"Don't Get Taken by a Fake Distributor!" When you're a small
business starting out on the Internet, or even when you're an
established 'Net business, you NEED drop shippers. Why? Because
working with drop shippers eliminates the need for you to carry
expensive inventories. You don’t have to rent a warehouse, hire
employees, establish accounts with UPS and FedEx, etc. You can
sell the best brand names on earth from your home computer, and
make good money at it. Distributors who drop ship send the
products you sell directly from their warehouse to your
customer, with your business name on it. All you do it take the
order from your customer and pass it to the distributor. You
keep the difference between the wholesale price the distributor
charges you, and the retail price you sell to your customer for.
Of course, there are a lot of places out there that want you to
THINK they are wholesale drop shippers. They’ll set up accounts
with, say, 10 real drop ship distributors. Then they’ll call
themselves something like “GetYerStuffHere.com”, and claim that
THEY are the wholesale drop ship distributor. Then it’ll go like
this: GetYerStuffHere.com will place advertising all over the
Internet proclaiming to be the greatest source that ever existed
for all kinds of great products, and they’ll drop ship all those
products to your customer. You’ll get all excited because YOU
can actually place everything from Sony electronics to Coleman
Camping gear on your web site and sell it. GetYerStuffHere.com
will charge you an account setup fee, to cover their
“processing”. (Note: REAL wholesale distributors almost NEVER
charge you an account setup fee ). GetYerStuffHere.com will send
you a nice, shiny list of products and show you where to get the
product images and descriptions to place on your web site.
You’ll get all excited, and put all this great stuff on your
site, set your prices so that you can make a profit over what
GetYerStuffHere.com. You’ll launch your site, and you hardly
sell a thing. Huh? What happened? Nobody’s buying! You can’t
survive on just a few orders a month! Disappointed and
discouraged, you start to go out and check other web sites that
carry the same products. Maybe they have better images. Maybe
they have cooler descriptions. Maybe their pages look nicer. You
find that it’s none of those things. So what DO you find? The
other sites’ PRICES are lower. A LOT lower. You just got nailed
by one of the most popular scams on the Internet.
GetYerStuffHere.com took you for a couple of hundred dollars in
exchange for a CD full of product images. They may have even
locked you into a contract where you have to pay them every
month to be a “member” of their “distributorship”. Oh,
GetYerStuffHere.com DOES ship the products they claim to. Of
course they do. It’s just that when they get an order from you,
they turn around and place your order with the REAL wholesale
drop shipper, and take a profit. By the time YOUR price is
calculated, you’re paying not only wholesale, you’re paying
GetYerStuffHere.com’s extra markup of anywhere from 10% to 30%.
In order for YOU to make a profit, you naturally have to mark up
the prices you get from GetYerStuffHere.com. By the time you do
that, you can’t compete on the ‘Net. Your prices are just too
high. At this point, you can do one of two things: You can lower
your prices to the point where you’re making mere pennies on
your products in order to compete. You can bypass these jokers
and go to the REAL sources. I’ve been in Systems Engineering for
18 years. I’ve been involved in ECommerce since it began. In
that time, I’ve seen this scenario played out over and over with
companies I’ve done work for. The real sources can be hard to
find. They don’t market themselves as Internet drop shippers.
They are established wholesale companies who have been supplying
big chains like Sears and Kmart for a very long time. Many of
them are now realizing that a good part of their future lies in
Internet sales, and they are establishing drop ship programs.
There are even a few big name manufacturers who are beginning to
drop ship right from their factories. That’s where YOU need to
be. In direct contact with the actual wholesale distributor or
factory source. When you’re looking for a drop shipper, here are
a couple of things to be careful of: Any company that tells you
that they’ll set up your entire web site AND PROVIDE THE
PRODUCTS FOR YOU will NOT make you rich. They’ll make THEMSELVES
rich on your setup and hosting fees, and you’ll piddle along
with thousands of other small sites all selling exactly the same
things at the same prices. (NOTE: Don’t confuse this with
companies who just offer to set up your ECommerce web site.
There are a lot of great places out there that will build and
host sites for you. It’s when they tell you that you HAVE to
sell the products that THEY provide that you should run for
cover.) Any distributor who wants you to pay a “membership” or
“setup” fee is probably not a true wholesale distributor. If it
sounds too good to be true, it’s too good to be true. Chris
Malta WorldWide Brands, Inc. For more information, visit
http://www.YouCanDropship.com.
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