Anything between importing and dropshipping?
I was wondering,
If you take the two sides of the e-commerce spectrum, you have:
1) Importing - Buying B2B, get the stock to your directly to your own warehouse, then sell it\pack it\ship it yourself to the end customer.
2)Dropshipping - The other end of the spectrum. No need to hold the physical stock, No need to ship it\process it yourself, all done by your dropshipper. And the most important part, you don't need to order a certain quantity, as you just send him your orders one by one.
Now, i was wandering, is there something between those two?
I have a new small Ebay store, in which i sold a couple of dozens of products through some dropshipper, but the margins are quite low and i want to progress further and improve my services and my store.
Problem is, that currently B2B won't be exactly suitable for me because i can't buy large quantities yet.
Is there a way to say, buy 10 pieces of a certain product from a supplier from china, then send it to some middleman who will do the dropshipping for me?
Is there any other model for people like me who want to extend their margins but still not eligble for a full on B2B?
Thanks,
Erez
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