This HGR Academy lesson walks through the costly mistakes new dropshippers make and shows practical ways to avoid them. You will learn how to adopt the right mindset for long term success, price products without bleeding profits, and follow marketplace rules that protect your account. The video highlights why dropshipping is a real business, not a get-rich-quick scheme, and why systems and consistency beat shortcuts every time. It explains how impatience and daily tinkering destroy progress, and why you should measure results weekly while listing new products consistently. You will get a clear breakdown of a common automation pricing trap that can silently inflate your prices and kill sales. Finally, the lesson covers marketplace compliance like eBay selling limits, Vero items, and forbidden words, and shows how the right tools can block risky listings before they go live. - Treat dropshipping like a business, build processes, and focus on steady improvement. - Be patient, list consistently, and gather data before changing strategy. Measure progress weekly. - Use competitive pricing, avoid extreme markups that turn shoppers away. - Watch out for the automation pricing trap, where a manual price change creates a product-specific markup rule that can inflate future prices. - Respect marketplace rules, work within eBay selling limits, and earn higher limits by fulfilling orders reliably. - Match your policies to what you can actually deliver, avoid Vero items, and remove forbidden words from titles. - Use Hustle Got Real protections like custom block lists and pre-post warnings to prevent risky listings and protect account health. If you want to stop guessing and build repeatable systems that scale, explore Hustle Got Real to automate pricing and inventory, prevent risky listings, and manage your dropshipping business with more confidence.