High-Ticket Dropshipping

The European Union’s €150 duty-free threshold dies on July 1, and a flat €3 customs charge takes its place on every low-value parcel entering the bloc. That is four weeks out. The Council gave the rule its final green light on February 11, 2026, after member states agreed the political deal back in December, so […]

USPS just changed the math on your shipping, and almost nobody is talking about it. On July 12, the Postal Service starts calculating package size two new ways, and both of them cost you money. It is rounding every fractional dimension up to the next whole inch, and it is dropping its dimensional weight divisor

Something happened on Amazon last quarter that hasn’t happened in twenty years. Third-party sellers, the independent businesses that make up most of what you buy on the platform, dropped to 60% of paid units sold in Q1 2026. That’s down from 61% in Q4 2025 and 62% the quarter before. Two straight quarters of decline.

I get asked all the time how I got started with this stuff. People want to know if the model actually works, how long it took before I made real money, and whether the whole thing is worth it. So I figured it was time to tell the full story, from working a day job

Two of the biggest sales channels online just told sellers the same thing in the same week: clean up your product data or disappear. eBay started auto-correcting non-standard size values across its apparel and footwear listings this month, and starting in July it blocks any listing that still has missing or non-standard size and condition

GameStop wants to buy eBay, and eBay wants nothing to do with it. On May 3, GameStop put a $56 billion unsolicited offer on the table for the marketplace where millions of sellers list their products, valuing eBay at $125 a share. Nine days later eBay’s board threw it out, calling the bid “neither credible

The European Commission fined Temu €200 million on Thursday, roughly $232 million, for failing to assess the risk of illegal and unsafe products flooding its platform. It is the largest penalty ever issued under the Digital Services Act and the first big one aimed at a Chinese-owned marketplace. Regulators bought products directly through Temu, sent

Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. This is the daily news brief from Ecommerce Paradise for small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs, the people building Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and high-ticket dropshipping stores from wherever they happen to be parked this month. Some of you are reading this from a condo in Bangkok or a villa outside