Rose Li is the PR Manager for Chinavasion, China's premier dropshipper for wholesale consumer electronics
If you're on the internet looking at the benefits of wholesale dropship services as a method of supply chain management and you turn one way you see nothing but glowing reviews of how it can increase inventory, boost returns and make you look years younger.(well, maybe not years younger)
But if you turn the other way you hear horror stories about how a particular eBay trader's seller reputation went down the toilet simply because they had chosen to chance their arm with a particular dropship company.
So what's the real story? Is dropshipping a blessing or a curse and who should you believe?
Much like cooking the secret of dropshipping successfully, whether it's electronics you're dropshipping or clothes, is in where and how you get the source and how much work you put into the preparation.
In fact doing background research into potential wholesale dropship firms is often the difference between a successful partnership and a sunk business.
Here are 10 websites and internet services that will not only save you money when tracking down a wholesale dropship supplier but cost absolutely nothing to use:
1) Whois
You may think that the internet has nothing but anonymous entities it is in fact possible to check out who owns what URLs simply by using one of the many Whois services on the internet. Whois.net is probably the best known and by entering the URL of the dropship wholesalers in the Whois.net search bar you're able to get the name of the site owner, see how long they've been running the business for and also see what other URLs they own.
2) Reseller rating
Resellerrating.com is a website where you can check out user reviews of sites and see what vendors like you think of products and how well they sell.
3) Dropship Forum
A UK based e-commerce forum, dropshipforum.co.uk, has a fantasic section, dropship watch where you can check out to see if anybody else has had any unpleasant experience with a particular China dropshipping company or wholesale dropship company? Another forum which casts it's net a little wider is:
4) The Wholesale Forums
Thewholesaleforums.co.uk will help you out with more than peer reviews on wholesale dropship sources, there's a whole raft of usefull information on the site.
5) Rateitall.com
The uber destination for reviews, rateitall.com has reviews of China dropship companies, electronic appliances, phone companies, movies and many many more topics.
See the entire 10-site list at Chinavasion's blog or visit http://www.chinavasion.com/wholesale-dropship.php for more fantastic dropship advice.
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