Spocket: USA & EU Dropshipping

very cool....................................................................................................

Very easy to use and absolutely AMAZING customer support. Russel helped answer all of my questions quickly and thoroughly with great detail so that I understood everything clearly. I am very pleased and happy with my choice to use Spocket for my new dropshipping store on Shopify. Highly recommended! :)

Great customer service

I have beeing using Spocket for only one week and therefore cannot give an exhaustive opinion but their support service is great. Thanks to Erwin for his quick and efficient support.

Its pretty good! Easy to use and creates a pretty wseemless connection between products and your store

Great products

I'm just new to this app but i really like it. Good products and good video explanations. I do like the fact that the shipping days are lower compared to others drop shipping apps.

I have a business physically, with more than 500 products in 3 physical stores. I decided to put this App to add some products that I do not have, for online sales. I found myself with unqualified suppliers, very high shipping prices, the first trial order was canceled after 12 days of waiting. It was for me, I wanted to test the system before taking my clients. The customer service is incompetent, they never knew what happened to my shipment. they just told me wait until this day. Another one of the customer service seems racist. He does not know what Puerto Rico, Hawaii or Virgin Islands is part of the USA, and I treat in a contemptuous and minimizing way. or mentioning Mexico ?. I really never thought of meeting these types of people giving support services.

Thanks for such a bad experience. I do not recommend this APP at all.

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Tengo un negocio físico, con más de 500 productos en 3 tiendas físicas. Decidí poner esta aplicación para agregar algunos productos que no tengo, para ventas en línea. Me encontré con proveedores no calificados, precios de envío muy altos, el primer pedido de prueba fue cancelado después de 12 días de espera. Era para mí, quería probar el sistema antes de llevar a mis clientes. El servicio al cliente es incompetente, nunca supieron lo que sucedió con mi envío. solo me dijeron que esperara hasta este día. Otro de los servicios al cliente parece racista. No sabe qué Puerto Rico, Hawái o las Islas Vírgenes son parte de los EE. UU., Y trato de una manera despectiva y minimizadora. o mencionando a México? Realmente nunca pensé en conocer a este tipo de personas que brindan servicios de apoyo.

Gracias por tan mala experiencia. No recomiendo esta aplicación en absoluto

If I could give you no stars, I would. I uninstalled this app and they continue to try charge my credit card three sometimes four times a week.
This locks my card up every time and I have to call and get a new card and contact everyone that I have set up to pay on my card and give them my new card... THREE TIMES A WEEK!

I've been using this for 2 months, so I can give an extensive opinion.
You Should NOT install this app if you're just starting out with dropshipping or if even if you have been dropshipping for a while and I will extensively explain why...

Let me start off with the positives:
//Customer Service//
Spocket's customer service is top of the line! My questions were answered within 12 hours, sometimes even 1 hour! The explanation is concise, straight to the point and easy to understand.

//The User Interface//
Easy to browse products and sort based on specifications.

Now that that's out of the way (yes only 2 positives), let us talk about the negative in chronological order.

//The Pricing//
The $12/month starter plan is probably the best value. Anything else is a rip off if you only get 1-10 orders per day.

//The User Interface//
You can't edit the products in the app after you've imported them, which is fine. But if you touch any variation, THE WHOLE PRODUCT STOPS WORKING!
Then if you try to resync the product you'll soon discover that that's not even possible! You have to delete the product on your shopify store and then re-download via the app. If there's a variant that you don't want, YOU CAN'T DELETE IT.

You also cannot edit any order in the app. Product editing and Order editing are two basic functionalities in any other products-app, how can you not even get that right?!

//The Sellers//
There are multiple points here so I'll split it into subtitles.
--Anonimity--
This is very shady: All sellers get a pseudonym from Spocket so you can't find them online and try to cut a deal out of the app. Names like "Orange Eunostous", "Orange Pine" and "Orange Charlie" can't be real business names. I can understand the anonimity though. What I don't understand is that YOU CANNOT CONTACT ANY SELLER DIRECTLY VIA THE APP!!! You'll always have to contact the Spocket customer service for an answer from your seller. Took me a week to negotiate an international shipping fee down from $21(ridiculously high) to $15 , more on that later.

--The quality and consistency of sellers--
There is such a HUGE difference in quality between the sellers. 1 Seller will process your order in 1 day and another will take 7 days. 1 Seller will charge you $5 for shipping and another $20. YOU'LL DEFINITELY LOSE MONEY IF YOU DON'T CHARGE $15 SHIPPING ON YOUR OWN STORE. Spocket should hold it's sellers to a higher standard!
The only thing you need to become a seller, is prove that you have your own stock and that your products are unique. Let me tell you someting: Atleast 50% of the products can be found on Aliexpress for half the price!

--The Products--
Spocket constantly tries to push you to buy their Pro subscription for $99/month to get access to "premium" products. The products are not premium at all. Printed masks and aliexpress products are premium? haha, give me a break. NOT WORTH $49 or $99/month. You can find most of the products on Aliexpress or just your local printing shop for half the price. Most of the sellers are just a middelman that make money by selling to you, so only cutting into your profits. Don't fall for this.

--The shipping--
As I stated before, there's no consistency with the shipping time: An order can take 1 day to process and 3 days to ship, while another can take 1 month in total! Just recently, an order took 20 days to get shipped out and they only notified me after 14 days!! WHAT?!
At times it was literally FASTER to find the product on Aliexpress, place the order and get it delivered to your customer.

//What should (new) dropshippers do?//
If I were you, I'd look for sourcing dropshipping plugins that have a centralized stock. You're not Amazon, so don't put your trust into hundreds of sellers that you can't do a background check on for yourself to carry your brand. There are thousands of sourcers on like Alibaba or anywhere on the web that will gladly support your dropshipping business idea with no money down and a flexible growth formula. (I won't mention a specific company, because that would make this a dishonest review in my eyes) Don't get fooled and find something else!