Drop Ship Businesses: A Fast Way To Start In e-Commerce

September 26, 2009 by  

If you are a seasoned e-commerce professional, you have no doubt have heard of drop shipping. But if you are a newbie, you might not realize that you can start a business on the Internet with no need to stock inventory! How can you accomplish this? You find dropshipping directory to send or ‘fulfill’ your orders on your behalf. You just collect the customer’s money – buy the merchandise from your supplier, and they ship it to your customer with your company on the paperwork.

All you need to do to start a drop ship business is a web site, a method to accept credit cards (PayPal is great for starters), and a product to sell! There are many drop ship supplier directories on the web. You need to be cautious, though about using these services. Many of them are simply obsolete lists with incorrect or bogus information. Use care when you purchase access to a directory of drop shippers.

The best drop ship distributors directories show you the real name and address of the vendor companies. That is the way to go; beware of sites that tell you they also sell merchandise – they are usually a middleman and you will pay too much for your products. Avoid a middleman, you won’t be able to price your products at a competitive level.

The web has opened up a new class of business ideas to those willing to spend some of their time and money to learn the basics. You don’t need a huge inventory of products to start selling online. Drop shipping is a great, low-cost way to start.

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10 Responses to “Drop Ship Businesses: A Fast Way To Start In e-Commerce”

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  3. Louis on July 25th, 2010 7:03 pm

    The best thing to do would be to abolish most all of the agencies involved especially Commerce as they are unconstitutional and irrelevant. It should be up to COngress to regulate “interstate commerce” and not the executive branch. Also, as long as the states arent unfairly burdening commerce the congress has no business regulating commerce with complete intra-state interest.

  4. Rob Natelson on September 7th, 2010 2:25 pm

    Sorry… Professor Balkin is wrong about this one. First, the broad definition of commerce he posits is contradicted both by the legal usage at the time and by numerous Federalist representations as to the kinds of powers reserved exclusively to the states. There are several articles detailing this evidence now, including two by me.

    Second, as I point out in my article on the Indian Commerce Clause, the Hopewell treaties did not limit the federal government's obligations specifically to the tribes that were signatories. The obligations applied to all “Indians.”

    Third: Even if the law were adopted pursuant to the Commerce Clause, legislation adopted after the ratification is over is unreliable evidence of what the ratification understanding was, simply because there no longer were constraints on what one could claim about the scope of federal powers.

    Fourth: The Balkin-Amar version of the Commerce Clause would reduce the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to dead letters, which is another reason they simply are not tenable.

    Finally: There is a lot of good evidence about what “commerce” meant in the context of Indian commerce — it was essentially about regulating the Indian trade, merchants, etc., and certain well-recognized incidents — including maintaining the peace necessary for that trade to go on. It certainly was not about every sort of interaction, and in light of the volume of evidence on the subject — far more than two post-ratification laws — I find it beyond understanding why anyone would argue that it is.

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    _blank Specifies to load the link into a new blank window.
    _parent Specifies to load the link into the parent of the document the link is in.
    _self Specifies to load the link into the same window the link was clicked in.
    _top Specifies to load the link into the full body of the window.

    The default value for target depends upon the URL and site. If the user does not leave the site, the default is _self, but if the user exits to a new site, the default is _top.

    Anyway in your case you need _blank.

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  10. Virginia B on January 24th, 2012 10:27 am

    Ummm what is your question?

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