What both of us were suggesting is that you NOT do business with these people. They are double-dropshipping (which means they are not stocking any product, but when you sell an item and order it from them, then they turn around and order it from another seller). This means that you are paying TWO mark-ups for the cost of the product before you even sell it...
In addition, the competition in any dropship program is very very steep. You have hundreds and hundreds of people selling the same items from the same dropshipper which means your profit margin is going to be very small if any profit at all...For instant one dropshipper that I know of boast that they have 20,000 members all selling on ebay. So that means that you have 20,000 other people all selling the same items from just that one dropshipper...
Too, I mentioned that the fees that you have to pay when you return an item are 50% and in some cases an additional 20% ,, which means that on some items such as jewelry you might have to pay a 70% 'restocking fee' if you have to return an item. In other words if you ever have to return something you are only going to get back 30% of what you paid for it...That's a pure rip-off!! I would be willing to say that the 'restock fee' they request more than likely pays for the item plus a profit to them,,plus they still get the item back to resell again....
The people you want to be buying your items from are the people who the dropshippers are getting their items from..Look at it this way...The dropshipper is buying from a seller who marks up the item to make a profit and sells it to them,,,They in turn mark up the item to make a profit and sell it to you....Then you in turn have to mark up the item a THIRD time so that you can make a profit...After all that is done, the item has too high a selling price for yu to make any type of sustainable profit.
Most of the people who are making any money selling online are buying their items in bulk. They get them from liquidation sales, closeout and surplus sellers..The larger a quanity they buy the smaller price per item they get..For example if you purchase a truckload of goods from a liquidator, you will probalby get about 24 pallets of items for lets say 8000. But the resale value after you sold all the items individually would probably be around 25,000. After you broke down all the items with in the 24 pallets your cost per item would only be probably between 3 to 5 dollars..So you have plenty of room to mark up the items for a good profit, but still sell them pretty cheap...In a further example,, if you go to a dealer and by 100 sets of bed sheets he will probably sell them to you for 10 bucks a set. But if you buy 1000 sets he will sell them to you for 2 bucks per set...See how this works...But dropshipping makes it hard to sell at a low price and still make a good profit as you won't be getting a bulk price, which is what you need to be looking for...
Hope this helps a bit...If you need any help or questions feel free to PM me and I'll help you as much as I can....
