Drop shipping is a great idea on paper. It fails miserably in practice. One of my stores is 100% drop shipping and here are my reflections on how things have progressed over the years...

1. If you can open a drop shipping ecommerce business so can 10 million other people. And they will. Many of them won't care about markup either. The barrier of entry in this model is just too damn low. You'll soon find your competing a what are essentially not-for-profit businesses.

One of the biggest customer complaints we're seeing on our stores are fund holds due to failed AVS checks. Here's what happens:

1. A customer visits your store and attempts to make a purchase. The customer enters an address that does not match the billing address for the card. This fails address verification system (AVS) that most merchants use to detect and prevent fraud. The order doesn't progress past the store's payment gateway and does not turn into a sale.

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Customer expectations need to properly grounded. If a customer has false expectations and they are not adjusted or met, you’ll have an angry customer even though it completely unwarranted . Shipping is clearly the first area where customer expectations need to be grounded in reality.

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