[Method]Get 5x cheaper dropship from China

Hello everybody
I have been here for almost 5 years, always read, never post guide,
Today I will share my experience and tips dropship from China
1.My background
Yes, I am local Chinese, I am living economically developed provinces near shanghai,
there are thousands of factories near my home, and many friends of mine do dropship from china
years by years.
Some of my friends even sell Chinese finance information to Wallstreet or Bloomberg, they collect the information from local China sites like Sina or Netease and sell them.Yes it's another way of dropship.
They actually earn a lot.
I have been dropship for many years, I have two eCommerce sites,
one is Boutique clothing and another is replica products.
Like many friends here, I do Instagram botting, SEO, email marketing and other free traffic ways,
I have been doing a software engineer for ten years, very good at python and Linux.

2.Why you should drop from local China rather than aliexpress
1)Thousands of people dropship the same products from aliexpress again and again, customers are not stupid,they see the products again and again, they will see the actual price at last
2)there are many dropshippers on aliexpress like some of my friends, so if you dropship again from aliexpress, you are double dropshippers, the profit is not that high
Take this clothes(cloth.jpg) for example, it's US $30.89, not affiliate like
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/YTNMYOP-Women-Autumn-And-Winter-Jacket-Coat-Outerwear-Fashion-Lapel-Furry-Coat-Female-Warm-Fashion-Wild/32942430184.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.25783c00hdNGTl

But while you check the same image on aliexpress, it's only 53 RMB(8$)
not affiliate link
https://s.1688.com/youyuan/index.htm?tab=imageSearch&imageType=oss&imageAddress=cbuimgsearch/mKz44Twtda1560490618000.jpg&spm=a260k.635.3262836.d1088
You can see, it's 5 cheaper than aliexpress,right?

3.I just take 1688 for example,there are many sites in China,taobao , jd.com and pinduoduo.com which is low quality and even more cheaper than 1688.
If you want high quality and cheap price,you should hire someone to help you find products in local factories. These factories use exist in Guangdong province,Zhejiang province, Jiangsu province.
Yes, I live in one of them, don't buy far away from these province, because of the shipping time.
I mark the three provinces as red, for me, I have two warehouses in the provinces that can save my time from factory to my carrier.
Usually from the factory to my carrier takes 2-4 days.


4.Even most Chinese don't know there are some products can't drop ship,I have spent many times to check which can dropship and which is high quality. Choose products from 1688 ,taobao,jd,pinduoduo
need much experience.
For example ,
1)Still there are some dropshipper on 1688 or other sites,they change products frequently.
This is a mistake I made before,i upload some products, but the Merchant change the products frequently which made the products always out of stock. You should better choose the merchant
has words '工厂' rather than '商行'

2)If you want to sell product one by one , you'd better choose a merchant which support one by one.
Not all of them support sell products one by one , please be aware.

3)And the ship method,if your package is less than 1kg weight,you can choose epacket.
If your weight is much height than 1kg, you can choose faster ship method, because epacket only better for the products less than 1kg

4)Don't dropship products the weight is very heavy and don't choose the products which
have battery,most of the ship don't support products have battery.

5)I'd suggest you hire some local carriers, they can help you ship from the factory to their place.

6)Also,there are many factories, not only sell products local china,they also sell products to the whole world, you can use the word '海外' to filter them, these factories can ship their products at their factory.

Yes, there are many tips to choose products from China sites,if you can find high profit products
just do it.I have many tips to write, but today I have no time to continue
Any question, leave comments and PM me
Hope my article can help you.

Great post.1688 is best website?

So you want joint venture, hmm?!

PM me if you can export to India.

Interesting.

You should create a marketplace thread to connect drop-shippers with local suppliers

Thanks for the share!

Let say I want to dropship quality minimalist jewelry, where will you advise me to go?

Thanks for the guide OP

I'm very interested in dropshipping. can you recommend merchants.

hadnerd said:

Let say I want to dropship quality minimalist jewelry, where will you advise me to go?

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There are three ways for jewelry,aliexpress,1688 and local factories
Most of the factories in 1688 have the same business in aliexpress, especially some cheap jewelry
For cheap jewelry,if you are foreigner,i suggest alixpress,because the price is totally the same
Of course, if you can find local factories is best.
I recommend aliexpress, although i find jewelry in 1688, but they are the same price

Lord surh said:

I'm very interested in dropshipping. can you recommend merchants.

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Yes, some merchants in 1688 and Taobao can speak English, most of Chinese learn english at school, though it is not good,
but at least can communicate,with the google translator help,you can communicate with them
even in the Taobao site show USD price
The most difficult part is I think you need to solve the payment question.

Most of us that have experience dropshipping from China before there was AliExpress and DHGate use AliExpress and DHGate because of escrow and general customer satisfaction experience. We were ripped off way too many times.

You put an order in. Product comes. Great! It’s great quality. You put in a large order and the seller falls off the face of the earth.

These other sources may have legitimate sellers and I can say that I have used some of those you listed from time to time, but ultimately, we buy from reputable sources for piece of mind over saving a few dollars.

It's better if one can find a trustworthy local or else aliexpress is the go place for hassle-free service and quality

Hello there, nice thread. Do you do all the contact and shipping by yourself? Since i'm not a local Chinese, probably i will need an Agent to help me order from these websites. Do you have any Agent searching advices? Or i should directly work with vendors on taobao, 1688?
Thank you.
By the way i'm selling 1688's good in my own countries. Chinese make a lot of cool and beautiful products.

Jess156 said:

Hello there, nice thread. Do you do all the contact and shipping by yourself? Since i'm not a local Chinese, probably i will need an Agent to help me order from these websites. Do you have any Agent searching advices? Or i should directly work with vendors on taobao, 1688?
Thank you.
By the way i'm selling 1688's good in my own countries. Chinese make a lot of cool and beautiful products.

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Yes,i contact sellers and shipping by myself.
I am local Chinese,i know which products can ship and which can't .

augustwu said:

Yes,i contact sellers and shipping by myself.
I am local Chinese,i know which products can ship and which can't .

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Then best i should get an agent to do that for me, right? Do you have any advice how to find a dropshipping agent in China? Thank you very much

Psychop1 said:

Most of us that have experience dropshipping from China before there was AliExpress and DHGate use AliExpress and DHGate because of escrow and general customer satisfaction experience. We were ripped off way too many times.

You put an order in. Product comes. Great! It’s great quality. You put in a large order and the seller falls off the face of the earth.

These other sources may have legitimate sellers and I can say that I have used some of those you listed from time to time, but ultimately, we buy from reputable sources for a piece of mind over saving a few dollars.

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There are still many tips if you want to buy products from Chinese sites, not all of them worth trust.

Hello, I have a ceiling fan brand and my factory is in China. For the newer model we are producing I'm looking to dropship it worldwide from an agent who could do the fulfillment.

How can I find such trustworthy agent? Is this a common business model with a lot of agents as options? Any suggestions?

Ps: Product+package weights 4.3kg. Initial batch for this dropshipping model would be around 200 units only

Thanks for any help!

Do you accept cryptocurrencies payments or transfers ?

whats the currency and whats the exchange rate to usd

very enlightening thread. thank you for sharing!