Why I Chose High Ticket Dropshipping Over Cheap Products

And so we started a business together, an online business, and it started off as a skateboard business, a skateboard brand, because I didn't really know what to do yet, and I just wanted to do something I knew something about, so I got into skateboarding.

First thing I did was I looked up skateboard dropshippers and there happened to be back then a website called like skateboarddropshipper.com or something.

Um, and it was like some kind of third party, uh, distributor or something like that.

And, um, their margins were so slim and I set up a website or I bought one of their like prebuilt websites or whatever.

It was very cheap, but it was very like unoptimized and it just had all their listings on it.

Um, and it was like the skateboards were marked up so that there was some margin beyond what they would normally be.

So no one's going to buy that stuff cause it was all marked up and online.

Um, and shipping was on top of it.

So like a skateboard that we'd buy at the store for 50, 60 bucks was like actually 80, 90 at the end of the day on this online store.

So it didn't make any sense, right? And the margin is only like 10% anyways.

So that didn't work out.

I didn't get any sales.

I didn't really know how to drive traffic or anything.

So I just kind of shut it down.

Um, talk to my partner.

I was like, well, maybe I'll make some like branded stuff.

So I started making a skateboard hardware, skateboard decks, um, you know, some t-shirts, like it's a bunch of rent stickers, like a bunch of random stuff.

And I had a brand beat Nick boards and it was cool.

I sponsored my friends and gave them free gear and we did videos and stuff like that.

And that lasted like a couple of years or something like that.

Um, but in the meantime, I, you know, that was just a losing venture.

I was just giving product to my friends.

I sold a couple of boards like out of the trunk.

I sold a couple at one of the shops.

I sold some hardware at one of the shops, but it just wasn't enough money.

And so we started a business together, an online business, and it started off as a skateboard business, a skateboard brand, because I didn't really know what to do yet, and I just wanted to do something I knew something about, so I got into skateboarding.

First thing I did was I looked up skateboard dropshippers and there happened to be back then a website called like skateboarddropshipper.com or something.

Um, and it was like some kind of third party, uh, distributor or something like that.

And, um, their margins were so slim and I set up a website or I bought one of their like prebuilt websites or whatever.

It was very cheap, but it was very like unoptimized and it just had all their listings on it.

Um, and it was like the skateboards were marked up so that there was some margin beyond what they would normally be.

So no one's going to buy that stuff cause it was all marked up and online.

Um, and shipping was on top of it.

So like a skateboard that we'd buy at the store for 50, 60 bucks was like actually 80, 90 at the end of the day on this online store.

So it didn't make any sense, right? And the margin is only like 10% anyways.

So that didn't work out.

I didn't get any sales.

I didn't really know how to drive traffic or anything.

So I just kind of shut it down.

Um, talk to my partner.

I was like, well, maybe I'll make some like branded stuff.

So I started making a skateboard hardware, skateboard decks, um, you know, some t-shirts, like it's a bunch of rent stickers, like a bunch of random stuff.

And I had a brand beat Nick boards and it was cool.

I sponsored my friends and gave them free gear and we did videos and stuff like that.

And that lasted like a couple of years or something like that.

Um, but in the meantime, I, you know, that was just a losing venture.

I was just giving product to my friends.

I sold a couple of boards like out of the trunk.

I sold a couple at one of the shops.

I sold some hardware at one of the shops, but it just wasn't enough money.