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US economy is, for the most part, a political bumbling cluster. The US economy is dying! Drop shipping and offshore advertising is eating into domestic profits of our local small businesses.
Anyone who has used Facebook in the last decade has had to notice a litany of poorly worded ads all advertising the same cheap Chinese-made junk. They don’t even make an effort really to brand anything. These offshore dropshippers often go from one product to the next until they’ve milked it dry. Many will be banned from the platforms for scams.
Scammers and con artists often go with one profile until it gets blocked or closed down and move onto a new one. Often these opportunistic scammers have products advertised at much lower prices than domestic businesses can offer. They gather the lion’s share of the market and when they get caught they change names and move to a new product. They seemingly have no intention of becoming a legitimate business or even fulfilling orders taken from the ads they run.
Google ads also has a lot of offshore advertising. Offshore advertisers rank for local businesses like carpet cleaners, insurance, or garage door installers. These offshore advertisers sell the leads they get to the local businesses adding hundreds of dollars to your final invoice price because the garage door installation company has had to pay as much as $250 USD for your lead from an ad agency in another country. If you are looking for local services make sure you check to make sure they are in fact local when clicking on their paid ads and not an ad reseller. Look at the telephone number listed and see if it is a local Area Code. If not, it may be an ad run from another country selling your lead information to the highest bidder.
Red flags that the proiducts you are purchasing are from offshore dropshippers is poor grammar in the ads. There is often no branding such as a logo. Stock images taken from the manufacturers warehouse or competitors sites are very common. Scam artists do not spend much time building their brand because they have to act fast to avoid their misdeeds catching up to them. Websites can sometimes look legitimate, even using Shopify or WordPress but poor grammar and poor setup are tip offs.
If you have a feeling it may be a scam website check further into it. Look at shipping policies, Terms of Service, and for reviews. Often scammers will put fake reviews on their websites to look legitimate. Stock secondary pages like Privacy Policy will simply not be there or will be a blank template. Remember, they often have no intention of sending your products so they won’t spend much time building a brand or website.
Dropshipping can be undertaken anywhere in the world and often it is legitimate. The benefits of dropshipping are that one can work anywhere in the world and never touch the product they sell. Whether you live in Los Angeles, California or Lagos, Nigeria it doesn’t matter. Vendors are selling items made in China, shipped out from China, and sold by someone somewhere. It could be Indiana, Pakistan, Nigeria, or elsewhere in the world. you might ask why someone would try to scam you out of $37.50 worth of dog toys but in some economies that is a lot of money.
That money is leaving the US and taken into offshore accounts and economies. The United States gets no further economic increase, no tax money to help with infrastructure or to further domestic relief programs. it hurts domestic small businesses that are legitimate because many people are once bitten twice shy making online purchases less frequently. Some will get scammed and then only buy from Big Corp giants like Amazon or WalMart online.
Dropshipping is not beneficial to the United States, you, or your neighborswhen 100 per cent of the money is taken outside of the country. Support your local businesses that are owned and operated locally or domestically. Gove some scrutiny to the ads you see claiming low prices. There may be a reason they are so cheap. If it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
