Possible scams

maxlazermarketing · 02-02-2009, 11:43 AM

Drop shipping has three dominant scams and each has several variations only limited to the imagination of these opportunists. I call the three scams the list, the middleman, and the agent.

List

First is the decades old list of drop shippers the scammer wants to sell to you. None of the businesses or contact information has been verified for years and is completely out of date. These lists are usually offered for between £10 - £50. After handing over your money, you try contacting the businesses only to learn:

• They have gone out of business
• The contact information is obsolete
• Stopped drop shipping years ago

Middlemen

Another common scam is the middleman posing as a drop shipper. This version does require that a real drop shipper exist. It is not the person you will be doing business with. He simply passes your order onto the real drop shipper, who packages and mails the product to your customer. Of course, the price he has offered you is substantially higher than what he pays the drop shipper.

Agents

These can be thought of as Multi Level Marketing (MLM) scams. The agent here charges victims a monthly fee to access the drop shipper. Quite often, they are also getting a cut from the drop shipper for any sales that you make.

ashleymartins · 10-09-2009, 09:12 PM

Yes, there are plenty of scammers out there to try and do you over with your money. Another scammer out there is pay for traffic and get "X" amount of visitors to your page. Now I have done my research and it seems there are a few one being www.handytraffic.com that is a scam. Depending how much you pay for "x" amount of traffic, 1 - You won't get anywhere near the amount of traffic you paid for and 2 - It'll be all automated which is going to mean nothing to you, so be careful!

My advice would be, if your going to pay for traffic, do your research first and speak with others who has done it and ask for there feedback.

Ashley

nichu89 · 11-17-2009, 11:04 AM

oh flip!!!Is there nothing to stop such scams????

jennypitts · 12-23-2009, 12:01 AM

Thanks for the info. Keep the eyes peeled... There will always be scammers!

rickyhelmore · 01-22-2010, 05:58 PM

Isn't there any ways by which these scammers should be pushed out....

article.writing.pros · 02-16-2010, 02:59 PM

The way scammers should be "pushed out" is by simply not buying from them. If you are gullible enough to buy from a scam when you have the power of the internet at your fingertips then...? "A fool and his money are soon parted"