Sell Aliexpress Gold Products

[trodan]

Hey all, thinking of getting into the gold niche. There are quite a few ecommerce sites out there using Aliexpress products to sell "gold" chains and things of that nature.

What problems do you guys forsee and are any of you having a lot of success using aliexpress for high end items?

Example of site using aliexpress: goldlordz.com

Anyone have any insight on this method or this niche in general?

 

[Lunaaa]

Hey all, thinking of getting into the gold niche. There are quite a few ecommerce sites out there using Aliexpress products to sell "gold" chains and things of that nature.

What problems do you guys forsee and are any of you having a lot of success using aliexpress for high end items?

Example of site using aliexpress: goldlordz.com

Anyone have any insight on this method or this niche in general?

First, selling high ticket items takes alot of $$$$$ in ads because lower conversion rates. You can't run a $5 ad and stop it after 5 days. You need to spend hundreds on each adset.
2. If it's coming from AliExpress, it's probably not real gold. And alot of people will chargeback. Selling gold that's not actually gold is false advertising, a scam, and illegal

 

[Lunaaa]

And 3.

Most people won't buy gold off some random site from the Internet.

 

[zanderzero]

I would stay as far away as possible from drop shipping gold from Aliexpress.

 

[crystalcelebi]

The problem with selling gold from Aliexpress is the high probability of it NOT BEING gold. So, apart from the problems that other members mentioned on the previous posts, there are people who are allergic to certain metals and someone would get mad and get your store closed. The only real way of knowing if a supplier sells real gold and is trustworthy is to go to China with an expert inspector and check it for yourselves. If you're not planning to import/export really high quantities the investment would not be worth the effort.

An alternative would be if you could sell fantasy jewelry (and state it clearly in your store) and people who buy would know this beforehand.

 

[trodan]

Thanks all for the advice. Definitely pretty high risk selling "gold" from these sites.

The problem with selling gold from Aliexpress is the high probability of it NOT BEING gold. So, apart from the problems that other members mentioned on the previous posts, there are people who are allergic to certain metals and someone would get mad and get your store closed. The only real way of knowing if a supplier sells real gold and is trustworthy is to go to China with an expert inspector and check it for yourselves. If you're not planning to import/export really high quantities the investment would not be worth the effort.

An alternative would be if you could sell fantasy jewelry (and state it clearly in your store) and people who buy would know this beforehand.

Fantasy jewelry is a good idea and I never thought about that but it'd be a much lower conversion rate at that.

Thanks guys.