Join Our Dropship Club- No Thanks

There is something backwards about this idea of charging someone to sell your inventory. Of course I am talking about excessive dropshipping fees and membership kits that a supplier might force you to buy if you want the privilege of selling their stock.

We will dropship to your clients, just pay our $129.99 dropship club fee and you can be off and running your business today!

Dropshipping Club? What is that about….Do I get membership card or some sort of vest to wear on Tuesdays?

No, its just a fee we charge to give you the privilege of buying our inventory. Oh, and did we mention each time you make a purchase from us we will charge you a dropshipping fee per box shipped?

Alright, all kidding aside. I personally pay huge amounts of money on PPC campaigns, banner advertising, affiliate program management with the intent to bring sales to my company. Traffic to my website translates to sales and traffic is not cheap. If I can lower my marketing expenses and still make a sale working with an outside sales force, please sign me up!

I never understood the idea of charging someone to sell my inventory. If someone wants to collect money and handle all aspects of customer service while I ship a product out to their client…I say go for it!

I am certain there are some administrative and labor costs associated with making sure a dropship order is disguised as having been shipped from the company purchased through, but besides that I do not see why there must be a membership fee to pay or fee per order?

I know of several large multi-million dollar Ecommerce websites that do not stock a single item; they have several suppliers who ship merchandise for them! They do not use dropshipers that charge a “program fee”, in fact most the suppliers that they use were sought out and not found in some dropship directory.

You can be successful finding suppliers and using the dropship model to ship from virtual warehouses across the country, but it takes great effort on your part to set up a fulfillment arrangement.

Call on prospective wholesalers, distributors and manufacturers and let them know you are interested in selling their product line. Make sure they understand that they have one responsibility, which is shipping. Your company will handle the sale and follow up with customer servicing of the account!

The key to a successful dropship arrangement is spending the time needed to source unique products and selling the concept to your source about the advantage of having an outside sales team sending orders daily!