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>>2043798 (OP)
All fun and games until someone makes a lawsuit against you. You can then decide to pay the huge fine and go out of business (with your name blacklisted), or you can try to fight it in court and spend $50K on lawyers each month before the trial.
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>>2043945
Copyright would be the least of your concern. Not sure what country you're from, but in the EU you can be sure that if it's found out that a company defrauds customers and uses false marketing, there will be a huge fine and perhaps even prison time. Europol and Interpol will make sure you can't hide from that.
On AliExpress it says the necklace is made of nickel, which can cause strong allergic reactions on skin contact, and by hiding this information, you're risking the public health.
But please, go ahead :)
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>>2043798 (OP)
Forgive me padre for these gain$ I am about to receive.
Thanks OP, I will personally make sure to outsource every feminatzi on Etsy and offer lowest prices ;)
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>>2043798 (OP)
Anchoring explained for noobs. Pay up 360 reviews. Sell item for 0.36. Some hopeful ends up having it all. Make money. Hopeful goes to sell it for 34 bucks and happens to sell two or three. Rince and repeat.
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>>2044068
>for China?
try israel, faget
also, good job op
making that money
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>TFW fell for dropshipping meme
>www.fatale.store
>Target women in 20s because they spend the most money online
>Sell jewelry from China
>Sell things and talk about how this stone activates this chakra or that chakra
>Appeal to emotion and talk about how I will donate 10% of profits to World Wildlife Fund
>Drop down money for SSL certificate and website security
>Make IG and post products there
>$200 and many hours later still no profit
Fuck this bullshit I'm just gonna study my accounting material. Don't fall for the dropship meme guys.
My fucking face when.
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>>2044415
>this chakra or that chakra
>profits to World Wildlife Fund
>money for SSL certificate
>Make IG and post products
you made a lot of simple mistakes
this is where successful people learn and adjust
but yeah, maybe you were meant to be a wagie
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>>2044453
Also forget about the SSL. Use paypal merchant services and its all done on paypal site. You have to pay merchant services fees one way or the other, might as well get some extra features. Also, they have a great capital lending program if you start making sales.
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>>2044453
tbf faget, you got pretty far. i have no idea what made you spend $200 on ssl, but whatever.
now you just gotta keep working at it.
take that retarded tiger off the page and get rid of stupid shit like 10% goes to niggers or whatever
make the site more appealing to women, honestly you're about halfway there. you should be happy
the name, url etc are all shit, change it
look at succesful websites in your market and copy what they do
once you get that far, find something that sets you apart from your competition
post results back here and get another beating from your bros
in otherwords if you give up now youre a fucking poof (pic related its you)
good luck anon, im rooting for you
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>>2044567
reach out to the manufacturer or seller and buy more than one at a time and then either fulfill yourself, or use a fulfillment system. That is more of import arbitrage at that point than drop shipping, but it gets around the shipping time, and you can also wholesale some to your country to pad the numbers. I did it with vape stuff a few years back and it was an easy 30k in profit over a year.
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>>2043798 (OP)
Fun fact: Considering the reviews aren't botted or paid-for, the usual "advanced participation rate" such as giving feedback, rating an item, sharing it on social media, liking it, etc - is usually about 2-3% for 90% of the software you can think of. It somehow manages to be consistent around 2% for pretty much everything - amazon, youtube comments/likes, social media button clicks, etc.
So considering that, 2-3% of the total purchases would be "advanced participation" into the item via rating, which means that the actual purchases are about 50 times more than the review count, or 25k with a margin of error about +/- 2k. Now that it's obvious that 25k didn't buy this shit we can then reach the conclusion that the reviews of this pic are faked.
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>>2044882
They deal in volume.. same reason an international drug dealer couldn't be fucked to stand on the corner selling smaller amounts. Sure in theory you will make more money per sale but all the extra legwork makes it hardly worth it after a certain point
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>>2044882
Advertising, dropshipping sounds easy but the truth is that you need to get customers who don't know the cost of the good buying the good at your shop for your margins.
If you don't have the traffic then you're fucked. It's not the business the alibaba types are in, they are the ones selling the products to sell so that when you have 300 necklaces that you can't sell for 800%+ profit they still have your money.
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>>2044947
it could be a great idea if
>you don't mind building slowly over time
>you know tricks on how to grow rapidly
>you already have a huge, loyal fanbase
>you can get your product on an IG celeb
otherwise there are better ways to spend your time.
that said, if my product had a high enough profit margin I'd consider advertising on IG.
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>>2043798 (OP)
assholes like you are the ones who shit up Etsy
you can make $$$ just by thrifting if you're such a jew.
t. have my own Etsy store from thrift and have made back most of my starting investment of $150
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>>2044886
Newbie, anchoring: My friend, this belt costs 25 dollars but just for you I sell it for 20. Or. Would you buy a good that costs 10 dollars or a good that was 10 dollars but now its 7.99? Psychological trick.
Now what happens here is following. Have a cheap MC=marginal cost product. Want to sell it? Make a sale offer on another website. Hire two guys in asia for few bucks, normally students. They will do review of the offer or offers as so they bought it. They do it all year around with different fake reviews for many products.
Now fastforward: OP sees both products. Thinks he gonna make 8000% profit. Buys a bundle of cheap ones. Sells only few. They guy who had his product cheap geta cash and is never seen again. Rinse and repeat. The target here is not customer but profit fagg aka easylifedumblife.jpg kind of people. If some customer wishes to buy that for the price it will do but this works mainly for dumping it through 8000% profit seekers.
>Because such a bargain cant possibly be lost.
Aint it newbie?
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>>2049545
Newbie, anchoring: My friend, this belt costs 25 dollars but just for you I sell it for 20. Or. Would you buy a good that costs 10 dollars or a good that was 10 dollars but now its 7.99? Psychological trick.
Now what happens here is following. Have a cheap MC=marginal cost product. Want to sell it? Make a sale offer on another website. Hire two guys in asia for few bucks, normally students. They will do review of the offer or offers as so they bought it. They do it all year around with different fake reviews for many products.
Now fastforward: OP sees both products. Thinks he gonna make 8000% profit. Buys a bundle of cheap ones. Sells only few. They guy who had his product cheap geta cash and is never seen again. Rinse and repeat. The target here is not customer but profit fagg aka easylifedumblife.jpg kind of people. If some customer wishes to buy that for the price it will do but this works mainly for dumping it through 8000% profit seekers.
>Because such a bargain cant possibly be lost.
Aint it newbie?
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>>2049606
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>Step 1: be good at finding cool vintage items or ironic/wacky thrift finds
I've thrifted for 10 years so I'm pretty good at it. You can legit find cool stuff without hocking cheapass shit. At the very least you can find stuff like D.A.R.E. shirts that hipsters will buy or shirts that have nostalgia/irony value like pic related.
>Step 2: get these items as cheaply as you can. This means a lot of legwork. Funny enough, thrifting is usually cheaper than trying to find cheap clothing
I worked at Salvation Army for half a summer, which meant that I could exploit when things were on sale and set aside clothing for later. That meant that on average, I bought a tshirt for 50 cents (The most I spent on anything was $10, but I did so buying a Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket.) With what I had already, I spent $150 that summer.
With a thrift/vintage store, you need to find somewhere where they don't price accurately if you want to avoid breaking the bank on starting capital. So avoid Goodwill/Plato's Closet/consignment in favor of local thrift stores/charity shops. It will take time to find good stuff, and the more there is and the cheaper the better.
>Step 3: make a vintage store and sell items comparable to retail price but still with comparatively astronomical markup
Those 50 cent shirts? I'm selling those for $10 at least. Research what you buy, though. You can certainly get away with more if you find some diamonds in the rough.
Just DON'T try and ask for more than a reasonable retail price or nobody will buy your shit if there's nothing special about it. If you spent too much money on it then you were doing it wrong. You're aiming for consumer-friendly prices that still turn a profit.
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>>2049796
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>Step 4: do low-key social media stuff to spread word about it, possibly including the (legitimate) benefits of reselling/recycling that are hipster-friendly. Come up with a catchy name and some kind of logo
At least try to be sincere about it. If you don't want to be sincere be careless on purpose and spout normie memes. If you're stumped on how to market yourself just click around and look at examples. Don't try to bullshit if you don't know how to be hipster-friendly.
>Step 5: Profit?
It takes a while to get the ball rolling but as I said, I'm getting close to making back my original investment. If you're not a professional antique person, then selling online at the consumer level is a good idea, as you can get things looked at by a wide audience and you can find a buyer relatively easy.
Posting listings is cheap-ish, they handle the shipping, and if you are a massive jew/spent a lot on postage you can add "handling fees". Start small and don't be a jerk. Learn about how to ship things cheaply. Make sure to wash everything.
>Make sure you aren't too much of an asshole, because reviews really matter when you're starting out. So don't sell anything without checking for and pointing out discolorations/rips/tears/weird smell etc. (so that people will know what they're getting into), make sure shipping's accurate, and answer questions. Make sure you add a disclaimer about the nature of vintage, which often includes no refunds :^)
Bear in mind that I'm mostly running a hobby store and I'm not planning on making a living from it, but I wanted my thrifting hobby to earn some money. And so far, I'd call myself fairly successful. It helps that it's not too much of an investment to make.
That said, if any other anons want to take the plunge and open a store I'd appreciate using the referral link for the advice.
http://etsy.me/2ptA956
You can find me at ShopSecondStream and I hope this helped!
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