I appreciate that. Do you happen to know of any shipping methods for me to be able to deliver that 2 day shipping if I have it in stock at home? sorry I know it's a lot of questions but I want to know all my options
If you have the products at home you can just label them and send it to Amazon FBA, then people can order from Amazon.com with Prime 2-day shipping, or you can go in Amazon's Seller Central and manually process orders with 2-day shipping. Just make sure to run the numbers to see if it's profitable as there's handling fees, storage fees, etc. as you're hiring Amazon to be your 3PL (3rd Party Logistics) company. Searching for 3PL would bring up alternatives but if you're willing to handle and store inventory, you can just ship 2-day if your margins allow for it.
Now we are talking about two different things here though, one is drop shipping, the other is 3PL. Drop shipping you don't hold inventory risk, 3PL (or self-fulfilled) you do, and everything still depends on your business model. 3PL might be good if you got a few hot selling items, you could order a 20 foot container of them from China, send it to a FBA Prep company (they can do the labels and forward to Amazon for you if you don't want to handle product at all but still go 3PL), and sell those items. But if you want an online store with 50,000 products then 3PL probably isn't a viable option, you might be stuck with drop shipping if that's your game plan. While selling perhaps one small item might be best from home, and some items people don't care if it takes 2 days or a week. Ex: If you order a fidget spinner there's very little chance you actually care if it ships quickly as it's a novelty item you don't need, but the vast majority of products people will want quickly as the product fills a need.
Which is yet another thing to decide. Are you going to sell products that fill a want, fill a need, something in-between? complete novelty? gifts for other people? As that alone could change everything, selling a "novelty want" item could ship from China, while a "gift other people" only becomes critical around the holidays, and a "need" item you'd have almost no chance with slow shipping. I would also figure out your customer base, as there's a vast difference in what you should do if you're selling "novelty want" items to Grandma for her Grandchildren, vs selling "need" capacitors to people repairing audio amplifiers. Chances are Grandma with the fidget spinner is going to be the easier customer.
Granted with all that said, shipping is not your largest problem or concern unless you're going to sell a commodity item where your only chance is to compete on price and shipping speed. At the end of day if you drop ship, use 3PL, send stuff from your house, etc. you still have to run a full retail business. Drop shipping doesn't take away anything like people think, all you're doing is outsourcing logistics but you still have to do everything else like run the website, deal with customers, source products, deal with returns, etc. etc. If you want to make a few bucks on the side you might be able to half-ass it like the drop ship guru's say (but apparently don't take their own advice because they sell courses instead of drop shipping; might be because drop shipping isn't as easy as they say), but if you want to build a proper business then your logistical method isn't your largest problem. Don't get me wrong it's a large issue but you have more pressing things to consider. The drop ship advantage is you could make 5, 10, more websites to test the waters but generally your profits are going to suck. You might even consider using drop shipping to find your niche and then go to 3PL or self-fulfilled in the future. There's many things to consider if you want to build something that's more than a hobby.
edit: You might also consider selling used items. That was my first business as I'm not exactly a fan of work and the margins are typically extremely good. Plus your customers tend to expect less, if you're buying a used printer from me there's a fair chance you don't really care if it ships quick. You just want something used and cheap that eventually gets to your door and works. People who buy new vs buy used is also a complete different market with it's own pros and cons.
