I'm looking to buy an ESTABLISHED dopshipping store.

My requirements are:

- has revenue

- at least 1 year old

- has traffic

Hey guys I'm still a newbie to this so I was wondering if any of you more experienced people could give some insight. Is it worth it to buy an existing dropshipping business and what are some telltale signs to look for when considering a purchase. I've come across a couple websites that seem decent (to me). So far I've considered marketing costs and CPC and where they source product and how fast deliveries are. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Hello, i’m looking to start a dropshipping store but i want it to be fully prebuilt, including website, a distributor, etc. I have 100 dollars and I don’t know what i can trust, is Brandbox a good website?

I recently considered buying a profitable Shopify store, but it occurred to me that there's no point. Any dropshipping store can be copied down to the theme and ad copy. You only need some Shopify experience and you'd have an identical site within one day. All you have to do next is source from the same supplier and run Facebook ads.

Hi,

Where can you buy a shopify store? And also, has anyone done that here? What are your 2 cents on this? Im debating either to buy one and expand on that or start a new one and try to make it work. Im fairly new to dropshipping so im not sure what is better.

Hi I’m a very new member of the dropshipping community. I’m currently just at the stage of planning and laying out the foundation for my own store but I’ve come across a reoccurring issue. Every piece of advice I’ve gotten is that sites like AliExpress and Alibaba used to work in the past but it’s not great anymore because of many reasons, specifically delivery time and quality. My question is:

What is the best dropshipping sites/suppliers for beginners in 2023?

And to be more specific selling in the US. Thanks 🙏🏼

I’m looking to buy a small drop shipping site on one of the various marketplaces, something between $2,000-$4,000 with a small social media presence, e-mail list, decent SEO and hiring a freelance marketing coordinator to spend 10-20 hours a month on and providing them with a small budget ($200-$300/mo) on ad campaigns and social media. My intent would be to hire this person on for 3-6 months initially to see how it goes and re-evaluate from there.

Ideally I’m looking for a niche product, with small but consistent sales that brings in $100-$500/mo in profit that I would use to help cover the marketing budget and reinvest into the business to help scale.

This would be a project I’d want to work on outside of my standard 8-5, my background is in software/tech sales. I have a tiny bit of familiarity with e-commerce and marketing.

Am I completely off base here? There seems to be a lot of negative feedback regarding purchasing dropshipping sites. My intent is not to find some turnkey store that requires minimal effort, but a decent proof of concept that I can spend 5-10 hours/week on + the freelance marketing coordinator spending an additional 10-20 hours/month on.

Has anyone tried them before? If so, is it a hardcore scam or are they actually profitable? I don't want to waste money, but I am clueless a niche. I feel like I can nail the marketing part, but not so much actually building my store and knowing what to sale. I'm thinking of having a company build my store for me at this point.

The company that I'm looking at uses US suppliers and that was a really big thing for me because I really didn't want to use AliExpress or Alibaba due to the shipping times, current world events potentially affecting shipping from China in the future, and it kind of seems like people are probably going to go and check to see if my product is on AliExpress and then not buy from me if they find it. I also don't want my store to be an obvious drop shipping store lol. The company also makes it so that your products are branded and so far based on what I've been reading up on and seeing the branded products to do the best.

I don't want to take the seemingly easier way and have it go belly up after investing in a company to build the website for me. But I also feel like if I get it professionally made and have them do the building up for me I might have a better chance of turning a profit on everything. What do you guys think?

Hello,

I've found an ecommerce business that is pretty cheap and doing around $1000 a month in net profit.

I was wondering what advice you would be able to give to me. Purchase advice and transition from the old owners to the new owners. Anything related to that would be great.

I have been on aliexpress for 2 different stores and have run into the same issue of delivery time. Not only does it take a month for a product to come in for me to make media for to advertise with, but customers get mad and creates issues scary enough for someone without an LLC. I have looked into Spocket and USA Dropshipping but don’t know other good options out there. Could use some helpful insight.

Found a reasonable store. Had 30k revenue since October 2019. Last month July had about 6k revenue, so the store is still active.

Owner said he made 7k revenue, 1.9k profit, 3.3k Facebook ads and the rest is product cost since beginning of July to middle of August.

He's selling for 3k. How does that make sense? If he made 1.9k profit over a month and a half, why's he selling for just 3k?

But also, revenue data from Shopify shows it's been making revenue until at least July 2020, and according to owners ad spend, it is still profitable. His reason for selling is because he has other stores that are bigger and more successful.

But that doesn't justify selling a decently successful one for cheap. Values at 20k by Shopify, selling for 3k.

Do you think there's a scam here? Or should i buy given the numbers?

Im very new to dropshipping. I've created my store and set everything up and I've started organically marketing it on Tiktok, Insta reels, and Youtube shorts. Can I have some feedback on the site and marketing?

website - shopvitaliq.myshopify.com (don't have a domain yet)

socials (insta, yt, tiktok): @ vitaliqblend

What do you think of my website? Does it look shady/scammy? Would you trust it and buy from it? Is it too boring? Is it easy to navigate?

And for the marketing, i've only started making videos a few days ago and so far I haven't gotten much engagement from any of the platforms so i'd appreciate any tips suggesting how I can boost my videos preformance. I try to do my best, I copy my competitors videos almost exactly and I've also tried using SEO. Is there anything that im missing or could do better?

I know my product is very saturated and i've only realized that after already setting up the store. Should I keep going with this product and wait a little longer or should I move on from it?

Thanks! Let me know constructive critics.

also is using oberlo a good idea? I’m new to this 😭

I’m new to this and i wanted fast shipping so i was going to use cjdropshipping but the shipping is super expensive and i was wondering what alternatives there are that people use.

I started dropshipping just over three months ago, and honestly, I didn’t expect to sell anywhere near as much as I have. Last week, I hit 1,000 orders, and it’s still growing! I’m making more money than I ever imagined, and it’s honestly amazing – now I just hope it keeps going!

If you’re looking to boost sales, definitely leverage platforms like TikTok Shop, Etsy, eBay, and Amazon – they’ve been incredibly effective for me.

For those curious, my profit margin is around 32%, and after all expenses, my total profit has reached £18,065.66.

I only dropship from AliExpress, and I’ve seen plenty of people claiming that making money from AliExpress in 2024 is impossible and that the platform is terrible. That’s just absolute nonsense.

Don’t give up – it’s absolutely possible!

Lastly, to Chinese agents and manufacturers: Please don’t DM me. I’m not interested in your services.

I do dropshipping, these are one of my sites. It's a plushie toy website. You might've seen it on tiktok or so. It's where you have the plushie and you can make it turn into a smiley face or a mad face. So that was the product i used for the site and it's a one product site. It makes me around $1k a month in profit and a bit more sometimes. I spend around close to $150 a month on FB ads basically the $5 dollar a day strategy. Sometimes i might reach out to mom influencers to promote the product.

Now this is just one of my stores. Here is the proof/picture.

https://ibb.co/h8kJWSb

and i'm not a, seven, eight figure dropshipper, lol. I just run a few other stores that make me a couple thousands every month. So i'm not rich from dropshipping. But it is more than enough for me. It pays my bills, and expenses so personally i'm happy and i live here in the united states.

EDIT: If you have any specific questions or need any advice feel free to send me a message :)

EDIT 2: some are unclear by the title where i said i invested $300. I meant i started the store up with $300 (initial)

EDIT 3: A couple people DM'ed me and got mad at me for not replying to their messages as soon as they send it because i wrote "if you have any specific questions send me a message" i meant like i'll reply to you at my own time not sitting around doing nothing to just message you. and they literally just cussed me out cause i didn't reply to their messages as soon as they messaged me. So you know who you are. So if you're getting mad i didn't reply to your messages at the exact time you sent it. Get a life and stop sending me angry messages because i didn't reply to your messages ASAP. I'm doing this post to help others and learn from others. We aren't going to argue over here. I'm trying to be respectful and kind towards other. So those who are sending me rude messages and cussing me out at for not replying to their messages ASAP in my messages you are being entitled and rude. I am NOT going to just sit and reply to your message as soon as you send it. I am a human and i have a life so treat me with respect and i'll treat you with respect. So to that person who cussed me out because i didn't reply to his message in my DM's ASAP you know who you are. Cause i want to make this clear and upfront. Think twice before you speak.

To all the successful dropshippers, did you find one winning product, market it well and repeat the process? Or did you attempt to build a brand from many products?

Hello! With having myself getting things started up with Shopify, and doing alot of research, I wanted to get it first hand from people with experience in dropshipping. Which supplier seems to be the best one overall to work with?