Re:Shopify Files Lawsuit over Illegal DMCA Takedown Abuse
by kayodelycaon on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:48AM
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While this is true of people only doing drop shipping, my company does a lot of drop shopping and JIT delivery. We have our own inventory, but we also have contracts with vendors that are not available to consumers.
We are also better equipped to guarantee supply chain integrity and have much better customer service. Getting a warranty on a part can be difficult, but we have dedicated people who work with vendors every day. All the customer has to do is stick a shipping label on box.
Starting the "back in my day rant": In the past, you would actually negotiate with your manufacturers about how many items you would purchase over the year, and that would determine the discount you got on their SRP. You could then mark it up, but for the most part you didn't, and your profit was your discount.
Now days, though, everyone is just plugging directly into AliExpress/Temu/Wish, and marking it up. They are just a lazy low/no-value middle-person between me and cheap knockoffs from China. The "clever" ones are worse, because you might not even realize you are buying a knockoff. The packaging, images, titles, and descriptions will be 1:1 with the real product.