 The top 10 AliExpress alternatives for dropshipping. For those of you in the beginning of your dropshipping journey, you probably have your eye on AliExpress and there's a good reason for that. It's a good Chinese supplier with so many products, a good dropshipping center where you guys can find trending products to dropship. But that also comes with a certain cost and if you guys know about the saying do not put all of your eggs in one basket, AliExpress is a great example for that. That's why in this video we're going to go over the top 10 alternatives that you guys should know about and also work with. Quick intro and let's go. Hello everyone, my name is Leran, I'm the content manager at AutoDS and I've also been selling online for the last several years and in this video we're going to talk about the top 10 AliExpress alternatives for dropshipping. So if you're in the beginning of your journey and you were thinking about working only with AliExpress, definitely watch this video before you get started. Now remember guys, everything that I'm going over in this video is on our blog page. I will leave a link to this article right below this video so you guys can read about it after watching. If you like to read and do not forget to also like and subscribe to our videos to always stay updated on all of the latest and all of the hottest topics that we have coming out in the world of dropshipping. That being said, let's dive straight down into the action and learn about what alternatives we have to AliExpress. So first let's ask ourselves, why do we even need alternative suppliers to AliExpress when they have millions of products in every certain category that you guys can think of and every time new products come out and new trends, it usually comes in AliExpress first. So why do we need an alternative to such a supplier? Well, the answer to that is you do not want to put all of your eggs in one basket and rely only on one supplier. The reason for that, well let's say for example, we've got the Chinese holidays. So a few times a year there are Chinese holidays and then the Chinese are simply not working, you cannot speak to any supplier, any seller and your orders can be delayed by a while, sometimes it can even take two to three weeks and nobody wants to put up with these order cancellations and mad customers wondering why they did not ship out their products. The other reason why you'd want to have alternatives to AliExpress is to have a reach into more markets that are not just in China, even though AliExpress has warehouses worldwide now, they've got warehouses in the UK, in the US and other countries too, but they are not storing that many products there. That is why we need our alternatives to have a bigger product line and be able to reach to a much bigger target market and simply ship faster domestically. Lastly, it is not easy to put up with AliExpress's returns. If one of your buyers wants to return a product on AliExpress, you, the seller, are most likely going to be responsible for paying for the return shipping, so that means that you have to charge your buyer for return shipping, buyers do not like to pay for return shipping and especially if you're drop shipping on eBay, it's going to get your listing not seen by other sellers who do offer free returns. So you want to be able to offer free returns, you want to give good service to your customers, you don't want the package to take too long to reach its destination and those are the main reasons why you want to seek alternatives to AliExpress. So let's get on with the list. What are the top 10 alternatives to AliExpress? I'm going to start with number one, one of my top personal favorites and that is Amazon. Thousands and thousands of dropshippers are using Amazon as their main supplier for their dropshipping business, whether you're dropshipping on eBay, Shopify, the Facebook marketplace, it really doesn't matter. As long as you know how to work the right way, you won't have to deal with things like getting account locks. If you're using the fulfilled by Autodesk service, automatic orders, you're not using your own buyer accounts. But for those of you who don't know, Amazon has got pretty much everything and the best part about it, they've got free, no hassle returns. No matter what reason your buyer wants to return a product, even though we don't like dealing with returns, but if we have to deal with them, let's let our supplier pay for the return shipping and give better service to our customers. Not only that, Amazon ships from and to the US in one to two days. Now, most of your buyers are going to be happy and they'll want to even pay more for their product if they're going to get it that much quicker. So that is why Amazon is one of the most used suppliers when it comes to dropshipping. Number two on the list, we've got Walmart. Now, Walmart is almost as big as Amazon. They've got almost the same product line. They've also got great service, great return policies and free two-day deliveries on most of their products on their website for anyone who lives in the United States. So if you guys haven't heard about them, I'm pretty sure that you have. Of course, you can also use them when importing your products and price and stock monitoring when using AutoDS, same for Amazon and same for the rest of the suppliers that I'll be talking about in this video. So that's definitely going to help you guys save your time when importing and when monitoring your stock and your prices. So you can easily scale to the moon with these AliExpress alternatives. The third one on the list is Home Depot. Now Home Depot is mainly on the home niche. So all of the products that you're going to see here is usually home improvement, home and furniture, any product that's under that line, but they definitely are the winners when it comes to the home niche. So definitely use them. And if you live in other places outside the US, there are some countries where Home Depot doesn't allow you to enter their website. So if you have that problem, you can use VPNs or Proxies to connect to them just to grab those products. And once again, you can use the Fulfilled by AutoDS service to fulfill your orders. So you don't have to create a buyer account on Home Depot and you also won't have to use your own credit card, your own credit line. And of course, you won't have to be dealing with locked accounts when they see that you are dropshipping internationally and they have no idea who you are. The fourth AliExpress alternative is Wayfair. Now Wayfair as opposed to the other suppliers that I just talked about is a super dropshipping friendly supplier. Now it doesn't really matter if your suppliers overall are dropshipping friendly or not, but it will be more practical for you guys to work with those who are dropshipping friendly and also mixing in those that are less dropshipping friendly because hey, it still works and you can make so much profit from dropshipping from multiple suppliers. So Wayfair once again, they are more focused on the home niche, kind of like Home Depot, but once again, they're looking for dropshippers like you to list their products and help them resale all of the items that you see on their website. They'll also offer you competitively low prices and offer free shipping for orders over $35. The fifth AliExpress alternative on the list is CJ Dropshipping, another super dropshipping friendly supplier and not only that, they also have a print-on-demand service which many people are looking for and POD is definitely on the rise. It's in demand and dropshippers who have taken advantage of POD services have definitely seen those profits coming in and I highly suggest you guys to check them out too. There are additional advantages to working with CJ Dropshipping like having the ability to ship from different warehouses so they don't only ship from China, you're still going to get low-priced Chinese products but you'll also be able to ship them, for example, from US warehouses or warehouses from Great Britain if you want to dropship to the UK quickly and once again, low Chinese prices, fast domestic shipping to your target market. So that's another reason to be also working with CJ Dropshipping and once again, they are definitely looking for dropshippers like you and I to work with them. The sixth alternative to AliExpress is Banggood. If you guys have been dropshipping for a while, you've heard about Banggood, they've also been around for a while, another super dropshipping friendly supplier and they also have a dropship center which helps dropshippers like you and I get more discounts on dropshipping orders. So you can be an end consumer simply ordering from their website without any special discount or you can be a dropshipper and have another competitive edge. So use Banggood, their warehouses are mostly coming from China which means we're still going to have to deal with Chinese shipping which could sometimes take a while but I would definitely recommend to go inside the product listing see how long it takes to ship and go for items that don't take longer than 14 days. That is usually the maximum that the American consumer or the UK consumer or any other consumer around the world would want to wait for their package to get delivered. So check that out, also definitely check out the seller's ratings. That way you can see what sellers have high quality products and you'll be able to also resell them to your target market. The seventh supplier is China Brands. Now China Brands once again has been around for a while. They are very dropshipping friendly. They have a huge selection of products. Yes even though their products are coming out of China you'll still be able to find a lot of products that will sell for you from China Brands and not only that you also have a dropshipping agreement from them that's one of our integrations with them and with this dropshipping agreement you guys are going to be able to show it to anyone who asks for it from you like for example sometimes eBay will want to see some kind of agreement that you have with your private supplier and China Brands can offer that for you. There is no affiliate going on between us and them we just want you guys to be able to have a smoother dropshipping experience with fewer bumps on the road and that is one of the ways to do it with China Brands. The eighth alternative to AliExpress is Costway another very dropshipping friendly supplier with over 8,000 self branded products so they know what works they started as dropshippers themselves and slowly created their own company and now they can also offer you a dropshipping agreement and they have fast shipping to the United States and not only that the return policy is one of a kind you'll have 90 days to return products that you bought from Costway so offer the same condition to your buyers and they will definitely thank you for it and take you into consideration over other sellers who do not offer three months to return their products. Now once again guys we're not here for returns we're not making profit from returns but some buyers will want to return products a very low percentage in my personal experience three and a half to four percent of my thousands of transactions have turned into returns and that is no problem at all because that is a very small price to pay to offer very good customer service and even get returning customers from it. The ninth supplier that is an alternative to AliExpress is Alibaba. Now for those of you who know about these companies you know that Alibaba or that AliExpress is the sister site to Alibaba so it belongs to Alibaba Alibaba is the bigger organization who usually works with MOQ which means minimum order quantity so that means that if you want to buy from Alibaba you'll mostly have to buy more than the quantity of one but that has changed recently and Alibaba has also opened their doors to drop shippers and online sellers all around the world who even would like to start with a minimum order quantity of one unit so now it's possible and you can see all of the products that you have on Aliexpress are usually taken from websites like Alibaba Taobao and other Chinese giants who simply have Chinese agents who create stores on Aliexpress and list products that you see on Alibaba Taobao and so forth so this way you're also going to get the source for the products that you see from Aliexpress so that's definitely another great alternative to have and the last alternative that I want to show you guys the tenth one is Wish Wish is relatively new compared to the other suppliers that I talked about in this video but Wish is definitely here to stay with revolutionary new product finding tools to help you guys find the best products to resell to your buyers and once again super dropshipping friendly so in time we're seeing more and more dropshipping friendly suppliers rising up and giving a good competition to Aliexpress who have been dominating the e-commerce market for dropshippers for way too long so I hope that you guys enjoyed this video on the top 10 alternatives to Aliexpress once again you'll get the link to the blog right below this video so you guys can read on in more in depth about what each supplier can offer you and once again guys work with multiple suppliers never work with only one supplier even if you have a lot of success working with only one supplier you'll start to notice the advantages of working with multiple suppliers once you try it out so go ahead and do that right after watching this video start adding more products from different suppliers ones that I mentioned in this video let me know how it went in the comments below and I will personally answer and help you guys even more don't forget to like this video and subscribe to our youtube channel if you guys appreciate the value in the content good luck with working with multiple suppliers that are alternatives to Aliexpress and I'll see you guys in the future videos