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Hey folks, I'm fairly green to drop shipping but I have a solid business with a good customer base and traffic. I work in a niche where I can comfortably recommend great products that aren't available by any other suppliers in the US. Most of these products are available via AliExpress, Alibaba, etc.
I'm wondering what you folks would recommend for a service to set everything up. My store is using Squarespace and I'd like to sell at least on my website, eBay, and Amazon, and it doesn't even have to be a ton of items. I just need something that will handle everything. I've used Spocket and AutoDS and both had annoying issues that made them inconsistent and couldn't be used for anything large scale.
What would y'all recommend for the most cost effective method to reliably dropship products from AliExpress or Alibaba?
I have 4 ecommerce stores that I built and run, with 3 of them being dropshipping from AliExpress.
Two of the four make over 5 figures per month, one of the four just started bringing in sales and is doing 4 figures per month but will eventually hit 5 figures per month, and the last one I just started building 2 weeks ago.
I would estimate that more than 95% of my issues across all stores have been with shipping speed from AliExpress. 5% with bad quality/wrong item, etc.
AliExpress recently revamped its seller requirements and are forcing all stores/sellers on the platform to ship within 2 days.
As I track all orders/shipments across all my stores I am extremely impressed with their improved shipping speed.
Most of the orders I place now arrive in 5-7 business days.
That means the customer places an order on Monday, and it arrives to them the following Monday-Wednesday.
You still have to find great suppliers on AliExpress and create relationships that are mutually beneficial (basically giving them many orders). Then, you let them know that you are a dropshipper and require fast shipping speeds for regular business, and they will put your orders as a priority.
I can now advertise 5-7 business days delivery which is pretty reasonable for most shoppers.