The only thing I can think to do is charge a bit less and lose some profit in order to gain some sales.

If I have an auction item that doesn't sell I don't drop the price, I wait a few weeks and lisat it with a higher start price as a lot of buyers seeing a low start price think it is probably not worth much!

the guys who run the course pretty much pioneered along with ebay,  they've written books blah blah,   yes I trust they know Ebay inside and out.

I hope it isn't the ones I can't remember the names of who make these claims but their advice is questionable at best, terribly out of date about a lot of things and totally untrue at worst.

Ive been researching dropshipping long before i started the program I am aware of what it entails,    Its not big at all yet in Australia,  may never be,

You obviously don't know ebay very well, there are thousands of dropshippers and their reputation, for the most part, is BAD.

If you correctly state the item location as the USA or wherever then many buyers will avoid your items as they think they will take longer to arrive and if you wrongly put the item location as Australia they will be less than happy when they receive something from overseas.