Can I Dropship Branded Products From Aliexpress?

One of the first questions that you’ve got to ask yourself is whether these products are genuine. While AliExpress is very good at protecting sellers from rogue merchants, there are still ways that rogue merchants with fake products can enter the system. And it wouldn’t be hard for one to use a picture of a branded product to entice sellers to use the product images from another website to create the illusion that they are selling branded products.

Then the rogue seller could be making poor copies of these products and adding the branding of the original brand to the product. Sometimes this is made with slight differences to the brand, like a typo in the brand name.

While some people might be happy with these small adjustments for the appearance of the genuine article, many customers would be annoyed.

Another problem is that many branded items come from large corporations, where the sellers of the products have to have permission from them to sell it. There might be conditions on how much the seller can charge or when they can have offers on the product. These licenses are not easy to come by sometimes, especially for those new to the industry.

Therefore, the chance that they’re available on AliExpress is minimal.

In theory, yes. But there are two major concerns that would make it seem that selling branded products from AliExpress is risky. They could, potentially, either cost you lots of money as the original brand tries to charge you for selling their product without permission, or you could worsen your reputation if the products turn out not to be genuine.

However, there are lots of great products that are original on AliExpress and the above is no reason why you should not sell products from AliExpress.