From the operations desk
The week in numbers
Between 27 September and 3 October 2026 we counted 84 distinct supplier requests. Reposts and posts that were not supplier requests are excluded. Apparel and fashion led with 17 requests. Electronics and gadgets followed with 11, health and supplements with 7, then home and kitchen and pillows and sleep products with 6 each.
The US was named most often, in 18 requests. Europe without a named country and Germany each had 11, the UK 7 and Australia and New Zealand 4. On terms, 23 requests asked for no MOQ or single-unit orders and 22 wanted a long-term partner. A delivery cap or fast shipping came up in 23, and 10 asked for duties-paid (DDP) delivery. In the previous week, 20–26 September, only 2 of 39 requests did.
Not every post was specific. 21 named no product and 31 named no destination.
Day by day
- Sunday 27 September — 5 requests, including print-on-demand merchandise worldwide and a single-unit pillow lane for Germany.
- Monday 28 September — 43 requests, just over half the week. Fashion, leather goods, pet products and furniture dominated. Many posts were gathered together on this day, so it partly reflects collection, not a surge in posting.
- Tuesday 29 to Friday 2 October — 27 requests across four quiet days. Asks for stock in the US, the UK and Australia stood out, alongside fast shipping to Germany and France.
- Saturday 3 October — 9 requests, several US-based supplier asks and a long-term fulfilment partner for a Shopify store.
What stood out
No MOQ and speed tied as the most common terms, with 23 requests each, and 22 used long-term language. Nine of the 22 long-term requests also asked for no MOQ. Another 14 asked for private label or branded packaging, and 8 of those also asked for no MOQ. That pairing is the hardest to quote, because custom branding usually comes with minimums.
Duties-paid asks rose from 2 of 39 requests in 20–26 September to 10 of 84 this week. Sellers shipping to Germany, Türkiye, France and the US wanted the landed price fixed, with customs handled for them. Local stock also stayed in demand: 11 requests wanted a supplier or warehouse in the destination country, and the US was the largest market for it.
On the supplier side, buyers most often asked for the unit price, in 18 requests. The service fee came next with 14, then delivery time with 13, MOQ terms with 10, and shipping cost and a product list with 9 each. Another 8 requests asked for goods carrying a protected brand or a replica, which a fulfilment agent has to decline.
Most of these asks already have an answer on this site. What no MOQ really costs you explains the minimums behind single-unit orders. DDP vs DDU sets out who pays duties and when. Dropship, pre-stock or overseas warehouse covers the stock-in-country ask. Our guide to own brand, third-party brand or lookalike sorts the brand requests.
Sample and limits
Requests come from public dropshipping sourcing communities. Every post was read and classified twice, independently, against fixed definitions, and disagreements were settled on a further reading. Posts are never quoted, linked or identified, contact details are never reproduced, and exact products are generalised to their family. Each post is dated to the day it was collected, so busy days partly reflect collection. The counts measure what buyers asked for, not what sells, and they undercount when the wording was unclear.