re: My 15-year-old kid wants to start dropshipping

Let him go for it. at worst he waste his time and learns something, at best he makes some money.

All you need to do is make sure he is not promising something he cant deliver. as long as he is clear on what he is marketing it wont be fraud..

I would say he needs to be cutting grass AND doing this on the side. If he starts making money at it, he quits grass.

Let him go! Support him with positivity and guide him to not make any false claims.

I wish I would have done something other that go straight to work. It wasnt till my mid 30s before I started my first business. I would have done it much sooner, had I known.

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returns and credit card charge backs

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So-called "friendly fraud" is murder on these types of businesses.

Imagine dropshipping a big order, then a month after delivery the payment processor notifies you of a chargeback.

The customer claims to have never received the goods, despite UPS having proof-of-delivery.

Forget trying to fight it - payment card companies accept bogus chargebacks regardless of your documentation.

So now you've lost the funds from your sale, you owe a chargeback penalty, and you still have to pay the supplier for those goods.

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My son has been trying to come up with ways

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Summary "Not do hard labor"

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getting a "real" job at 15 has proven somewhat difficult thus far

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Everybody is hiring right now

Drop Ship is delivery technique by suppliers/distributors when they get an order for something they don't have on the shelf. In my business, I'll order 10 different items from my supplier, but let's say one of the items is out of stock, they ask me if I want to wait on the whole order to be complete or if they can ship me my 9 items and drop-ship the missing item from the supplier/manufacturer. If I need it all together for some reason, I'll wait. If I don't mind having my items piecemealed to me (increased shipping costs) but it's time sensitive, then I'll ask for drop-ship.

It's not a business model. It's an order fulfillment process.

ok...

My son wanted me to lend him money to do this shite too but after researching it found a successful Google merchant on you tube that laid out why it was a scam and you rarely make money doing it

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My 15-year-old kid wants to start dropshipping

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so long as he doesn’t spend any out-of-pocket money on inventory, sure. Get paid first, THEN go buy the item and drop ship it.

I used to drop ship for a living so I'll give you the low down.

Drop shipping is essentially the practice of selling someone else's goods without holding the inventory yourself. As an example: Danner is a great boot manufacturer, but they don't have a great marketing campaign. They may enlist people or companies to market and drop ship their boots.

How to become a dropshipper. One: you need to have a website that can aggressively market the product.Two:you need good credit. Companies that are willing to dropship usually require references. After all, they are taking all the financial risk in stocking and shipping the product. You need to be able to pay them.

Bottom line: you need to be able to market the product at an agreed upon price. Vendors aren't going to give drop shipping privileges to Joe Blow trying to sell the product for $5 above cost.

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