I found that Paypal is a great place to have people pay for goods. You can reduce the risk to almost nothing by using registered mail. I found the fraud "artists" do not pick up registered mail items and the items are always sent back to the sender.
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I found that Paypal is a great place to have people pay for goods. You can reduce the risk to almost nothing by using registered mail. I found the fraud "artists" do not pick up registered mail items and the items are always sent back to the sender.
Hi, I just found this forum, some very useful info. Thanks to all who have posted.
Bit about me, I'm self employed as a wedding / event videographer and photographer. I had recently decided to look at wedding favors as a second income stream. There's a limit to how many jobs I could do a year, as far as how far I could travel, and so on, but with a good set up I could sell favors to a much larger market... in theory at least!
I'd actually thought about making the favors myself, which I still may to, as I could do some custom personalized things, but the idea of drop shipping does have appeal. I'll keep reading into this. Thanks again to all who have posted some great info.
Carlin
www.ncwvideo.com
located in Washington State, USA
Check out a consumer electronics drop shipping company: http://www.800promo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3
You can recommend pros & cons of drop shippers.
I agree - using PayPal is probably one of the better ways to reduce the risk of online fraud. In addition, PayPal is widely recognised as the leader in online payments throughout the world and quite a few people use it - in fact, it has gotten to the point where I often refuse to buy anything from websites that don't accept PayPal (unless it's Amazon, Barnes & Noble and such).
whub:
There's a variety of ways to increase traffic. Your first (and perhaps most important) step should be to register with search engines and practice search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. You should also consider creating a press release announcing your new store and sending it to your local media and any sites/publications relating to your industry.
If you are interested, I have an article about "SEO 101" on my site and an article about some easy ways to build traffic.
WOW this is an awesome place glad to have found it, I have already found lots of good info and it's only the first day. I have an ebay store and I am just selling things out of my house so far but want to move to bigger and better things I have seen all the legitimate sites everyone has. Is the definition of a good dropshipping site a site that has a good list of lots of dropshippers who are reliable? Thats the feeling I get so far I have been doing lots of research and I have only found sites that give you a list of good sites and you have to pay for it. I can see paying for something you know is legit but how do you know? I might be confusing myself and overthinking, I just want to not mess up the first time. Any of your expert advice would be appreciated, thank you everybody!
Using Drop Shippers for Your Online Store? Avoid These Common Drop Shipping Scams. I lost a ton of money with fake suppliers until I found these guys. It's time to learn the truth about wholesale and drop shipping from someone who KNOWS the business!
If you want to acquire products to drop ship or wholesale, where do you look? There are all kinds of wholesale and drop ship list for sale on eBay. There's likely to be lots of decent companies right?
Not true, according to Chris Malta, the Product Sourcing Editor for eBay Radio:
When you see all these “Incredible” lists and books and packages of wholesaler suppliers and drop shippers for sale on eBay and the rest of the Internet, for anywhere from $5 to $50 or more, what you’re seeing 99% junk.
There are thousands of scammers, snake oil salesmen and con artists on the Internet who are just lying around waiting to AMBUSH you when you begin looking for REAL wholesale suppliers to do business with. Believe it or not, there is a whole niche industry built up on the Net around this kind of scamming! The folks who run these scams have all the moral fiber of a box of hair, and the only reason they even recognize the word ‘Scruples’ is from the TV ad for the party game.
You may have even fallen prey to one of these con artists, selling you their "insider" wholesale/drop ship list of suppliers. Me too. I've purchased so many lists that I can't even recollect how many. I don't know why, but I tend to find the "good" in people, and I was "sold" by these marketing schemes time and time again, even after being scammed by the latest one. Finally, after so many disappointments, I had HAD ENOUGH. I decided to get to the bottom of this appeal we all have with wholesale/drop ship companies, and find out if there really were any LEGITMATE drop shippers for purchasing “hot” consumer goods at great prices.
I literally contacted the administrator of every wholesale drop shipping website I could find. Posing as an investor, I managed to persuade the owners that I was seriously interested in purchasing their entire website and business. That way, once the cartoonish money bags flashed in their minds, they would grant me free access to their member's areas to examine what I would be "buying". Well, I was appalled with 99% of what I found. Many of the owners actually bragged about how many people purchased their useless subscriptions. I repeatedly found:
*outdated lists
*non-working links
*links leading to other sites that asked for more money
*no help section
*no real email support
*no refunds
I quickly realized that these so-called wholesale/drop ship lists were totally pointless. And the owners knew it, yet they were laughing all the way to the ATM machine! Needless to say, I didn't respond when they asked if I was still interested in purchasing their websites. Surprisingly, while sitting through all of the scam artist’s websites, I was able to locate a group of individuals that actually ran legitimate programs.
The owners were common folk like you and me that found a way to earn extra money working from home on their computers. Their membership areas were impressive, with an impressive amount of quality information on how to make $100-$200 per day on your computer doing very little work. I even chatted with a few of their customers in several online forums, and they confirmed that they were earning extra money using the information that the websites had provided them with. It was like I found a few diamonds in the rough. But don't take my word for it, you can drop by the over two dozen sites I found. See what you think.
They do charge a minimal fee for access to their program, which is to be expected for any legitimate enterprise that actually has people on staff who are dedicated to helping you get earning online. What a warm group of people! Anyway, if you do decide you are interested in any of the two dozen companies, I advise you to join post-haste, as the owners have informed me that they are getting so many new members by word of mouth referrals, that they will be blocking off membership completely by month’s end. (By the way, you didn't get this news from me!) They don't have a large enough staff to welcome many more people, and they are driven to providing excellent service to each person. Well, my quest to find legitimate Drop ship companies has come to an end. I have to mention I was thoroughly disappointed with most of what I found, and I strongly urge you not to take any chances doing business with any companies other than the twenty four I will share with you.
Whatever you do, I hope you will have a healthy, prosperous year for you and everyone you love.
Take care and I wish you all the best.
Kevin Nobleman has researched and uncovered numerous scams in the corrupt online drop ship industry. He has written special articles to help people avoid drop ship scams. With five years of experience in the online drop ship industry, Kevin has discovered over two dozen legitimate drop ship companies, wholesalers, independent suppliers and buyer/seller communities he would encourage you to do business with. He provides this report in a valuable information package on his website, http://www.restaurantandbar.org
Do us all a favor and quit cutting and pasting this obvious pre-written, sales pitch for your website, I saw this post on another dropship thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by knobleman
Great place to learn and share. I have been selling Shipping and Packaging Products since 1998 and this year my discount on products have been cut. Does anyone know any legit manufacturers that drop ship and wholesale. I may continue at a lower level if I have to. I will have to sell twice as much to make the same money. I am redesigning my site www.boxesandbags.com and hope to have it up again soon. Had over 2500 pages packed with content. Found many low competition keywords at wordtracker and had redesigned my pages for SEO.
It was working and I cant wait to see what I can sell this year.
Tony Ransdell
gbepackaging.com
don't ever PAY ANYONE to find dropshippers...
get your own site
at your own host
with your own domain name
and your own cart
then ...
go here ...
http://www.thomasnet.com/
Find someone that makes what you want to sell and contact them. Ask them if they will dropship for you.
Why not use somebody that has already jumped thru all those hoops and guarantees the results?
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Originally Posted by The Old Sarge
Hoops?
If your looking to get into the glorious world of Internet Business. You better get used to hoops.
For the most part ... your getting scammed in those offers. Most of the lists are outdated and the ones that are not are sick of getting calls from "Hey I want to start an online business".
Let's assume the list you bought for $9.99 is "legite" -The list 5000 other nit wits bought. That's 5000 stores online selling YOUR PRODUCT. Think about that one for a minute.
Hire somebody to do something you can do yourself?
It's up to you.
Your BIG investment should be marketing your store. Google adwords etc...
As far as guaranteed results... HA !
NOBODY can guarentee you will make dollar 1.
If you're basing your business model on a list of phone numbers ?!? ....
~may the force be with you Luke.:)
Wiley,
You make an awful lot of assumptions in that post. lol
1. I'm not looking. I've been in it quite some time.
2. I have never been scammed by the people I recommended and neither has anyone else as far as I know or have heard. (If you go back and check, you'll find I made a very specific recommendation. I stand by it.) In fact, I've never been scammed by anybody. I know what to look for and what to stay away from. I don't make recommendations lightly and I try to never make unfounded assumptions.
3. The guarantee I refer to is the one that the drop shippers on the list I recommended are legit and not scam artists and rip-offs. The people selling the list have done all the leg work and set up. All I have to do is sign on.
4. I base my business on sound practices, just like you, I imagine.
wow, defensive...
I wasn't speaking to you directly. I'm glad you're doing well and you have good contacts.
what did I assume other then you have a "legit" list ? I'm also talking about lists of companies that dropship.... Not the , "GET RICH QUICK" - "WE DO IT ALL" - "YOU DO NOTHING" websites.
Thanks for numbering your points. It helped me pick which paragraph to read next a little easier. Kind of like your list business helps people make internet stores.
I never stated you had un-sound business practices. You refer people to businesses..... great. I'm talking to the poor schmuck that doesn't know it .... but could do it himself. I've been through all of this during the .com days and early 2000's.
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yours truly,
The Super Duper Commander
If you were not addressing me personally, why did you start the post with a quote from me?
And I would not say I was being defensive. Just responding ... point-by-point.