You’ve all heard of the saying; “You can’t sell what you don’t have“. Well drop shipping proves that you CAN sell what you don’t have!
Simply put, dropshipping allows you to buy products which people have ordered off YOU. Instead of having the products delivered to your house and then ship them on to the buyer (that can end up expensive when you add in postage), arrange to send them directly to the buyer, and you take whatever slice of a ‘handling and services’ fee you want – write your own cheque, but remember that if people are gonna buy from you, you’ll need to price your product competitively.
You might ask why would anyone get me to order products for them when they can just order directly like I’m doing? Good question.
Firstly, they may not know about the cheap sites that I use to get bargains… they may not have a credit card which most of these sites require… they may live in a country which the product’s site doesn’t ship to… there are loads of reasons why there is a demand and profit to be made for dropshipping.
Here’s a couple of sites which may be of use if you want to try out dropshipping
- dealextreme.com (Good place to get tech stuff at great prices)
- altech.com.au (Computer parts from Australia)
- eyo.com.au (Another computer parts drop shipper from Australia)
Don’t’ be surprised if you see most of their stuff on ebay, selling for slightly more than what these guys charge.
