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The problem is that it was written in a different time for a different world. In 2007 having a web shop was not commoditized, so there was some value in a drop-
by tarsinge 7y ago
The problem is that it was written in a different time for a different world. In 2007 having a web shop was not commoditized, so there was some value in a drop-shipping business, factories and wholesalers had no presence on the web, there was much less competition in e-commerce, Amazon was not so ubiquitous, Aliexpress did no exist, Shopify was in its infancy and unknown, ... Edit: So in short for me it's outdated.
- lifeisstillgood 7y agoWhich leads to the obvious question - what part of business is not currently commoditised? Even auth (okta, GSuite) is a commodity.
- tarsinge 7y ago> what part of business is not currently commoditised? In the business of selling online? None I think, I don't see how dropshipping can fit in the future, what's the value of having a middle man that don't stock when goods producers can setup their own online shop or sell directly via Amazon?
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> what's the value of having a middle man that don't stock when goods producers can... sell directly via Amazon? It seems like this scenario wouldn't work so well without a middleman not stocking the product(s). Can I rephrase your question as "what's the value in selling things on the internet, when Amazon already does that?"?
- tarsinge 7y ago(Sorry if I miss your point or I wasn’t clear English is not my first language) I think producers that can selling directly on their website can be pretty legitimate (in theory they already know how to handle inventory and logistics). What I wanted to highlight was that nowadays given that producers can sell directly, or through Amazon if they can’t handle logistics, dropshipping has become irrelevant.