Never tried it.

you mean like when the covenant sends in a dropship full of grunts/jackals?

Originally posted by Emperor Prussia:

Never tried it.

I see ecommerce stores all the time on FB ads and they dropship to the USA from China.

Originally posted by Adept:

you mean like when the covenant sends in a dropship full of grunts/jackals?

Dropshipping is a fulfillment model - the seller doesn't own any inventory. Once a customer buys, the order gets sent to a supplier in China.

Originally posted by Adept:

you mean like when the covenant sends in a dropship full of grunts/jackals?

i normally throw a few sticky nades at the dropship, poor grunts

Originally posted by Delta:

Originally posted by Emperor Prussia:

Never tried it.

I see ecommerce stores all the time on FB ads and they dropship to the USA from China.

Oh, so like a trading kinda thing?

not really , sometime It's can be useful when something is not available on certain stores and the drop shipper make it available on them. at least it's mean you don't have to create an account for 3 or 4 differents online store even when you only wanted one or two things from each of them.

it's can be bad if too many peoples start doing it because it's lead to insane listing where you have like 10 times the same items with a different name or descriptions making your shopping experience just feel like digging throught garbage.

at the very least even if some drop shipper take some profits for themselves it's not as bad then scalping which is usually with the intention of raising the prices by a large ammount.

Meh, mostly sus vibes from the whole thing.

It sounds familiar but have no idea what it is

Originally posted by EASY PETE:

It sounds familiar but have no idea what it is

It's a fullfillment model.

If someone buys through my website (for instance, with Shopify), I get paid by the customer, but I then pay the supplier. I pocket the difference. I don't have any inventory myself, so this saves space. I simply pass on the order to the supplier and he ships it out to the customer. The customer can't tell that I ordered it from a supplier after the customer orders it from me.

I think it is a scam and should be outlawed.

the eu checks items for safety.. and bans unsane items.. many of those alibabby and temu items have plastics that contain cancergenics and chemicals that if you touch those platics disrupt your hormones and are outlawed with good reason...

this is why normal stores when they import from china.. need to have that item checked by the eu safety inspection to than get an CE lable..

china has put on their product a fake CE lable clear copied from this EU lable.. (that the difference is the eu lable is CE the chinese is C E (a larger space between the C and E.. but the fond and everything else is a 1 on 1 ripoff.. while the eu does complain they cannot really enforce this in china.. but products with this fake lable are banned in eu.

dropshippers ofcourse circumvent both these issues.. and should be held responsible and sued for the damage they thus cause.

also they tend to be horrible in customer service.. by law the compagny you buy items from is responsible... if I order bulk stuff from china, make sure it is tested for safety than sell for more.. I can easely handle returns and refunds.. after all i deliver from my own supply in the same nation..
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also the eu has clear rules about refund and replacement should a product not be delivered within 2 weeks, full replacement, not repair if break within 1 year, and zero cost rma or replacement if break within 2-5 year (each product has a lawfull minimum working lifetime).. and maximum of 6 weeks to handle rma

but dropshippers do non of they.. and tend to not uphold these customer laws... stories of random people just having 10000000 packages in their garage cause some dropshipper uses their adres as fake rma adress are common..


I thus would say.. ban the practice.
reselling is legal.. dropshipping should be banned
buy you china crap.. from your own money
make sure it has not the fake CE lable
have it tested for banned chemicals and safety (like toys with parts that children can swallow of or electric batteries or cables that spontanously catch fire and have no surge protection)
and than you may resell it for more if found safe and upto eu regulation.

I also like the websites temu and alibabba and the sorts where people themselves order directly from china banned (blacklisted no longer accesable in eu and blocked from the payment methods we use here)

due most the crap on those pages has a false CE logo, is utterly unsafe.. and breaks copyrights left and right..

it is not forbidden to import stuff from china.. most retail stores do.. but they have to jump trough the hoops to make sure it is upto spec and safe..
and so should you as reseller.

when I pay extra for a local store (or thinking it is a local store).. I expect it to be upto all these safety specs.. it is why I pay 25 euro for a cable instead of 60 cent on alibaba..

I expect that cable to be fully tested for durability, forbidden chemicals in the plastic, surge protection, firehazzart, exploding batteries and everything else....

if it is an ahole who sells me untested alibaba crap with fake CE lable.. and thus still endangers my life... and usually does not warrant any rma when that crappy cable breaks after a month... nor responds to my cancelation if that delivery time of 2 weeks has long passed.. or an rma takes way more than 6 weeks... thats the kind of scam you get with dropshippers and why it should be banned.

I have nothing against that. There is worse ways to make money out there.

Originally posted by Thermal Lance:

I have nothing against that. There is worse ways to make money out there.

exposing people to deadly chemicals, chokinghazzerts, firehazzards, while they asume to buy a product that is safe and upto spec ... thats downright criminal neglecence.

stores are responsible for what they sell is upto local safety laws and to uphold and handle all consumer laws like rma's refund and the likes as per consumer law.
dropshoppers don't do nothing of that.
while giving the consumer the false ilusion they are dealing with a compagny that does uphold all this
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it is criminal.

you import, you pay to have it tested for all safety concerns, if it does not pass than YOU take that loss.. if it does.. you print a local dutch manual as per law.. and than you may resell for more.. at the local marke
and if the customers than have any rma or refund claim you handle them yourself as you per law are required too..

Originally posted by Dutchgamer1982:

Originally posted by Thermal Lance:

I have nothing against that. There is worse ways to make money out there.

exposing people to deadly chemicals, chokinghazzerts, firehazzards, while they asume to buy a product that is safe and upto spec ... thats downright criminal neglecence.

stores are responsible for what they sell is upto local safety laws and to uphold and handle all consumer laws like rma's refund and the likes as per consumer law.
dropshoppers don't do nothing of that.
while giving the consumer the false ilusion they are dealing with a compagny that does uphold all this

it is criminal.

That has nothing to do with dropshipping itself.