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> Drop shipping, or the practice of PURCHASING cheap goods, usually from China, and selling them on a legitimate-seeming website for profit Vox doesn't even un
by berjin 4y ago
> Drop shipping, or the practice of PURCHASING cheap goods, usually from China, and selling them on a legitimate-seeming website for profit
Vox doesn't even understand what drop shipping is. The whole point is that the goods don't need to be owned. Vox are mad people are watching dumb videos instead of their own low quality articles.
- throwaway049 4y agovox seems not to understand what mass retail is either. Things sold by well known brick and mortar stores are also made cheaply in China.
- wheybags 4y agoI think people might be down voting you because they also don't know what drop shipping is. To clarify: drop shipping is when you have no inventory, take customer orders, and then simply forward those orders. So, for example, If I get an order for a hairbrush on ebay, instead of shipping a hairbrush myself, I would go on alibaba or similar, and order a hairbrush shipped straight to my customer.
- nickthegreek 4y agoOr it is a customized item, say a tshirt with an artists image. They still don’t want to hold inventory (all those sizes and shirt skus), so the item is printed on demand and drop shipped from the manufacturer.