/dsg/ - DROPSHIP GENERAL

I want money

I dont understand this.

Is it just making a online store with aliexpress as the back end?

How does it make you feel when I google the links rather than opening them from your affialite ones in your google cocks folder?

Post a screenshot of your webstore faggot

Yes.

Yeap, OP is affiliate whore making him untrustable in any type of info

How many products did you add at the beginning? Few dozens or more?

Also, what the fuck is with shopify payments, I can't find it anywhere and I'm not gonna use jewpal.

Has anyone done it?

I doubt it's successful. What about shitty quality good. Returns. Customs. Taxes. Finding buyers. Pie in the sky m8s

>I doubt it's successful. What about shitty quality good
margin at ~350%

>Returns
margin at ~350%

>Customs. Taxes
Do not apply to low value products, and taxes are from PROFIT, so what the hell does it matter?

>Finding buyers
hard part as in any business.

Where is this happening successfully

>shitty quality good
walmart if you're americafag

>Returns
again walmart, amazon, any big online retailer

affiliate links in the guide

Yeah, go fuck yourself

>Some guy buys a shitty non-working item that he ends up waiting 69 days for
>proceeds to tell all his friends and family about this scam site and to report your facebook page
>get spammed with terrible reviews and vilifying comments

followed the guide, doing some light advertising on fb, this is pretty funny if it works, worth the few bucks i spent on advertising, still have to figure out this free meme pr. if it doesnt work fuck it, enjoy your affiliate money, not op here but i dont see why everyone is so butthurt about that, like just close your eyes nigga or google the links i did

how the fuck will 50$ bucks worth of stuff to sell + ads will get you any sales?

Isn't this basically what the wish app is?

I recently got into this.

Getting your first sale is great. It's a good feeling after dumping 50 bucks into ads on Facebook.

How do you guys deal with customers asking for tracking numbers? A few customers have bugged me for them, but I'm scared that when they see its coming from China, they'll get buttmad.

How can you keep shipper from putting invoice with order?

Discord server: discord.gg/aTRQNeN
Frosty doesn't know anything about web dev or networks. Don't trust that little shit.

best to contact the supplier first and tell them that you plan on using them for dropshipping, and if it's possible that they remove invoicing and billing details. maybe even have an order sent to you first, to make sure that the chinks can follow your instructions

Yeah I read that on some guide that it's good to also test out the product so you can see it actually works and stuff. Also if you want to take different pics from the ones on ali so it actually looks like you're selling an original product.

I'm trying it out because I have some money to throw at get rich quick schemes atm. Designing my site and ads is the hardest part for me.

why would they get mad its from china? people know that 99% of stuff is made in china

Anything to know at the beginning? Found my niche, set up the shop, and already added some products. Not sure how to deal with the long shipping time.

Shopify payments is Stripe with a fancy skin

Can i do Dropship from another country?

You can even dropship from walmart. Lot of people who jumped onto FBA train early on used just stuff from walmart and so. The point is not really price fight, it's about finding customers - i.e. ads.

Shopify said that I was missing weights on some of my product varients so I asked the supplier for the weights and i'm changing that now but when look at the fulfillment service it says manual. What does that mean? Also shopify is asking me for a shipping address, what do I put down?

your nearest post office

oh fug i could really get this rolling hardcore, im great at scams like this im starting now

also get a free tk domain from freenom.com and then redirect it to a free squarespace wix or weebly style page all free

As an American NEET, with a little bit of money saved, but no credit card, what's my best course of action in getting into this?

Right now I'm trying to get a credit card, but I don't have an income, and I obviously can't rely off anyone else's credit card but my own. I'm afraid that I'll get rejected if I apply, or even if I get approved for a credit card I'll have an extremely low spending limit of some sort (I've been told this is a thing, but I'm not quite sure myself.) so I would be very limited in what I can invest my money into for starting my own drop shipping business and fulfilling orders via aliexpress or whatever else. Should I apply for a credit card anyways?

Does anyone else understand my situation? What should I do?

>Save up about $1400
>Create Shopify account
>Find product
>Find another product, because your first one is going to be shit and had a bad/expensive/non-buying demographic.
>Make sure supplier is manufacturer of goods or has a good stockpile of goods. Ask for video proof of person standing next to inventory with a piece of paper with random letters on it.
>Set up Shopify store
>Use good Shopify Apps (Hurrify, Loox, etc)
>Go to Upwork, find someone to manage a $180 facebook ad campaign for the payment of $20
>Use data from ad campaign (after 8 days) to narrow in on your demographic and figure out what works.
>Find someone better on Upwork. $40k earned, good portfolio, etc.
>Pay them to manage a $1000 Facebook Ad Campaign.
>Get them to explain everything they are doing and why.
>Hope you did shit correctly and wait.
>Not uncommon to lose the $1400 by doing this and choosing a different niche.

Going into this with no money for advertising is pointless.

this guy knows

only buy products with good reviews or buy them yourself

You can also buy a few of your products and ship them from home- if shipping times are such an issue. However, this requires an upfront investment, negating one of the main advantages of dropshipping over traditional retail

>i dont see why everyone is so butthurt about that
desu this looks like one of the few generals that are not shit.

I cant see, even if dropship is a meme, how this is worse than memecoins and memestocks in any case.

>Not sure how to deal with the long shipping time.
most obvious way would be to buy the products in advance and have them shipped either to your house, or to a 3rd party fulfillment agency. As you have already shipped them to the US (or wherever else) the products can be shipped in only a few days.

Also, you may want to look to marketing towards Europeans (especially Scandis). Not only do they have high conversion rates in responding to ads, but they also tend to be far more patient as well in regards to shipping times

>Right now I'm trying to get a credit card
There are a few credit cards, like Discover, that can be obtained with no credit. They usually have spending limits of $500 and dont allow cash advances, but that should be okay for a NEET like you.

Apply for multiple and you can virtually increase your spending limit by how many cards you have

How?

Anyone use Instagram for advertising your stuff?

Holy shit dude you just got BTFO. Sit the fuck down now. It's obvious that you can make money with dropshipping if you do things properly.

I pay about $200 per 24 hour ad to people on Instagram with 20k or more actual followers. I pay more for more followers. What do you want to know?

Fulfillment Service means you do the shipping yourself.

Shopify is asking you to input all of the weights for all of your variants so when you sell an item they can process a shipping label (which is another way Shopify makes money) through them - which is pretty pointless because you probably aren't shipping this item out yourself. It also allows the shopify backend to know how much to charge your customer for shipping.

Just make the weight the same as the main product.

because people come up with stupid reasons as to why they are too lazy to do something like "but, wont they get mad that it takes 16 days to send them their item?" - who the fuck cares, you already sold the item and its not like you are going to be running a multimillion dollar company where you are going to make $100,000 in profit per year in repeat visitors or some shit.

I made an error in this, I meant to say "Manual" in Fulfillment Services means you did the shipping yourself.

Can you recommend a good marketing strategy for someone who can't afford to send $200/day?

Are Facebook ads worth it? I'm thinking of spending $10/day on FB ads but I'm not sure if it will result in conversions.

$10/day won't get customers to a website, but it will build a facebook page for your store/brand that you can send offers through later on. It will take a while. Lets say it takes $1000 to do this successfully, $10/day will just result in 100 days, as opposed to spending $200/day and doing the same thing in 5 days.

$200/day is really where you want to be as far as having a good ad budget. If you can't, I recommend just buying your inventory (not dropshipping) and selling on Amazon.

I talked with someone who worked at Facebook about a year ago. He said there are different classifications for businesses that spend money on ads and they are treated very differently. Facebook Knows who spends money on stuff found through Ads, and the people who have small ad budgets have no access to them despite whatever way they try to target them. The $200/day gets you access to this hidden demographic of people that actually spend money; the people who have bought stuff in the past and have a history of consistently buying stuff through ads.

That's quite disheartening. Most people who get started with dropshipping are NEETs who can't afford $200/week let alone per day.

There has to be an effective way of driving traffic to your website without spending over $1000/week. That really seems excessive, especially when you're just starting out.

Sad but true.

I like how people who actually run successful stores are like "No, you need $200/day for ads if you really want to sell shit" and everyone else who has no proof or knowledge of running an online shop is like "oh no, I can do that with just $20 a day. Pay me $100, I'll teach you how"

However, it also kind of serves as a filter. Once you get a good store going with a strong ad budget and you are doing $800/day in sales, some pajeet cant just get up and start a shopify/dropship site and clone all of your shit if he doesnt have the cash to invest.

Why is there such hype over facebook ads? Why not use Google AdWords / Whatever Bing and Yahoo use?

I'm a dropshipper on eBay but i'm migrating to Shopify once i bite the damn bullet and decide what I want to sell first (I have 3 niche ideas)... basically i don't have shopify yet because I'm a faggot

Several reasons, one being that because everyone is on Facebook so people who dont know any better assume that Facebook is this perfect source for buyers because there is just so many people.

You can get started with like $10, so people think "man, just $10? thats awesome!" so they put money into ads like an old woman puts pennies into penny slots at a casino.

Google Adwords... eh, I won't comment on something I don't know a lot about, but my guess is that because Adwords isn't nearly as user friendly. I don't use it for much other than analytics for my shopify stores.

anyone got experience with using fiverr here?