This online shopping site, Deal Extreme, has captured my heart. They give you FREE delivery for any products that you purchase from their site. I was a bit skeptical at first, I mean, FREE delivery and there isn’t even a minimum charge? So I decided to buy an $9 item from them, put my delivery address, and pay them using my PayPal….
So I thought, oh well, if they are a scam, I’ll consider that 9 bucks as a give-away, or throwing away your luck thing. Guess what. In about 12 days, the item was delivered! (they promise a roughly 10-14 days of delivery).Why they can give you FREE delivery, I’m not sure. Why their items are so cheap, well most of them are HongKong or China products, so that’s why they cheap. There are a lot of discussions about this site though in whirlpool.net forum, so they are not a scam site. I’ve purchased a bunch of items from them afterwards, and they fail to disappoint me yet.
Let us learn more about dealextreme:
1 About the traffics
A website will have new visitors and return visitors. A website will acquire new visitors via Google by getting higher positions in the organic search results or paying money to list on the sponsor search area. You should also admit that larger site will have more traffics, right?
OK, when I compare lightinthebox.com, dhgate.com and dealextreme.com, I get the following: dealextreme.com has higher Alex ranking (the most authentic traffics ranking, higher ranking, more traffics) with lowest Google inclusion. (Inclusion is the total volume that Google indexed the site, more inclusion means more opportunities to feed the user`s search enquiries).
What is more interesting, dealextreme.com does not put much paid search adverts on Google.
It comes to the conclusion that lots of return users visit the website and generate the high traffics. (In fact, Gordon told me that dealextreme.com is famous in Canada, especially in the Canadian-Chinese communities)
2 why users return to dealextreme.com always?
Just skim around the site, you will found one rule: simple, gargets and cheap! When I post reviews on other china wholesale sites, warranty and qualities are always my concerns. How about the item is simple enough to meet the global standards so that the qualities are stable enough to convince you to ignore warranty? Dealextreme figures it out! They are just selling mini adapter, cables, card readers, key chains… which have simple function and can be fall into “simple” once it means the global 3C quality standards.
Considering the merchant will not shit what they eat, they will definitely looking for quality supper who can manufacture products under that standard with competitive prices.
So are you still suffering from the “copy cat” iphone, or experience huge complaints for your dropshipping clients? It is time to start another business approach!
3 Shipping and payment
They offer quite a lots of methods for shipping methods – EMS, DHL, Hong Kong Post to name a few. They accept PayPal and bank transfer. The most popular method for shipping maybe Hongkong Post, which is a regular post without any tracking. (It does not make senses that you pay more in shipping than item prices).
