Is dropshipping from AliExpress allowed on eBay?

eBay does not permit buying from another marketplace that then ships directly to your buyer. Sellers who work this way source and send goods themselves, or use a supplier that ships as them. Read eBay’s own policy before you build a business on it — that decision is yours, not your software’s.

How long does importing one product take?

By hand, about twenty minutes for a product with variations. With the fields filled from the source and sizes matched automatically, the work left is reading the title and pressing publish.

Can I edit everything before it goes live?

You should. A title copied from AliExpress is written for AliExpress search, not eBay search, and is usually the first thing worth changing.

Guides 8 min readUpdated 25 September 2026

How to import an AliExpress product to eBay

Copying a product by hand takes about twenty minutes and goes wrong in the same places every time: a photo eBay refuses, a size it will not accept, a price that forgot the delivery charge.

This is what has to move across, in the order it matters, and what a tool should be doing for you.

The photos, including the ones in the description

A product page has two sets of pictures: the gallery at the top, and the ones inside the description. Both are worth having. eBay hosts pictures you send it, so a listing keeps working even if the AliExpress page changes.

eBay refuses any picture whose longest side is under 500 pixels. AliExpress serves plenty of description images smaller than that, so they either have to be enlarged before they are sent or dropped.

The variations, matched to eBay’s own lists

One AliExpress product with eight colours and six sizes is one eBay listing with up to forty-eight variations, each with its own price, quantity and photo.

Every option value has to match something eBay accepts for that category. This is where most imports break, and it is covered properly in the guide on item specifics.

The description, cleaned

AliExpress descriptions carry scripts, iframes and tracking that eBay strips or rejects outright. eBay also does not allow active content, and an iframe will fail a listing.

What survives is the text and the pictures. Anything a seller has written about their own shipping times belongs to them, not to you, and should not follow the product across.

The price, after the real cost

The cost of a product is not its price on AliExpress. It is that price plus delivery to your buyer’s country, and delivery is quoted per variation and changes with the order value.

Set a rule once — a percentage or a fixed amount on top, rounded how you like, with a floor under your profit — and apply it to everything. A price worked out by hand per product is a price that will be wrong in a month.

What has to keep happening afterwards

The supplier raises the price: your listing has to follow, or your margin quietly disappears
The supplier runs out: your listing has to go to zero, or you sell something you cannot send
A photo eBay is hosting expires: it has to be refreshed before the listing goes blank

Questions

Is dropshipping from AliExpress allowed on eBay?: eBay does not permit buying from another marketplace that then ships directly to your buyer. Sellers who work this way source and send goods themselves, or use a supplier that ships as them. Read eBay’s own policy before you build a business on it — that decision is yours, not your software’s.
How long does importing one product take?: By hand, about twenty minutes for a product with variations. With the fields filled from the source and sizes matched automatically, the work left is reading the title and pressing publish.
Can I edit everything before it goes live?: You should. A title copied from AliExpress is written for AliExpress search, not eBay search, and is usually the first thing worth changing.