Also no active social media ,still having sessions and sales ,is this normal ???

I work on sourcing, quality checks, and fulfillment in China. Part of my job is figuring out whether “in stock” means ready to ship or ready to become a group chat discussion.

Questions about suppliers, shipping quotes, product quality, or working with an agent? Ask away. I’ll tell you what I can verify, what depends, and what nobody should be promising you.

Hi there, I’m looking for a Chinese private agent, any suggestions? I have one but probably he is the worst private agent in the universe 🪐🌎

When I first started ecommerce, I honestly had no clue what I was doing. I wasted money testing products that went nowhere, spent way too much time watching YouTube videos, and constantly questioned whether this business model even worked. Fast forward to now, and seeing a day like this still feels a little unreal and it almost makes me fucking cry.

£12,516 in sales and 300 orders in one day.
Obviously, revenue isn’t profit, and one good day doesn’t mean you’ve figured everything out. There’s still plenty I’m working on.

But if you’re at the stage where you’re struggling to get consistent sales, don’t automatically assume you’re not cut out for this.

I’m curious how long have you guys been running your stores, and what’s been your biggest struggle so far? I’d love to help.

A little about what we do: We help dropshipping sellers with product sourcing, supplier communication, quality control, warehousing, order fulfillment, international shipping, and custom branding.

We work behind the scenes of ecommerce businesses and see the challenges sellers face with suppliers, product quality, and shipping.

This is a genuine help post. Nothing to sell.

If you have questions about sourcing products from China, working with a private agent, shipping, or fulfillment, feel free to ask.

Ask me anything! 📦

Hey everyone,

This year I ran Meta tests for a US-market brand end to end: creative, testing and the store pages. The ads didn’t sell, but the data showed exactly why. The creative was pulling the wrong age group. I wrote it all up as a case study, mistakes included.

I ran out of budget before I could test the next round, so now I want to do this on real accounts.

I make direct response ad creatives- statics, native image ads, carousels and AI video ads (animated motion design using claude, can do VSLs with kling and seedance too), each built around a different desire or angle.

I’m early in my career and looking for brands or agencies to work with. Freelance or remote, any time zone, happy to start on a base rate with pay going up as the creative performs.

DM me for my portfolio.

Ideally looking for sites that can ship quickly to the UK and USA. Thanks

Hi everyone,I'm a local based in Guangzhou, China. I've started a sourcing business here, basically it is exporting goods from China, mainly because there is a wide range of products available here, probably with more competitive prices.
I want to test whether my shipping channel works well for shipping goods to other conutries, so this is where I need some help.
For more details of the process, I will send you a small gift—a trinket toy(picture at below), and when you receive the products, please
1.Let me know and I will cacluate the time cost
2.Check whether the package is broken
3.Tell me what you think about the products
4.Finally, transfer 0.1 USD to my Paypal account and I will make sure that I can receive money from your country (Optional)

I need one person from the European Union and one person from the United States currently. If you're interested, please DM me.

For those of you running COD, I've been thinking about how the most expensive order is often one that never should have shipped. You pay for the product, the outbound shipping, often the return shipping, and the ad spend that brought the order in, and you get nothing back.

So I'm curious where people draw the line before handing an order to the courier. Some signals I've seen people mention:

• Phone number that doesn't connect, or that nobody answers after a couple of tries
• Incomplete or vague address (no house number, just an area name)
• Same phone or address showing up on several orders in a short time
• A customer who refused delivery on a previous order
• Unusually large quantities on a first order
• Orders placed at odd hours from regions where you've had high RTO before

What I can't decide is how strict to be. Cancel too aggressively and you lose real buyers who just didn't pick up the phone. Ship everything and your RTO eats the margin.

A few questions for anyone who's dialled this in:

1. Do you have hard rules (for example "no confirmation, no shipping"), or is it case by case?
2. Which single signal has been the most reliable predictor of a refused order for you?
3. For borderline orders, do you ask for a small advance, or just ship and hope?

Would be good to hear what's actually worked rather than theory.

LWhen testing a new product, I never know how much time I should spend on the creatives before I even know whether the product has potential. Making several versions of an ad takes time, but running just one creative doesn't always tell me much about what customers respond to.

I've started looking into ways to get more variations from a small set of product images and clips, rather than rebuilding everything from scratch for each test.

Curious how other dropshippers handle this. Do you make multiple creatives upfront, test one angle first, or wait for early results before investing more time into the content?

I just wanted to wish everyone good luck! Don't be afraid to scale through the roof and make some money!

Q4 is dropshipping on easy mode

If you are thinking of buying from DeoDap, read this first.

DeoDap is currently using unstated, arbitrary refund caps to withhold legally owed money from customers after sending damaged or incorrect inventory. When caught, their customer support team hides behind automated loops and refuses to process refunds.

Here is how DeoDap operates, based on my real experience:

• The Incident: I placed Order #262837297 and received damaged/wrong items worth ₹465.
• The Partial Refund Discrepancy: DeoDap forcefully closed ticket EM-21262 after refunding just ₹118, keeping ₹347 of my money.
• The Excuses: When challenged, support reps (Employee Codes 7575, 7626, and 7620) copy-pasted the exact same canned reply claiming the "maximum refund amount eligible under our applicable policy has already been provided".
• The Trap: This "maximum refund limit" is completely unstated and appears nowhere during checkout—they simply invent it post-purchase to deny customer refunds.

Official Legal Action Taken:

Because DeoDap's support operates on automated refusals, I have officially escalated this unfair online trade practice to government authorities:

• National Consumer Helpline (NCH) Grievance: 10421700
• National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal Acknowledgement: 23410260026588

All communication logs, order details, and proof of their refusal to refund damaged goods have been submitted as evidence.

To the DeoDap Management & Legal Team:

If you monitor Reddit and care about your brand's public reputation, stop hiding behind canned responses (Sefali Bagrthariya, Makwana Dharmishta, Jay Vadariya & team). Immediately process the pending balance of ₹347 back to my original payment source.

To fellow buyers: Check your refund breakdown carefully!!!!! DeoDap might be withholding your money under the exact same unstated "max refund limit." Has anyone else taken legal action against them for this?

I think one of the better uses for AI in ecommerce is connecting it directly to the tools you're already using.
With MCP you can pull information from your store, check orders, look at sales data or get shipping details without having to open five different dashboards. It's not really about having AI run your entire business, just making everyday tasks less annoying. Especially when you're managing a store by yourself and don't wanna spend half your day checking things manually.

I did drop shipping before Covid and sold my business.

Want to get back in. What’s the best resources to get started?

Not sure if I’m allowed to ask, anyone I can pay here by the hour if I need help or advice?

I recently launched my Shopify dropshipping store and was excited to get my first sale. But since then, I haven't been able to get another order.
I'm trying to figure out what I might be doing wrong instead of randomly changing things and hoping for the best.

For those of you who have been through this stage, I'd love to hear your experience:

1. When you got your first sale, what helped you turn it into consistent orders?

2. What do you think matters most for a new dropshipping store: product selection, store design, pricing, shipping times, or something else?

3. If you were starting over today, what would you focus on first?

I'm not expecting a magic formula, and I know results take time.Even one practical lesson or mistake to avoid would be really helpful. Thanks!

Buongiorno,

vorrei aprire uno store di dropshipping su Shopify per vendere principalmente set di costruzione, come CADA, MouldKing in Italia.
Ho trovato i set su Alibaba ma la spedizione è lentissima e costa 30 USD, cancellando tutto il margine.
Esistono degli agenti che mi possano gestire la spedizione direttamente al cliente anche di un solo set alla volta a prezzi molto più contenuti?

Grazie a tutti

it called blue ocean program by a creator called tobi runs ads. supposed to teach google ads which is supposedly a lot easier than meta.

Hi! Does anyone have reliable Chinese suppliers for 1:1 quality designer perfumes, clothing, handbags, etc ? Looking for good quality at cheap prices. Please share your trusted contacts. Thanks!

Im looking for new suppliers to help with a store im looking to build, Anybody able to point me in the right direction?

After a couple of months of testing, strategizing, restrategizing and honestly trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, I finally got my first orders on my new store.

Spent around $35 on ads and woke up to these notifications.

It's probably not a huge result to some people but after spending so much time trying to make things work, seeing those orders come through hits different.

I'm still learning and I know getting a couple of sales doesn't mean I have figured everything out yet. Now the goal is to understand what worked and see if I can repeat it consistently.

For anyone who's been trying for weeks or months without seeing results, keep learning and testing. I'm still at the beginning but this little win gave me a lot more motivation to keep going.

For those who've been doing this for a while what did you focus on after getting your first few sales?

Hey everyone, I’m based in New York and getting ready to start selling online. I’m planning to test a few channels: a Shopify store (maybe dropshipping at first), Amazon FBA, and TikTok Shop.

From what I understand so far:

• I need a NY Certificate of Authority before selling
• Amazon and TikTok Shop collect and pay sales tax for me as marketplace facilitators
• On Shopify, I’m responsible for collecting and filing myself

For those of you selling on more than one channel, how do you actually handle it?

1. Do you still need to report marketplace sales (Amazon/TikTok) on your NY sales tax return, even though they already paid the tax?
2. For dropshipping, does your supplier ever charge you sales tax, and how do you deal with resale certificates?
3. Does Amazon storing inventory in warehouses in other states create obligations for you beyond NY?
4. Do you use Shopify Tax, TaxJar, Avalara, or just do it yourself?
5. Anything you wish you knew before starting?

Not looking for official advice (I’ll talk to an accountant too), just want to hear how real sellers manage this day to day. Thanks!

So I just found out about Anthony camacho skool community for 199$ a month, Ive been trying this ecom thing for 3 months as a complete beginner on my own, now I know the basics but I lost about $400 which isnt much but I don’t wanna keep losing just like that with no progress.

Any recommendations for this?

I was doing a product test and for the first two days every single one of my metrics on the ad campaign were phenomenal. For context this was on Meta/ using shopify. Incredibly low CPC, lots of impressions, super high ATC rate and checkout initiations. But I was getting zero sales. Customers kept abandoning the site in the middle of checkouts, many even partially entered info before leaving. I tested the checkout myself then refunded my own order so I know it’s not because the payment processing is broken or anything. Im a little puzzled here so I was wondering if anyone else has dealt with this issue before? And if it points to a problem with the ads, the website, product itself or my offer. So far I have revamped my campaign a bit, before it was apparently prioritizing checkouts and not sales as well as targeting too old of an age group. I also fixed a few minor issues with the website but unsure if these two changes will fix this.