Anyone dabbled in it?
Been reading up on the various pitfalls and am currently working on a few stores for other people which use it successfully and have built up a very lucrative business around it.
Thing is, their success is down to a relationship with suppliers who only offer the service to selected companies and are near enough impossible to strike a deal with unless you can demonstrate huge experience in online retail and have bricks and mortal retail premises.
At the other end of the scale is the billion or so eBay stores and individuals who all use the same common dropshippers and try to undercut each other by a few % on the same base price meaning they make peanuts in the end. They are also generally stuffed when their order remains unfulfilled due to a million other eBayers flogging the same DVD/iPod/trainers at the same time.
Is there a nice middle ground?
Been reading up on the various pitfalls and am currently working on a few stores for other people which use it successfully and have built up a very lucrative business around it.
Thing is, their success is down to a relationship with suppliers who only offer the service to selected companies and are near enough impossible to strike a deal with unless you can demonstrate huge experience in online retail and have bricks and mortal retail premises.
At the other end of the scale is the billion or so eBay stores and individuals who all use the same common dropshippers and try to undercut each other by a few % on the same base price meaning they make peanuts in the end. They are also generally stuffed when their order remains unfulfilled due to a million other eBayers flogging the same DVD/iPod/trainers at the same time.
Is there a nice middle ground?
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