We have recently covered a large scale auto parts dropshipping business case. And today we will have a look into another auto parts dropship site.

To tell the truth, I have never had success with online auto parts sales. You need to deal with enormous catalogues; there are many details with auto parts that you simply can’t manage. And auto parts are not the product that most people go online to buy. Added to that be prepared to a quite high percentage of returns (like with online shoes sales).

On the other hand, online auto parts space is much less competitive than, say, books. Even number of nation recognized auto parts sellers is quite limited. Who should we mention? Autopartswarehouse, Partstrain, and a few more…

If you are passionate about cars and everything automobile related then it is probably your cup of tea – you can (and probably should) choose some auto parts niche like the below dropship business. And if you browse catalogues of dropshipping wholesalers you will run into a number of auto parts dealers.

For those who are not so passionate about these products – explore our case study category for more product ideas

Automotive Performance and Racing Parts Online Store with VP-ASP Shopping Cart.

• URL: www.500ms.com
• Established: Sun Nov 28 2004
• Page views/month: 13,500
• Monthly Revenue: 1200
• Google Pagerank: 2
• BIN: $12,000

Description:

Automotive Performance and Racing Parts Online Store with VP-ASP Shopping Cart. The shopping cart is easily edited and adding or removing items is a breeze.

This site was created November 2004 and has been in constant operation since. The site has over 500 pages of unique content and thousands of products listed by major manufacturers such as: Autometer, Bell, Clevite, Edelbrock, Fram, Isky Cams, K&N, MSD, Optima Batteries, RJS, Simpson, and Warn. The site is the online side of a Motor State Distributing dealership. All part numbers listed are Motor State numbers. I highly recommend the purchaser of this site become a Motor State Dealer. Motor State can drop ship straight to your customers.

This auction includes the site with content and domain names only, a Motor State Dealership is NOT included.

500ms.com, 500ms.net, and stevesperformanceproducts.com domain names are included with this auction. We have promoted the 500ms logo and you will find that a search of “500ms” on all the major search engines will list 500ms.net and 500ms.com as the top two listings.

The site is currently hosted on a Alentus.com server with a Comodo ssl certificate. Buyer could use the same services for roughly $250 per year.

We also have approximately $25,000 of parts and accessories in stock that would be available to the site buyer at or below wholesale prices. The inventory is an excellent mix of in store items for walk in customers.

This is a great opportunity for someone that wants to get into the performance parts business or add a new line to an existing business.

Revenue Details:

The site has never accepted advertising and most of our sales are over the phone, so the $1200 per month revenue is a combination of automated orders and phones sales from website leads.

Books are no doubt an ideal online product:

• big selection not obtainable in most offline bookstores,
• no need to touch to make buying decision,
• easy to ship

As you remember Amazon was initially online bookseller only and this product category is still plays the significant part in the sales structure of the top e-commerce store.

So, ideal product for online sales, great demand… and tough competition. How can you compete with all those online booksellers (Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, etc)? The only way is to choose a narrow niche and focus on it.

Is it possible to do with dropshipping books? Out today’s case study is likely to show you how to do that.

I also recommend you to browse our other case studies – you know by this time I guess we have quite a long list of profitable dropship businesses – small and large scale – that sell a wide range of products

Do not miss also their marketing techniques – how do their owners efficiently promote their products?

Need products dropshipped from true wholesalers? Then explore this chart. It is a good starting point, though the ideal situation is to be the exclusive online dropshipper of some wholesaler…

And now read how to profitably dropship textbooks

$15000 NET PROFIT + NO MAINTENANCE (Automated)

• URL: www.wholesalecollegetextbooks.com
• Established: Fri Jun 30 2006
• Uniques/Month: 5,800
• Page views/month: 18,400
• Monthly Revenue: $10,000
• Google Pagerank: 2
• BIN: $20 000

Description:

WholesaleCollegeTextbooks is a premier ecommerce site/ affiliate site for college textbooks.
Here’re some info of the site:

Income:

I monetize the website through 2 means, affiliate income through Amazon, and sales income (using Google Checkout) by dropshipping.

We made $100K in gross sales from the site by dropshipping in 2007. At which around $8K is net profit. (the difference is product cost and monthly cost for virtual assistant which handles the order)

I make an avg. of $600 net profit per month through Amazon – this requires NO WORK AT ALL. People go on our site, search for books, if we do not have that book, we show results from Amazon, and they will be directed to Amazon through our affiliate link and we make income when they purchase off them.

Traffic Statistics (From Statscounter):

46242 Unique visits in 2007; 39996 Unique visits in 2008 (up till July)

148656 Page views in 2007; 128902 Page views in 2008 (up till July)

ALL traffic comes from organic search engine listings.

Marketing:

PR: 2

Strong SERP on Google, MSN, and Yahoo

No. 3 on Google at keyword “College Textbooks”, “international edition textbooks” and many other keywords

Monthly fix cost: $0

NO LINKS EVER BOUGHT FOR THE DOMAIN OR SITE

No adwords or banner ad are used to promote

Maintenance:

Minimal maintenance is required for this site – we don’t do anymore marketing. And Amazon affiliate income is automatic. The only required work is fulfilling the dropship orders – which is now taken care by our virtual assistance, at which we’ll give you the contact upon sales.

Traffic Details: