Make big $$$ with Doba?

--Not likely--

Last week I went ahead and tried the Doba free trial.

According to Doba
"Doba provides a place where suppliers can list their product inventory, and you can find items to sell. These different suppliers will drop ship products right to your customers, so you never have to handle or ship products. If you're a retailer looking for products to sell we have a service package that will work for you."

Signing up
Signing up was easy, although it seems to be designed to be a little misleading. Once you click on the sign-up button you will be prompted for your email address and the password that you want to use to log into the site. To me this implied that this information would be all that would be necessary to start my free trial. Then when you click the button to sign up you will find that you also have to provide your address, phone number, and a credit card number.

The Terms
Be careful to read the terms, if you do not cancel before the 7 days is up, your credit card will be charged for a full months membership. Warning- be sure to pay attention to the end time of your trial, mine was at a odd time on the 7th day. Also they have some stuff in their disclaimer about times during a month you are allowed to cancel without being charged and other times that even if you cancel you will still be charged for the next month.

The Product
I spent the better part of the week searching through the products they offer and comparison shopping to find out what the estimated market value would be. I found that for most items, someone could run down to the local Target, Walmart, or whatever and pick up the item for a couple of bucks less than the 'wholesale price'. I did come across two items that could potentially turn a profit, however there were problems with this too. One of the products was designer sunglasses from big names like Gucci, Armani, etc... The 'wholesale price' was quite a bit cheaper than retail for these and after all the fees you might be able to make $20 a sale on ebay. The problem with this is now Ebay will not let you list more than 1 'designer' name item a month, I even contacted them and told them I would be selling authentic items and they could check out the supplier, still they would not lift the restriction for my account - so the sunglasses weren't going to be worth my time. The other item I found were boots by a certain company that would sell and have net about $30 a sell on ebay after costs. The problem here is that the manufacturer has a set price point that you can take the item (which would destroy all hope of profit), so that was a bust too.

The Good News
Although I did have to actually call them to cancel my account (this annoys me, if I can sign up online why can't I cancel online?), the customer service rep did immediately cancel my account without much trouble. I was expecting a bunch of upsell or 'special offers' to get me to stay. They simply asked why I wanted to cancel, and then canceled the account. So if you still want to check it out for yourself, there should not be any problems getting the trial canceled, just head over to the Doba Home Page and sign up.


I hope this review has been helpful

Regards,
dwbayseller