Your drop shipper is taking a lot of responsibility off your hands, but the fact is, you can never fully trust anyone other than yourself to do the job properly. For that reason, a large part of successfully using a drop shipper involves good management skills.

There are a lot of very good drop shippers on the Internet, but there are also a lot of scammers! Just as with any other source that you find online, you need to take precautions:

Do they have any ‘extra’ fees? Genuine dropshippers should only charge you for the items you sell. Avoid companies that require a monthly subscription fee or something similar.

Wholesale dropshippers are a very popular form of sourcing product because they allow you to pay only for the items that you sell.

It works like this: You find a dropshipper and set up an account. Different dropshippers have different setups but usually you can choose to credit your account, or, you can simply leave it empty and pay for each item as you sell it.