when doing drop shipping do you have to create your own website or do they do it for you?

[mariah]

Im getting ready to create a online store and i wanted to weight out my options and see what i would like to do. I do want to create my own online site but which would be better.

Would it be profitable doing it through a drop shipping option or buying upfront and shipping out myself???

please serious replies and please make sure your clear with your replies.

thank you.

[Jonah]

Drop shipping is best from a manufacturer - not a distributor. Holding inventory is usually the worst idea unless the product margins are really good and it is necessary. Most likely you will find a distributor that will drop ship for you as manufacturers harder to find to do that for you.

[186]

If you are planning to do drop shipping then you will need to build and market the products, you are moving the logistics of stock and delivery to another company. Obviously the drop shipper is going to be taking some of your potential profit away, but unless you have large amount of money to use upfront to buy quantities of stock for the products you are going to sell and a warehouse to store them in this may be the better option.

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