I want to start the drop shipping business, but i dont want to be conned by some many companies out there.. Where is the best place to get the web site designed from and which are the good or best businesses to drop ship and which wholesalers? The answers will be appreicated. Most people i know reckon this is not good business to do but i want to prove them wrong.
2007-05-13 05:33:42 · 6 answers · asked by zahida0007 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
hi zahida00…
I started my business a few years ago doing dropshipping. I started by selling products on eBay but now have my own online store. After looking for months I found http://www.BuyatDiscounts.com to do all my dropshipping for me.
So what I did was list their product to eBay. When I would sell it for a higher price then what they charge me I would put in the order on their site. BuyatDiscounts.com lets you put in a different billing address and shipping address on the site. Then they will dropship (send the product to your customer). So say you sold a cell phone for $200 on eBay and you bought it from them for$150. You just made a profit of $50. BuyatDiscounts puts an invoice with your name and address so your buyer thinks its coming from you and doesn't get the name of your supplier. Nice way to make money...
They also can show you how to built your own website if you want an online store. There is a banner on their home page with more info or go to their "about us" page for more details. Feel free to email me with questions, I will do my best to get you started off right without being scammed like I was at first. Good luck!
2007-05-17 04:28:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I have seen, the only people who make money from drop shipping are the people selling the stuff to you. You get a product that is of low quality and is already all over the place. Before you decide to do it, take the product you are wanting to sell and go on Ebay and see if you can find it. Look in the history and see which ones sold and which ones did not. See what kind of prices they are getting. See what the average shipping is. You are probably going to find is (a). There are already too many listings for the product. (b). That most of these listings do not end in sales. (c). The sales price of those that do sell are much lower than what you are wanting to sell for. Some might even sell for less than what you can pay for them. (d). The fees on Ebay will eat up just about any profit that you make. They go up all of the time. You can make money off of Ebay but it takes a lot of hard work and research. There is no magic product that will be an overnight success. There are lots of products out there that sell well but there is a lot of competition. Competition who know where to find the product cheaply but not sacrifice quality. That is your biggest problem. Finding a place to get your product. Many times, these people making money in Ebay are also running a business that happens to sell the same stuff. They already have the know-how to find the stuff cheap and they have the support that their existing business can provide for them. It can absorb a lot of the overhead. Some pawn shops sell their stuff on Ebay. It is kind of hard to compete with them when it comes to getting stuff cheap.
2016-05-17 07:31:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you own your own business and sell items that you do not keep in inventory you may have them drop shipped directly from the supplying warehouse. This type of arrangement is not uncommon but you have to go through an approval process to get signed up with the manufacturer or wholesaler that ships the goods. Do a lot of research on this before jumping in. There are many scam artists in this arena. Good Luck
2007-05-13 05:43:57 · answer #3 · answered by GUS 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
drop shipping is an order that is delivered sy=traight from the supplier to the end customer without a third party in the middle.
2007-05-13 05:41:57 · answer #4 · answered by Mister Man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you order something from a company and they deliver it to your house
2007-05-13 05:38:52 · answer #5 · answered by yuda buda b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-&p=Drop%20Shipping
2007-05-13 05:42:49 · answer #6 · answered by Q&A Answer Mans Retired 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋