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Old 01-21-2009, 10:26 PM
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Default Importance of Drop shippers

Drop shipping has three dominant scams and each has several variations only limited to the imagination of these opportunists. I call the three scams the list, the middleman, and the agent.

List

First is the decades old list of drop shippers the scammer wants to sell to you. None of the businesses or contact information has been verified for years and is completely out of date. These lists are usually offered for between £10 - £50. After handing over your money, you try contacting the businesses only to learn:
• They have gone out of business
• The contact information is obsolete
• Stopped drop shipping years ago

Middlemen

Another common scam is the middleman posing as a drop shipper. This version does require that a real drop shipper exist. It is not the person you will be doing business with. He simply passes your order onto the real drop shipper, who packages and mails the product to your customer. Of course, the price he has offered you is substantially higher than what he pays the drop shipper.

Agents

These can be thought of as Multi Level Marketing (MLM) scams. The agent here charges victims a monthly fee to access the drop shipper. Quite often, they are also getting a cut from the drop shipper for any sales that you make.
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Old 04-20-2009, 03:53 PM
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Hi there,

Great post. There is also lots of scams for schemes to work from home. Its a shame that people want to make money from people.

But I gues that is life.
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Old 09-03-2009, 11:32 AM
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Very nice post. Drop shipping can substantially increase profit margins and be more effective than affiliate marketing in many ways. I choose my drop shipper by going directly to the company that manufactures what I want to sell. This cuts out any agents or middlemen. Paying for a list of drop shippers is just stupid.
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