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If the customer didn't do anything to cause the reshipment - rejecting delivery, mail forwarding, etc - then you shouldn't charge them anything. Yes, I know it sucks.. but think about it: Would you do business with a company that punished you when someone else made a mistake when you had no control, influence, or even information on what happened? On ...

This is the most popular website I know for finding good drop shipping partners. World Wide Brands It is recommended in 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris - which would be a good book for you to read. It has a couple sections about setting up an online business that uses drop shippers.

Is this the accepted way to handle shipping charges? It depends on which shipping charges you are referring to. This is how I would do it: You purchase a laptop online from ABC Corp. Let's assume the price of the laptop is $1000 and you pay a $15 shipping charge to the online seller (ABC Corp). Let's also assume that your state has a 5% sales tax. The ...

Have an agreement with them that if they place product on your site, someone orders it and they don't have it in stock or ready to ship within 24 hours for pick-up that they will be charged for the shipping and also be on probation and potentially lose privileges of using the site. Your site should be an asset to them and help them make sales and create ...

Do a google search on "kickstarter fulfillment" - there are a few service providers that can help you out with the logistics. Shipwire has an program catered to this specific need - and has a few case studies that may be helpful.

Congrats!! To answer your question no you shouldn't ship it as a gift. As it states on the right side of KickStarter, under How to Price, all rewards should be budgeted for shipping. Can you ship it as a gift, yes, would I no. You could get in serious trouble and its technically not a gift because you were paid. EDIT: It also asks you if you wanted to ...

You will definitely have to pay the Import Duty and you can look at the same website or Duty Calculator to estimate how much that would be. As far as India export taxes are concerned you can take a look at the Export procedure taxation website to get some idea but unless you are planning to do this yourself I would either contract with a shipper that would ...

The EXW might work if you expect all your clients to understand it or at least most of them. Often on ebay it is in clear text such as "Shipping to Sweden USD 5 (including trip to post office and packing materials). Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility." This ...

It depends on where in China the goods originate and where in the US they need to arrive. As Dan says, from port to west coast port, you're looking at about 3-4 weeks. You say that you don't have enough to fill a container, which means LCL shipping, this will add in extra delay at both ends, as the forwarder will wait until the container is full before ...

The answer to this question, and 90% of other shipping related questions is simple: Volume = Discounts. It is easy to negotiate discounts with shipping companies and packaging suppliers, based on the volume of your business to them. The larger or more prestigious your business, the higher the discount. The world of logistics is a cut throat business, and ...

Matthew Carroll's answer to the following question on Quora contains a treasure-trove of information about drop shipping: Zappos started with drop shipping. Is this the best way to bootstrap an E-commerce company?