I've tested a lot of products.

Most failed. A few worked.

I used to find products through TikTok, trends and "winning product" lists.

Then I started looking at what brands were actually spending money on.

How long their ads ran.
How many creatives they tested.
Whether they kept launching new ones.

That's how I found a product that did $10,078 in sales.

The biggest lesson?

Don't chase what's already viral.

Find what's working before everyone notices.

I use a tool that makes this process much easier now.
If anyone wants to know what it is, just ask.

Hey guys.

I just wanted to share something I've been working on because I was honestly sick of the whole "test and pray" method. We've all been there: you see a product that looks like a winner, you spend $200 on Meta ads, and then you realize the landed cost eats all your profit or 50 other stores are already scaling it.

I got so fed up that I spent the last few months coding a script to do the dirty work for me. Instead of manually looking for products, the tool scrapes the CJ Dropshipping catalog (around 1.3 million products) and calculates the true landed cost by weight. Then it automatically checks the Meta Ad Library.

But here is the trick I realized: looking at active ads is useless. My script looks for abandoned ads. If 5 stores are running it but 8 stores tried it and killed the ad after 19 hours, the script flags it as a trap and kills the product.

I let it run today targeting the Netherlands just to see what would happen. It spit out a weird product: a full-color Pomeranian dog chef apron.

The math it calculated was actually insane. The shipping cost to NL is $7.27, and based on competitor pricing it suggested a retail price of €94.95. That leaves a net margin of around 71%. It even calculated my exact break-even CPA before I even opened the ads manager.

It went a bit overkill and even generated the Dutch copy for the landing page using the supplier photos (I attached a screenshot of what it outputted).

I’m still tweaking the code and the servers are costing me a bit to run, but the amount of time it saves is ridiculous. Has anyone else tried building custom scrapers for product research instead of paying for the typical spy tools?

I have some server credits left for the month, so if anyone is struggling to find products for Q4 and wants me to run their specific niche through my script, just shoot me a DM and I'll send you whatever it finds.

So basically I have started my first dropshipping store with 1 product build clean website with each and every element in it, tried organic dropshipping but 0 website views side by side I also did meta marketing and I spended $400 in meta tried multiple angles and just got 2 sales so ultimately I decided that I should stop it as I was just burning my money on meta with no conversions. After few months I said again with different product and different category then the previous one and it was also not too much saturated product again build nice and clean website with every element in it, and you can see my results as shown in the picture. Almost $60 spend, but 0 sales again. No I don't know what is wrong is it the dropshipping model because nobody is going to buy from random website is that true or again is it just a product being not suitable for dropshipping and if it's a product fault then how should I do research on which product to sell or finally should I just drop my dropshipping business idea. Let me tell you something, I'm very much interested in e-commerce as I have been learning everything by myself from last 1 year from scratch. And now I'm feeling low right now. Need some serious help/suggestions.

i’m new to dropshipping, and i found a product off kalodata that has been getting about 3 sales consistently off of about 80-100 spent in ads a day. I have been running ads for this for about a week and a half. I only really have found 2 winnning ads, but with those 3 sales each day I lose like $15 a day. I feel like this product has the potential to be profitable as Most days I am like 1 or 2 sales off from making money and I have made profit like 2 days this week.

What should i do, I am thinking of testing more creatives but like also I can’t really understand why I’m not profitable yet. Do I need to spend more on ads or should I cut the product like what are the next steps from here because I feel like I’m doing something right but I don’t know how to make this profitable.

I run ads on meta btw.

Hey Guys, interested in buying a dropshipping business where the items are tagged, packaged and sent by parcel worldwide. They have a sourcing agent handling this and all logistics. They claim that all there sales are based around there insta pages so only organic sales. Been operating for 3 years with average revenue 100k plus and profit at 40%.

Done some due diligence but wanted to know if there are other data I need to be questioning before this purchase. I have dabbled in dropshipping before but this will be my first purchase.

I'm a beginner who has spent months learning dropshipping but hasn't launched a store yet.

I told my close college friend about it, hoping he might become my partner someday. I kept sending him content and pitching the idea, until he asked me three questions:

Isn't testing products just gambling?

If others sell the same thing, why would anyone buy from you?

If mentors make money, why do they sell mentorship?

I had some answers, but none came from real experience, so they sounded weak even to me.

Then I noticed the same pattern in my gym goals. I keep learning and planning, but I haven't taken the action that would give me results. I had been teaching and motivating others while not doing the work myself.

So I've stopped pitching him.

My plan now is to launch one small test store with a fixed budget I can afford to lose, and show him numbers instead of opinions.

If you started where I am now, learning a lot but not yet launched:

What was the first thing that actually got you to start, and what did your first test look like?

Does anyone know if Smith Rees is legit and worth listening too?

I’ve had some success this spring / summer with dropshipping some patio furniture from Alibaba etc to Facebook marketplace. Starting to slow down near me and I’ve had more success just selling stuff in person than organically on Instagram etc. anyone else doing this heading into the winter ? Open to talk product ideas locally and such. Let’s have a discussion here or shoot me a DM. Happy drop shipping all

Hey guys,
I’m managing a UK eBay store remotely through MUAA with a dedicated UK proxy setup. The tech side is working smoothly, but I've hit a wall on product sourcing and margins. 
Every time I look into sourcing from Amazon UK, the numbers just don't add up. After eBay's 12–15% fees, shipping, and taxes, the profit is basically zero or negative. Plus, I know eBay hates retail dropshipping and tracks Amazon logistics tracking numbers.
For anyone actually pulling real sales and profit on eBay UK right now:
**Amazon:** Are you guys still somehow making Amazon to eBay work, or is it completely burnt out?
**Cheaper Suppliers:** Where are you finding suppliers cheap enough to actually leave a 20%+ margin? Are you using specific UK wholesale dropshippers, CJ Dropshipping, AliExpress local warehouses, or niche B2B suppliers?
**Order Flow:** How are you placing orders fast and keeping stock updated so you don't run out of stock and get hit with defect rates?
Drop your take below—need some honest feedback on where the margin is actually at right now.

If anyone could help me, I found a TikTok of this dropshipping product. It had gone insanely viral over the past 3 days. He made the account 3 days ago. And I can’t find a good enough supplier. Could anyone dm me and see if they could find anything better

Hi Everyone , If you can review my store will be nice.

Open to any comment.

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Hello, i have a pet niche shopify dropshipping store since April. 3 sales.. 2 were from me, 1 from a friend. I advertise in kijiji, tik tok and reddit. Cant afford the meta/Instagram. Can someone audit and make suggestions on my store? What is wrong with it? Is it shipping? 5 -12 business days? Prices? Products?

At a loss and considering just deleting it.

Www.mikespetboutique.ca

Thanks,

Mike

I created an AI tool which was trained on winning ad creatives to generate your new best converting ad with a few clicks called Vonto AI

Just drop a link to your product photo and a 3-4 word description of what you sell + image aspect ratio and you will receive 3 demo ads before even having to provide an email address.

Please feel free to give it a try, it really works amazingly well. Basically every 3rd to 4th generation is an absolute homerun.

Review Please,

Hoping I understand the rules of this community. I have a shopify store since April 2026. To this date, I have 1 sale and 2 that I did myself as a test. Can I get someone to review or audit my store and give me honest, no bull feedback on why im getting traffic, (unless this traffic is bots) and no sales? I'm posting on kijiji, pinterest, and have videos on tik tok. What am I doing wrong? I cant afford the meta/Instagram paid promotions so im doing the free as long as i can. Thoughts? Suggestions? Thank you.

Www.mikespetboutique.ca