Dropshipping Health & Beauty products

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Is creating a store and then sourcing products to be dropshipped by making arrangements with various health and beauty suppliers, a good idea?

My plan is to create a store (the easy part) and then sourcing various dropshippers (time intensive part) and listing the products. Obviously, when a order comes in, I email the dropshipper, who then sends out the product.

I will mention near the bottom of the site that all the products are dropshipped so we carry no responsibility for defective products or any other problem that may arise as we don't store the products ourselves and only resell for our partner suppliers. This will be like 'small print' near the bottom of the site.

From all I've read, dropshippising is quite widely done in many sectors, but health sector obvious brings with it certain extra responsibilities. Is it safe to go into dropshipping health products?

Before you ask how I will drive traffic to the site; well, it will be a combination branding the store on the health blog in the sidebar, work to get some traffic via search engines by using well SEO'ed product descriptions for each of the product listed and doing some link building work, article marketing, and relevant health blog/forum marketing, and finally, through some cheap (hopefully) ppc campaigns.

Clickbank, affiliate and dropship stores will be my aim to generate revenues from my site as I want to become less dependent on Adsense which heavily relies on search traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author aliveder
    My biggest worry for you is that fine print. People WILL blame you, and will come back to you if their product is damaged. They will leave poor feedback for you, because they find you responsible.

    Put yourself in the consumers shoes, when you see words like that and dropshipper (some people dont know what that means even) they get a bit nervous and turned off.

    I do not even buy items on amazon that are not shipped from their warehouses, as I do not want to have problems as I have before.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy777
    There's nothing wrong with using dropshippers and you don't have to tell your customers about this - that's what's dropshipping is all about! Dropshippers send out packages as they would come from you, meaning customer never even finds out that goods are being dispatched by another company.

    It's a very popular model in the US, especially in health niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author ProPowerSEO
      We have a couple of clients that use the following as they have a huge range: healthstoresdirectshipping.com

      I think where your problem would come into play is:
      If you use different drop shippers, then a customer may order 2 items from you, and you could have to pay 2 x shipping where as the customer has only paid you once for shipping. The only solution is to build your shipping cost into the product prices but this makes your products look expensive. Hope this has been of some help.
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanGillam
    If you sell a product and then take the money it is YOUR responsibility to deal with any issues. Dropshipping is pretty much the same as ordering from a manufacturer. You wouldn't pass the buck to the manufacturer if something went wrong right?

    You are opening yourself up to potential liability doing this.
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