Doba Review

Doba offers a turn-key solution for those who wish to start a dropshipping business quickly. If this is your first venture into the world of dropshipping, Doba is a great place to start. First and foremost, you can opt for a 7-day Free Trial of Doba, which is likely to offer you more insight into their membership than this or any other Doba review can.

As with any other dropshipping directory membership, you’ll find that Doba has its benefits and drawbacks. Overall, our Doba review serves as a recommendation – it as a good investment for a dropshipping entrepreneur who wants to hit the ground running.

Benefits of Doba membership:

• Customer Service: While we wouldn’t consider their level of service the best in the industry, members of the Doba support team can, without a doubt, be classified as available and helpful. In fact, prior to purchasing a full-membership, a Doba Business Development Advisor will offer you a phone consultation to discuss membership, the online interface, product searching and more. This is more than you’ll find at many of Doba’s competitors and will help kick-start your dropshipping business.
• Brand Name Products: Doba is probably the only dropshipping directory online where you’ll find access to any of the name brand merchandise that you may have dreams of carrying in your inventory. The benefit, again, of membership with Doba, is that you are able to leverage their economies of scale to your benefit in rounding out your inventory with your choice of many name-brand products. Preview Doba’s Product Catalog for more information.
• A Quick Start: Doba, unlike Worldwide Brands and Salehoo (considered by some to be more robust dropshipping directory competitors of Doba), there is no disintermediation in the process; that is, Doba is the only ‘vendor’ you deal with. When, as a retailer member, you place a dropship order, Doba fulfills the order for you from their wholesale catalog and your work is done.
• Ease of Use: Imagine finding exactly the product you want to sell and being able to point-click it to an EBay Dropship or other eCommerce application. It’s quite nice. We’ve tested the feature and it works well. Doba makes it easy to find the products you want to dropship and push them out to an external cart or eCommerce account.

Drawbacks of Doba:

• Pricing: All of that ease of use we just spoke about comes at a bit of a cost, price. Whenever you give a player in the supply chain more responsibility over inventory or distribution, you’re likely to take a bit of a hit on price. We’re not saying that it’s not possible to dropship at a profit on Doba; in fact, they offer a Lowest Dropship Price Guarantee. We can’t fully reconcile this, but it leaves room for research/questions.
• Competition: If you’re planning on selling on eBay, be sure to do your research before point-and-clicking your way into tons of tons of eBay dropping listings. Consider that many others are doing the same thing. Haven’t you ever wondered why all of those netbook auction listings on eBay look exactly the same..?
• Research: Doba’s system is one of the easiest to use; we can’t take that away from them, but you’ll have to find an outside vendor for dropshipping market research, such as eBay’s Terapeak, as they have no resource for research as Worldwide Brands does. See our Worldwide Brands Review for more information.

Doba: The Bottom Line

• We recommend checking out Reviews of Doba by objective third-party resources, including the BBB. The company has a good record with agencies who measure such things.
• See Doba Success Stories for (self-proclaimed, yes, we realize) examples of what has been – and can be – done with Doba.

All in all, Doba is a good solution for someone looking for a start-up soluti to a dropshipping business. Without reservation, we recommend Trying Doba Free for 7 days, if for no other reason than to research and learn.