DS Domination Monopoly Review 2014 – Not Worth $500
I sell on eBay and in my DS Domination Monopoly Review 2014, I will give you some eBay PowerSeller Tips and tell you why Monopoly is not worth the $500 cost. I have been able to make good money on eBay for more than 10 years and I didn’t have to pay anyone money to learn how.
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It does not take much knowledge on how to sell on eBay and there is plenty of free information out there to help you, including what I have on this website. Making money on eBay is not really hard at all, even DS Domination (DSD) will point this out in their training. But this is why I think joining DSD is a waste of money. Seriously think about this question.
If making money on eBay isn’t really hard because many are and have done it without being part of DSD, then why should you spend $499.95 for the Monopoly program when you can learn these things for free? Plus in order for you to buy into the Monopoly program, you have to spend money on all of the other training that comes before Monopoly. We are talking about a one-time additional cost of $249.95 and a monthly cost of $119.90.
For a complete rundown on the many different prices that you are required to spend as a member of DS Domination, check out the scam review I wrote about DSD. Now you are probably wondering, is DS Domination a scam? Like I say in my scam review, no, DSD is not a scam but they are also not truthful and upfront about a lot of things.
Monopoly Review 2014 – Don’t believe the hype!
This program will cost you a one-time cost of $499.95. But when you consider that about half of the information that you get is found elsewhere online for a lot less money and in some cases free, why would you spend all of that money?
I am both an eBay PowerSeller and an Amazon Affiliate, which is known as an Associate, and I can tell you first hand that you are paying way too much money at $499.95 for information you can learn for free. However there is some valuable information within the Monopoly program, but nothing that will benefit you until you get more experience at selling.
What comes before the Monopoly Program
Buying the Monopoly program just after joining DSD is like buying a new car before you even have a driver’s license. If you can first afford paying the $119.90 per month for your monthly fees, and you are still making a profit working the first two programs (Pro & Elite), then you should still not be thinking about Monopoly just yet.
What you should be thinking about is paying $249.95 for the Unleashed program, which is another big waste of money. But according to the owners of DS Domination, you need it in order to do well with Monopoly. You will also need it and all of these other programs, should you want to engage in the network marketing side of DSD. They call it Affiliate Marketing, but it is actually Network Marketing.
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A total waste of money
But why do I say that this is all a waste of money? Because it is! Yes some of the information like that of how to sell on Amazon, and how to skirt around the legalese of Arbitrage with Amazon, could be helpful. But why not work with REAL Drop Shippers?
Selling an item on eBay for a higher price and then buying it on Amazon for a lower price, and have them ship it to your customer, is called Arbitrage not Drop Shipping. Plus your profit margins are not always going to be predictable, because the selling prices always fluctuate on Amazon. In a nutshell you are wasting your money with the majority, not all, of the DSD programs.
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Perhaps this is the reason why most of the DS Domination members are more active in the recruitment network marketing side and not working the actual program. I know of a couple of former members that gave up trying to work the program, because they had problems making enough money to cover their monthly fee. But in my eBay tips below, you will find out FREE information that you would have to pay DSD for.
eBay PowerSeller tips
Do you want to know how to sell on eBay and become a PowerSeller like me? It is actually quite simple and there are only a few rules you must follow. To see all of these rules, you can look at the how to become an eBay PowerSeller section of my DS Domination scam review. But in a nutshell, you must sell a minimum of 100 items and at a minimum cost of $3,000.00 within a year’s time.
In order to make good money on eBay you need to be a PowerSeller. However you cannot become one without selling consistently over the course of 12 months. So basically what DS Domination is claiming you could make, cannot happen until you have been selling on a consistent basis for at least a year.
You see! I just gave you some valuable FREE information that DS Domination charges you a lot of money to learn. Here are some more PowerSeller tips for making money on eBay. Always remember that everything you sell on eBay, you will have to pay 10% of the total cost plus shipping.
Make sure to factor that amount as well as the 2.9 – 3.9% PayPal fee, into your profit margin. Between the eBay and PayPal fees, plus the monthly $119.90 DS Domination fee, you better be making about $300 and more in profit every month. Here are some more tips for getting started selling on eBay.
TIP #1: Before you begin, do your research on eBay to see what others are selling.
TIP #2: Locate a source for your items. I give you a free link to 1,000 Wholesalers and 70 Drop Shippers in my post on tips to sell on eBay.
TIP #3: Determine how you will ship your items either by you or through drop shippers.
TIP #4: Become an eBay Buyer before becoming a Seller.
TIP #5: Diversify what you are selling by selecting many different profitable items.
TIP #6: Which method of selling I prefer, either Auction Only, Buy it Now, or both.
TIP #7: Write quality content for your eBay listings by using keywords and a description that reads like a short story.
Make Money on eBay without DSD
You may be wondering about that last tip and why you can’t just use the copy & paste method that DS Domination advocates in their training. Well you can, but as eBay teaches you and as I have personally seen, a short story-like description will convert more lookers into buying customers.
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Even if you decide not to work the DS Domination program because you do not want to spend the $119.90 per month ($19.95=Pro + $99.95=Elite), you would still have to spend that much to do the network marketing side of DSD. Frankly I can see you making more money doing the referrals than the eBay part of the program in the short-term.
But what if I could show you a way to make a residual monthly income for far less an investment? Heck, you can make a residual monthly income for $0.00 of an investment. To read and see how that is possible, check out one of my blog posts on how to make money at Wealthy Affiliate.
To make money online for no more than a $49.00 per month investment, check out the full Wealthy Affiliate review. I don’t know about you, but $49.00 per month to run your own online business sure sounds way better than $119.90. What do you think? If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below and I will get back to you with a reply.
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Thanks for your information.I was DSD member last two months back.I agree with you.can you guide me how to start drop shipping and genuine source (wholesale drop shipper)? Where can I get free training like ‘Monopoly’ as you said in your article.
Drop shipping is really simple. I describe how it works within 2 paragraphs in my blog at the below link. In that blog I provide a link to Drop Shipping Wholesalers directory on Google. All you do is search for the drop shipper you want to work with, contact them, and they will provide you with everything you need. The only thing you need before you begin is an eBay seller’s account and/or your own eCommerce website where you will sell these items.
http://legitimatejobfromhome.com/does-ds-domination-work-roger-langille-resigns
Thank you.
Hi Robert,
I looked at DSD and I kept thinking how would anybody make money selling retail products. The profit on these were all ready made by somebody. It is a very flawed business plan for sure.]
Exactly John! And it is illegal to copy information from Amazon and other websites and paste it into eBay. If either eBay or Amazon finds out, there will be trouble. I do not know what exactly Amazon will do but I know for a fact, I am an eBay PowerSeller, eBay will cancel your eBay account indefinitely and without recourse. DSD does not teach drop shipping.
The only thing I’ve seen from Wealthy Affiliate is that every person writes terrible or “learn more from me” I don’t care what business you are in, if you treat it like a business it will pay you like a business. I mean dont get me wrong, to rank and get people joining your “training team” but stop writing shitty reviews on companies just to rang and create a residual income off of when half of the reviews I read that people from Wealthy Affiiliate is only to rank and get people to join rather than writing a legitimate review for any company. STOP WRITING BULL SHIT REVIEWS. IT GETS ANNOYING.
Thank You
Daniel
PS I’m not with DSD just think Wealthy Affiliate is Shit if all they do is teach to rank for different companies and build a team that way. Which I see a lot of.
PPS The website they give ya’ll looks like SHIT too. Maybe you should build a real blog that you have full control over.
“TrainingTeam” is good because you build residual
Wealthy Affiliate does not have “Training Teams” because they are not a network marketing company. They are a niche marketing company in the affiliate marketing industry. That is a big difference from network marketing. Like I said in my other comment to you Daniel, it is best to know what you are talking about before making claims, which is why I only do reviews that I personally have first-hand knowledge on so that I provide my website readers truthful opinions and facts.
First off Daniel the reviews I write are based off of facts. Since you claim you are not with DSD then all I can say is, that is the smartest thing you have done. They are a total ripoff and they do not even teach real drop shipping.
The drop shipping concept is SO EASY to understand and to do, that you don’t need to spend an additional $50-$100 every month to learn about it. I am an eBay PowerSeller and how did I learn drop shipping? By going up onto the websites of wholesale drop shipping companies and reading their drop shipping rules. Each drop shipper has these instructions on their websites and they are FREE to read how their process works.
DSD is not free nor is it Drop Shipping. Copying website information from companies like Amazon (which is illegal according to Amazon’s TOU agreement) and then pasting it into an eBay listing and setting a higher price, then when you make the sale you buy the the product from Amazon and have them mail it to your customer is NOT drop shipping. That is called Arbitrage.
So being that I am an eBay PowerSeller and I know what and how drop shipping really works, I investigated DSD after several people I knew had joined and could not make money no matter how hard they tried. What I found was that DSD did not teach drop shipping, that the majority of people in DSD were making money ONLY by recruiting more people into “recruitment sales teams” aka Network Marketing, and that DSD was not upfront about all of the hidden fees and sales levels a member of eBay must be at in order to actually make good money.
I knew many people either made no money or were losing a lot of money with DSD. So I was compelled to write this review based on facts I know first-hand from being an eBay PowerSeller, to warn people about DSD. I obviously write real well because I have had a ton of people thank me for my information and Google has ranked me highly for it too. And this is also true about everything else I write on this website.
If you do not like what I write, then stop reading it! It is that simple! Because I am not going to stop writing about it and helping people to avoid opportunities that do not work or do not work honestly. And before you start putting down a program you should know the facts about them. If you were a member of DSD doing the whole copy from Amazon and pasting to eBay crap, you would know what a ripoff that is for all of the expensive upsells they charge their members. If you were a member of Wealthy Affiliate, you would know that their is NO such a thing as a “training team” and “residual income.”
All of my reviews are legitimate because I get first hand information by joining and/or by knowing the real process. Unlike many others who write a lot of reviews, I do not write many because like I said, I write legitimate reviews based on personal experience with said product I am reviewing. Wealthy Affiliate is highly ranked, highly respected, and has been in business for 10 years. DSD on the other hand has only been in business 23 months and already is having people who have joined them, starting to quit because they are not making a profit. I wonder if this is why their original creator Roger Langille suddenly resigned from DSD at the beginning of May 2015 without any explanation. Could he have foreseen the demise of DSD on the horizon before their 2 year anniversary?
Hey Robert, thank you for saving me a ton of cash – I was minutes away from investing $500 into this program but I stopped myself and did a little research. I actually am a former member of DSD, I used to be an affiliate and had a small team and all that… but I left about a year ago and forgot why. I think now I know why 🙂 I was spending more than I was earning… That’s a problem. BTW you keep referencing getting the same info from DSD for little or free, can you point me in the direction of where I can get that info?
Thanks for this!
Thank you for your comment Jason. First off if you want to learn about real drop shipping and not the arbitrage that DSD advocates then all you need to do is go to eBay and read up on drop shipping procedures. Drop shipping is a very simple to understand process that doesn’t require an education course to get involved in. You also should do the following.
Many of the wholesale drop shippers on the internet have all the information and resources you need on their websites and some of them offer this information for free without you having to be a member. Go to this link http://www.wholesalecentral.com It is a resource directory I found on Google that contains over 1,000 wholesalers and about 80 Drop Shippers. My favorite Wholesaler/Drop Shipper is DollarDays International.
all the suppliers at wholesale central require membership fees. I’ve read on worldwide brands that dropshippers who have set up fees or monthly fees are not legitimate wholesalers but are just dropshippers themselves. What do you think about this and what do you think about worldwide brands?
I would not say all of the suppliers require membership fees, I use a few that are free. Another thing to be careful of on Wholesale Central is that the majority of companies are not listed as drop shippers. Of the close to 1,000 listings, only 70 are drop shippers with the rest as just wholesalers.
As for Worldwide Brands I do not know much about them to make an informed opinion. They seem to be just another internet company (their words not mine) that provides a product they are selling. It would be nice if they provided this information for free to further legitimize their claims.
Very interesting read, just joined dsd a week ago and was very optimistic but this is interesting. Please send me more info about what you do and am particularly interested in selling on eBay and drop shipping xx thank you
Hello Roselyn. I too sell on eBay but nearly as much as I used to. Now that I have fell in love with the Affiliate Marketing way of selling online, NO dealing with customers, NO handling products, NO drop shipping, and NO list/selling fees. If you would like more free information on this, just read the FAQ page on my website.
As for selling on eBay and doing drop shipping, there are MUCH better and less expensive ways than DSD. Check out my detailed article at this link here. – http://legitimatejobfromhome.com/how-to-make-money-on-ebay-7-tips-from-an-ebay-power-seller
Greetings!
Great website and information! I am curious what you would suggest in keep track of inventory that we dropship from amazon to ebay? I have well over 300 listing and cannot keep track of all this. Ive had to cancel many order, now which I have leaned I should have just bitten the bullet. Now my Ebay account is on hold and cant increase selling limits and my sales have dropped dramatically! I was so close to being a powerseller too! Please advise if you will. I am also interested in maybe doing some business with you in the future because I like what you have built here. I agree the 500$ I spent on Monopoly is almost worthless. Its seems so saturated now or maybe its just me. I spend hours looking for products to sell on amazon and then when I do find one or a couple its undercut the next day. So frustrating!! Please advise! Thank you!
That is one of the many flaws with the whole DSD program because you ARE NOT doing “real” drop shipping. If you were doing “real” drop shipping, the drop shipper would provide you with an inventory tracker. Seeing how what you are doing is not drop shipping and is really Arbitrage, you would have to find a way on your own to track inventory, like using a database program such as Microsoft Excel or the similar database program that Google offers.
How long have you been selling on eBay? You do know that you cannot become a PowerSeller unless you have been selling at a high volume for a total of 12 months straight? And why would you list so many items at once? That is a great way to get yourself noticed by eBay’s spam monitors and make them monitor your account for possible fraudulent activity.
I am an eBay PowerSeller and the reason why I wrote this post on DSD Monopoly and my scam review http://legitimatejobfromhome.com/is-this-a-scam-2/is-ds-domination-a-scam was so that I could warn people to stay away from DSD because it does not really promote true Drop Shipping and to do “real” Drop Shipping DOES NOT cost nearly as much as what DSD charges.
Thanks for you reply! That provides a whole new level of understanding for me.
I list so many items because I guess I can(have a 58k listing limit). Dont know why it would be seen as spam by Ebay? I havent heard anything bad from Ebay when I speak with them. Just trying to increase my profits.
I would have been selling for a year in March. I remember my monthly evaluation was right on the edge of becoming a powerseller, then I lost all that.
Thanks for your reply.
What I meant to say about the spam is that if you list a lot of items and then have to cancel them, it raises awareness with the eBay team that monitors seller accounts and can put limits on your account.
Wow, you were close to becoming a PowerSeller.
How do you use the site you listed for drop shipping when the charge an arm and leg for shipping?
I never listed a drop shipping site. In my post “How to make money on eBay” I give a link to a database on Google that lists 1,000 Wholesalers and 77 drop shippers. Every drop shipper is going to have different shipping charges.
Hello I am a Dsd member and when you look at Dsd all it is
1.for people never sold anything before on eBay
2.and to make extra cash ready to do retail arbritage to sell on Amazon FBA
To do this you have to pay for each module from pro through to genesis
The pro and elite modules are monthly and the rest cost hundreds of dollars
I’m in the uk and will tell you,you absolutely don’t need Dsd for what you are taught in the training you can easily learn yourself from YouTube videos and the Internet
If you want some extra cash without having or risking your own money then Dsd is ok but just stay on the basic level and learn yourself
You can dropship from anywhere you don’t need Dsd
Thank you Dean for your comment.
I agree that what you are taught in the DSD training you can learn yourself. I am an eBay PowerSeller and I know first-hand about drop shipping. You absolutely do not need DSD to perform any kind of drop shipping.
On my blog on this website, I give 7 tips on how to sell on eBay and provide a link to the wholesale central database that has links to 77 different drop shippers. You can see that blog here. – http://legitimatejobfromhome.com/how-to-make-money-on-ebay-7-tips-from-an-ebay-power-seller
DSD is too overpriced for what they are selling you, because most of this you can learn on your own from people like me and from eBay directly for free.
Hi, I joined DSD in October and I am making money from this. I do understand your points you give especially in the other area regarding Power seller etc which I am not i will add but I have a lot of feedback though so has helped. I just want to point out that DSD is a training platform too just like Wealthy Affiliate so you may pay the $9.95 to do the affiliate side but the training platform is very good. I will also add the training in general is pretty impressive along with the support you get also. I believe the information is out there to be had by all and it is available free but if you do not have the time to research then its available to hand at the price you pay which is expensive but it has saved me time. I am looking at trying wealthy affiliate to run alongside what I am doing with DSD and want to add your website has been a very interesting read.
Nikki
Yes Nikki, I know what DSD is, but a training program that is not all inclusive and doesn’t teach you “Real” drop shipping is not a good ROI (Return on Investment). How much money do you pay DSD every month? $29.90 (Affiliate fee + Pro fee) or $129.85 (Affiliate fee + Pro fee + Elite fee)? How much pure profit do you make per month over what you pay out each month? Have you paid the $249.95 for the Unleashed training and the $499.95 for the Monopoly? That’s a whole lot of money for information that is far less, if not free online at eBay and Amazon and on the websites of many drop shippers.
The only similarities between DSD and Wealthy Affiliate are that they are a training program. But Wealthy Affiliate gives you 100 times more beneficial information at far less the cost. AND you can start for FREE with 2 free WordPress websites! Does DSD offer you that option? No they don’t. Does DSD offer you an all-inclusive training package for only $47 per month like Wealthy Affiliate does? No they don’t. Does DSD allow you to save money by cutting $17 off your monthly fee if you pay a yearly fee, like Wealthy Affiliate does? No, DSD does not!
DSD does not give the newbie selling on eBay any more advantage than if they went up on eBay and did this themselves. Selling on eBay and then buying from Amazon or Walmart and elsewhere is NOT drop shipping. That is called Arbitrage. Copying pictures and product information from the Amazon website to use elsewhere violates the Amazon’s Condition of Use Agreement. Being an eBay PowerSeller, I know that it is possible to make good money on eBay but by working long and hard at it. I also know that doing it the DSD way will not be as “profitable” as DSD claims. They are just not a good ROI
Hi there. I agree with the above. I’ve had an sbay account for years but not really used it frequently just every now and again bought and sold odd bits. However , joined dsd wasn’t told there was a monthly fee – just was told we can show you how for £12.50 !! didn’t make any sales for weeks , contacted my affiliate to ask for help and advice and he told me to and I quote “put more effort in ” once I realised that the £12.50 was a monthly fee – I cancelled with dsd and carried on by myself. With a few trickling sales , not always making any or much profit iive only just now – 6 months on – covered my costs !! And I’m probably making 2 sales a month. They sign you up to all their Facebook support pages , which are all so positive …. Only because any messages./comments you post are screened before they go on there , so you will never see the truth. Couldn’t agree more with the above ,
They are a total sham when it comes to the making money on eBay crap they keep promoting. Being that I sell on eBay and I am already a PowerSeller without their help, I wanted to see if what they were claiming was true. Like you I quickly realized that what they were claiming and what was the truth were two totally different things. When my sponsor kept sending me emails promoting the DSD program after telling him 3 times that what he was promoting was a sham, and that I had proof being that I knew the rules for both eBay and Amazon, I had to write this review to warn people about DS Domination. I am happy you were able to get out without going bankrupt because of them.
Hi Robert
Thank you for the well written review. In fact, I have never tried to make money on eBay so I don’t know about it much. But as you are experienced and are saying it’s not that difficult then maybe I should learn from you. Anyway, I will bookmark your site and will return here 🙂
Egon
You are welcome Egon. Yes selling on eBay is not really hard. Much of what you do is the same, but easier, with what you do on your website. Write content and post pictures of the items you want to sell. Then you list the items up on auction for 7 days and wait. The only thing you may have to do while waiting is answer any customer questions should anyone ask you. Then once the item sells you just mail them the item which they have paid you for.
If you have any questions on how to sell on eBay you can check out my Tips post I wrote at this link http://legitimatejobfromhome.com/how-to-make-money-on-ebay-7-tips-from-an-ebay-power-seller
Hello Robert and thank you for this interesting article on DS Domination and selling on eBay. I’ve only recently sold a few items on eBay, but I must admit I rather enjoy it and I’m thinking about taking it further. If I do, I don’t think I’ll be needing DS D!
Cheers. Peter
You are welcome Peter. Yes, selling on eBay can be quite fun and it really is not hard at all. There are tons of free information available on eBay itself as well as what I offer on my website. As an eBay Powerseller I can firmly say that DS Domination is a total waste of time and money, especially when it comes to the making money on eBay portion of their program. The majority of their members do not partake in this part of the program unless they are already eBay Powersellers, because it is not profitable for someone who is just starting out. You definitely will not be needing DSD.