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Re:The weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping by hackeraccount on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:30PM (#23045060)
I'm not interested in this but ... if they had to pay millions in back taxes, something must have been going right, right?
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Re:The weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping by labawi on Saturday May 02, 2020 @05:03AM (#23050449)
Sales tax, not profit (% of value, not margin). Their real margins could have been negative - it's easy to undercut competition if you're selling at a loss.

They could have 'earned' hundreds of thousands, only to owe millions.

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Re:The weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping by borisyankov on Saturday May 02, 2020 @10:51AM (#23052099)
Id they had to pay 3mils on sales that ended up being 2mils of profit, they were still losing money.
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