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What products to buy drop shipping from China China buying service

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It is a trend that not only big buyers, but small buyers(such as retailers, ebay sellers, small businesses owners) are starting to directly buy for Chinese factories. The benefit of drop shipping is that you don’t have to keep inventory, you don’t have to rent warehouses, you don’t even need to have stores, you find the right suppliers to get good products at good price, advertise and sell the goods to the buyers in your country, have the Chinese supplier to drop ship the products directly to your buyers, and earn decent profit.

Last year, an Toronto based ebay seller comes to us, ask if we can help him to buy sanitary from China. We accompanied him to visit Canton fair and another industrial trade show in Shanghai, got in contact with hundreds of quality factories, he bought from 3 to 4 suppliers in different regions in China, we consolidate all the goods into a 40’ container, the container would then be shipped to a warehouse in Los Angeles, and from there to be distributed across North America. He starts from sanitary and range hood, for now, he bought more than 20 kitchen and sanitary products.

To copy the success of drop from china business of someone else, one question you have to address is that what products you can dropship from china(or are suitable to be drop shipped from china), where to get the product ideas?

What items are suitable for drop shipping?

Generally, products that have high value and light weight are ideal for dropshipping, for small quantity dropshipping business, international shipping fee accounts for big proportion of cost. So you can’t buy 10 ordinary chairs from china, if the price for one chair is 15USD, large quantity importer can dilute the shipping cost to 2 to 4USD per unit, for drop shipping, if you ship 10 chairs by air(you can’t use ocean shipping as your clients won’t wait 40 to 50 days to receive their products), the shipping fee might takes 20 to 30USD, so it will leave no profit room for you.

Where you can get the product ideas?

You could make a research to identify top dropshipper list in China, the list will definitely include dhgate.com, lightinthebox.com, andchinavasion.com.

If you go to dhgate homepage, you can find wedding dresses, cosmetics & perfume, electronics, fashion products are popular.

If you go to lightinthebox, popular items are similar, but you can get some new products ideas, such as faucets(sanitary products), car electronics, toys & hobbies, wigs, or even royal wedding gown and rings.

Chinavasion specializes in electronics, you will find what electronics products are popular, what products they promote on most of their web pages, then those products must be hot.

Similary, you could go to auction site like ebay.com and amazon.com to get products ideas.

What items you would recommend to drop ship from china?