A lot of people are saying that when you sell dropshipping from China, you might have to deal with low-quality products and services. Also that the buyers will not buy from you because of the extended shipping times.
To clarify the above rumors, let’s discuss the pros and cons of product sourcing China.
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1. The Pros of Product Sourcing China
- High Profits:
Chinese suppliers’ strategy is selling products in bulk with low-profit margin. Therefore, the price is low if you and other sellers buy in large quantities and make a much higher profit margin while dropshipping these products.
- Easier to be Unique – Less Competition:
Many dropshipping retailers hesitate to partner with Chinese. Thus, somehow this could be an useful advantage. Finding products with less competition allows you to make higher profit margins on the marketplaces. Not to mention the wide ranges of product categories that they could offer for dropshipping business.
- Worldwide Shipping – not like GSP:
By 2019, Data from eBay.com shows that only 63% of the traffic is coming from the US!
This figure means we have no chance to reach the remaining 37% if we only work with Amazon, Walmart, Homedepot without using the Global Shipping Program. Original goods from China enable international dropshipping. Nearly all of the time when cooperating with Chinese suppliers, we can have economical global shipping choices.
- Chinese Suppliers Support Dropshipping:
As dropshipping is favored by Chinese suppliers. Therefore, they are willing to provide any invoices, contract you request.
2. The Cons of Product Sourcing from China
- Language:
This is not necessarily a Con anymore recently, as most Chinese sellers speak English. Even if they can not, we can still seek help from translation platforms or apps.
- Customer Service:
It is true to admit that Chinese suppliers usually do not offer good customer support.
To find the right suppliers, we need to check the seller’s feedback and the product’s rating to get a feel about their services.
- Slow Shipping Times:
One of the most obvious things we can realize is that dropshipping from China is lengthy most of the time even with the ePacket option. However, there are many shipping methods that can guarantee the delivery time nowadays from CN to US around 5-12 days.
- Complicated Returns:
The returns are a bit more complicated, but when you know how to work with it, it’s effortless.
