RoyalCobra777
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- Mar 23, 2014
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It's normal. I do YouTube for a living and i have The fear that one day yt will screw me over and lose my income. Just try to diversify your income and you'll be fine.
I'm making money but..
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Netherlands and belgium
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You are right
supereek
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I used to dropship from Aliexpress as well. Sales were OK and profits too, I was in the women sport clothing. Until my usual supplier begun sending clothes with defects or the wrong size's. People were contacting me and I had to refund from my own pocket then dispute as nobody wanted to wait so long for a re-shipment, such a pain in the ass. At some point I just gave up dealing with this anymore and threw the website offline. If I had enough money to buy in bulk and send to my clients domestically I would. But ordering even 5 main products in bulk is un-doable as they all came in different sizes (S/M/L/XL). 
joeemmanuel
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I see that you are good at Google Ad, if you want to work with Eu suppliers , just Pm, we can work together
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I'm curious... Is there "something" that happened in the near past that you are afraid of happening again in near future?
Don't get me wrong, I feel you and I know how you feel.
Having stress over a business is like saying "good day" on street to someone.
It's also good sometimes.
Anyway, it looks like this is deeper then it looks.
You are just selling stuff, there are millions of people doing the same exact thing online, it is stressful but if it's making you money, if you are happy, continue...
Unless you have a plan B.
Anyway, wish you all the best on your journey.
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This is my problem, i have to many sizes and colors for my productI used to dropship from Aliexpress as well. Sales were OK and profits too, I was in the women sport clothing. Until my usual supplier begun sending clothes with defects or the wrong size's. People were contacting me and I had to refund from my own pocket then dispute as nobody wanted to wait so long for a re-shipment, such a pain in the ass. At some point I just gave up dealing with this anymore and threw the website offline. If I had enough money to buy in bulk and send to my clients domestically I would. But ordering even 5 main products in bulk is un-doable as they all came in different sizes (S/M/L/XL).
1325144
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Yes there did something happend in the past where i had to refund like 150 orders because they were stuck in transit when corona came out, it was a bad situation.. Now everything is fine for now, but how long? I just want to be done with it, and i'm paying so much taxes that it is not really worth it anymore even do it is really profitable
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How do you know haha, tell me more about the eu suppliers
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I see so many people dropshipping carelessly, without caring if something goes wrong. Maybe i care to much
Naughtyfatkid
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True, seems like thinking about everything that could go wrong outweighs everything that could go right. What do you think?
Biz Idea Lab
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What product are you selling? If you can manufacture it on your own from China and store it in warehouse in your country, then you can do long term business with your store.
t2van
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BUT
You are selling these items yeah? SO if you have sales history you should be able to see that X,Y,Z combination has sold more units than any other combination.
So you invest your money in that product combination to have that stock at hand.
It doesn't take a wiz to work it out. Hold stock for the items you are selling the most of (as I said you should have this info) you can ship those items then next day or same day items with low sale numbers you could add a lead time of "X days due to demand" or make up another BS excuse to put as a stock message.
Just because your product might have 500 combinations does not mean you have to start by buying all combination variations.
In fact if you have combinations that have ZERO (0) sales then drop that option totally.
joeemmanuel
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Can I Pm you ?
CyberCommander
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why not sell products from a local manufacturer and supplier?
Elvlin
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I think it's more like your mindset. it's not stressing the trouble. but making backup plan, and have solution in case trouble happen.
Every single business have that problem. example Having good profitable blog, (What will happen if someone sue me because copyright? If google suddenly change alogrithm, if your blog got hit unfairly etc2). You have succesfull business than expand it. find the solution. if its profitable, cannot you find local supplier? or make your own clothes? find more backup supplier?
or start make a few more shop? at different niche, so incase ot fail you have other. there are many way to expand your business. the stress is paid by the profit.
it's far better than the 90% where they have the stress, expense , not not a single profit.
Every single business have that problem. example Having good profitable blog, (What will happen if someone sue me because copyright? If google suddenly change alogrithm, if your blog got hit unfairly etc2). You have succesfull business than expand it. find the solution. if its profitable, cannot you find local supplier? or make your own clothes? find more backup supplier?
or start make a few more shop? at different niche, so incase ot fail you have other. there are many way to expand your business. the stress is paid by the profit.
it's far better than the 90% where they have the stress, expense , not not a single profit.
PhotoGallery
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Honestly, imo just use a trusted supplier and keep going. How wont loose his business to scam a few orders.