Benefits of Drop Shipping
1. Low Investment.
By far the major benefit and attraction of drop shipping is being able to launch and operate your own online store without the need to spend thousands of your hard earned cash by purchasing or stockpiling goods in advance.
In the physical retail world shop owners need to spend large amounts of money before they can consider opening to the public and making sales.
Dropshipping is advantageous as with your online store you do not buy the product until a customer has made a purchase. In reality you are using the customers money to buy the product and have it shipped.
Drop shipping means low start up costs and far reduced risk.
2. Save Your Time and Money.
Think of the benefits of having an online dropship store compared to a physical shop or online retail ship with your own product base..
- A growing majority of people prefer to buy online
- You do not need to find, purchase or rent any physical space saving thousands.
- You don't need warehouse or storage space.
- You do not pack or ship your orders.
- No monitoring or control of stock levels.
- No additional people expenses...packing, delivering, stock control.
You simply list products, sell products, pay your supplier and the supplier does the rest.
Is there a special 'lingo' for dropshippers? I can imagine it being so popular that googling 'dropshopping inventory' may not lead to the best results ;-)
Thank you, Wim
And now that I have become an "expert" and am looking to enhance my pre-retirement income and develop income streams that I can continue after my official retirement, it looks like Dropshipping could be a winner for me.
Questions: When you are checking out the reputations of various drop shippers, how do you find out whether they actually fulfill their ends properly? Is there somewhere to see any comparison charts of the different drop ship companies?
Is this the same thing as if you find a company that sells and ships it's own physical products which you become a (seller) for. For example, I know a company called Regal that produces it's own stuff and looks for people to market it. They will give you your own site or just the ads. You post these on your site with pictures and your link back to the company site where they process the purchase and order. If this is not drop shipping - what is it?