My main questions are as follows:

1) How and where to find legitimate dropshippers who would be willing to offer an enthusiastic eBay seller like myself the opportunity to sell their products on eBay?

2) What does the contract between the dropshipper and the eBay seller include?

3) What are the normal communication means between the eBay seller and the dropshipper once a prospective buyer wants to order and buy the dropshipper’s product from the eBay seller’s eBay auction page?

4) How much (in percentages) does the eBay seller normally earn in commission on every sale made on their eBay auction page?

5) How do the dropshipper and the eBay seller agree the technical issue of sharing the revenue on every sale made through the eBay seller’s eBay auction listing page? Does the percentage of the eBay seller’s well earned commission automatically go into the eBay seller’s PayPal account? What’s the best ecommerce set-up for both the merchant (dropshipper) and the eBay seller to fairly and correctly share the agreed revenue on every sale made on eBay?

6) Are there any other obligations (required activities) that the eBay seller has to fulfill apart from just listing the dropshipper’s products on their eBay auction listing page?

7) Does the dropshipper normally provide any help or assistance to the eBay seller in terms of providing the eBay seller with the desired description of the products, the photos of the products, templates of the dropshipping company’s logo, information on the shipping costs, etc.?

Whether you are an experienced dropshipper or an experienced eBay seller of dropshipping products, I would also like to invite you to contact me on my Skype: bruno.bb100

In advance many thanks for your kind help and guidance.

Best wishes for the New Year!

Tamayah
Dropshipping is where the products are say in Hong Kong and I am a seller on ebay with all the photos listed and once I get a Buyer, I pay the dropshipper to send if directly to the Buyer.

Bruno
The dissadvantages are that your ebay reputation (and future chance of selling) are totally in the hands of the dropshipper.h
How quick do they ship, how well is it packaged, any import duty and taxes that the Buyer needs to pay, you never get to see the goods and how good at they at supplies on time.
Trial and error to find a good one.
1) Don’t let them know you are so enthusiastic- they will gladly take your money
2) Between you and the DS
3) The buyer buys from your ebay, you pay DS, they send , you get the feedback (good or bad)
4) Ebay take 10% of the final price Paypal a % as well (minus around 13% in total for both)
5) You get all the money from the sale, the DS charges you a fixed price
6) You have to state where the items are being sent from (so buyer dosent get hit with hidden charges of Import duty and taxes) and be registered as a Business seller with a Merchant Paypal account, and within 3 months of trading the Tax man wants to know
7)Yes; usually stock photos

Good luck in finding a good reliable DS, will take a lot of research
Pick niche products that are not already swamping ebay

The site is www.tattecookies.com, I would like to keep the same css (same look and feel) when someone will buy via the internet.

What are the steps I need to do in order to achieve something like that (creating an ecommerce site from the one I already have)?

What are the cost associated with it? Can I keep my merchant cc processing company? what other cost will I have to set it up and maintain it?

I am new to the ecommerce site, so any insight would help.

Thank you

Your website is using Windows based CMS(contents management system). Contact your web designer and ask him what it is. And find out if this CMS has ecommerce plugin or component.

right now i have an account with host-gator. I tried the whole yahoo stores/ebay stores {prostores} and hate the generic templates along with the monthly fee for using them. I just want to install my own shopping cart, from my knowledge i gained so far i like zencart and oscommerce, maybe cubecart.

but if someone has a guide for webhosting it would be great or a checklist, heres what i need to know, plus any additional information you would like to give.

best site for web hosting/ecommerce, using "host gator" right now.

best merchant solutions along with best shopping cart.

anything else i need to know?

Here’s about 100.000 pages about it:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=best+merchant+solutions+along+with+best+shopping+cart.&btnG=Google+Search

this is the actual page I am trying to bring up in my browser

http://www.fdis-ohio.com/

this is the actual code for this page<now if you copy and paste it it will not look like this in the browser please help.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-…
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Welcome to First Data Independent Sales</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body class="home">
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="container">
<div id="header">
<div class="container">
<h1><a href="http://www.fdis-ohio.com">First Data™</a></h1>
<h2>Independent Sales</h2>
<ul class="topNav">
<li class="contactUs"><a href="contact-us.html">Contact Us</a></li>
<li class="customerService"><a href="customer-service.html">Customer Service</a></li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav">
<li class="merchantSolutions"><a href="merchant-solutions.html">Merchant Solutions</a></li>
<li class="marketsWeServe"><a href="markets-we-serve.html">Markets We Serve</a></li>
<li class="aboutFDIS"><a href="company-profile.html">About FDIS</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="banner">
<h3>Welcome to First Data Independent Sales</h3>
<p>As a leader in the credit card processing industry, First Data Independent Sales (FDIS) offers small and mid-size businesses merchant accounts that enable them to accept credit cards.</p>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="merchantMarkets">
<div class="container">
<div class="merchantSolutions">
<h4><a href="merchant-solutions.html">Merchant Solutions</a></h4>
<ul>
<li class="gettingStarted"><a href="getting-started.html">Getting Started</a></li>
<li class="productsAndServices"><a href="merchant-services.html">Products & Services</a></li>
<li class="merchantResources"><a href="merchant-resources.html">Merchant Resources</a></li>
<li class="fraudProtection"><a href="fraud-protection-services.html">Fr… Protection</a></li>
<li class="sendMeInfo"><a href="inquiry_merchant.html">Send Me Information</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="marketsWeServe">
<div>
<h4><a href="markets-we-serve.html">Markets We Serve</a></h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="gas-convenience.html">Gas Stations & Convenience Stores</a></li>
<li><a href="restaurant.html">Quick Service Restaurant</a></li>
<li><a href="wireless.html">Wireless</a></li>
<li><a href="ecommerce-solutions.html">E-Commer…
<li><a href="health.html">Health & Beauty</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="supportContact">
<div class="supportSites">
<div>
<div>
<h4>Support Sites</h4>
<p>FDIS merchants have access to valuable tools and resources to conduct business online.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://mymerchantoffice.com" target="_blank">Mymerchantoffice.com</a>…
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="contactFDIS">
<div>
<div>
<p><strong>Contact FDIS Today!</strong>
(888) 967-7222</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<ul>
<li class="home"><a href="http://www.fdis-ohio.com">Home</a>…
<li><a href="merchant-solutions.html">Merchant Solutions</a></li>
<li><a href="markets-we-serve.html">Markets We Serve</a></li>
<li><a href="company-profile.html">About First Data Independent Sales</a></li>
<li><a href="privacy-policy.html">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Services by Cardservice International.</h4>
<p>© 2009 First Data Corporation. All Rights Reserved.<br>
All trademarks, service marks and trade names referenced in this material are the property of their respective owners. The First Data Independent Sales Agent Program is operated by Cardservice International, Inc. Cardservice International, doing business as First Data Independent Sales (FDIS), is a registered ISO/MSP of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Walnut Creek, CA.<br>
American Express requires separate approval.<br>
FDIS Agent #10391 is an independent agent for Cardservice International.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

I checked the source page and it’s XHTML, you can’t reuse or reprint the page without saving it first, and since it is a protected site (copyrighted) you may not be able to reuse it if the programmer has encrypted any of the data.

It does show a public page file, so it most likely is not encrypted. What exactly are you trying to do with the page?

For example, Item costs $50.00 plus shipping and handling.

I’m in the midst of opening up an online store, and am currently looking here on Yahoo for my web hosting needs.

I’m unsure of the differences between Yahoo’s Web Hosting and Merchant Solutions options. Which would I choose if I wanted to sell items on my web page? Does the Web Hosting option lack that capability?

Thank you.
Umm… No thanks "B fooled"
Why can’t someone just answer my question? Am I asking for too much? Seems like people just wanna post junk, or completely off-topic.

Yahoo Web Hosting, or should I use the Merchant plan that Yahoo offers to get my site up and running? Christ.

Let me tell you a little about my experience with web hosting companies over the years. At times you will come across deals that are almost too good to be true – cheap web hosting with amazing features! There are hosts that while offering cheap prices do back that up with excellent performance and service, but there are things to be noted:
There are a lot of potential questions you must ask yourself, whilst bearing in mind other peoples reviews, their reputation, and ultimately – the price. I personally use http://www.topwebhostingslist.com to see what web host is getting the best reputation as well as the bad, which helps me decide who to stay away from.Your experience might be different but I have many complaints from PowWeb and Dot5Hosting. Those companies just took my money and provided me with bad customer support and my websites would always be down. Today I use webhostingpad Host for my web hosting and I’m very satisfied. As long as you do a little research before buying your web hosting you will be fine!

would you own a shop without accepting cash but only credit cards?

Use you common Sense and give us as many options as we need to make a Sale

Cheers,
Jeff
MSFT Office Live Outreach
http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/en-us/

Good Luck!