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How Dropshipping Ruined Online Shopping

gabi belle

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Some things I read for this if you're interested in learning more:
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━CHAPTERS━
00:00 what is dropshipping
06:07 food
07:22 etsy is a he*l hole
15:11 practical guide on discerning dropshipping
16:20 why it sucks for other sellers and customerz
18:00 girl complaining waah waaah waah goo goo gaga
20:27 amazon luvs dropshipping
25:51 temu is a dropship marketplace
27:52 DROPSHIP ALPHA COURSES!!!!!!!! LEARN HOW TO DROPSHIP WITH 3 EASY STEPS
28:55 STEP ONE: CHOOSE A WINNING PRODUCT
29:37 MAKE WEBSITE AND ADD ITEMS TO STORE
29:49 GO VIRAL BY COPYING OTHER PEOPLES VIDEOS
30:00 dude there's now AI that adds items automatically to your store, they dont even try at all
30:04 STEP FOUR: PROFIT!!!!
31:16 the dropship guru farce (more like farts am i right)
39:36 conclusion

tags: #dropshipping

20 Comments

@itsgabibelle Creator 2 years ago Pinned

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@kayleeo7330 2 years ago

Etsy totally lost their soul with the new CEO. He changed their policies to allow more non-handmade products and sellers. :/

@appeasing 2 years ago

It’s especially ruined Etsy. I can’t buy much from there anymore because it’s mostly drop shipped crap incorrectly labeled as hand made.

@AJR355 2 years ago (edited)

I remember in secondary school we had a woman come in to tell us about her successful business and how she achieved it. we had to sit and listen to her tell us about her drop shipping 'business' for an hour 😭 she didn't even try to hide it

@natetia 1 year ago

We just need Etsy to be hit with a class action lawsuit for fraudulently claiming products are handmade when they are not and not doing anything about it.

@NeonNijahn 2 years ago

This reminds me of how restaurants on uber eats will be listed multiple times with the same pictures but a different name for the establishment.

@britty23 2 years ago

My mom is obsessed with Temu and it was obvious all of our Christmas gifts were bought from there. Everything was so cheap and broke within a few weeks. I dont even want to think about how 99% of this crap is going to end up in a landfill. Its disgusting consumerism and it should be illegal to sell this crap.

@moxxibekk 2 years ago

I remember when etsy first announced they would allow mass-marketed items and not be exclusively handcrafted small businesses. People were rightfully pissed. But etsy didn't care.

@thelittleheathenfromSweden 1 year ago

Don't forget about the automatic litter boxes that killed several cats, drop shipping and the rabbit holes of their products is one hell of a journey, more emphases on hell and less on journey.

@kimiroar2644 2 years ago

One of the worst parts is this muddies the water of people who actually do make handmade goods, have their images stolen and their 'items' resold on shein, alibaba, temu, and the likes. I know because I know an actual jeweler that constantly has to deal with this. They often have no recourse to try and take those products down, or even if they do it often gets relisted weeks later by someone else.

@dilEmmaClaire 2 years ago

As someone who recently started an Etsy shop for real handcrafted items, it can be really disheartening and frustrating to see drop shippers fill the search and home pages rather than real artists :/

@milliedilworth8183 2 years ago

As an Etsy seller who has had photos stolen by Ali express, shein and wish it’s horrible that people will see my jewellery and think it’s drop shipped when in reality I’m the original designer and maker 😭

@thejellykinz 1 year ago

I was trying to educate my colleagues on this the other day and they basically all said "I don't care, it's cheap". Sad state this world is in.

@cookingwithsilence 2 years ago

Remember when the internet was where you could find the best price? Now you find results for whoever spent the most money to put the product in front of you. It doesn't matter to them, you are paying extra for them to market the product to you.

@karolinamanka2113 2 years ago

The problem is that Etsy does nothing to protect legitimate sellers and allows drop shippers to spoil the market and create unfair competitiveness. They don't care as long as they pay the charges.

@justaninnocentpomegranate3702 2 years ago

I’ve also noticed dropshippers at local craft fairs and farmer’s markets and it’s so infuriating! It feels almost impossible to find genuinely handmade products

@juliegodseyjewelry 1 year ago

OMG thank you for this. As an actual handmade jewelry business on Etsy these resellers have nearly ruined my business of over 10 years. Genuinely don't know if I will be in business a year from now. Thank you for educating the public as I don't think a lot of people are as discerning as you are to know that a shop with over a million sales of "handmade" jewelry is simply not possible.

@shangerdanger 2 years ago

what's funny about handmade jewelry is that it's SO EXPENSIVE to get legit handmade jewelry, that nobody would buy it. I have a few friends that make jewelry and most of them are backed up with work for about 6 months, and if they charged an amount that would make them paid fair, nobody would buy it.

@MizyMizo 2 years ago

It’s really sad that ETSY has become a hub of marked up dropshipped products. It’s annoying that users are now having to spend time searching to see if items are dropshipped, the handmade label can be so misleading

@EricLS 2 years ago

This whole video could be “why outsourcing everything for 40 years has inevitably led to the foreign manufacturers just cutting out any part of the companies that used to contract them and selling directly this way”