Most people expect suppliers to be the easy part and discover way too late that vetting them is the whole job. Spent nearly a year sorting through unreliable ones before anything clicked. The model itself is not the problem, honestly, though your supplier pool probably is.

Only a small percentage of people who try this actually research the scams in this industry before starting. Dropshipping itself isn't a scam, but unscrupulous market participants are everywhere. For example, read up on the terminology here ​https://easync.io/articles/dropshipping-a-scam/​​​ The real problem is that most unsuccessful stores were built on unverified wholesale contacts, about which no one warns in advance.