Beware Of Bogus Dropshipper Listings

Beware Of Bogus Dropshipper Listings

If you want to start your Home-based Internet firm for very small money, you need Wholesale Suppliers who Drop Ship.

Why? Because working with drop shippers eliminates the need for you to carry expensive inventories. You don't have to rent a warehouse, hire employees, construct accounts with Ups and FedEx, etc. You can sell the best brand names on earth from your home computer, and make good money at it.

Wholesale Suppliers who drop ship send the products you sell directly from their warehouse to your customer, with your firm name on it. All you do it take the order from your buyer and pass it to the distributor. You keep the incompatibility between the wholesale price the seeder charges you, and the retail price you sell to your buyer for.

Of course, there are a lot of places out there that want you to Think they are wholesale drop shippers. They'll set up accounts with, say, 10 real drop ship suppliers. Then they'll call themselves something like "Drop Ship Paradise", and claim that They are the wholesale drop ship supplier. Then it'll go like this:

1. "Drop Ship Paradise" will place advertising all over the Internet proclaiming to be the many source that ever existed for all kinds of great products, and they'll drop ship all those products to your customer.

2. You'll get all excited because You can literally place all from Sony electronics to Coleman Camping gear on your web site and sell it.

3. "Drop Ship Paradise" will payment you an catalogue setup fee, to cover their "processing". (Note: Real Wholesale Suppliers almost Never payment you an catalogue setup fee).

4. "Drop Ship Paradise" will send you a nice, shiny list of products and show you where to get the stock images and descriptions to place on your web site.

5. You'll get all excited, and put all this great stuff on your site, set your prices so that you can make a profit over what "Drop Ship Paradise" charges.

6. You'll launch your site, and you hardly sell a thing.

Huh? What happened? Nobody's buying! You can't survive on just a few orders a month!

Disappointed and discouraged, you start to go out and check other web sites that carry the same products. Maybe they have better images. Maybe they have cooler descriptions. Maybe their pages look nicer. You find that it's none of those things. So what Do you find?

The other sites? Prices are lower. A Lot lower.

You just got nailed by one of the most beloved scams on the Internet.

"Drop Ship Paradise" took you for a combine of hundred dollars in change for a Cd full of stock images. They may have even locked you into a compact where you have to pay them every month to be a "member" of their "distributorship".

Oh, "Drop Ship Paradise" Does ship the products they claim to. Of procedure they do. It's just that when they get an order from you, they turn colse to and place your order with the Real Wholesale Supplier, and take a profit. By the time Your price is calculated, you're paying not only wholesale, you're paying "Drop Ship Paradise", extra markup of anywhere from 10% to 30%.

In order for You to make a profit, you plainly have to mark up the prices you get from "Drop Ship Paradise". By the time you do that, you can't compete on the 'Net. Your prices are just too high.

At this point, you can do one of two things:

1. You can lower your prices to the point where you're production mere pennies on your products in order to compete.

2. You can bypass these jokers and go to the Real sources.

The real sources can be hard to find. They don't market themselves as Internet Wholesale Supplier. They are established wholesale clubs who have been supplying big chains like Sears and K-mart for a very long time.

Many of them are now realizing that a good part of their time to come lies in Internet sales, and they are establishing drop ship and light bulk wholesale programs. There are even a few big name manufacturers who are starting to provide Home-based Internet Businesses right from their factories. That's where You need to be. In direct taste with the actual Wholesale victualer or premise source.

When you're looking for a drop shipper, here are a combine of things to be just of:

1. Any firm that tells you that they'll set up your entire web site And provide The Products For You will Not make you rich. They'll make Themselves rich on your setup and hosting fees, and you'll piddle along with thousands of other small sites all selling exactly the same things at the same prices.

(Note: Don't confuse this with clubs who just offer to set up your E-Commerce web site. There are a lot of great places out there that will build and host sites for you. It's when they tell you that you Have to sell the products that They provide that you should run for cover.)

2. Any seeder who wants you to pay a "membership" or "setup" fee is probably not a true Wholesale Supplier.

3. If it sounds too good to be true, it's too good to be true.