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> drop-shipping, are permitted as long as you designed the item Isn’t drop-shipping when a seller has the manufacturer ship an item to a buyer directly without

• dylan604 2y ago
  you can hire 3rd party companies to manage your logistics. if you design a thing and then have it massed produced, you don't want to have to deal with the inventory taking over your living space. Spouses tend to get very unhappy with that. So you have a company that receives the orders and ships for you and keep the SO happy. "What can brown do for you?" type of companies
• Jochim 2y ago
  They're not really designing the item though. They're paying a drop-shipping manufacturer to print/etch a graphic or text into a white-label item. It's so little effort that the platform has been entirely flooded with low quality garbage.
• dspillett 2y ago
  Usually these days, yes, though it _could_ be your design that is being made and shipped in which case that would be within Etsy's current rules.
• fxtentacle 2y ago
  If you buy one of my dolphin pen holders https://trajann.com/products/dolphin-pen-holder-planter-vase https://trajann.com/products/dolphin-pen-holder-planter-vase then that's drop-shipping. In the background, https://www.shop3d.io/ https://www.shop3d.io/ has my OBJ files in their system and they will do the 3D-printing and send it to you. My team did the design, so it is a unique item. But my team does not handle the day-to-day printing and shipping, because that would be exhausting and then we wouldn't have time to make new designs anymore.