The product

It was a long time that I was thinking about creating an online store but I did not know which product I could choose. Randomly one day I came up with a Chinese supplier online and they proposed this product which was just brand new in their catalog. I chose to go with it because it was something new on the market and the price was good enough to have a profit after the selling.

The product is a thermos bottle that can refrigerate the liquid inside and/or keep the temperature constant. It could drop 10° in 30 minutes thanks to a fan in the lower part that expels the heat.

Drop shipping

Because I wanted to buy this product directly from the manufacturer in China and resell it online through my website, I decided that the dropshipping method was the best one. I decided to use Shopify to create my website because it was very easy to use, especially for the connection for the payment system.

Fulfillment by Amazon

At this point I realized it was very difficult to get traffic on the website and, after a careful analysis, I decided to try the service offered by Amazon Fulfillment by Amazon. In this way getting buyers for the product was easier.

It could have been a great idea, but after some calculations I realized that Amazon service was too expensive and I could not get a proper margin of profit from it so I decided to close my store. It was a great experience.