in this video I will tell you about the horror stories of dropshippers using aliexpress then
i am going to share with you my story how i almost got banned from dropshippingbecause
of bad supplier then i am going to teach you how to find a good supplier and finally how
to fulfill orders
hey ivy zhu here so first i wanna start off with little bit of proof so you guys know
that everything i am about to teach you is coming from my own personal experience so
as you guys can see i have almost 14500 orders since i started dropshipping so what to expect
from this video so first i am going to talk to you about horror stories of other dropshippers
using aliexpress and why aliexpress bad then i am going to tell you my personal horror
story with 3rd party suppliers then i am going to tell you why you should get a 3rd party
supplier and how to find a good supplier and then finally how to fulfil orders with a supplier
step by step aliexpress horror stories there are people who have over 2000 orders and as
you can see 90 of them just werent shipped out the supplier from aliexpress just gave
them fake tracking numbers right so this one at the top he got scammed for over 10 20 thousand
dollars or even more so why you shouldnt be using aliexpress for dropshipping well because
its just more expensive because you pay for each product one by one instead of bulk ordering
also if you scale with aliexpress and you get a paypal hold usually you will just get
a higher hold higher percentage or they will hold more money from you because paypal will
notice that you are a aliexpress dropshipper and they are more strict with them so why
you shouldnt be using aliexpress for dropshipping is also because of long processing times aliexpress
suppliers they are also dropshippers for other dropshippers so thats why you know they can
have 5 to 10 day processing times which will cost you a lot of disputes, refunds, chargebacks
and you will also get a ton of emails from your customers asking about where is their
order and it will usually mean that you will have to spend hours replying to your customers
or you will have to hire more VAs another problem is they dont usually communicate with
you they dont respond to your messages they dont even message you so thats also a problem
because they dont tell you like how much in stock they have they dont tell you anything
another big problem is that with aliexpress suppliers you will have longer delivery times
which will cause lower facebook customer feedback score this is kinda a new feature on facebook
and basically if you have low customer feedback score facebook can ban your facebook page
also theycan lower reach and make you facebook ads more expensive and this is something that
happened to me personally so i am gonna talk about it in just a bit use aliexpress only
if you are beginner or if you use it to test just a few products so i recommend if you
are a beginner using the app dsers which is just free its better than oberlo or dropified
from what i heard cuz its just free and you dont have to pay anything for that and once
you get to like 30 orders or more per day you should switch to a 3rd party supplier
a dropshipping agent those usually arent on aliexpress usually as a dropshipper you first
start off on aliexpress then you get a 3rd party supplier or dropshipping agent and once
you grow even more you can also then move into holding stock or private label and building
a brand and things like that so now lets talk about my personal horror story how i almost
got banned because of bad suppliers so just a little bit back story i worked with this
supplier back in june 2018 when i scaled to 1 to 2K a day when i was still a newbie when
i was just starting out in october 2018 as you guys can see i basically scaled very fast
from 0 to over 10 000 dollars a day when i scaled so fast i thought everything is going
to be fine .i already worked with that supplier for a couple of months and i never had any
issue with him so i thought he is going to ship in 3days as he promised what really happened
is 10 to 14 days into scaling i started to get lots of emails like 50 to 100 emails a
day i started to get disputes also during the same time i also got a paypal hold and
a rolling reserve on paypal because i was using only paypal the thing is stripe or shopify
payments is not available in my country and with my VA virtual assistant basically we
found out that we had around 15 to 20 day processing time and what is processing time
is basically from the day you get the order to the day when the product ships out so you
know customers lets say customers on the first of october they would order and what would
happen is my supplier would ship them out on the 15th or 20th so nothing would happening
for 15 to 20 days the customers wouldnt get any email they wouldnt get any tracking and
they start to wonder is this a scam what is happening with my order and they started really
emailing me a lot 50 to 100 per day or sometimes even more so i knew this supplier i cant work
with him anymore so in november i started to work with a new 3rd party supplier and
again they told me they would ship in 2 to 3 days once the product first arrive which
would take around a week you know for them to get it from the factories to their warehouses
and then once its in their warehouse they can ship it in 2 to 3days I thought everything
is going to be fine but this time i started checking on them more and we found out that
again we had 15 to 20 day processing times and when you have 15 to 20 day processing
time it means nothing happens for 15 to 20 days and then you ship it out with epacket
which takes another 15-20 days so realistically my delivery times were around 30 to 35 days
during november i started to notice my ads just started to get very expensive i was also
getting 50-100 emails per day and i had to hire 4 full time VAs to just manage all those
emails and i was also getting paypal disputes every single day i got a notification and
basically facebook just told me that they are lowering my reach making my facebook ads
more expensive and at the time my customer feedback score was around 1.5 basically when
you have the facebook customer score at 1 or below 1 you facebook page will be banned
from advertising and can do is they can also ban your domain so your store domain