continue posting, OP
ignore the naysayers.
ignore the naysayers.
Quote: (07-16-2017 04:17 AM)nigerian Wrote:
unless you find a really good niche as well as an exceptional product, dont bother with this.
Quote: (07-15-2017 02:23 PM)WeekendCasanova Wrote:
1) The packaging does not show the true cost. In your fulfillment service (Oberlo), you leave a note to the supplier that you're dropshipping, and they do not include the cost, receipt, or invoice. Only the product.
This is 100% incorrect assuming your talking about shipping to USA customers. Anyone who's ever ordered a product off Ali Express knows this. I'm not talking about invoices inside the package which most sellers don't include anyhow, I'm talking legally a package cannot enter the USA through customs without a declaration on the package which clearly states what's in the package, the quantity, and the cost. Now many sellers lie about the cost but typically lower not higher so in reality your customers are probably seeing a lower cost than you actually paid which in some ways makes it look even worse.
2) Shopify encourages dropshipping. If you have a slow-shipment time notice in your FAQs, receipts etc, your customers are less likely to file a chargeback.
Never disagreed that Shopify doesn't encourage dropshipping, Shopify has a dropshipping guide and regularly blogs giving tips on how to do this as well as promotes apps which assist iwth it so nobody is saying SHopify doesn't allow dropshipping.
That said you act like customers are actually going to read an FAQ. On my website during checkout I have GIANT BOLD RED lettering explaining something to customers and almost none of my customers actually read it. You can put it right front and center in front of people's faces and in my experience most people don't read. Ask any eBay or Amazon seller about this, you'll clearly have dimensions of your item and you'll still get someoen messaging you, what size is this shirt or whats armpit to armpit. I must answer 10 questiosn a day stating "that's explained in the description". Most people don't read.
3) I've had maybe 2 chargebacks in over a year of running stores. I've never lost a chargeback, and have NEVER heard of someone being blacklisted for getting a chargeback issued against them.
If it's working for you awesome keep doing it but just browse reddit or any ecommerce forum and you'll see dozens if not hundreds of people crying about chargebacks. As far as being blackballed just do a google search of high risk processors, that industry wouldn't exist if people weren't blackballed. The last merchant processor I got wanted to see 6 months of processing history and while not typical I was told that I was high risk when I had 1 single chargeback which I won over the course of hundreds of successful transactions. One chargeback typically isn't a huge issue, I think industry average is about 1% but excessive chargebacks will get your processing terminated and you'll have a hard time finding new processing. BTW Stripe and PP are not real processors, youd ont have a true merchant account your setup with hundreds of other people.
4) Most stores ARE upfront about their shipping times.
Some people are super upfront while others try to hide it in fine print deep in an FAQ page which IMHO is counterintuitive as they are better off bing upfront and losing a few sales than dealing with dozens of customers repeatedly messaging or calling asking about tracking info.
Are people successful dropshipping, absolutely, more power to them. I still say the vast majority are not successful and in the day and age of Amazon where people pretty much expect packages in two days with easy return policies ali express dropshipping isn't exactly a great customer experience.
At the end of the day most dropshippers will rightfully say this...look there's a very specific type of customer who will buy my product, they like the cheap price and are willing to wait a bit, nobody else matters, and that's true. If you can find those customers you can do well for yourself.
Quote: (07-16-2017 08:41 AM)JayD Wrote:
Would you be able to provide any examples of good dropshipping websites as a basis to look into? Thanks
Quote: (07-16-2017 10:12 PM)Sebastian Wrote:
I think it depends on what your strength, interests are and willingness to be location free.
If you are internet marketing savvy person who wants to run business out of a laptop while traveling somewhere, drop shipping would be the only option.
Low margins? You are not putting any cash upfront. You cant really complain.
For me, id rather market my own brand.(female items) Id like to shoot my own photos and short videos with models for social media, design items, do promotions etc. Thats where I would have fun by being creative. Obviously it will cost more money doing marketing this way and I will have to get products made in bulk that will never sell (I say 20k to start minimum) but margins will be a lot higher and i can build small online brand presence.
There used to be infomercials about dropshipping business like 10 years ago (still there?) basically you order catalog from them, choose items you want to sell on your personalized website and they will take care of the rest.
I thought whos going to buy something from Johnny's website with bunch of generic items.
I think they made money by charging monthly service fee to the members.
I know OP wont tell exactly what he sells but it would be really hard to bring people to the online store if what you have is available everywhere and you cant beat others prices.
Btw Overstock.com is pretty much drop shipping business these days. They used to sell real overstocked items out of some cheap warehouse ( saw fake polo shirt there) Its amazing how they got there.
Quote: (07-22-2017 02:25 AM)asiaslayer Wrote:
update: i've got my new store all ready to go and i'm at the phase where i'm going to start running ad campaigns, but i've been getting my ad campaigns rejected by fagbook and locked out of my Advert Manager account, usually at the payment phase after i've put in my payment info. this is the second time this has happened. i've tried to contest it, but it takes ages for FB to reply. if they actually do reply it's just an automated response.
anyone else ever have the same problem?
there's no adult content in my ads or anything like that, and my products are normal.
Quote: (07-24-2017 04:29 PM)Nitro Wrote:
Thanks for the details OP. So I was browsing your t-shirt thread and looked up Justin Ceners T Shirt boot camp found here http://justincener.com/bootcamp/ . The sales page is rife with hype it seems, making everything look much easier than it really is. Does anyone have experience with this course, or know anyone who has?
Quote: (07-24-2017 04:29 PM)Nitro Wrote:
Thanks for the details OP. So I was browsing your t-shirt thread and looked up Justin Ceners T Shirt boot camp found here http://justincener.com/bootcamp/ . The sales page is rife with hype it seems, making everything look much easier than it really is. Does anyone have experience with this course, or know anyone who has?
Quote: (07-26-2017 03:25 PM)goodington Wrote:
Maybe I missed where you mentioned this explicitly, but you basically buy the product up front in bulk right? What happens if you can't sell 1,000 pairs of leggings or whatever it is you bought on Aliexpress?
Quote: (07-26-2017 07:41 PM)asiaslayer Wrote:
Any and all products on aliexpress are almost 100% guaranteed already being sold on Amazon, eBay, etc by the Chinese sellers themselves or other scrubs who are trying to sell it for the lowest price possible. Opening a Shopify and dumping money into ads for most of the crap on there is a waste of time and money.
You need to create an original product or find a new one and search for private suppliers.
Quote: (07-26-2017 07:41 PM)asiaslayer Wrote:
Any and all products on aliexpress are almost 100% guaranteed already being sold on Amazon, eBay, etc by the Chinese sellers themselves or other scrubs who are trying to sell it for the lowest price possible. Opening a Shopify and dumping money into ads for most of the crap on there is a waste of time and money.
You need to create an original product or find a new one and search for private suppliers.
Quote: (09-19-2017 01:16 PM)WeekendCasanova Wrote:
Quote: (07-26-2017 07:41 PM)asiaslayer Wrote:
Any and all products on aliexpress are almost 100% guaranteed already being sold on Amazon, eBay, etc by the Chinese sellers themselves or other scrubs who are trying to sell it for the lowest price possible. Opening a Shopify and dumping money into ads for most of the crap on there is a waste of time and money.
You need to create an original product or find a new one and search for private suppliers.
You are aware that myself, and 100s of others are making 6+ figures a month using Shopify.
But sure, we'll listen to you and jamaicabound, who steals content like and redistributes. Craven little weasel.
Idiot.
EDIT - It's also why I'll no longer post in this thread.