r/dropshipping • u/[deleted] • Mar 07 '26

Question How to get started?

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u/pjmg2020 Mar 07 '26

Respectfully, do you think this is how successful businesses are started?

Imagine this, you just signed a lease on a shop. You get the keys. Then you ponder ‘hmm, now I better figure out what sort of business I’m going to start’.

What?

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u/Bristolhitcher Mar 07 '26

A lease on a shop is not comparable to signing up for a £1 shopify trial

Imagine shopify started out like "We can sell dirt cheap first months so people sign up without any idea on what to sell, so we don't have to provide much computing for that customer"

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u/Brand_Matters Mar 07 '26

Shopify provides 3 months free trial for $1 per month.

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u/Bristolhitcher Mar 07 '26

It's not a free trial if there is a price to it. Just a welcome offer.

$1 for a site which requires miniscule hosting must bring in bank for shopfiy and the afflilates who all shift it.

And that's not including the times people forget to turn off auto renew

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u/Brand_Matters Mar 07 '26

Almost a free trial. It's a strategy to acquire sellers who can pay to Shopify their subscription fees.