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Worldwide brands is a good source for drop shipping, but I found that the best way to find drop shippers is to do the research yourself. The problem with sites like World Wide brands is that everyone has accesses to the same products. Also you are going to find a lot of junk. So lets say you want to sell blinds, search google for blinds. Find the manufacture of a type of blinds, and find contact information. Call them up, try to sound as professional as you can, and let them know you interested in selling their product. Then ask if they are willing to drop ship. Call everyone, and maybe you might get lucky. 

Yes, we agree that finding wholesalers on your own is a good practice. However, what we have found is that many, many companies will not deal with you if you are an online only operation. There seems to be a certain stigma about selling online only.

The nice thing about WorldWide Brands is that 99% of the companies in their directory agree to sell to the online/eBay only seller. So you have a bunch of pre-screened companies there you can deal with without being rejected.

Yes, everyone who has a WorldWide Brands subscription has the same access to these companies, but this  is a much smaller number of people than those that have access to Google.

And there are many, many, many companies listed in WorldWide Brands directory that you won`t have a problem finding a niche that you can do well in.

We gladly drop ship for our web vendors.  (ww.NPSG.com)

The problem with most wholesale operations is that you have an additional mark up in there. If XYZ wholesaling finds a manufacturer of a product, they have to sell it to you, and you have to sell it to the market. Often, you are now either not priced competitively or you are selling what everyone else is selling.

What you want to do is find `proprietary` product. Get it right from teh manufacturer or from a company that offers exclusivity in this country or region.

While it`s true that many firms are not crazy about dealing with web-only accounts, you have to go to them with more than just a whim to sell their products. Show them HOW you will market their products. Why your marketing is effective...or different! What advantage will they have by selling thru you?

If you can show a manufacturer that you can be a viable, effective partner then they would be fools not to sell thru you.

i have used doba. they are okay but everyone on ebay uses them so its really hard to find a product with few competition and good margins.

what kind of product do you want to dropship? i have a list of dropshipper maybe i can help you out

My question is, how to you make a decent profit from drop shipping?  Maybe I am too new at this to understand but I currently have two vendors that I drop ship with (the other two I buy at wholesale).  I get torn to pieces when a customer orders from the two different drop ship vendors or from me and one of the drop ship vendors with shipping costs.  

very very tough.....key is to be physically close to your source and to ensure your source provides the product at the very lowest cost possible....more end up losing than winning in the drop shipping game

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Hi, from puerto rico what is a drop shipping business. how start?