I recently applied for a job with a Chilean drop-shipping company. For those of you who don't know (just as I didn't right before I applied), drop-shipping occurs when a company sells a product and then sources it externally. Many items sold on e-bay are drop shipped: the seller prices and lists the item, and when you buy it the seller then buys that item from the wholesaler or retail chain. The seller does not keep the stock but instead transfers the customer orders and shipment details to either the manufacturer or wholesaler, who then ships the good. Retailers profit on the difference between the prices.
This process is only possible due to the technology of international trade today and the fact that some markets are completely lacking in a product so there is no deflationary competition in prices. For the retailer, risk lies in ordering the product; if the wholesaler has backlogged the product then the retailer has to wait to fulfill the sale. For the customer, risk lies in the middle-man. If drop-shippers unduly inflate the price or (knowingly or unknowingly) buy from another drop-shipping middle man, by the time the product reaches the consumer it can be multiple times its original price. They might pay a fee for a fee for a fee.
As I learned more about drop-shipping, I began to think about myself as a consumer, my soul as a wholesaler, and all the drop-shipping done during the judgments and bad habits in between. My soul is the supplier of my values, hopes, and dreams. My actions are the consumer, the thing that uses those resources to affect change (hopefully, to better my life). When I spend time judging my dreams and thoughts, it's like inflating them with greater fees. Each judgment is the middle man that gets in the way of buying at the proper price from the direct source. The amount of drop-shippers that I might use before finally receiving my value are infinite. I can judge about judging and then feel the corresponding emotions. Having a drop-shipping agent in between my soul and my actions alters the flow, creates new supply chains that actually intervene on true efficiency. And it means I pay a much higher price than my internal economy can sustain.
Lo and behold, I didn't get the job. The drop-shipper wasn't willing to drop-ship a work Visa from Chile to me. After analyzing drop-shipping the way that I did, I can't say I'm all that bummed. I don't think it's a business model that works.
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