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Dropshipper Redux

Who are these mysterious middlemen?

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Keith Bergman
Sep 05, 2025
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I got stickers that are also business cards! How fancy is that?

It's six in the morning, I have a full day of stocking boxes for the record show coming up, and all I can think about is the dropshippers.

I’ve written about them before – accounts who apparently list my inventory on other platforms, most notably Amazon, then place orders with me and act as middlemen. They’d gone away for a while but they’re back now, and their invoices always come in the middle of the night. I’ve woken up to six to twelve orders from them every morning this week.

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