Cherrieredd
Grove City,#2Author of original report
Thu, May 07, 2009
Dropshiponauction.com is actually dropshipdesign.com and they are located at DropshipDesign.com. 1100 Dexter Av North, Suite 100 Seattle Washington, 98109 Now, once you join and are rerouted to Dropshiponauction.com you cannot find an address for them if you forget that you orignally clicked on dropshipdesign.com. I did some extra research, and from my own experience, I will follow up with this. The majority of their items, regardless of what they claim the "list price" is, are only going for about 20-50 more than the "wholesale" price offered to members. If products are older, they are often going for A LOT less then what they are even asking wholesale. Also, their shipping is incredibly high. Even on items of 9.00 they want anywhere from $8 to $16 shipping. They say that's what the warehouses charge them, but realistically, I could not make enough on any item to cover their shipping, and the fees from my listings and pay-pal. Amazon would be a great way to go in selling this stuff, but they REQUIRE all sellers SHIP their items within 2-3 business days. Amazon does not want inundated with dropshippers, they want companies or people who have items in their possession and can ship quickly. What kills here is that Amazon automates emails to buyers committing you to ship in 2-3 business days, so even if you put a "disclaimer" in, you are really bound by what you agreed to regarding Amazon's terms and conditions when you signed up with them. Additionally, the items they list as what the wholesale price was and what it sold for on ebay, I cannot figure out as to where those numbers came from. Frankly, they can make those up. Again, even with ebay, you are committed to ship what sells, so if you sell a flat screen tv and HOPE the auction reaches the wholesale price, if it doesn't you are stuck having purchase and ship the item, taking a loss, unless you don't care about your feedback and cancel the sale. I listed a boat load of stuff from this company on ebay and just did a fixed price where I knew I wouldn't lose money, but no one wants to fork out that much at the get go, they want a bargain, or may be willing to pay that much but want to bid on it in hopes they get it cheaper. I just could not make this economical and the communication, unless you want to pay $99 for phone assistance, is horrible if they have to go out of their way regarding returns. I would not recommend this company unless you have the money to buy less expensive things and then list them and ship them yourself. I only placed about 6 orders with them and only 2 went smoothly and I took a hit on my feedback for it. It just isn't worth the risk in my opinion.