Is WorldwideBrands Any Use??

Having been a lifetime member since 2004, I have established several business relationships with WWB dropship companies. The companies that populate WWB database are all thoroughly researched before being accepted. WWB is a well respected and reputable company.

You must have a legally established business entity with a tax ID to be able to open accounts with any of the dropship companies. They generally require personal, business and financial references and most of the companies require establishing a credit account with them.

My experience with the pricing of the products available are directly influenced by the quantity of items you order. In other words, to get any benefit of wholesale price discounts you have to buy in bulk or large lot quantities.

Many of the larger companies won't consider doing business with you if your annual sales don't meet a certain sales plateau. ie. 200K per year.

There's little chance of competing in price for small or single item sales against larger well established competitors also using WWB dropship fulfillment companies as well as the manufacturers themselves that may be selling directly to the public.

I can say, that WWB is possibly the only dropship company on the internet that adheres to a strict criteria of standards for inclusion in their database. You take a huge financial risk if you attempt to create dropship accounts directly with companies unless you have excellent legal resources to develop legal contracts between the prospect company and yourself.

IMHO, the bottomline is that the competition in the dropship business is fierce. Unless you can move a substantial amount of product to be able to get deep wholesale discounts, it will be a tough road to compete pricewise. One other consideration is that you will be a middleman in the sales process. People are wise to this and will always shop around for better prices. There's no customer loyalty.

On the upside, I know several people that run moderately successful businesses in very targeted microniche markets using this method. If you do your research and can find under or unserved markets that you can match up to dropship suppliers, you can potentially make some money. One of the other benifits of using dropship fulfillment is that you not only pass the customer service headaches off to the supplier, but you might be able to bypass the need to wharehouse product.

Hope this helps.

Rich Mann