Dropshipping: Any of you lot had success with it yet?

[drivingaddict]

I have read about its pros and cons. It looks like the challenge is to find actual dropshippers (not another level of middle men who will take your order and pass it on) and finding someone reliable and fast.

I just discovered the FK Automotive's dropship services from Germany. They are a big "tuning" company with a huge logistics system so they should be reliable and fast, right? They cover basically most of the stuff kids now days like (lowering springs, sports seats etc.). I am also in the final stages of building a new startup e-commerce related to car culture, so I have already a design set up which can be easily and very reasonable copied to a new FK Automotive product line dropship-based site in no time.

Concept:
My idea is to "copy/paste" my already existing design of an e-commerce for automotive products and "copy/paste" all the FK Automotive line in to a separate dropship-only shop with a different strategy. My cost would be minimal, mostly marketing towards car kids.

Why shouldn't this work?

[drivingaddict]

Thanks for the informative opinions, and I apologize for late reply (lot to do).

I think I'll pass, I want to instead build a proper dedicated webshop in the future instead.

Cheers!