Dropshipping right now, doing low-mid $xxx,xxx/month in rev. Seems like a good next step, as we sell in a few countries USA,AUS,NZ. While I'd like to go straight to local fulfillment, I have to figure out the requirements to selling in those 3 countries locally, as we are located in Canada.
Our suppliers are doing a good job, but since we use sites like AliExpress and a few others, I don't want to rely on them and it is causing some pains with customer service and outsourcing. Plus, we can try re-branding some products and combining them and start customizing the orders a bit more.
The one odd thing that we've found, is somehow our suppliers can get us ePacket shipping very cheap under 2kg in an order, we've spoke with 2 fulfillment centers so far and they both charge by weight of order and while still profitable, we find our suppliers are still making a lot more from us when we use them to dropship vs using these fulfillment centers, even after removing the middle man costs.
Anyone have experience in this area? Would love to chat.
Our suppliers are doing a good job, but since we use sites like AliExpress and a few others, I don't want to rely on them and it is causing some pains with customer service and outsourcing. Plus, we can try re-branding some products and combining them and start customizing the orders a bit more.
The one odd thing that we've found, is somehow our suppliers can get us ePacket shipping very cheap under 2kg in an order, we've spoke with 2 fulfillment centers so far and they both charge by weight of order and while still profitable, we find our suppliers are still making a lot more from us when we use them to dropship vs using these fulfillment centers, even after removing the middle man costs.
Anyone have experience in this area? Would love to chat.
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