Most things are best done with a friend. A second set of hands to help with the work, a shoulder to lean on. Its a beautiful thing. However, where a good friend helps without thought of recompense, a “buddy” in the business world is not always the best thing. Especially when this “friend” hasn’t actually let you know his or her involvement with you!
I’m talking once again about the dreaded middleman, the proverbial whipping boy of the dropship world. These rapscallions get continually better at hiding themselves as wolves among the sheep, but as good as they are, they still slip up, and red flags can be raised.
While its easy to flag oneself as a wholesale dropship company, it can be pretty easy to find out just how true that statement is. Let’s examine it bit by bit. Wholesale? No brainer. Means you’re not buying at retail. Dropship? Its a wholesale company that ships a single product at a time, usually for some nominal fee if at all. Company? Company. Simple terms, simple rules to follow.
A middleman will try to muck up the rules, but being inherently simple, its a pretty easy task for you to see past the deception. When a “wholesale dropship company” violates even one of the three words, you know you have cause for alarm.
Wholesale is a big world, so sometimes you can see some discrepancy between one “wholesale” price and another. To be expected, but still something to watch for. If one wholesale price is precariously high above all the rest, perhaps caution is the way to go.
Next, we have dropship. If your “dropship company” requires a minimum order that is much higher than the cost of an individual item, you’ve got a problem. The concept behind dropshipping lies in single items, and if your company doesn’t know that, chances are they’re not quite on the level.
