Inventorysource.com?

Thanks for your input, and yes it sounds exactly right that i should try to source local businesses and try to sell their wares, if they would dropship/post on.

Reason i am considering them is the ease they sort of offer. And i hear that even with 20-30 people listing the same products, it still is feasable to get the odd sale here and there. I am considering amazon and playing the numbers game...even with a 1-2% conversion...if i listed say 2000 products, then it may be a 50-100 per day profit so still well worth the consideration.

Any thoughts on this idea of a strategy?

Hi all, I am new here,so this is my first post. (Looks like cool people,and a cool site so far). I have been looking at getting an online ecommerce store again. I had one about 3-4 years ago,my own site,and alot of selling on Ebay. The traffic to the site was slow. I didnt know as much about SEO, BACKLINKING,DEEDICATED IP's, PROMOTING THE SITE,etc. But I still managed to sell some stuff here and there. But the work was long and hard and took hours a day,not to mention I had a full time job. I soon realized it was way too much work for the little bit of sales. I decided to close the store and just kept my Ebay & Ecrater stores open. Again,same problem,time consuming. Ebay had lots of traffic and name recognition,but high fees,and it was around the time thatthey changed all their policies to sort of run the small guys out of town,like myself. Ecrater was great in that it was free,but nowhere near the traffic of Ebay. The problem with all of the above, was that many times I would sell things,and then order them from my dropshipper,only to find out they were out of stock. That happened more than a few times, and of course i would have to refund customers,apologize,etc, but it still got me bad feedback. I finally had enough,and closed up everything altogether.

In the past few months, I have been thinking about starting back up again,just to make a few extra bucks eaach months. When I say a few,I mean as in $3,$4,$500 in profit,only as a side job. The same thing holds true,I cant,nor do I want to,spend hours a day trying to sell products that may wind up being out of stock. Luckily,I read an article about some of these 'pre-loaded' stores. The goal of alot less hours,along with updated live product inventory thats in stock was a pro. The fact that alot of people said these sites do not work,was a con.

I did alot of research into a few sites,including netdepot/depotnet (always mix it up),and Inventorysource,shoppingkart,etc.

Seems like the most common complaint from people is that these sites dont work because they are 'cookie cutter' sites,with hundreds of other people like you with the same site and same products,and that this was bad for search engine recognition and sales. Another complaint I read was that people say many of the products did not have a good profit center.

After much deliberating,reading,and asking other people,I have decided to go with Inventorysource for a few reasons,and I want opinions from people here to see if my reasons make sense.

First, regarding the suppliers,and profit of the products,some of the inventorysource dropship suppliers were suppliers that I have worked with before,and I DID make pretty good profits sometimes when I did make sales. I like the idea of the live automation,live inventory,etc,so that I am not selling out of stock. Plus their prices are somewhat reasonable, and they actually have phone support which i didnt see with any others.

Regarding the 'cookie cutter' site problems of not ranking in the search engines,and getting traffic,etc, I think inventorysource may be a little less cookie cutter than some of the others. For example,many of these pre-loaded sites include CART,KART,DEPOTNET,etc in the domain name. I think that's a killer,and that anybody using these sites may want to use their own domain(like I plan to do). Plus, when you get a pre-loaded,pre-packaged site, you are getting exactly the same thing as dozens,or hundreds,of other sites. I am using my own site,and setting it up myself. Of course,much of the products and contents I have in my site will be the same as many others, I think thru a strong marketing campaign,backlinks,good SEO optimization, etc, I may be able to overcome much of the cookie cutter aspects.

Again,I have a full time job,and merely want to make some extra money, maybe an extra $500 a month profit. Does anybody think this is realistic based on what I presented above? The way I see it,if I give it 6 months,and lay out a couple hundred bucks a month,and lose it all,at the end of 6 months,I lose it,then it's not that much of a loss in my opinion as far as a business goes. I plan to really try and promote the site, do some SEO enhancements, backlinks, etc. I will be selling electronics,cables,stuff like that,which I understand willbe pretty competitive,but the profit margin is better too. I always have the option to move into more of a niche market.

So,again, does anybody think that it's possible I can turn a $500 profit each month realitically thru inventorysource? Hey,if it takes off and does even better,that's fine too. I would like to hear from people, especially people that have used inventorysource,thanks in advance