How to Get Started with Instant Consumer Electronics Drop Shipping

Written by Strand Davis Saturday, 28 May 2011 04:03

How do you launch a fully functional website selling consumer electronics is the shortest possible time? That's the question. There are two basic approaches the newcomer to online ecommerce can use. There are really many options, but there are two that are readily available. First, you can use a warehouse drop shipping company. Second, and more work intensive, you can work with a true wholesale electronics firm who extends drop shipping services to its customers.

How do you launch a fully functional website selling consumer electronics is the shortest possible time? That's the question. There are two basic approaches the newcomer to online ecommerce can use. There are really many options, but there are two that are readily available. First, you can use a warehouse drop shipping company. Second, and more work intensive, you can work with a true wholesale electronics firm who extends drop shipping services to its customers.

Probably the fastest way to pop an electronics site onto the net is to simply set up an account with a drop ship aggregator who offers an instant storefront that is preloaded with a wide variety of items. Now, I'm not recommending that you necessarily do this. I'm just saying that it's an option for you. It does solve a lot of the back-end logistics for you in the way of order taking, accounting, inventory, and shipping and handling, but you still have to promote and otherwise manage your business.

A Warehouse dropshipper is usually a retail company whose business is providing discounted goods to other resellers. They often do this through selling preloaded and designed ecommerce sites. Normally, they stock or arrange access to all inventory, and many of these companies have access to literally thousands of products, all of which they make available through the sort of instant storefront shopping cart they make available. Generally this involves a recurring monthly or yearly membership fee depending on the level of service you require. The drop ship aggregator usually handles all shipping and handling, all accounting and book-keeping, and the collection of sales taxes. Thus, you would not need to worry about have a sales tax permit because the company would collect and remit all such taxes.

The 5 businesses listed beneath are all legitimate decline ship firms with fairly high identify recognition to the World wide web: (1) Megagoods (2) Doba (3)Dropshipdesign (4) Shopster (5) Dropshipdirect (6) Ezdropship (7) Inventorysource. This is only a sampling of the kinds of businesses available to you. The examples I've listed each offer a slightly different set of services, but each would allow you to put up a storefront on the Internet the same day as you sign up, depending on your needs.

Do a search on Google for any of the above or put ".com" at the end of each name and the listing will pop up in Google. Be sure to read the site information and terms of service carefully so that you understand the agreements. Some of the sites mentioned, such Megagoods, are true wholesalers. Inventory Source is actually a sort of broker arranging dropshipping with a number of true wholesalers.

The second way to go into business--not as fast as the first but workable--is to contact a legitimate wholesale electronics distributor and set-up an account. The example I have in mind is WYNIT because they also offer drop shipping at no extra cost other than the price of shipping. This is not intended to be a recommendation. I'm using WYNIT as an example because I have used them for eBay auctions both for drop shipping and stocking my own inventory. They were entirely professional and treated me with the same respect given to their large, retail customers. WYNIT also happens to be one of the largest wholesale distributors of consumer electronics in the United States, and if you take the time communicate with them on a professional level will probably be happy to help you set up an account.

Once set-up with an account, WYNIT will offer you online access to ordering and will ship inventory either directly to you or drop ship under your business name at your instruction. You can expect to have a personal sales representative to help you along. Keep in mind that WYNIT, as are many other electronics wholesalers, is only in the business of wholesaling and will not help you with site set up and maintenance. WYNIT can provide you with a product data feed on your request, but it will otherwise be up to you manage the technical aspects of your site as well as the business back end.