 What's going on guys, welcome to a new video. So in this one, I'm going to give you my top five alternatives to drop shipping from AliExpress. So when you mention drop shipping, then most people's thoughts instantly go to AliExpress, cheap, crappy plastic products that take weeks and weeks to get delivered. However, that's not always the case and that's not actually what I recommend either. AliExpress is great for product research because there's no doubt they have the largest selection of products to choose from. However, once you've found the product that you're going to commit to and you've validated that it works, then in my opinion, you should be doing all you can to then move away from AliExpress because it's going to be extremely, extremely difficult to build a sustainably profitable business in the long run purely and solely drop shipping from AliExpress. Now that's not to say that it can't be done because it can. However, in my opinion, it just doesn't make sense to when you could source a 500 of units that you know for a fact that you can sell, but instead of paying £10 per unit because you're buying one at a time, you're paying say £2 per unit because you're buying 500 at a time, then why would you not do that? However, that's probably a topic for another video. Let's stay on track. And today I want to talk about five alternative companies, websites, whatever you want to call them, that you can drop ship from instead of AliExpress. And number one has to be CJ drop shipping. So probably one of the biggest, if you've never heard of them, they've been established now for many, many years. They saw the increase in popularity of drop shipping and the lack of reliability from AliExpress, especially through COVID, AliExpress delivery times went crazy, crazy high. They saw the opportunity. They talk advantage of it. And they basically in a nutshell, they're kind of like a middleman between us as a drop shipper and the suppliers in China. So typically on AliExpress, you're dealing directly with the supplier. However, with CJ drop shipping, they are your link. They are your connection and they are your quality inspector for a product that you want to buy from China. However, because of the size of them now, they do have warehouses in different countries all across the globe, meaning that they can service US to US or UK to UK in some instances. Now, obviously when you do get to that point, the product ranges are going to be limited because they can't stock the entire warehouse with everything that is on the shelves in China. So you may have to still drop ship from China to UK or China to US. But even so, they still offer some pretty attractive shipping time. So if I just draw your attention to this section here in case you haven't seen it, this is China to the UK. Don't want this TikTok is, to be honest. You can pay for DHL official, which is three to seven days. Probably not going to be relevant to most people because it's super expensive. But these two here are usually affordable for every product on CJ drop shipping. We can see four to nine days or worst case eight to 12. And this is more than quick enough to build a business or at least test a product and validate a product is going to work for you. If you're still hell bent on staying away from things coming overseas and you want to source UK to UK, then what you can do is go up to this warehouse tab up here and select where you want to source your products from. So they do have a warehouse in Britain. So when this loads up, essentially we'll be able to see all of the products which are currently being held in the UK and we can offer that faster shipping or pass that faster shipping on to our customers. So just to take a quick scroll through here, these are essentially all the things that are stopped. Currently in the UK, the CJ drop shipping can send directly to our customers for us. And they're not just cheap crappy plastic products either like here. If you want to sell a $2,000 electric bike and still be able to get it shipped to your customer within a week because it's UK to UK, then you can actually do so. The next supply I want to show you guys is a supplier called Aversam. So it's free to sign up and essentially browse their interface, their app, which you can see on screen now. I'll give you a quick introduction in a few seconds. But then if you want to start placing orders and actually using them, you do have to sign up to a plan. Once you start placing orders through them, that's when you have to sign up to a plan and the starter plan here starts at 20 pounds plus VAT per month. And that covers you up to 50 orders a month. Now that may seem like a pain. It may seem like a massive disadvantage, but in my opinion, I think it's worth it. If you have to only pay 20 pounds a month and it means you can get your products to your customer in two to three days instead of potentially two to three weeks, then to be honest, I think that's 100% worth it. You only have to reduce your refund rate by one order that month and the app has paid for itself. So just to give you a bit of an introduction and walk around Aversam and how it works then, you have your search products function and you essentially have all these different variables which we can select. So we'll get rid of Black Friday deals. Let's go for in-product picks. Let's go for, let's see if, I'm thinking Christmas. Would it be in Q4? Let's go for, let's go for hot and see what comes up. I'm expecting lots of Christmas related things. Again, you can see it's not just cheap plastic crappy products. Well, not for the most anyway. There are still some on here, but let's try and find some Christmas things. So let's just put in the search bar at the top. In fact, let's go for baby and children because these is going to be one of the biggest niches in the next couple of months with people buying toys for their grandchildren and children. So we can see here that we can source larger products because they're already here in the UK. We can source dolls houses which cost us 75 pounds which we could then probably sell for double that. So there are some high ticket products on here, quality high ticket products, everyday kind of products as well which people will be used to seeing in the UK. And after doing a quick search for Christmas we can see just the extensive range of things that we can buy from these guys. This is where these guys come into their own league in my opinion because typically if you're drop shipping from China, you have to be careful of anything that gets shipped in December because if it gets delayed, it's probably not going to get there for Christmas and you're probably going to have to refund your customer whereas using a supplier like Aversam which can ship in two to three days. So let's go for this four foot inflatable Christmas man which we could advertise on Facebook and once it loads up. So including VAT is 17 pound 40. They have a recommended retail price of 50 pounds. So a pretty decent profit margin there. It's got three tracks shipping in two to three days which is very good because it means we can sell all the way up to say the 17th, 18th, 19th, even the 20th of December. Moving on to supply number three and you're probably going to laugh at these guys but trust me they're legit and they're really good. I should say at this point actually that I'm not affiliated with any of the suppliers which I've spoken about in this video. I haven't got links or anything like that for you to go and sign up where I'll get a kickback from them. So their name is BS drop shipping and they're essentially an agent. If you go with these guys you'll probably be working with somebody called Jerry. This is who I worked with when I was using them. I got introduced through a friend that I used to be working with and the time we were working with then they were spot on. They were super responsive to any messages. It didn't matter what time of day it was. Within the space of a couple of minutes they could jump on a call and go through a query that we had if we needed them to do so. So don't judge them necessarily by the name of them. That's obviously been lost in translation to name themselves that. Don't be judged by the fact that they sell cosmetics and they have lighting, fast delivery. These guys are really good and they just streamline the running of your drop shipping business and make it so easy. So the way they worked for us was there was an app, a third-party app we had to install into the Shopify store. What this meant was that they could get access to our orders directly. So there was no order placement from us essentially every day because we were doing enough volume. They were going to our Shopify store and they would take care of the rest. They'd pick, pack, dispatch, send the items direct to the customer, fulfill the order in our Shopify backend and essentially just took care of everything. And then at the end of each day they'd send us an invoice, we'd pay it and we'd just carry on like that. So it was just one invoice, one lump sum to pay each and every day and it was as easy as that. In terms of the actual quality of the product and speed of delivery, the refund rate at the time was less than 1%. I can't remember the exact percentage but it was stupid, stupid low. We'd translate, we'd migrate it from a supplier on Aliexpress to BS drop shipping and we saw a reduction rate massively in our refunds and this was down to the fact that the quality of the products was so much higher and the speed of delivery was so much better too. So if you're in the market for an agent even if you're already established and you're looking for somebody to kind of take on that side of the business then I'd definitely check out BS drop shipping, send them an inquiry and just experience how good their customer service is from your own perspective. Moving on to the fourth supplier. Again, don't judge these guys based on their name. They are called Banggood. A terrible name. However, they're a good drop shipping company. So at the tops, give you a quick introduction then. We have these different options here but just make sure you've got the correct country that you want to be shipping to and then if you go to this one week delivery tab it's essentially going to show you all of the products that can get shipped to the UK in less than a week and they have a vast library of products too. It's not just half a dozen crappy ones that nobody really wants to sell. They have some really decent and relevant and trending products here that you can soon integrate to your Shopify store and get started selling right away. So as an example, we have this F-22 Raptor RC aeroplane which if you ask me is a pretty cool product. You could definitely sell this because of how cool it is. I would say in and around that 100 pound mark. So they do have some high ticket items. As you can see here, you can actually split the payments over three months if you so need to. But more importantly, if I draw your attention to where the variants are you can choose a different modes. That's relevant. And then you can choose where to get it shipped from. So if we want it shipped from the UK for free it ships within 24 hours and gets delivered within three days. And that is UK tracked as well. So as you can see another great supplier if you look into sell right up to that kind of Christmas cutoff instead of having to have that cutoff at the beginning of December you can sell right up to those final last few days. The fifth and final supplier I want to share with you are called godropship.co.uk. So as you probably guessed by the domain it is a UK company. Everything they do is really professional. So this is their homepage here. There's a notice board and I love this feature because it just keeps you up to date with everything that's going on. So if there's any other updates you don't have to worry about reading an email every time you come onto the platform it's going to tell you if there's anything that you need to know. So for example you're probably aware if you're in the UK of the recent Royal Mail strikes that's going to delay postage. So they have an update on the notice board here telling you exactly how this is going to affect you. Some other key benefits to these guys so all in stock in a UK warehouse which is awesome blank package without sender info which is also awesome. Two to seven business days with free UK delivery which is awesome same day dispatch before 9 30 a.m. So if you place an order that morning your customer could have it within two days which is just awesome for customer retention customer satisfaction. If you've been dropshipping for a while you're probably used to PayPal disputes where you have to import tracking numbers and it can be hit and miss what numbers PayPal accepts. All parcels are shipped with a tracking number of Royal Mail tracking number if that's the option you go for which is going to stand up in a PayPal dispute. Let's give you an example of what a product page looks like then this is just a very quick per example that I found because I just wanted to illustrate that the prices are very reasonable so one of the biggest downfalls with UK dropshipping suppliers is that they already have to pay that cost to get the product in the country and then ship it on top so they almost get whacked twice. However these guys the prices of the products are still very reasonable. So so we can see this pet water bottle is 6 pounds 45 and that's with Royal Mail tracked 48 hour shipping which is really good for a similar products like that on Aliexpress you're probably going to be paying the same amount maybe a pound or two cheaper but in my mind it's worth paying extra pound or two to get it shipped to your customer within two business days. And so with that being said guys I'm going to wrap the video up there the five supplies I wanted to share with you in this video. I hope you've enjoyed it more importantly a hope of giving you some ideas or at least inspired some ideas for things you can do next in your business or different products or different suppliers which are going to improve and ultimately help you make a bit more money this Q4. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to subscribe and drop a like any comments questions put them down below and I will get back to you and I'll see you in the next one.