Thread: Retail / E-commerce entrepreneurs that use fulfillment services: Shipwire or Webgistix

I've been looking at both shipwire and webgistix.com as possible solutions to solve the need for warehousing products, but both appear to be good options.

Anyone have any experience with any of these providers?

thanks

No one here has experience in retail/ warehousing ?

anyone with commerce knowledge please chime In, i am interested as well!

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I'm not interested in drop shipping, that's an entirely different business model from what I'm doing .I need a warehouse solution to house my products... Ship wire or webgistix seem like the best options, was just wondering if anyone else had used them .

I am in the online retail market for electronics, been in the market for 7 months now and have been quite successful so far, it is tough. My question to you though is why do you want someone else to warehouse and ship your product for you? Unless you have a very large stock or the product itself is quite large you would make much more profit shipping the product and warehousing the product yourself.

To answer your question I have not used either, nor have I looked into them. Although I have looked into Amazon fulfillment service and I just did not see it to be beneficial for my business.

^^ that is a good question.

The only thing I can come up with is that shipping costs might go down a bit.

It will cost around 1 - 2 dollars per item to process. And I concluded that if one uses flat rate boxes for US, Mexico and Canada shipping from usps it will not make a difference. Also having your items at multiple locations will force you to collect taxes for multiple regions.

I would be interested in this topic too ... I am considering opening my own online store. I own a kick-ass domain

^ pm me. what domain / what type of store were you going to open?

Why would you want to outsource this task? Making a few assumptions here;

You are reselling an item eg; not a manufacture of the goods

Volume of product is not high

Margins are already slim

Shipping and logistics of operational tasks is super easy for a start-up.

Originally Posted by Stance

^ pm me. what domain / what type of store were you going to open?

The domain is like carparts.com .... Different industry. Was going to be a simple store just for customers to buy stuff and I ship.