Looking to break into the e-commerce business online? Looking for companies that drop ship for you? Well, if you do there are some things I learned that I would like to share with everyone:
First thing, avoid "listing services" that charge excessive membership fees, such as DOBA.com. My experience with them was bad.
Below is their ad that I clicked on:
Looking for more products to help your online store grow?
Doba provides a website where suppliers who drop ship products can list their inventory and online sellers can choose from over 1,500, 000 products at wholesale prices to sell.
Start your free 14-day trial today!
This ad is listed as a "Partner" for Bluehost.com on their cPanel.
Sounds good, huh?
Well they charged my credit card after the 7th day. Says so much for the 14 day free trial. Classic bait and switch maybe?
That was the icing on the cake that caused me to cancel my account, but it is not the only issue I had with DOBA services.
In order to benefit at all from the services DOBA offered, you had to manually enter each item into your shopping cart program. If you attempted to download any CSV or Excel file, they immediately wanted to charge you that day with the premium membership fee of $49.95. I refused, and so should you. We should be able to fully evaluate DOBA's services without such "cripples".
Their "training" they offer for "free" is rather lame. The webinars are sub-quality, amateur voice recordings and offer minimum content and some of it is in such monotone conversation it is hard to follow their message. It's like their speaker sat at a PC with his microphone attached and read a script. I was not at all impressed. There was very little actual "meat" offered in their training. My recommendation is go elsewhere to get ecommerce education or just buy a book. Several are probably at public libraries you can read for free.
They do not provide very much quality coaching at all. Sure they post some success stories, but just enough to bait you in and rip you off. If you were to look for references, you could not. You are more apt to find bad things about DOBA than good.
For example: Check out the following link at the BBB Online national directory:
Http://utah. BBB.org/WWWRoot/Report. Aspx? Site=139&bbb=1166&firm=5002299
DOBA has 317 complaints (mine to be added) for various customer complaints. BBB Online somehow sees fit to rate them at A-, but I rate them at F. They are clearly a scam and out to lift money out of your pocket rather than help you make money.
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