I started by documenting the process of setting up the Hemorium shopping mall, then later created a blog and began writing posts, mainly to review products. Today, I set up the bag shown above for shipping to Singapore and displayed the product. Within an hour of product registration, its status changed from "for sale" to "sold out." It seems the product supplier marked it as sold out to avoid shipping to Singapore.
Over the past few days, I've uploaded seven products to the shopping mall. Since it takes only a few minutes to upload a product, I could upload hundreds in a day. I uploaded seven to check things that affect shopping mall construction one by one, and I noticed that product prices changed several times within a few days.
Looking at it now, among the seven products, some had a price change of over 40% once within 5 days, while others had about a 5% change over three times. If the number of products increases, manually changing sale prices according to supply price fluctuations would be a significant undertaking.
The two price changes mentioned above were increases. If products are sold without adjusting the shopping mall's prices upwards, a loss will occur.
A solution for sudden stock-outs and price fluctuations in dropshipping is definitely needed. In the case of consignment sales in Korea, price changes are not frequent.
--- Shin