Drop shipping isn't some great new thing. If you've ever visited a local store, like a furniture store, and they show you inventory that's not located in-store it's a good bet that's being drop-shipped. Now the question on it's profitability is no different than any other ecomm store. What makes drop-shipping better is that it's lower-risk, more profitability at low-scale, and more recently lower barrier to entry. It's not that it makes you more money, it's that you don't have to drop $1-5k in products to get started, but you make less money on the product. To get started pick a niche, purchase items within that niche yourself, test them out so that they're decent quality, delivery time, etc.. and then create a shopify/any other template-based store or even ebay/amazon and sell them. There's white-label products as well that don't have logos on them so you can get away with it without the consumer knowing your just a reseller. Then stop focusing on drop-shipping and start researching how to run an ecomm brand, the drop-shipping is only about sourcing the product and is fairly easy. You'll probably end up losing money in the end, but there's a small sliver of a chance you make a successful ecomm brand if you stick with it for an year or three. Now why is everyone talking about it? It's fairly cheap to get into, a few hundred bucks is enough to stand up an online store Some people make a ton of money with it and hype it up. Most people lose money, just like any other business. It's new enough to target peoples ignorance. Because selling courses and ad-revenue is another way to make good money, especially for some dude sitting in Asia with decent English. People exaggerate and lie claiming they're making six-figures and you can too - all you have to do is give them $50 or watch this ad-heavy website/video. Most of these are scams. Answer from trptabs on reddit.com