Pros and Cons of Dropshipping

The boom has been very Dropshipping in the U.S. and rest of the world where somehow fluent in English. Without doubt, has a number of benefits listed below.

Low Investment: Using the dropshipping does not require physical space to store merchandise. This results in no need for stores, and staff. There Dropshippers do not charge for their services de gestion, others do it through an annual fee that ranges between 50 and 100 USD. As in everything there who uses only free, without having assessed the advantages that if they charge a fee.

You do not need inventory: By bringing the management directly through dropshippers, they are responsible for this task, inventory, minimum stock, maximum, storage, insurance, potential deterioration of the same, theft ...

Product Delivery: Other tasks of the provider in charge of dropshipping is the pick, pack and send orders to your customers that you make. Saves considerable time if you had to or have your staff do it for you.

No minimum purchases: By providing the dropshipper of organized log'sitica own store, do not require in most cases to buy a minimum stock. This is another great advantage, because eventually you can do with a portfolio of several dropshippers to be able to buy the same product if you do not have stock in one of them, and even go putting together a catalog of products for a niche or subnichos of specific markets.

Like any business, besides the positive aspects of dropshipping, there is a downside. Here you commented some disadvantages of this system (fortunately, nothing serious and very easy to overcome once you know how):

Violate the terms and conditions of online sales a few pages: To avoid inconvenience some online sales pages are stipulated in his contract not permissiveness to the sale of stock is not available. The curious thing is, it is estimated that nearly 40% of the sellers of these types of sites employs him. To solve this problem it is necessary to specify it on the auction page itself. "The product could be sent directly from the manufacturer.

Little or no knowledge of the product: When you open an online store through dropshipping you can not just just sell what you know, at least when it begins to take shape and clients can begin to ask you different products. The problem presented here is that you will not know all the goods and all the features. It is therefore important that you have as accurate information and especially information that is likely to be requested by the prospective client. Some dropshippers usually have complete information including photographs, in other cases it will not.

Do not forget that you are responsible: One thing to note is that the client while delivering a product that will come from elsewhere in the world, the customer is yours and not your dropshipper. (errors in shipments, delays, failures ...). You and only you are the one who has to apologize to him.

Increased competition: You're not alone in selling products through dropshipping, and when we refer to this means that as your competitors will use these services. Cunning, skill and good strategies, in many cases will make you take the client to buy what you sell.