It is a great temptation to display on your website a wide selection of products as it increases your chances to sell more products. But it can result in your customers complete dissatisfaction once you fail to fulfill most of approved orders.
As I know from my experience it happens quite regularly a buyer places an order for 3-5 items, you check that with the merchant and discover that they have just 1-2 available form the entire order. You contact your buyer, apologize and say that you can fulfill just a part of his order offering him to choose replacement products or a partial refund.
THE BUYER WILL CANCEL THE ORDER IN 80% CASES. And will never visit to your website again. And will share his miserable experience with his family, co-workers, neighbors and everyone he knows.
With dropshipping, your relations with merchants are probably the key element to your failure or success. You should at least weekly (preferably daily) get their updated catalogs of the products they have in stock and update accordingly offers displayed at your website. For that you need:
– great relations with the merchant who will accept your request to daily e-mail...