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How does the drop shipping work? If I order from a drop shipper site; as a customer I wouldn't expect to need to pay any custom charges but if they directly shi
by wdb 5y ago
How does the drop shipping work? If I order from a drop shipper site; as a customer I wouldn't expect to need to pay any custom charges but if they directly ship from the manufacturer won't I get charged?
- cratermoon 5y ago> if they directly ship from the manufacturer won't I get charged? You do get charged. The drop shipper just charges a lot more for the same item that you could order on Amazon for less.
- hef19898 5y agoIf dropshipping was to be used as valid fulfillment method, e.g. what Amazon is doing without customers even realizing it, the customer will not get charged anything. Because either the goods are already imported by the supplier of e.g. Amazon. Or because the dropshipping seller is the importer of record and wll be charged with tariffs and so on.
- cratermoon 5y agoIn both cases, the tariffs already figure into the price. Dropshippers are no different, except for having gratuitously higher mark-ups.
- herbst 5y agoAmazon is a bad example as there is plenty of people using it to dropship directly from China too, just with a lower average price. Just like Wish Amazon is far from direct. Edit:// because people always seem to think Amazon automatically has good pricing. Things that don't sell so often and are amazon warehoused have a recurring cost for the seller. Who do you think is paying that? Some categories still have a 300% or more markup on Amazon.
- cratermoon 5y agoYes, yes, pedantically speaking of Amazon the business this is true. Rhetorically speaking of Amazon the metaphor for cheap online stuff, who cares? Would anyone have felt the need to "well ackshually" me of I'd written "Walmart"?
- herbst 5y agoI never heard 'Amazon' as metaphor for cheap stuff honestly. Here in Switzerland it's almost always the more expensive option. It just has everything. However sorry if this somehow was not polite.