Dropshipping?

[doug3667]

Okay so I bought a domain, and I am wanting to do some dropshipping, so I have searched all over the web and I came across www.dropshippinglist.com

has anyone ever heard of them before? or done business? It seem like a legit deal, but then again I am brand new to the game.

any info would be appreciated.

thanks

-doug

 

[carjamlangley]

shipping one product as opposed to dropshipping can be helpful in some cases

John,

Your post was very informative and obviously comes with much experience. In fact, I bet your post is far more valuable than most ebooks on the subject.

I guess I was thinking much smaller in scale, more like starting very small and slowly growing bigger with time/experience. Maybe just offering one product to begin with.

I suppose doing it this way would be especially relevant for the webmaster who has a passion, and thus a content site, and can't find anyone that will dropship related products. I agree that such a webmaster should first try to find a good dropshipper with relevant & unique products. But if one can't find this then a small start shipping on one's own might be the way to go. As you mentioned, all the "me too" products out there are a dime a dozen and won't bring any value to a site. A dropshipper that you have to work to get is far more valuable than one you just sign up with and I'd ship my own unique product before going with the dime a dozen type. I'm very curious about what your opinion would be in this type of situation.

Carrie

 

[drgilbert4]

Dropshipping Strategy

You must consider many factors when deciding to use a dropshipper. It is very common for "dropshipping" websites to be resellers who are making money by doing exactly what they say you will be doing if you subscribe to their service. For example: A couple of years ago I was using Wholesale Marketer (which has since been changed to doba.com) as a source for products to dropship. I was selling on eBay and making pretty good money. I saw other sellers attempting to sell products sourced from doba. I knew I had to come up with a strategy in order to compete. I started taking very small items that I would have never even considered selling and listing them as wholesale lots. If it was an item that I had to pay a dollar for and it retailed for 2-3 bucks, I would simply make sure that the inventory was available and sell 12 or 24 at a time as a wholesale lot. I would sell them for a small profit and the buyer would then resell them for a profit in their own way. Some of my regular customers had their own conventional stores. I saw several of my customers trying to resell the items in smaller quantities on eBay. This was one of my most effective strategies and it will work for any small product. I never had to buy anything until it was time to ship it. I would place the order and it would ship directly to the buyer.

Another strategy was to find an item that interested me and look for it on eBay. I would find an auction with multiple bidders and list my item to close as near as possible to the same time and notify the bidder that they didn't have to be in the bidding war, they could just click buy it now on my listing and get the item for a price they have already attempted to win it at.

There are many other strategies. If any of you have any good ones, please feel free to share them with me and the rest of us.

 

[carjamlangley]

why don't dropshippers buy their own sites?

My question is always why don't the dropshippers just come up with a website, or buy an old one that goes with what they are selling, and make bigger profits? I guess it's because they aren't interested in messing around with website upkeep but seems like they could hire someone to do it and really make a profit.

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I love your graphic of the face & firefox & explorer. :hehe: Where'd you get it?

 

[sjaguar13]

I ran into the same problem with drop shipping. Everything I found was the same stuff everyone else used. I also found similar sites that dropped shipped just to find out that neither one were the real drop shipper. They found a place who does the drop shipping and set up sites claiming to be a drop shipper. You can do that with a drop shipper. The prices where inflated by only a few dollars, but I couldn't sell the crap anywhere. It wasn't until later that I found the real place with the cheaper prices. I still couldn't have sold the stuff, though.

I asked some powersellers on eBay about it, and a few still liked the dropping shipping game. One guy told me that the best drop shippers are those that don't actually advertise as being a drop shipper. I found a place that had their own site and sold on eBay themselves. I emailed them and for $1, they would include a generic packing list without their information or the price. I made the most money from them than I did with any other drop shipper.

I sell to two different markets. I CANNOT sell any items from one to the other. I tried and failed horribly. What I did find, though, was what I could sell, and like John, I now buy wholesale. One drop shipper that I used also wholesales. The difference, though, is the price. I pay wholesale without any extra fees. Getting the stuff cheaper (20% cheaper) made it so I could actually sell the stuff, especially when I found out where the stuff would sell.

For the other market, I tried drop shipping, but the quality so really bad. If I could find someone that would buy it, they would quickly return it. I did find out what would sell (if it was made a little better). I now work with about 6 manufactures in China and import directly from them. You do have to pay up front and keep inventory, but you actually make money. I didn't like drop shipping. It made it easier to find which items I should stock and which I shouldn't, but I definitely lost money. I made the money back in the end, but if I could do it over again, I would probably spend time researching both markets and then find places that would give me a quantity discount instead of doing the drop shipping thing again. Then I would move up to wholesale. That being said, I am a member of a few auction information forums/sites where I offer to drop ship the items I stock.

 

[Oskare100]

I've tried some dropshipping lists but they havn't delivered what I expected. Just a lot of companies, half of them out of business and lots of dead links. But I've never tried dropshippinglist.com, so it may or may not be a good list. I'd say 50% change : )

 

[shahzadmasih]

Hi, This post is very informative, however I would like some specific information. If someone can help me then please send me a private message. Best Regards,

 

[Sir P]

hi

i assume you are after a dropshipper to work with?
I may be able to help you, but would need to know what products your are interested in dropshipping

cheers

 

[JimCato.com]

You can't make that much on ebay anymore because of their high fees. You can't make that much selling dropshipped items because the dropshippers take such a big piece of the pie. You are better setting up something ecommerce (with a niche focusing on one target market or one customer) where you can carry your own inventory and optimize the site and promote it.

thats right... Ebay sucks big time, for some reason one of my auction had a minimum priz on it, i did notice that 2 seconds after i had launched the auction and i changed it back to a normal auction... They gave me a email where they told me to pay a fee of 90 pounds for 2 second auction than was set up wrong... I emaild them straight away and the guy just told me that,,, ehh sorry we have new rules noe regarding the fees... F#"%¤#&%¤¤# Ebay..

I hope there will come a other auction without this dum, no customers friendly fees... why not just take 10% of the items that is sold...Easier for everyone... I hope Ebay Burns to the grownd....

When that is told.. are they allowed to do something like that, In Norway you have a right to change your minde...