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Wholesale
Dropshipping - How It Works
by: John Lynch
One
of the most frequently asked questions on the Net is: "What
should I sell online?"
Many
people know what products they want to sell. However, they
don't know how to do this. Should they physically stock the
products themselves or promote other companies through affiliate
programs?
Drop
shipping may be the answer for some website owners who want
to become stockless retailers, whereby they keep no stock
themselves. Instead they promote products on their website
and get a drop shipping company to despatch these products
for them.
Here
are the steps involved in drop shipping:
1)
You open an Internet Store with a shopping cart and accept
credit cards on your site. You can also sell on Internet Auction
sites such as eBay or on Yahoo Stores.
2)
You find a distributor who will "drop ship" the
products you want to sell.
3)
You open an account with the "drop ship" distributor(s)
you choose.
4)
You receive descriptions and images of the products you wish
to sell from the distributor and put them on your Internet
Store or Auction.
5)
When a customer buys from your Store or Auction, they pay
with their credit card. Your Store or Auction charges their
credit card plus shipping.
6)
You email the order to the drop ship distributor with the
customer's name and address.
7)
Then the drop shipper despatches the product to your customer
from the warehouse with YOUR business name on the package.
8)
The drop shipper charges you the wholesale price plus shipping.
Remember you have already passed the shipping charge on to
your customer, so the shipping costs you nothing.
So
that's how drop shipping works. You don't have to buy products
in bulk and store them, hoping to sell. You don't have to
pay to have it shipped to you, and then pay again to ship
it to your customer. All you had to do was send an email to
your drop shipper.
However,
you must ensure you deal with honest and reliable drop shipping
companies or your business reputation will suffer.
(C)
John Lynch
About
The Author
John
Lynch
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