Dropshipping, Anyone Tried This?

**serverguy** · #11 1st May 2009, 13:17

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Originally Posted by cheesepuff

i drop shipped shoes. i know they were good because i have been buying my OWN shoes from them for years now. plus they are very fast considering they are half a world away. i found them by accident. when i found them i had no idea drop shipping existed. i just wanted some Nike Airmax 360's for a low price. then i found them, bought them, and fell in love with the shoes. now, they are the ONLY people i buy my shoes from. upon ordering my second pair i saw that the shipping address could be changed from the billing address. they dont advertise drop shipping. but i thought, "say, if everyone else is selling these shoes for $150, and i can buy them for $80 (including shipping) i could buy them, sell them for $100 and make $20!!!" and so i did.

Why on earth did you stop doing that then?

So this was not a normal drop shipper, and I expect you were breaking their Terms and Conditions doing so? Did they not question you why you would send shoes to so many different addresses?

How did you handle returns etc?

**cheesepuff** · #12 1st May 2009, 13:50

i was not braking any rules. in fact, i asked them about it and they encurraged it. i stopped because the economy makes the sales not worth it at the moment. i never had to return anything because all my customers were always satisfyed.

**Hybr!d** · #13 1st May 2009, 14:38

Fair play, but it's not an ideal business situation. Because the seller wasn't a true trade supplier and/or dropshipper you could have run into major issues, in your case the economy caused problems, add to that returns, VAT, import duty etc. and most would start looking elsewhere, leading them down the path of much cheaper fakes and scammers. My comment still stands. A true, genuine dropshipper is hard to find.

**cheesepuff** · #14 1st May 2009, 14:48

i guess you could say they were a drop shipper...they advertised that if u bought more than 100 shoes at a time u get a discount. plus in the usa we dont have VAT. i guess i lucked out. they also only used paypal and had a 30 money back gurantee. so i figured i wouldbe safe if it was a scam.

**serverguy** · #15 1st May 2009, 15:50

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Originally Posted by cheesepuff

they advertised that if u bought more than 100 shoes at a time u get a discount.

That would be wholesale, not dropshipping

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**cheesepuff** · #16 2nd May 2009, 00:46

oh well. in the end it worked out for me quite well.

**4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie** · #17 4th May 2009, 12:50

It's not a bad idea granted.. but I'll bet you could end up in a pickle for a variety of reasons if the particular company you chose happened to not like it..

Knowing my luck, that'd be me..

**Bubba** · #18 4th May 2009, 17:39

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Originally Posted by 4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie

It's not a bad idea granted.. but I'll bet you could end up in a pickle for a variety of reasons if the particular company you chose happened to not like it..

Knowing my luck, that'd be me..

If my aunt had balls she would be my uncle lol.