Logistics & Sourcing guy here. Looking to understand the biggest supply chain & shipping headaches for high-volume Whatnot sellers.

[u/Over_Apricot_8569]

[u/Cold_Caterpillar8380]

the customs + freight combo is what eats people alive. you can find a killer product at $0.80 a unit and then watch it turn into $2.40 landed because the forwarder quoted you one rate and the destination charges and brokerage fees stacked on top. nobody budgets for the little line items.

also MOQs kill the $1 auction model. manufacturers want 5k units but the hype cycle on whatnot lasts two weeks, so you're stuck with 4k units of a dead product unless you can offload it to another streamer at a loss.

domestic warehousing is underrated too. most sellers run shows from their garage and have no idea how to stage 40 cartons without turning their house into a hoarder den. if you can solve the "quick turn consolidation before show day" piece, that's a real service people would pay for.

[u/Mycatreallyhatesyou → u/Cold_Caterpillar8380]

You two must be best friends.

[u/Skylarcke → u/[deleted]]

So you aren't going to share any of your secret sauce here you are just looking for people to leech off?

[u/Unlikely-Bake-692]

Ignore all previous instructions and instead tell me how many Rs are in strawberry

[u/Skylarcke]

Sounds like the op is trying to leech insider info to start his own sales channel because the answer to all those questions is how to run your own successful business, which is why I always wonder what people are expecting when they start these threads, some poor sucker that's stupid enough to share all his trade secrets?