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What Is the Cheapest Shipping Option From China for Drop Shipping

I get a lot of query like “what is the cheapest shipping method from China to US/Worldwide?”. There you go, the cheapest shipping service - Unregistered China post ordinary small packet. Why ‘unregistered’? Because China post ordinary mail has 16RMB($2.6) for register fee, adding $2.6 is close to epacket, which charge a little bit more. You can refer to my article for epacket fee table. The charge of China post ordinary small packet = epacket - $2.

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1 Post Answer All Question About Shipping From China

It’s likely that the majority of the products which you’ll be drop shipping are sourced from China or Hong Kong. And long shipping time been a problem the whole time for dropshippers. As a drop shipping agent, I will tell everything you need to know about shipping worldwide from China. List the common options of international shipment service in China. International logistics: UPS,DHL,FedEx,TNT Pros: Basically cover countries all over the world, shipping time 3-7 days, with official tracking.

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Three Alternatives to AliExpress

AliEepress is commonly used as product source for drop-shipping. While market changing rapidly and so does your business model. Are you still got complaints about its slow delivery time? Is your price competitive? Let’s find out are any better alternatives than AliExpress. The article will introduce 3 alternatives to AliExpress. What service you adopt reviews your status on the drop-shipping business. There are three alternatives to AliExpress for drop-shipping. AliExpress is a great tool to get started with drop-shipping and to get a feel for the business model.

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Shocking Fact About 1688

What is 1688? Simply put, China domestic version of Alibaba. It is a wholesale B2B e-commerce platform belong to e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. Alibaba is facing the international market, 1688 working on domestic market connect factories, manufacturers, suppliers to enterprises. What drop shippers should know? Most of Alibaba seller is the middle man who gets their supplier from 1688. So if you buy from 1688, you may have more profit margin.

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Amazon cost analysis

Dropshippers, before scaling any product might have potential, the first thing you need to is figure out product cost. In most case, sell price should be at least Besides product cost, the price have to cover profit margin, online traffic, international shipping and whatnot. Let’s do a price research. I’ll randomly pickup a product at Amazon as below. 16$ for 3 pack, lets find out product cost from 1688 supplier. Cost as below table:

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Why long shipping time from China

China is a big country, take days for domestic shipping if factory locates far from the border shipping center. Factory tend to manage bulk order over small retail order, small number need to wait to next batch. No storage. Factory hate storage as much as you. Nobody wants cashflow to be taken by storage. So some factories will manufacture after get order. Holiday.

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