The main global marketplaces where you can sell in Drop Shipping

Finally you have decided to open your own shop in DropShipping and after having evaluated for good pros and cons, to give a good boost to your business you have decided to rely on the marketplace. And now you're wondering if it's a wise choice.

What are the marketplaces?

First of all I'd like to do a bit of clarity trying to give a synthetic definition of what the marketplaces are and why they can be a good way to develop your business.

A marketplace is an internet brokerage website for the purchase or sale of a good or a service.
The main feature of the marketplaces is to sell the goods of different manufacturers, sellers, companies under the same site-brand.

The concept is that of the supermarket: different shelves, different brands, a single manager to whom the customer relies because he knows he is able to find a great variety of choice and reliability in him.

In theory, therefore, any product company and distribution / trade can benefit from its entry into the marketplace, taking care to choose the one that best suits its business.

Is it convenient to sell in DropShipping on the marketplaces?

There are so many marketplaces for all tastes.
People buy in the marketplaces mainly for their reliability and for the clarity and simplicity with which they expose their products. They also tend to be increasingly specialized and more complete; many products are often unavailable in stores or small online sites and you can find them only in the most important marketplaces.

Does it make sense to sell on your website, or just how small markets are slowly disappearing to the detriment of large international supermarkets full of products, so will the small websites also disappear?

The answer is "yes and no"!

Certainly it will be easier and more immediate for you to sell in a big marketplace than a normal website, but this will mean you first of all a big reduction in margins and then some risk.

It will therefore be essential to carefully evaluate their margins as almost all marketplaces, in fact, offer the possibility to sell asking you to pay a variable monthly fee (from € 20.00 upwards) and a final commission on sale (also variable based on to the marketplace itself and to the product category in which their products are inserted); in addition you will have to stick to their strict behavioral rules.

Therefore, if on the one hand it is easier to sell, on the other hand, in addition to the reduction in margins, there is the real risk of a collapse of one's own business, as the expansion of its customers is almost non-existent.
People buy and buy because they trust mainly the marketplace and not your store.

In addition, many marketplaces prevent the collection of contact data from end customers, also affecting your next direct approach to the customer.

In the worst cases, then, from one day to the next, you can find your store closed and a ban for life, for violating (perhaps even unknowingly) some rules on copyright of the images, on the sale of brands that do not authorize online sales or anything else.

Just do some research on the net to find hundreds of sellers in the throes of rage, for being literally thrown out of their trust marketplace, perhaps after investing important capital for the start-up and management of their business on the marketplace itself and have spent so much of their time.

I do not want to scare you but in dropshipping most of the time you do not have a real control on the brands you intend to sell.

Maybe the supplier with whom you have reached an agreement provides you with a list of products to sell well nourished by dozens of producers but that you do not really know in the least, and if you do not have an authorization to sell certain brands, you will find your store banned within a few weeks of opening, with the impossibility of being able to reopen in that same marketplace.

In addition, many marketplaces also manage your "piggy bank", or keep for a few days / weeks your revenues from sales and if your shop should be banned for irregularities, these collections would be blocked immediately and then be unlocked over time (up several months) after completely resolving any dispute.

In short, the marketplaces are cross and delight for the dropshipper.

Some marketplaces briefly prohibit sales in dropshipping, others allow it, but hide many pitfalls.

However one thing is certain, you must be well aware of what you sell and if you do it with criteria then you could have great satisfaction:
the reach of the marketplaces is huge and your sales in a short time could encrase exponentially!

What are the best marketplaces to sell in dropshipping?

39 online marketplaces in Germany, 24 in France and 13 in Italy, plus dozens in other EU countries and non-EU countries: e-commerce in the world is not just Amazon and eBay, even if these are the well-known names that make the titles. In all, there are more than 220 Internet-buying platforms, proving that e-commerce has already won over many consumers.

So .. you have chosen your business, you have evaluated pros and cons and you are ready to explore new horizons, very well then let's see together which are the main world marketplaces and especially in which categories are specialized.
You do not want to sell shoes in a marketplace that specializes in electronics, do you?

And here are all the alternatives to Amazon and eBay in the world to sell in DropShipping.
The order shown is for geographical areas of origin of the various marketplaces.

• All
• Africa
• Asia
• Australia
• Europe
• North America
• South America

As you could see the list is very large and each of these marketplaces could be your launch pad by virtue of the specialization in sales in certain categories.

Now you're wondering: if there were more marketplaces that could interest me, would it be appropriate to sell in multiple marketplaces at the same time?

Is it convenient to sell dropshipping on multiple marketplaces at the same time?

After I have mentioned for you all the risks you are facing selling on the marketplace if you are still convinced, then it means that you have found a really good business, exclusive and with good margins, to start.

So why not start it big !?

Certainly every marketplace will have monthly costs to deal with but the commissions of each of them will be charged only after making sales, if you sell / spend, so it would be appropriate to try.

But it is important to organize yourself well as you will have to coordinate your inventory well, updating it constantly on all the marketplaces on which you will decide to sell.
You will never have to risk selling products that you no longer have in stock, customers will not like to see their orders canceled and you would risk receiving negative feedback.

Fundamental will be to have a good system of integration between the marketplace and your ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), which will allow you to manage orders and stocks all automatically avoiding to waste hours and hours to control all platforms manually.