Let’s say you’ve created a Shopify store, and now you want to add Amazon product listings to your store. The problem is that scraping product listings from Amazon is against their terms of service. You can access limited product data through certain Amazon APIs, but you’re not going to get high-res images, updated prices or a lot of other important info. Plus, it can be a violation of copyright or intellectual property laws. A lot of brand name products require that you get their permission before selling their products (especially true with high-priced, luxury goods).

Those brands have legal departments whose entire job is to find people selling their stuff without permission and take them down. Once Shopify receives proof that you don’t have permission to sell the brand’s items, your store will be closed, and you’ll likely be banned from selling on Shopify. Yes, there are apps in the Shopify app store that say you can use them to drop ship from Amazon to your Shopify store. But just because an app is available in the app store doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to use it.

For example, the AmaZone DropShipper app has you login to Amazon and manually enter each order yourself. That’s not true drop shipping. Plus, if you’re planning on getting more than a handful of orders, it’s going to be a huge pain in the ass. Other apps clearly violate Amazon’s terms and have gotten multiple sellers banned (*cough* Spreadr *cough*).