Dropshipping as minor

[RichardH]

Hi.
I live in Italy and I am a student.
I want to start a dropshipping business because I need money to pay my music lessons.
I am a minor, and in Italy I can't open a business as minor.

Is there anyone can help me? I can help with your work and, if you want, we can create our business.

 

[RichardH]

The problem is financial police, it closes lots of websites every day in Italy...

So I want to be 100% legit

 

[Naroha]

ask your parents

 

[SMSCodes]

How old are you Richard ? And who are the financial police ?

 

[RichardH]

I am 15. Financial police is a part of police that checks incomes of everyone.

 

[SMSCodes]

For money laundering and incase your’e mafia

 

[Zbigniew]

Maybe @ZlatanTheGod can help here

 

[SeoProMatt]

You don't need to open a business to start dropshipping. I think you can fly under the raider for 3 years as long as you are not doing like $30,000 in revenue a month.

Keep it simple and small. If you are making $600 a month, for example, no one is going to bother you.

 

[Oreos Are Bae]

I staarted to drop ship in america with paypal and I honestly hate them till this day and still do I was 15 and made about 10k a month then they banned me you would just have to know how to withdraw cause payapal is honestly stupid

 

[MisterF]

You don't need to open a business to start dropshipping. I think you can fly under the raider for 3 years as long as you are not doing like $30,000 in revenue a month.

Keep it simple and small. If you are making $600 a month, for example, no one is going to bother you.

"I think you can fly under the raider for 3 years" Think or have experience ? Still a risk if the PP gets locked.

The problem is financial police, it closes lots of websites every day in Italy...

So I want to be 100% legit

Do you not have older siblings, friends or maybe a relative who could work with you?

 

[ddlmanager]

Hi, fellow italian here aswell. First of all congratulations for the willing of taking action at your age and to generate money to invest in your passion.
Here in Italy if your side business generate less than € 5k/year you don't need to have a VAT (Partita IVA in italian). If your business generate more you are supposed to have one.
Since you're just starting out i recommend you to start testing what works and what doesn't since it's not so easy to succeed in this market. No one will knock at your door unless you're generating a lot of money (5k/month or more), but at this point you'll have no troubles creating a company for the business.

 

[RichardH]

Hi, fellow italian here aswell. First of all congratulations for the willing of taking action at your age and to generate money to invest in your passion.
Here in Italy if your side business generate less than € 5k/year you don't need to have a VAT (Partita IVA in italian). If your business generate more you are supposed to have one.
Since you're just starting out i recommend you to start testing what works and what doesn't since it's not so easy to succeed in this market. No one will knock at your door unless you're generating a lot of money (5k/month or more), but at this point you'll have no troubles creating a company for the business.

Hey! Could you PM me?

 

[SeoProMatt]

"I think you can fly under the raider for 3 years" Think or have experience ? Still a risk if the PP gets locked.




Do you not have older siblings, friends or maybe a relative who could work with you?

I'm in the US but I started a tutoring company when I was 17. Had like 15 clients and no one bothered me for the 6 months I worked under the table.

 

[isaac152]

Take it slow and build a PayPal account slowly and build its reputation.

 

[Salty_Crumpet]

It is 100% doable as a minor. As a minor I've sold services on ebay and other sites. I exclusively used PayPal because almost everything else requires information. One major thing to look out for is paypal locking the account. This is almost inevitable once you start getting a large amount of money coming in. They will limit your account until you put in your tax information. The best way to avoid this is to make two accounts. Send a few large payments between them and forget about one of them. Eventually Paypal will put a hold on your account. This is when you go to those old payments and refund your balance to your second account. If you want to get the money into your bank you can request a check in the mail. This is really only important if your looking to make $500+ a month otherwise no one really cares.

 

[Jopeyes]

Ask your parents/family, I dropshipped as a minor myself, my brother helped me out.