Using a drop shipper can be very expensive. It is best to pick items from the more famous and well used websites that ship for free. List them on your site, marking up as needed, and when they are ordered, go to the site where you found the item and order it shipped to your customer and billed to you. The customer orders and pays for it on TC. You could put in the description that the item will be shipped by another company so that they will know when it arrives that it was their item ordered through TC.Some companies will let you be a distributor who sells their items and they will ship them directly to your customer.
You can join many sites that sell items and get a discount. Doing this requires constant monitoring of the items you have listed to see if the price has changed or is no longer available. Some of these sites charge a fee to be an associate member so that you get a discount, or require that you join a shipping group to get free shipping.
Since you are not sending the person off your TC page, but are doing it yourself, you do not break the rules of being an ECA. You can not place an item on your site where the customer has to leave your site to purchase the item or have it shipped.
Using a drop shipper can be very expensive. It is best to pick items from the more famous and well used websites that ship for free. List them on your site, marking up as needed, and when they are ordered, go to the site where you found the item and order it shipped to your customer and billed to you. The customer orders and pays for it on TC. You could put in the description that the item will be shipped by another company so that they will know when it arrives that it was their item ordered through ...more
