 Why should you dropship from U.S. suppliers? Many dropshippers, especially in the beginning of their journey, usually start by dropshipping from Chinese suppliers. Their products are relatively cheap, so there are higher profit margins. That makes sense, and it's a business model that works. On the other hand, you also have U.S. suppliers who also have huge advantages that can help you grow and profit more. That's why in this video, I'm going to be going over U.S. suppliers and all of the perks that come from working with them so that you can grow your business and profit more. Quick intro, let's begin. Hello everyone, my name is Liran from AutoDS. I'm the content producer and I've also been dropshipping for the last four years. And like I said in this video, we are going to be going over American suppliers, why you should dropship from them, and all of the advantages that come with it. 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So if you watch this video and then you read the article below, you'll have the full picture of everything that we're talking about and why you should go ahead and start working with these U.S. suppliers. So to begin, what are the benefits of working with U.S. suppliers? We are going to compare this to Chinese suppliers because most dropshippers are dropshipping either from Chinese suppliers or from U.S. suppliers. So to start off, when you're dropshipping from U.S. suppliers and you are dropshipping to the U.S. market, your customers will get their packages much faster when their packages are leaving the U.S. And the delivery is in the U.S. Domestic shipping is always much, much faster than international shipping. So when a product leaves China and has to make its way to the U.S., it usually takes around two to three weeks and in worse cases even more. But when a product leaves one of the countries in the United States and needs to make its way to another country in the United States, this can usually take around two to three days, sometimes less, depends which supplier you're working with. And customers are willing to pay more for faster shipping. So faster shipping times and delivery times for U.S. customers, for products leaving the U.S. to the U.S. is much better than products leaving China to the U.S. So if you're working with U.S. customers, working from U.S. suppliers is a much better bargain for your dropshipping business. Another reason why you should work with U.S. suppliers is because they have much more reliable tracking information. What this means is when you're dropshipping and you're selling your products, you have to put tracking information inside each and one of your orders so that your customers will always be able to track their packages. However, many Chinese sellers do not offer trackable tracking information. And even when they do offer tracking information, sometimes it gets forwarded to a few tracking numbers until it reaches the U.S. and it can get a little messy to understand what's going on. This can sometimes cause some problems with our transactions, especially when our customers open item not received cases. And there's no way for us to prove if they got their product or not because there is no tracking information. So when working with U.S. suppliers, most of them always have tracking information available for each and every one of their products. Most of them work with the biggest shipping companies like UPS and FedEx. So there's no problem for the package to reach its target on time with reliable tracking information along the whole way. Tracking numbers usually do not change to different tracking numbers while trying to reach their destination from the U.S. to the U.S. So the tracking information is much more reliable and it helps us with our customer service and we won't be losing any money on reimbursing customers on products that didn't arrive with us having no way to prove it because we didn't have any tracking information. So reliable tracking information is another great reason why you should work with U.S. suppliers. Another reason for you to work with American suppliers is because in many cases you're going to have multiple shipping options available. And what this means is most of the packages will be able to get shipped out in just a few days, which means when a customer puts in an order right now on your shop, he's going to get his product within the next four to five days, which is great. But some customers want to get their products in one day or two days at the most. So some American suppliers can give you this advantage by letting you ship out your products within a day or two. Some will take a few extra dollars and some are going to offer it for free like Amazon Prime, but we're going to talk about all of the American suppliers soon. There's a bunch of them, not just one or two. So you don't have to worry. There's going to be a bunch for you to work with. But the point is there are always multiple shipping options available. When you're drop shipping from China, there is no such thing as getting a product within one or two days. You usually do have FedEx on some suppliers from China, but it comes with a heavy cost of around 30, 50 or maybe even $100 or more really depends on the product. So it just makes the whole transaction not worth it and you won't close that sell. So working with American suppliers will give you multiple shipping options available for the products that you are selling. Another reason for you to work with US suppliers is because of their stock availability. And what I mean by this is most Chinese suppliers that you might be working with, for example, AliExpress, one of the biggest drop shipping marketplaces in the world, each and every seller over there is actually a drop shipper themselves. AliExpress does not have stock. They don't have warehouses like Amazon. So when a seller runs out of stock on AliExpress, it's not him that's running out of stock, it's his supplier from a different Chinese marketplace like Taobao and so forth. So when a Chinese supplier runs out of stock, sometimes you may not know if and when he will refill on stock again, because he doesn't know himself. It's not his stock. When you're drop shipping from American suppliers, you're usually drop shipping from suppliers who are actually holding their physical stock. This means that the stock is managed in a much more sophisticated way. You won't be getting too much into places where you run out of stock and you won't know when it's coming back. Usually the US suppliers know when their stock is about to run out. They usually refill on time. And if they don't refill on time, they know how to give you an indication of when their stock is going to come back. So stock availability is much more reliable from US suppliers. The next reason why you need to work with American suppliers is because of high quality products. And yes, most of the products that are being sold on the US market are made in China. So how can they be higher quality products? Well, that's usually because when products leave China to US warehouses, they undergo a lot of testing before reaching the US. Therefore, when you're buying products from US warehouses, you can be sure that they went through more product testing and therefore these products are usually made of higher quality. This doesn't mean that products once again that are coming from China are not of high quality. There are many high quality products from China, but there are also many low quality products from China. And if you're having a hard time differentiating between them, you should definitely work more with American suppliers. There you can be sure that the average product will be of much higher quality than Chinese products. The next reason why you should work with American suppliers is because Americans simply appreciate made in USA products. You know that Americans are patriotic people, they love their country, and they want to help and support their country's wealth and economics, just as you should for the country that you live in. But since you know this fact, you know that many US residents will want to buy a product from the US just because they know that it's coming from the US and they want to help the small and medium businesses, they want to help the economy. And what better time than now after this crushing year that we had at 2020 with the COVID-19 striking almost everyone's quality of life. So they want to buy more from US marketplaces. And if they see that your product is coming from the US, they would much rather buy it from you than to buy a product from China, which is not helping their economy whatsoever. And once again, what better time to help your economy than now. Another reason why you should work with American suppliers is because you can sell the same products for a higher price tag. And this is because for one, they're getting their products much, much faster. As I've mentioned before, getting a product in two to three days rather than getting a product in two to three weeks, there's no problem to pay more for that product and get it within two to three days. So that's one reason how you can sell the same product for a higher price tag. And like I said one paragraph before, it's also helping the US economy when Americans are buying from US marketplaces, they know that they're helping the economy and that's exactly what they want to do. So they'd have no problem paying a little bit more and buying it from a US marketplace. For example, from your store selling from the US to the US and not from your competitor, who's only selling products from China. The next reason why you want a drop ship from US suppliers is because US suppliers are going to give you overall better customer support. And there's a few factors why Americans give better customer support. For one, when you reach out for customer support, you're usually going to do it in English because that's the spoken language. And when you'd reach out to a Chinese seller, you may sometimes notice that their English is a little bit broken. And many times you'll have a hard time understanding them, they'll have a hard time understanding you. And in many cases, it takes them a long time to respond. Sometimes it can take more than 24 hours just to get a simple reply. There's also a lot of Chinese holidays. It's hard to keep up with them and there's many of them. And they're never working on these Chinese holidays. So do not expect any answer. When compared to US suppliers, when you reach out to them in customer service, big suppliers usually have a live 24 seven chat, which makes it much more convenient. And in most cases, American suppliers will offer you free returns when compared to Chinese suppliers who usually never offer free returns, unless the product really arrived damage and you have to prove it by sending pictures and so forth. And even if the return is paid or not paid, the whole process itself can be really difficult because it takes a long time for the product to reach its destination when we're talking China and US. And when you're going with American suppliers, the return and refund process is usually much faster, much smoother, and your customers don't end up biting their nails and asking themselves why they made the mistake of buying from your store. You want to get this top notch customer service when it comes to returns, replacements and refunds. And only US suppliers can make this process easy going and smooth. So better customer support is another reason why you should work with American suppliers. Now let's move on to the list of the best American suppliers that you can work with today for your dropshipping business and start really making more profit handle your customer service in a much better and more professional way and overall enjoy running your business a lot more. So the top nine American suppliers for dropshipping in no particular order, the first US supplier that we would like to recommend you guys to work with is Wayfair. Wayfair is a dropshipping friendly US supplier with warehouses all over the world. Many of them are in the US, which means that many of their products are shipping to the US within two to three days. Here is their front page. I'm not going to go over it too much because you guys really need to go ahead and do your homework and start looking at these suppliers and see what each one has to offer. But we already did our homework. We already know the suppliers were working with them for a few years and there are many products to sell within these suppliers. So go ahead and check them out. Wayfair also has a daily sales page so you can see which products are on sale right now so you can make more profit from those specific items. And by the way, I want to remind you guys that everything that I'm talking about with the links right below this video in the full blog below. So if you click on the daily sales link, you'll be able to see what products are on sale right now. And as you can see, they have a whole bunch of categories and this chair looks like the one that's behind me right now. As you can see, I just took the pillow off but it's pretty much the same chair. So that's cool. But anyway, as you can see, there are filled with products filled with categories. It's not going to go into it. That's what you need to do. So Wayfair is the first supplier that I want you guys to check out. The second supplier is Costway, another wonderful dropshipping friendly supplier with warehouses in the US so they can ship out quickly to US residents. They have free shipping on pretty much all of their products and they also have a dropshipping agreement which makes it much easier for people who are dropshipping on places like eBay. If you click on the link on the blog below, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about and how to get that dropshipping agreement. So here is Costway. As you can see, they're getting ready for Black Friday and for Christmas. We're already seeing the Christmas trees. We're seeing a black layout for Black Friday. You have all of the Black Friday sales. So this is a supplier who's been around for a while. They know what they're doing. They're making really good business with many dropshippers. So Costway is another dropshipping supplier that you need to check out. The next US supplier that I want to recommend to you guys is a supplier called Overstock. Overstock is also a dropshipping friendly supplier. They also have daily deals. They even have a price matching policy so you can profit more. All of your payments can be done through PayPal so it makes it much easier to handle the cash flow. They also have daily deals so you can see what's on sale right now and they sell in the most popular and trending categories. So check out Overstock, US dropshipping friendly supplier with fast shipping, easy payments and great customer service. The next US supplier that I want to recommend to you is Walmart and one of the best advantages about Walmart is they have a next day delivery option for many of their products and this is one thing that many US customers are looking for. Next day delivery is one of the biggest advantages that you can have today when you're running a dropshipping business. So besides having pretty much any category you guys can think of with tens of thousands of products they also have clearance sales and big savings so if you click on the links on the blog that we have below you'll be able to see these pages. Here is the clearance sales for example. Here you can see all of the products that are on sale like this dinosaur costume which is very very trendy instead of $50, $38.33 so you have your clearance sales, you have your big savings. Check out these pages because you'll be able to find products that you have on Amazon and other US marketplaces but you'll have them much cheaper here because of these clearance sales. So Walmart is another supplier that you should add to your list. The next US supplier and this is one of the best ones that people have been dropshipping from for the last few years and it's simply been a goldmine. Just don't dropship using gift cards because they will lock your accounts and it'll make everything much harder. Use a regular credit card when you're working with Amazon and it'll simply make the whole process much much smoother. So if you haven't seen Amazon's front page I'm sure you have unless you're really in the beginning of your journey. My advice for you guys on Amazon is to check out the best sellers, check out new releases. Usually you'll be able to find gems either here or there or somewhere in between but this is how you learn about products that are selling and then trying to catch new trends. This is usually what works on Amazon. You can also check out their best sellers using the link in the blog below and if you sign up for Amazon's Prime membership it does have a monthly cost but the amount of profit that you can make dropshipping from Amazon is simply amazing and having a Prime membership will allow you to dropship millions of products to any US customer and the product will reach them within a day or two with free shipping and free returns. The whole process is really really easy. Most of it is automated so if you haven't worked with Amazon before I definitely recommend to work with them. The next supplier that I want to recommend is Costco. Many people are dropshipping from them but on the other hand many people haven't heard of them or have heard of them but haven't thought about dropshipping from them. They are another supplier to find a whole range of products from. They have very fast two-day shipping on most of their products so go ahead and check out their site see what they have to offer and if you use our blog below you'll also have a link to their online offers page. If we just scroll down a little bit to products that are more dropshippable you'll be able to see them like these gloves over here these touch gloves this heated throw blanket which is one of the products that we recommend to dropship on my video blogs for the best products to dropship so you have their clearance page and besides that go into their front page go inside their categories check out their products check out their prices and you'll see that this is another great supplier and many of the products that they're selling are really really good for dropshippers. Many gems can be found in Costco so go ahead and check them out. The next supplier is Home Depot. Home Depot is another US supplier they have warehouses all over the United States and their main niche is the home and garden niche mostly for home improvement and home decor. They're always selling products that are trending that people are really looking for so go ahead and check out Home Depot if you haven't checked them out before and as you can see pretty much every supplier that I'm showing you guys already have all of these Black Friday deals and also for Christmas which is coming soon and we already have blogs and videos for Cyber Monday Black Friday Christmas and everything that comes in between. We have blogs and videos for product ideas that you guys need to add to your stores so check them out too but that's not what I'm here to talk to you guys about so US supplier number seven is Home Depot this brings us to number eight and number eight is Target they are another huge online marketplace which ship really really quick to US residents because they are from the US let me show you their front page and once again getting ready for Black Friday Cyber Monday and here's Christmas these guys are always ready on time and they have many products with great prices which is also good for us for the dropshipping business model so go ahead and add Target to your list see what they have check out their prices compare it with the other suppliers that I'm showing you guys and this way you'll be able to get a better idea of the suppliers that you need to work with the next US supplier that I want you guys to check out is an American retailer called Lowe's Lowe's is an American retailer who focuses mainly on the home and garden niche just like Home Depot but it's another great addition that you guys need to check out this is their front page they're already getting ready with holiday inflatables this is one of the products that I recommended to dropship in our Christmas video blog about the best products to dropship for Christmas Christmas trees also but once again I'm getting out of the subject let's go back Lowe's is a great supplier with many products coming from the US with fast shipping to the US they also have great prices which is great for the dropshipping business model so go ahead and check them out they also have new arrivals and daily deals these are two topics that you guys always need to stay sharp on so let's check it out really quick new arrivals daily deals here on the daily deals you have all the great deals and all the great prices that they have going on right now and in what's new here you can find secret hidden gems so try to check out products that are selling well for you or for other dropshippers and try to find similar products in the new arrival section this is where you're gonna find those secret hidden gems where you're gonna have 10 20 30 and even 50 sales just on one product this is how you start those tidal waves of huge sales before your competitors get to them so by now I hope that you guys learned and understand the importance of working with American suppliers and not just with Chinese suppliers faster shipping times higher product prices means higher profits better customer satisfaction and then overall much better workflow experience with your customers with your suppliers the problems that may happen in between everything is simply much smoother when working with us suppliers and in many cases much more profitable start working with them and you'll start seeing the results I hope you enjoyed this video guys I hope you found it informational if you did give us a like give us a share and subscribe to our channel so that you can always stay updated with informational videos like this one because I record them a lot and we simply have a lot of videos that came out and that are coming out in the dropshipping world so good luck with those us suppliers and I'll see you in the future videos