[ALittleLight]

Scam is probably not the right word for dropshipping. Though dropshipping does seem like a parasitic activity that captures the energy and capital of the dropshippers in order to increase prices.

The scam in this article seems to be the bots that try to trick would be Instagram influencers into buying merchandise to sell to their audience. As I understand it the bots are really just trying to convince the influencers into buying the goods themselves and the influencers don't get any cut of whatever product they do sell.

[hef19898]

There is a huge dfference between dropshipping the business and dropshipping the supply chain model. The first one degenerated into a get-rich-quick-on-the-internet scheme, with scammers, caches and everything in between. The latter is a very valid, and less than trivial, supply chain model, an especially well suited one for eCommerce. Used properly, it can be a net win for the vendor as well as for the seller.