posted on April 24, 2006 10:09:45 PM
I just started and thanks to everyone that answered me about vendio. It is alot to learn. I tried starting out selling new things I had at home. It hasn't worked out so well. I am desperately needing to make a full time income from home. Would you recommend Doba or any other dropshippers? Is that the way most full timers go?
posted on April 25, 2006 06:35:38 AM
I sell antiques and collectibles as that is what I enjoy doing but I've considered drop shipping as a filler.
Have you considered selling for others as well as drop shippers etc?
If you could find a good mix to sell - I think you would enjoy it more. Selling one item all the time would bore me out of my mind!!!
Do you live in a large city or small town?
posted on April 25, 2006 07:39:17 AM
I can't say from direct experience but I have read that you have to be VERY careful when choosing a drop-shipper - especially the ones that want cash upfront to buy their catalogue. There are too many ebay sellers selling the same catalogue merchandise and invariably there will be those that are so desperate for sales that they will give the stuff away and sell at a loss making it impossible for others to sell the same items. Do an ebay search (especially completed auctions) of some of the merchandise and see how many others are offering the same thing and at what prices and what the sell through rate is. You aren't the only one to think of selling Doba merchandise and there is a limited market for it. You are better off finding your own niche item to sell - preferably something that interests you. Good luck!
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Let Ralphie's experience save you moola and misery...
He & I have tried (or investigated) many, many of the so-called drop-shippers that advertise to us feeBay sellers, and, after 3 years of foolishness, have come up with RALPHIE'S GOLDEN RULE of DROP-SHIPPING:
"If they ask for moola up front, they be BOGUS!"
Logically, if ya think about it, paying a drop-shipper to sell their items is...NONSENSE!
THEY SHOULD BE PAYING US!
Most of them sell the same trash out of a catalog called: "The World of Products" -- cheap Chinese junk that THOUSANDS of other suckers are hawking on eBay.
If 900 others are selling the same CUCKOO CLOCK from the BLACK FOREST of Beijing, how many successful sales do ya think are gonna occur...
These "drop-shippers" make their moola NOT from sales but rather from sales of SUBSCRIPTIONS to the unsuspecting feeBay newbie...
Sadly, there ain't no magic bullet to finding good drop-shippers -- takes research and a great deal of LUCK!
I've been very fortunate: in over 3 years of searching, I've established relationships with THREE drop-shippers which I consider to be excellent...NONE charge a fee, and all three offer me true WHOLESALE prices!
The funniest drop-shipper I ever investigated makes ya cough up $19.99 just to get a call-back! My curiuosity was really pricked, so I swiped the moola out of Ralphie's bone-allowance & waited with baited breath for the magic info that would allow the two of us to retire to the Lake Country, living out our GOLDEN YEARS as COUNTRY SQUIRES...
Sadly, our hopes were dashed when the sales rep asked me if I would be willing to "invest $5000 in our future?" Ralphie's response is unprintable in a family-oriented forum such as this place...
posted on April 25, 2006 11:03:22 AM
Where do you live?
Go to the wholesale district and see what they have?Or go to a tradeshow closest to you and meet the vendors.
posted on April 25, 2006 04:14:36 PM
he funniest drop-shipper I ever investigated makes ya cough up $19.99 just to get a call-back! My curiuosity was really pricked, so I swiped the moola out of Ralphie's bone-allowance
a dog without a bone....riders on the storm.
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