The team at eCommerce UnderCover wanted to dive deeper into what dropshipping really is. Simply speaking, dropshipping is a method of retail fulfillment in which the seller does not maintain his or her own stock.
Some of the topics we discussed included:
- What is dropshipping and why is it so prevalent?
- Inventory management can be a real challenge for eCommerce sellers
- How the supply chain actually works for sellers that employ drop shipping
- What types of companies are involved and what role do they play
- How dropshipping has evolved and become much more efficient
- The role of payment platforms in dropshipping
- Middlemen never really get eliminated
- If a seller lives in Indonesia, but her company is US-domiciled and her clients are in France, things can get really complicated, really quickly
- How are taxes, returns, and other minutiae handled?
- Why are so many people on YouTube trying to teach eCommerce and dropshipping?
