For those who think that wheels and tires are the only auto products selling online we prove that people visit auto sites not just for fun reading about latest tuning cars and motorcycle styles, but also to spend some money.

What can you dropship from a large selection of car parts and accessories? Let’s refer to our auto parts dropship case studies:

Automotive Aftermarket Parts Dropshipper
Dash Kits Auto Accessory Dropshipper
Car Audio Dropshipper
HID Kits Dropshipper

Leading Air Filter eCommerce Site – GoAirfilters.com

GoAirfilters.com sells the two leading auto airfilters – AirAid and K&N

• URL: www.GoAirfilters.com
• Established: Fri Dec 31 2004
• Uniques/Month: 10,000
• Page views/month: 74,000
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 6,000
• Google Pagerank: 3
• BIN: $90 000

Description:

GoAirfilters.com is leading reseller of the two high performance automotive airfilter companies – AirAid and K&N.

This is one of several niche oriented automotive product sites focused within a particular product category, manufacturer, or type of automobile.

This is a fantastic low maintenance trouble free business that has incredible potential to grow with a little effort and focused marketing.

Revenue Details:

GoAirfilters.com is a reseller that buys wholesale from distributors and/or manufacturers and sells retail online through this website.

Typical monthly sales are $6,000.00

Average transaction size is $101.00

Net Margin is approximately 20%

The site’s potential for growth is only limited by what you can put into the marketing and reach of the site and your imagination.

Traffic Details:

google.com
search.yahoo.com
search.live.com
search.msn.com

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Yes, dropship affiliates adore auto parts product category. Though as I have mentioned commenting other similar case studies auto parts are not a great product category for online sales and miserable part of online shoppers buy car parts & accessories via the Internet.

On the other hand one can choose some niche to focus – you can dropship Yokohama tires or some motorcycle parts

Need another hint? Check product selection with some verified dropshippers and define 2-3 auto dropship product subcategories

You can also learn more about possible niches and revenues you can expect reviewing these cases:

Dash Kits Auto Accessory Dropshipper

Auto Accessory Dropshipper

Car GPS And Audio Dropshipper

Car Audio Dropshipper

HID Kits Dropshipper

Car Accessory Dropshipper

Auto Parts E-Commerce Site + data ~ $10,000 monthly sales

Professional, unique design, thousands of dollars in transferable site assets.

• URL: www.aorperformance.com
• Established: Mon Mar 31 2008
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 10,000
• Min Bid: $10 000

Description:

A fully automated and functioning Auto Parts website.

AOR Performance is an ecommerce site specializing in Automotive Aftermarket Parts. This is a very robust website with very unique features programmed into it. This is NOT a template site. All products can be drop shipped through a number of wholesalers with warehouses all over the country. Orders can be placed and fulfilled through a number of wholesaler websites.

The site has been designed with very robust features which require very little technical expertise to operate and makes the maintenance and updating of the site very simple. The site is built on the x-Cart shopping cart and numerous custom scripts and features have been added. Currently, the site is populated with parts from over 40 different manufacturers with a total part count of over 36,000. This means that the site consists of well over 36,000 pages all of which can be indexed and advertised on sites such as froogle for free.

This is NOT a template site. The site was built to mimic and compete with multi-million dollar auto sites such as JC Whitney and AutoAnything.com. Although adding individual products to your website is very simple with this site, it is also very time consuming and not very practical. One must consider that each product is made for a particular vehicle and may only match select years, makes, models, submodels, engine types, etc. The data for this site has been purchased through a data vendor which supplies all the necessary information for each product. This data can be automatically uploaded to the site each month with important changes and new products from the manufacturer. If a product is now being made that will fit a 2010 model for example, the site can automatically update your pages to reflect this change from the data supplier saving you months of data entry time.

The site uses a very user friendly search. Automotive products are extremely difficult to sell online due to the unique application of almost every part. In order to avoid customers purchasing the wrong items and dealing with the hassles of returns, the site is programmed to ask the exact questions needed to determine which parts fit the person’s vehicle. For example, if the user is looking for floor mats, the site will ask them what year, make, and model vehicle the floor mats are for before providing the results. A more complicated example would be if the user is looking for an air intake kit, the site would have to ask for the year, make, model, submodel, engine type, etc. in order to provide accurate results.

Perhaps the most useful and unique feature added to our site is the Ebay File Exchange script. We have added programming that makes it possible to download all or part of your product database into an excel spreadsheet which can instantly be uploaded into your Ebay store or for auction. You can upload thousands of products into Ebay complete with pictures, details, custom prices and shipping costs, shipping times, canned text, and more as well as complete fitment information allowing the customer to see exactly which vehicles the part was made for. The intuitive program produces great product titles optimized for good search placement within ebay.

Features:
• Automatic Populating Script- site currently setup to accept updated data from the data supplier on a monthly basis and update and add all products accordingly.
• Ebay File Exchange Script- Easily and quickly add thousands of products to your ebay store or for auction within a matter of minutes. These export features can also work for sites such as Amazon.com to maximize sales. (currently new Ebay File Exchange users limited to 1,000 listings per day)
• Google / Froogle Product Database Support- Automatically download a complete Google datafeed of your products to promote through the Google shopping network for free.
• Affiliate Programs Setup and on Hold- Accounts have been purchased and setup with Google Affiliate and Share-a-Sale affiliate programs. The $1,650 in setup fees for these programs has been paid and they are ready for the new owner to use.
• SEO scripts purchased and installed- Upgraded SEO support scripts have been purchased and integrated into the shopping cart making it easy to self perform SEO on a daily basis.
• Live chat script purchased and installed- Chat live with your customers through the live chat software which is self-hosted and has no recurring monthly fee.
• Custom Pricing Script- Automatically set your prices according to manufacturer and for a percentage above your cost that you determine.
• Data for 40 Manufacturers- The data for the 40 manufacturers has been purchased and paid for in full. Full rights to the data will remain with the domain name for the owner’s use. Data includes pictures, product details, required parts, fitment information, etc. Price paid for full use of data for these manufacturers is over $8,500.
• Hundreds of additional manufacturers and tens of thousands of additional products ready to be uploaded immediately- The new owner can opt to purchase data for thousands of additional products from different manufacturers and have the site populated instantly.
• Customer Gallery- Customers can post pictures of their cars to share with friends. Other users can comment on each gallery as well as tag them on numerous social bookmarking sites.
• X-Cart Gold shopping cart used and licensed for lifetime updates.
• Social bookmarking script- Social bookmarking links added to every page allowing users to provide you with free backlinks and SEO.
• Category, subcategory, and sub subcategory support.
• Support for all major credit cards, online checks, Paypal, and phone orders.
• Sitemap and SEO performed- $3,000 has been spent getting backlinks to the domain and making the vast database search engine friendly.
• SSL Certificate- SSL certificate has been installed for safe transactions and has approximately 1.5 years remaining. History
• In one month, I became a silver power seller on Ebay selling close to $8,000 a month with only 1,000 of the 36,000 products in my database listed.
• SEO was performed by eBrandz for 2 months on the domain name. Site has been optimized for SEO and seen favorable results.

Costs
• Website currently runs on a very robust dedicated server with 6mb RAM, RAID HDDs, and dual core processor. Cost: $189/month. This is overkill for current traffic.
• There are currently no advertising campaigns going on so there will be zero costs transferred to the new owner.

Operating Time

I haven’t done any marketing for the site for several months and haven’t added any new content. As it is, I spend about 30 minutes about 4 days a week fulfilling orders from the site and from the eBay sales.

New additions and updates to the product data are available on a monthly basis from the data vendor. If the new owner takes advantage of this service, the updating of the site is done automatically and takes absolutely no user interaction.

Profits

Through primarily ebay transactions, the site has generated revenues from $6k-10k monthly. Profits are contingent on which items sell, what the margin is set to on those items, etc. After selling fees, monthly expenses, and product costs, the site has made almost $1,000 in profit in it’s best month. However, this is all dependent on price settings, supplier relations, and which products are advertised and selling. It is highly likely that a dedicated buyer will far exceed these figures but they are only provided as examples and aren’t implying or guaranteeing future earnings.

Why am I selling?

This site has been an ambition of mine for several years. I’ve been working on it part time getting everything in order as my time and money allowed. The site and consequent Ebay listings were providing around $10,000 in sales per month for a few months while I worked it. However, I’m realizing that I just don’t have the knowledge of internet marketing or the ambition to learn it to take this site to where I had envisioned it going and I don’t have the money to spend for someone else to do it for me.

If you’re an internet marketing whiz and/or have the money to hire one, this site has the potential of competing with the multi-million dollar competitors out there such as JC Whitney and AutoAnything. There are thousands of auto part sites out there but very few of them provide a powerful and friendly user search and tens of thousands of products. Those sites that do tote these features are the multi-million dollar sites stated above.

Revenue Details:

Revenue is made through direct sales from the website itself and the ebay listings that the website creates from the data with its creation script. All orders are drop shipped from suppliers across the country.

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Another great thing about dropshipping – low financial investments required. In fact, you need money just to push your auction listings or e-commecre store. Oh, and some initial investment into the lists of verified dropshippers, though it is not a must… If you go through our numerous dropship business cases published you will get a feeling that many business owners were lucky to establish relations with their reliable dropshippers using no dropship suppliers lists.

This allows you to run a few dropship projects or combine dropship business with your full time job…

DashKitsCovers.com E-Commerce Automotive Site for Sale!

$250/month profit – dash kit automotive web site ranked in Google!

•    URL: www.dashkitscovers.com
•    Established: Thu May 31 2007
•    Page views/month: 4,700
•    Monthly Revenue (USD): 750
•    Google Pagerank: 0
•    Uniques/Month: 1,500
•    BIN: $2900

Description:

I am selling my e-commerce website (www.dashkitscovers.com) that generates revenue by selling interior dash kits for vehicles from a reliable dropshipper. Contact information and the website of the dropshipper will, of course, be given to the winning bidder. The site has been operating for more then a year with average monthly sales of 3-6 dash kits a month.

What is the Amount of Work Required to Maintain?

To properly maintain this site it usually takes about 1-2 hours a week to process orders and conduct customer service. The site uses the CRE B2B shopping cart and the dropship supplier gives out datafeeds with all the products to easily upload them to the cart. However, it is not actually that easy. You have to modify the datafeed if you want the products to look nice and if you want customers to be able to pick options on many of the products like colors and stuff. Otherwise, you have a separate product for each color or attribute assigned to the product, making it difficult for customers to navigate. Products are dropshipper so there is no need to have inventory or ship items yourself.

Why Are You Selling DashKitsCovers.com?

I’m selling this website because I recently graduated and I have a few interviews lined up, and will be placing my focus on my new job and other ventures. Furthermore, I have lost many, many potential sales because I don’t have time to answer customer phone calls or inquiries. This site has a lot of potential and should be able to achieve $750 + in monthly sales if the owner has the time to answer phone calls and maintain the site properly.

What Kind of Experience is Needed to Run this Site?

I would recommend you have prior experience with the CRE B2B shopping carts, datafeeds, and/or oscommerce. Or, if you don’t, at least know someone who you can pay to do the updating for you. If you need help, my supplier has many 3rd parties that can keep the datafeed updated for you for around $50/month. I can help you get in contact with these people.

Will You Help the Purchaser Transfer to Another Host?

Yes, I will help with the transfer process and I will offer 30 days of help (from the purchase date) in assisting you in learning how to run the site.

Revenue Details:

Sales revenue is derived from 3-7 dash kits a month; sales vary from one month to the next. Average profit margin per dash kit is about $45, and prices could probably still be increased a bit without losing sales. Average sale price on a dash kit is about $135, but varies depending on how many pieces the dash kit is. Only expense is hosting and SSL, and the wholesaler/dropshipper does not charge anything to join. Total profit per month as averaged over the past 3 months is $235.

Traffic Details:

Site is ranked for numerous keyword in google:

- #2 for dash kits
- #10 for interior dash kits
- #17 for automotive dash kits
- ranked for other terms as well

Dash Kits Auto Accessory Dropshipper is a post from: We talk on making money on the Internet

With a wide variety of auto accessories available on the market – tires, car care, glass care, mats, air fresheners, tools, replacement parts… – you just need to choose the category where there is some space for your niche focused dropship business.

You know there are tools and services that should help you to make the right choice, but it is not always 100% correct, you need to try the market first to feel it…

There are tons of legal dropshipers of auto parts and accessories (along with that you can spot a number of successful auto part dropship cases in our archives), but as I have already mentioned in other posts auto stuff is not a popular online seller. Yes, people buy it, but they buy it 5-100 times less than they buy digital cameras, buy ipods, buy shoes, buy bags, perfume, watches, jewelry, etc…

Below you will find the latest dropship business case that deals with horns.

AUTO ACCESSORY DROPSHIP BUSINESS/WEBSITE

Lots of room for growth – Easy to maintain – Nice Design

• URL: www.trucktrainhorns.com
• Established: Mon Jan 28 2008
• Uniques/Month: 3,107
• Page views/month: 20,299
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 652
• Google Pagerank: 1
• BIN: $ 5 000

Description:

For sale is a site that’s been online for almost a year now and averages $652 a month in profit (after PayPal Fees). The site sells complete train horn kits for trucks and cars.

Revenue break down:
Feb – $151.80
Mar – $712.02
April – $695.04
May – $683.74
June – $1283.01
July – $793.32
Aug – $451.79
Sept – $839.34
Oct – $87.16 (See below)
Nov – $859.19
Dec – $620.64
Average = $652/mo.

The reason I had only one sale in October is because I was ripped off by someone (shipped to unconfirmed address.). That would have brought revenue up over 400.

The reason for the up and down sales is because of my rankings. I did a lot of link building for this site at first but haven’t done any in the past 4 months. Sales were down a bit in December due to my supplier being low on stock.

The site is very easy to run. All you do is process payments via the dropshippers website. They normally ship same day and provide you with a tracking number from UPS.com. This business can be ran from anywhere in the world.

On average you’ll make $90-$180+ per kit profit.

Why am I selling?

I really don’t want to sell this site but I need to focus on other ventures. If you look at December stats, you’ll notice three pages of transactions, that’s my new business, and it’s doing well.

Potential Growth?

This site can make a lot more money if you know what your doing with SEO.I did what I could, and ranked okay, but I never ranked at the top, and I still make decent sales.

800 Number

The 1800 number is a voice mail we purchased through FreedomVoice. We probably get 2-4 calls a week from people wanting to purchase a kit. The price per month is $10. I don’t think you can transfer the number but it wouldn’t be hard to change the header with the new number.

Payment

PayPal is preferred but I understand if that’s not an option.

TrainHornKits.co.uk is also included in this sale to help you promote products to people in the U.K.

Revenue Details:

See Above.

Traffic Details:

Traffic comes from other sites and Search Engines. The rankings fluctuate from time to time. There is no PPC traffic whatsoever. I do spend approx. $25/mo advertising on this small forum, but I’m not sure if it helps or not.

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