So now let's have a look at how we can find fast and affordable shipping with our second reliable supplier,
which of course is DSS.
And you can see that I'm already on DSS.
I've done a search by dog, and I've ordered by orders so that I can see the best selling products listed
first.
Now, as you already know, the DSS business model is different to CX drop shipping because DSS doesn't
have its own warehouses and instead links us directly to suppliers on AliExpress.
And it's those suppliers that are going to be sending their products directly to our customers.
And so therefore, to check if they have acceptable shipping times and costs, we need to go directly
to each supplier in turn.
And while that might sound like quite a lot of work, in fact it's really easy because all we have to
do, having chosen a product that we think could be interesting for our store.
So let's say, for example, this large pet dog jacket is to click on it and it takes us directly to
the supplier on AliExpress.
Now, just before we look at the shipping costs and times, we first of all want to make sure that we
are going to be shipping to customers in the US.
And to do that, just come up here where it says ship two and simply click on it.
And then from this drop down list box of countries, make sure that you have the United States selected.
And of course, if you're going to be shipping to other countries, select your country of choice.
Now, having selected the United States, you're also going to see below here the state and more specifically
a town.
But really these make no difference.
So don't worry about choosing these.
As long as you have United States, all you need to do is to simply click on apply where we can now
look at the shipping times.
Now this is slightly different because rather than giving an actual time in days, it gives an expected
delivery date.
And you can see here that it's going to be around about June the 7th.
And based on the time that I'm actually recording this, that makes a delivery time of around about
seven days, which of course is completely acceptable.
And then for the shipping costs, you can see in this case it's actually free shipping.
So this product is definitely of interest.
So now let's go back to DSS and choose another product.
And this time I will come down a bit further and let's have a look at this dog repeller.
So clicking on this it takes me to the supplier on Ali, where you can see that there's a delivery time
of between June the 2nd and June the 11th.
Now, just to be on the safe side, what we would typically do here is work on a delivery time of June
the 11th, but even that is well within our 15 days.
And then for the shipping, you can see that it's priced at $4 and 46, which clearly fits very nicely
with our average of $5.
So this would be another great product.
So let's go back to DSS one more time and select another product by scrolling on down a bit further.
And this time my eye is drawn towards this training harness.
So let me click on this.
And in this case you can see the delivery time is effectively June the 18th, which would probably put
me off this product because that is a little bit too long.
However, the shipping is still free.
But the point is, and I think you can now clearly see that using DSS in combination with AliExpress,
we can of course find really great products, but we can also very easily check the suppliers to make
sure that their delivery times and costs are within our acceptable range.
Now, I genuinely picked those three products at random, and it just so happened that all three of
them actually were pretty good.
Now that's not going to happen every single time.
But as you go through these products, you will see that there are a huge number that will match your
requirements that you can add to your site and build out a fantastic collection of products.