected Payoneer and my parent was a business account and eBay allowed me to rule from individual to business. No problem with that at all and it has nothing to do with flagging. When should Amazon drop shipping be started? It is compulsory to have any sell. Is it compulsory to have any sell before starting drop shipping using Autodesk? It's best to start products that you have from home. Like I said, get enough limits on your eBay account and then start drop shipping from Amazon because if eBay flags your account, they may also limit your ability to increase your limits and it'll be harder to increase it from there and make more sales because you won't be able to list more items. We're always looking for solutions to these things and there are like the private wholesale drop shipping suppliers that will help you guys start and manage non-flagged accounts and even if your account did get flagged, you want to unflag it and now you're only working with private wholesale suppliers and you're using the zip code masquerade. No problem whatsoever. You don't even need the zip code masquerade for that. Okay, okay, okay. Lior, please add the top right left slider. It takes too long to go alive. The navigation is annoying. You need to go from the bottom to move. Ahmed, my name is Lior. Lior is the founder of AutoTS. I fully respect that guy, but we do not have the same name. Yeah, so just open up a support ticket for that. Not support ticket, sorry, feature request. Like I showed you guys in the beginning of this live. Guys, I have to end. I should have ended five minutes ago. I have an interruption with two suppliers. I should have put two tracking numbers or one because it's different locations. Two suppliers, two tracking numbers. You're gonna get two tracking numbers anyway, right? So you're gonna have to provide two tracking numbers. Wouldn't that location change from in there to US using Amazon Dropshipping Alarm eBay? No, they don't care where you're dropshipping from. You can sell from anywhere to anywhere. eBay doesn't, they don't care where you're from.  Your content on YouTube is amazing. You provide detailed explanation of all your videos and that's great. Thank you, Rahim. It's also nice to get these compliments every once in a while. Thank you, I appreciate that. Please make a video about setting up an eBay account besides shipping return and payment policies. So I already have that. So setting up an eBay account. So what do you wanna know besides shipping return and payment policies? Because I already have videos and articles or tutorials on that. How to dropship on the UK Facebook Marketplace. I've seen people who are doing it in UK but I can't find the shipping option. That's because the eBay account is from the UK. If you guys want shipping options and I said a few times in this life, you need to dropship from Facebook US. You can also do it if you don't live in the US but I'm not really gonna talk about that because that's not business practices and all but it is possible. Great info, I appreciate all the helpful. I will apply your tactics. Great, let me know how I went. And of course, if you have any more questions, I'm sure that you will. We have these live QAs every couple of weeks. Autodesk have a group of people who help each other. Those people that are doing dropshipping. Yes, sorry that I didn't tell you guys. So we have the Facebook community. Of course, just go to Facebook and search for Autodesk community. Join our community. We have many people posting there every day and many dropshippers answering them every day. So we're actually a community that's helping one another grow and succeed. And it's a very, very active community group. No spam, nothing bad. Of course, it's perfectly moderated and everything there is working well. When you unplug your account on the phone, they don't tell you the system, it takes you a dropshipping and it's not allowed to remove this restriction. This is the answer. Fine, Ahmed, talk to them again the next day and then talk to them again the next day.  This is the answer I got from all the agents. That's fine, continue trying, continue trying. Yes, Nick, hi. So, hi Nick, send me a message on Slack, I'll help you out. Nice to see you again, by the way. How to deal with payment gateway problem in dropshipping? What exactly is the payment gateway problem? Let me know. How to deal with PayPal fund holding? So that's only in the beginning of your journey and I'm surprised just here that people are still working with PayPal. eBay is also doing the same thing on new seller accounts. They may put a hold on your first transactions because they wanna make sure that you're shipping out your products and you're not just collecting money, not ship out anything and withdraw the money to your bank accounts. So first they wanna hold your money, see that you're processing your orders, see that there's tracking information that their products are being delivered to your customers and after a while they will stop these holds. Okay, guys, I need to wrap this up. I didn't get to the trending product of the day that's something new that I wanted to do. I'm sorry, I didn't have time for this live. Next live, I promise I will help you guys also, I will give you guys a trending item of the day and I really think that this is gonna help you guys get better product ideas and make more sales. So trending product of the day, let me know if that's an interesting idea for you. I didn't have time to do it again in this live but once again, guys, thank you for watching this live. I'll be back again in a couple of weeks. Be sure to join, ask your questions, go to autoDS.com slash blog, get connected with all of the content that we have out there and youtube.com slash autoDS. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. We have so much free valuable content because our success is mutual when you guys succeed, we succeed and vice versa. So thank you for watching, happy drop shipping and I hope that I help at least a few of you with your drop shipping journey in this live. Thanks once again.


Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. President, if you are truly surprised after 77 of these happy occasions, your acting skills have lost none of their luster. But surprise or not, on behalf of everyone here, your administration, your staff, your political party, and your friends from all over the country, we wish you happy birthday, Mr. President. And Mr. President and Mrs. Reagan, as you know, there are two people who have worked especially hard to recognize your birthday in this unique way. One of them, the first lady is on my left, and the other is Marvin Hamlisch. Marvin? And Marvin, Mr. President, has composed a march in honor of your birthday, and it's entitled the Ronald Reagan March, and the United States Marine Corps Band is ready to let us all hear how it sounds now. Mr. President, I thought you'd like to know that now that you've got a march of your very own, we've taken steps to have a circuit installed at Capitol Hill, and any time you think you need to expand your presence in that place, all you have to do is touch a switch, and the Oval Office and the Capitol Building will be regaled with the Ronald Reagan March. Now, Mr. President, to go along with the march, we have here something else for you. We have a gift certificate, which has been prepared by your staff in which I'd like to read. The gift certificate presented to President Ronald Reagan, redeemable for 1988, the best of eight, from every member of your administration, and expires on January 20, 1989. Happy birthday. Well, believe it or not, I am speechless. For the last few hours, I have been surprised, as I've never been surprised before. I came over here to have a hasty lunch and get into McCamp David clothes with Nancy, and found myself at a luncheon party inside the state dining room with a great many friends there. And I think you ought to know, when I think of how long it took the whole government here to come up with a budget this year, Marvin Hamlisch wrote that march in a week. To all of you, I can't tell you how, yes, I am surprised at anyone as a cynic who doesn't think that I am, because I just thought that, well, yes, everybody was being very nice, and Howard helped me over here with a few presents that had been delivered in the office, and I thought he was going out of his way to be nice. Didn't know he'd been invited to lunch, because I didn't know there was a lunch.  There are more of you here than there lived in the town where I was born. And it's, I just, there isn't any way to express it, and you know something? It ain't bad having another birthday even at this stage. Here I am, 39 years old. I've been that old 39 times now. And I wouldn't mind going another 39. But to all of you, all I can say is just thank you all, God bless you all. She did the surprising!