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FEATURE
Gift
Dropship.com
Offers Preloaded Sites
FTF ERE A RETAILER, eBay store, fl ea marketer fully loaded websites. “We have preloaded websites,
or aoro nyone else who sells product sets up which come with everything we carry already on
ana account at Gift
Dropship.com, the site,” says Bradshaw. “Th ese websites start
they can simply visit that website, order the at $36.95 a month, if you prepay for a year.
product and have it shipped in their store’s Otherwise, they cost $49.95 a month. Th at
name to their customer. Th e shipping is includes hosting, customer service and all
free; there are no dropship fees, member- of the products already loaded on the web-
ship fees, or sign-up fees. In fact, the website off ers all site.” Th ere are several templates to choose from.
this and a Bett er Business Bureau A+ rating; not an Th e website is preconfi gured with all of the shipping
easy task in this age of impatient customers. and credit card companies. Basically, customers sign
“We look out for the litt le guy,” says Gift Drops- up, do a few things to personalize the site and buy a
hip owner, Jimmy Bradshaw, from his headquarters domain name. “Once they get a domain name, they
in Lancaster, SC. “We sell to big stores, box sto- already have a store and are ready to go. All they
res and TV auction networks. have to do is promote it.”
We sell everything at the same Th e retailer buying the
price to these stores as we do website can also set the per-
“Our competition’s
to the litt le website, the mom centage of profit with the
and pops, the convenience sto- wholesale price is almost click of a computer key. Just
res, the gift websites and eBay how easy is the system to use?
double what ours is.”
stores.” Bradshaw got into the Bradshaw explains that when
business in 1988 with a fl ea
Jimmy Bradshaw, owner of Gift Dropship
the preloaded website is up
market business. He began and running and an order is
to tinker with websites in the placed, the owner of the site
early 1990s, as the Internet was gett ing off simply goes to Gift
Dropship.com, orders the item,
of the ground, and went on to perfect the and changes the shipping address to their
Gift Dropship concept. customer’s address. Th e product is shipped
Setting up an account with Gift directly to the customer, who is unaware
Dropship is simple. “If you are in South that gift
dropship.com even exists.
Carolina, where we are headquartered,” Gift Dropship features several hundred
continues Bradshaw, you need a tax ID items on the website currently, but its best
number because we are a licensed wholesale sellers are the stained glass products. “Our
company—one of the few licensed wholesale customer favorites are the stained glass items:
companies out there. Other than that, all you have Tiff any-style lamps, fi replace screens and stained
to do is go to the ‘My Account’ tab, and you are set up glass panels. Th ese products are so popular because they
and ready to go.” Gift Dropship does not just service are made of real stained glass that is hand cut and
the entrepreneur who wants to have an eBay busi- high-heat soldered. Our competition’s wholesale
ness or a brick and mortar store; the fi rm also off ers price is almost double what ours is.” Th ere are
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38 March 2010
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