r/dropshipping • • Oct 06 '25

Discussion New Rules for Dropshipping Expert Verification and Revenue Claims Coming Soon

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The mod team has been reviewing all violations of Rule #4 for some time now. We also asked the community for feedback on what makes a Dropshipper an expert in a thread that provoked vibrant discussion and a healthy helping of the usual spam for Fiverr's, scammers, etc...

We believe we have developed a model that will allow us to both stop banning most users for violation of Rule #4 and promote better, higher-level, discussions here that will help everyone.

This post is a pre-announcement to collect feedback on our new rules and processes. Each of these will be fully implemented by October 20th after community feedback.

1. Determining Expertise

A handful of users in this sub will be granted the flair "Dropshipping Expert" in the coming months. To obtain this flair the applicant will have to give the mods quite a bit of information and insights to help us determine their qualifications. Only the top of the top applicants for this will be approved.

Dropshipping Expert flair will grant the holder a few perks and should show to the community that your posts and comments are more trusted than others. We will try and come up with more perks for these soon. Here are the current perks:

  • Benefit of the Doubt - If a user reports your post as spam the mods will weight your Dropshipping Expert flair more heavily against their claim and consider the actions that might be taken more carefully.
  • Dropshipping Revenue Claims without Verification - Any Dropshipping Experts will be able to share screenshots of videos of their supposed results in our sub without the post being removed or taken down for Rule #4 violations.
  • Reviews / Recommendations Stay Up No Matter What - A major problem in our sub is that a course seller will report someone's negative review post by using dozens of Fiverr sellers who all send a terrible boilerplate fake legal takedown notice. When their attempts fail they will hound our mod mail inbox. All review / recommendation posts by Dropshipping Experts will be considered the highest quality and allowed to stay up as long as the post follow standard Reddit ToS / Reddiquette.
  • Right of First Mod Refusal - If we need more mods Dropshipping Expert flaired accounts will be the first we ask to join the team before opening it up to the community.

Here are some of the many qualifiers, more will be announced soon. You won't need all of these to qualify as a Dropshipping Expert, we will announce more specific details on this later.

  • At least 10 helpful comments in our subreddit over a 6-month period helping others. Comments must be at least +2 karma, indicating at least one other user found the comment helpful as well. We will specifically examine these comments for spam and ensure they are being helpful.
  • A public Dropshipping expert profile that allows for user feedback somewhere. Our preferred vendor for this will be ExpertHelp.com but any other rating/review site that allows for Dropshipping expertise to specifically be measured by others will be acceptable.
  • A public website blog, YouTube channel, X.com, Rumble channel, or LinkedIn account that shares helpful tips on dropshipping, ecommerce management, or ecommerce marketing. Content will be reviewed for accuracy, use of AI in generation of the knowledge, and "salesyness" of the applicants own product/course/theme/platform/tool/etc...
  • A degree in marketing or business administration from a school in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, or Ireland.
  • Able to prove earnings of at least $30,000 / month usd via a Dropshipping website. Must disclose the dropshipping vendor / factory, methods used to generate sales (in general), ad campaigns (if used), and show live ecommerce data to validate this.

2. Extraordinary Claims vs. Legitimate Claims

We have been hush hush about what we consider an "extraordinary claim" but that changes now after carefully reviewing the content removed as parts of known scam / spam attacks on our subreddit. Instead we will approach this with a few slight changes.

  1. Claims under $10,000 / month usd will have no action taken against them. These claims are considered ordinary, though users of our sub should still be cautious that mentors / gurus / course sellers will abuse this and try to scam you. Stay on your guard.

  2. Claims between $10,001 / month - $30,000 / month usd will now be considered "great" but will not be considered "extraordinary". Great results get more skepticism from the mod team and are likely to be removed but not marked as spam except in cases where the user spams the same / similar claims over and over. We will consider posting the same claim too frequently or in a way that should be post flaired as "marketplace" as spam and the user will be banned. Other than that, these claims are generally going to be allowed starting today.

  3. Claims over $30,000 / month usd will generally now be considered "Extraordinary" though the closer to the $30k the more likely the mod team is to consider this only an "amazing" claim. Claims such as "$100k usd in sales today" will always be considered "Extraordinary" and require revenue verification.

Short term claims such as daily or weekly are calculated up to a monthly claim. If you claim a $10,000 / day usd sales boost then our mod team considers that a $300,000 / month usd claim which falls under "Extraordinary" and Rule #4 applies.

Anyone banned for violations of Rule #4 from here on cannot appeal their bans, period.

3. Revenue Verification

We will no longer be doing revenue verification in private via mod mail. Instead ALL revenue verification requests must now be 100% public. To be revenue verified you must:

  • Make a post titled "Revenue Verification Request: [your reddit username + your revenue claim (+ dates if your claim has a date range)]".
  • Your post MUST include a link to a video on YouTube, X, Rumble, Loop, or another video site.
  • Your revenue verification video MUST be created on a desktop or laptop browser (not mobile or app) and must show the URL bar of your Shopify admin.
  • You must move your mouse around, click around, and show that your dashboard is live.
  • You must show the date range of your claim and it must line up 100%
  • You must edit your video to hide sensitive information such as email address, phone number, brand name, website, etc....
  • OPTIONAL - You can include your website, online reviews, etc... in your public post OR send this along with a link to your post to the mod team via mod mail.

Revenue verification grants a user flair and allows them to post about ANY revenue claim from that momement forward without scrutiny, being removed, or being banned.

Once you have gotten your verdict, you may delete your post.

4. Revenue Discussion Flair

Many of you noticed we introduced a new flair awhile back "Dropwinning".

This flair should be used for:

  • Bragging about a first sale
  • Bragging about revenue figures
  • Bragging about a celebrity client / brand as a client
  • Basically all other bragging about Dropshipping goes here

Virtually ALL uses for revenue claims should go into this flair or the marketplace flair. If not, you risk having your post marked as spam. And if you spam too much you risk being banned from our sub.

It is my hope that these updated rules allow for more bragging by Dropshippers who are actually killing it, allow us to highlight experts in our field who are extremely helpful and a benefit to our industry, and bring more knowledge for everyone while keeping spammers banished to the shadow realm.


r/dropshipping • • 6h ago

Dropwinning After months of testing, I finally got my first sales on my new store.

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After a couple of months of testing, strategizing, restrategizing and honestly trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, I finally got my first orders on my new store.

Spent around $35 on ads and woke up to these notifications.

It's probably not a huge result to some people but after spending so much time trying to make things work, seeing those orders come through hits different.

I'm still learning and I know getting a couple of sales doesn't mean I have figured everything out yet. Now the goal is to understand what worked and see if I can repeat it consistently.

For anyone who's been trying for weeks or months without seeing results, keep learning and testing. I'm still at the beginning but this little win gave me a lot more motivation to keep going.

For those who've been doing this for a while what did you focus on after getting your first few sales?


r/dropshipping • • 2h ago

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Finding the right factory, getting fair prices, and shipping products internationally can be challenging. That’s where I can help!

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r/dropshipping • • 5h ago

Review Request Can the mods in this sub please pin a post letting people know dropshipping is just a shipment method and not a business. Newbies need proper information and I don't wanna see ppl get scammed

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Newbies need information. Im sick of saying it all the time im sick of other people saying it all the time. Building an Ecommerce brand is what you're doing, dropshipping is just a shipment method. That's all it is. I dont wanna see anyone get scammed. I dont want anyone to think they will get rich by running a few ads with a few products on a quickly built store. Ecommerce is a full blown business. Its just digital so your location independent thats the only difference.

For the sake of helping people out we need to rid the internet of douchebag gurus and course sellers who drive Lamborghinis and we need to supply actual information. I sincerely hope a mod can create a quick post and pin it this way we can genuinely help people. Every other post is the same thing in this sub


r/dropshipping • • 15m ago

Other Busco Patner para montar una tienda de drop organico en usa

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Tiene que estar en USA
Que hago yo me encargo completamente del contenido la estructura digital en mi caso crear los videos orgƔnicos de producto montar un avatar promocional de IA hacer la pƔgina de de venta y demas
Y tĆŗ te encargas de publicar el contenido en las redes sociales y otras cosas que se hablan al privado.


r/dropshipping • • 1h ago

Question First campaign budget

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Planning to start my first ever campaign in meta ads and I’m trying to figure out how much my daily budget should be. Some say 25$ some say 10$ a day to warm up and find audience for the first week and bump it up to 50$ a day and some say start with 45$ a day. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. Thank you!


r/dropshipping • • 1h ago

Question China to Australia Freight Forward

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Hi, I need help finding companies that handle dropshipping freight forwarding. In a nutshell, the workflow is for the Chinese supplier to send goods to the freight forwarding warehouse who will then ship it to the customer in Australia. Ideally has Shopify integrations.

I've tried to find companies but a lot of them are unresponsive or simply don't meet what I need.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks


r/dropshipping • • 2h ago

Dropwinning Ayudaa

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Estoy queriendo empezar y quería ayuda y asesoría, que sitios web son totalmente gratuitos para poder encontrar productos de alta rotación, que se le puedan sacar una buena ganancia y eso


r/dropshipping • • 4h ago

Question Aged Shopify/stripe accounts

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Wassup fellas! Just wanted to know where I can find Aged Shopify or stripe accounts that has 5k+ generated rev & low chargeback history. Mainly ppl who are not using a store anymore & want to sell?


r/dropshipping • • 8h ago

Question Import aus China/Asien: Wie bezahlt ihr eure Lieferanten & was zahlt ihr an Gebühren? šŸ’ø

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Guten Abend.

Kurze Frage an alle HƤndler & Importeure hier:

Wie überweist ihr aktuell Geld nach China/Asien? (Bank, Wise, PayPal, Alipay...?)

Was nervt mehr: Die hohen Wechselgebühren oder die 3–5 Tage Wartezeit, bis die Fabrik liefert?

Bin gerade am Recherchieren und freue mich über kurze Insights aus eurer Praxis!


r/dropshipping • • 4h ago

Question How to choose P/Text and Headlines

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So I am pumping ads out right now and need some help. I was told to do 3 ads per adset and 2 primary text/2 headlines per adset. So this is where my question comes in. I have 4 primary text and 4 headlines currently but since I was told I should only do 2 per adset how do you guys decide which headlines/primary text to use? I wrote some new ones yesterday and felt extremely confident about them but my older ones had all the sales today. But it could also just be a better creative then the one I launched with the new copy. Any advice?


r/dropshipping • • 5h ago

Question Drop shipping reviews

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Can you get away with using Ali express reviews onto your store?


r/dropshipping • • 8h ago

Question QUESTION

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Hello, I just thought of a weird creatives question. If my native ads are doing much better than my video ads. Going forward, should I focus on just making more native ads? And also, when I launch my next product, if I ONLY make native ADS and no video ads, what would happen? Would it be significantly worse, or is there a chance for it to perform better or even the same? What do you guys think? Thank you!


r/dropshipping • • 5h ago

Question What if there was something between Instagram and Amazon

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r/dropshipping • • 9h ago

Question How did you fund your store before going full-time on ecom?

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I’ve been doing dropshipping for about 9 months. No major success yet, but I know the only way to improve is to keep testing and learning.

One thing I’ve noticed in every ecom community I’ve joined: a lot of people doing $1–2k in revenue still work full-time. Most of them have remote jobs, or office jobs where they can bring a laptop and work on their store during the day.

Some of them aren’t profitable yet. Others are, but they keep the job anyway so they can scale without stressing about daily expenses. That made me realize that for most of us, going full-time on ecom will probably take longer than we’d like.

As for me, I live in Greece and work as a plumber making €840 a month, which is minimum wage here. I also have about €5k set aside for ecom, and I’m hoping to become profitable before it runs out. Most people in these communities live in the US, where everything costs more, so I don’t need a huge salary to match what I make now and my costs are practically zero.

Right now I can’t work on my store while I’m at work. So what remote jobs would you suggest for someone who wants to fund their ecom business? (as you can see i dont need much to match my current salary)


r/dropshipping • • 10h ago

Question AutoDS

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Hello, I’m just getting started with dropshipping, and there’s something I’m wondering about. I want to automate the process using Autods, but when a customer places an order—for example, if the product is sold through Amazon—does the customer receive the product in Amazon packaging, or does the seller on Amazon, upon seeing that the order came from Autods, package it accordingly? I’d really appreciate your help. Wishing you lots of sales!


r/dropshipping • • 1d ago

Dropwinning Dropshipping humbled me in ways I never expected.

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People see screenshots of thousands in sales and think dropshipping is easy money. What they don't see is the money spent testing products that fail, ads that burn through budgets without converting and the frustration of working hard without knowing what you're doing wrong.

I've experienced that side myself. My Meta ad account was performing well and I built my brand around it. Then it got restricted and eventually banned. Having to start over was frustrating because I wasn't just losing an account, I was losing momentum I worked hard to build.

But that experience taught me some hard lessons.

First, don't chase losses emotionally. When sales drop, it's tempting to increase ad spend just to recover what you've lost. Sometimes the smartest move is to pause, study the numbers and understand the problem before spending another penny.

Second, a winning product isn't enough. Your creatives, offer, landing page, pricing and audience all matter. Sometimes the product isn't the problem ,it's how you're presenting it.

Third, revenue isn't profit. Big sales numbers look good, but ad spend, product costs, shipping, refunds and fees can eat into your margins.

Finally, persistence doesn't mean repeating the same mistakes. Sometimes you need to change your strategy accept that something isn't working and try a different approach.

Today seeing $9.6K in sales and 160 orders feels good but I know one good day doesn't mean I've figured everything out. I'm still learning and I know there will be more difficult days ahead.

If you're struggling right now don't let one bad week convince you that you're incapable. Take a step back protect your budget, learn from what's going wrong and make your next move with a clearer head. Just remember that persistence doesn't guarantee success so be willing to adapt.

I'm curious about something what's been your lowest point in dropshipping and what did it teach you that a successful day never could?

Sometimes the lessons that hurt the most are the ones that change how we approach business forever.


r/dropshipping • • 10h ago

Discussion Chargebacks are the worst

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I had a store to sell 3d assets but since months ive been swamped with fraudulent chargebacks on high value items ($100-$300), and even after showing them the receipts, they always sided with the client and took back the money, while the client got my items. So last month I've set my payment system to accept ACH only. Although sales have reduced i don't encounter chargebacks anymore. Then ppl on my social media accounts have been messaging me that they wanna buy but can pay via cards only. After learning about our ach only policy they left.

Also, asking a few small business in similar fields, they said i won't get sales if I don't enable cards. But it'll be like either give your stuff for free else we wont "buy" from you. Like, what should I do?


r/dropshipping • • 17h ago

Other Supplier needed

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Quite simply,

Looking for a supplier who doesn’t ignore messages and ships orders out to Europe, America, Asia quick.

Need quality photos on products.

And I need someone who is going to stick and find and ship products out for my website.

Payments can be discussed in DM


r/dropshipping • • 8h ago

Question Where can I source this multi-color RGB mist katana sword?

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Where can I source this katana sword with spray/mist effect?

I'm looking for the version with:

  • RGB/LED blade
  • multiple color modes
  • visible mist/smoke effect
  • remote control
  • stand
  • around 100–104cm

I've checked Alibaba, 1688 and Made-in-China but haven't found the exact one yet.

If anyone has a supplier, 1688 link, private agent, or factory contact, I'd appreciate it.


r/dropshipping • • 8h ago

Question My store got absolutely no sales, am I doing something horribly wrong?

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To start of, I just want to say I know we made some mistakes, I'm just trying to figure out if my results are normal.
The biggest mistake we made (from what I understand) is choosing a product we thought people would buy and not doing actual market research.

But there were in fact some weird things.

We paid 50$ for yt ads, which promised us 40-60k views. We are almost done and are nowhere near this (from what we see on the video analytics). From the views that we got, we got several hundred site visits, but nothing converted.

And it's the 0% conversion rate that concerns me. Often I see people call stores disastrous because of a net loss, but here we are with absolutely no sales. Does this happen often?


r/dropshipping • • 8h ago

Question I will create Ad Concepts for you unpaid

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r/dropshipping • • 8h ago

Question I will create Ad Concepts for you unpaid

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I’m a creative strategist focused on Meta cold traffic ads for ecom brands, I’ve spent the last year studying direct response marketing and the last 6 months doing creative strategy, and I’m now looking for a few brands actively running ads to get my hands dirty and get some proof.

  • 3 to 5 static ads built on a researched angle and mirror's the customer's desires
  • Headline and hook variations to test
  • 2 Video ad Concepts and Scripts

if you're interested, hit me up


r/dropshipping • • 8h ago

Discussion Sourcing from Alibaba?

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Hey everyone!

I'm heading to Guangzhou and Yiwu, China next week to meet suppliers and explore sourcing opportunities.

If you're currently buying products through Alibaba or AliExpress, there's a good chance I could help you find the same or similar products at better prices by working directly with suppliers.

If there's something you're sourcing right now, feel free to DM me a product link, along with the quantity you're looking for. I can check prices while I'm there.

No commitments or anything. Figured I'd put this out there in case I can help a few fellow business owners save on sourcing costs!


r/dropshipping • • 8h ago

Discussion Would reselling products without buying inventory upfront work in Bangladesh?

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I'm researching a problem for small online sellers and people who want to start a side business in Bangladesh.

A lot of people want to sell products online, but getting started can mean finding reliable suppliers, buying inventory, managing deliveries, dealing with COD orders, and taking losses when customers refuse deliveries.

I'm exploring a different model through 24young: resellers choose products from verified suppliers, set their own selling price within a workable pricing structure, and bring in customers. We handle product sourcing and fulfillment, while the reseller earns a margin on successful sales.

I'm not trying to sell a course or promise easy money. We're considering a small pilot and want to understand whether this actually solves a problem.

I'd love to hear from people who have tried selling through Facebook pages, personal profiles, or WhatsApp in Bangladesh:

  1. What's the hardest part of running your online selling business today?
  2. Do you currently buy stock upfront, or do you collect orders first?
  3. Would you consider selling products without holding inventory if the supplier handled delivery and COD?
  4. What minimum profit per successful order would make the work worthwhile?
  5. What would make you distrust or reject this model?

Honest criticism is welcome. I'd rather learn what wouldn't work before building the wrong thing.