"Dropshipping Is Easy Money"

YouTube influencers selling $997 dropshipping courses showed cherry-picked Shopify dashboards while failing to mention that 90 percent of dropshipping stores fail, margins are razor-thin, and customer service for low-quality AliExpress products is a nightmare. This advice is even more deceptive than the average get-rich-quick scheme, as it targets people's dreams of passive income without revealing that the actual average profit margin is just 10–20%, often eaten up by refunds and ad costs.