A couple questions about ecommerce

[Twiizlar]

Just for example say i was selling lolipops

1. Is it possible to drop ship ecommerce? Would i contact different "lolipop" manufacturers and ask them to drop ship? There are many different types of lolipops so that would be a lot of manufacturers.

2. If i was able to dropship lolipops, how would i go about packaging. If it is from china the package will come in dhl, so it will not look high quality.

Thanks

 

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[McCoyH]

If you're going to do eCommerce with anything from China I HIGHLY recommend you purchase the items yourself and repackage them. Not only with the packaging make it apparent that it was drop shipped from China, but it will take much longer for the package to arrive to the customer, which will cause some big problems.

If you're just getting into eCommerce drop shipping isn't bad, but bringing in your own generic product, branding and relabeling it will not only generate much higher revenue, but it will build you a BRAND and you won't be competing for peanuts against other retailers selling the exact same thing.

Hope this helps!

 

[Twiizlar]

Well this isnt really a brandable item. I just am short on time and would much rather have things drop ship. I can ship anything to my current address and like i said im short on time

 

[McCoyH]

Have you started ordering? If you're ordering from China it's going to take a while regardless which isn't going to help your short on time situation...

 

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[Twiizlar]

I just made the basic skeleton of the website. Now i have one problem. I am using the default shopify theme and when i click on catalog it list all the products. Is there a way to list my categories of items with pictures? I dont want to list them all at random