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Does anyone know any good dropshipping sites?

I'm looking for droppshipping websites, to use on ebay?
I've come across a few, although they usually request for an annual fee. I'm not sure whether they are genuine or not. Are there any reliable sites out there. Thanks.
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  • snake666
    snake666 Posts: 361 Forumite
    i have an account with wantedbyall and thats really good you can look at my website at the things thay sell by going to

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    this is not a plug for my site it is just to give you an idea
    snake
  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 75,004 Ambassador
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    Dropshipping can be very dodgy as a way of getting things to sell on ebay.

    You do all the work and take all the risks but are dependent on the drop shippers to deliver and fulfil your part of the bargain.

    With only a short turn round for posting items how can you guarantee that your buyers will receive things within a few days, how can you guarantee the stock. Read through some of the posts on the alt ebay groups about problems sellers have had with dropshippers leaving them in the lurch when a line runs out.

    It is not a good idea to sell something that you don't already physically have.

    A few years back I was approached by a company in Hong Kong about selling cheonsongs, they 'guaranteed' that I could make £5-£7 on each unit I sold. However, a quick bit of research showed that the 'sale' figures they quoted for ebay were wrong, there were already two other people selling the same goods and were having to undercut each other just to get sales. The actual profit per item, after listing fees, FVFs and paypal fees was nearer £2-£3. Then there were all the items that remained unsold and for which listing fees still had to be paid.

    The other thing that worried me was that other sellers had less than perfect feedback usually due to late shipping or wrong item delivered, which if they were using the same drop shipper would hardly fill me with confidence.

    Soo
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