Doba: What Is There To Complain About?

Searching online, it’s amazing just how many complaints there are about the centralized drop ship source Doba.com. It seems that most of the of Doba complaints only come from people who don’t know what the system does, or have used it in the past prior to many changes being established, so let’s put straight some rumors about the Doba model so that you can judge for yourself whether this is a great way to acquire wholesale products or not.

The first thing to note is that Doba as an entity is not a wholesale supplier. They don’t claim to be. What they are is a centralized wholesale source where you can get the cheapest possible prices for drop ship products to sell in your online e-commerce store.

So this is something completely different to conventional wholesale sources where you deal with the wholesale supplier, make a bulk purchase, then store the merchandise while you wait to sell them all off. The primary advantage that Doba has is that they offer drop shipping. If you don’t already understand what drop shipping is – let me briefly explain.

Drop shipping is when you advertise a third party wholesale supplier’s merchandise for sale via whichever you choose. It may be an eBay store, Craigslist, a catalog or your own online presence. Whatever method it is, you don’t purchase any merchandise until you have made a sale. Once a customer has made a purchase from you, you raise the order with Doba and instruct them to ship directly to your customer.

Because Doba is a centralized drop ship service, they in turn order the wholesale supplier to ship the item to your customer.

Many people interpret the model Doba is implementing as a middleman service, when in fact this is not true. You will pay Doba a monthly subscription fee to use the service, but this subscription fee offsets the vast amount of time and effort you would have to spend should you have to place orders for all your products with numerous different dropshippers.

Doba is like a one stop shop for your business. When you are on the look out for items to sell, you go to Doba, when you need to place an order, you go to Doba, when you have to pay for goods, you go to Doba – so it’s much more streamlined to manage your business because you are only dealing with one entity rather than the various ones you would need to deal with to source all the wholesale products that you sell.

It’s this new type of business model that see so many Doba complaints getting – people simply don’t fully understand that this is a different and more efficient way of doing business. One of the best things about businesses like Doba is that they can obtain a much better price as a large buying entity than you as an individual could ever hope to achieve with a wholesale source.