More and more Americans own homes - about 70 per cent of households at last count. This is a far cry from early 1900s, when only a quarter of houses were owner-occupied. In intervening period, greater prosperity, mobility and more readily available finance though likes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have fed trend in home ownership.

The process of finding a home has also been transformed, from having to scour newspapers and call into realtors to being able to search online. Searching for homes on internet is not in itself that new – some people have been doing it for nearly 10 years. During that time, things have changed a lot online, thankfully, and websites have become more user friendly over that period.

But Bargain.com has gone a few steps farther and changed way it is done. Bargain.com uses a subscription service so that it is not reliant on advertisers, nor does it act as an agent for properties sold. In that way, prospective buyers are offered potential properties at lowest available price.

Bargain.com uses advanced search and database technology to provide fast and accurate information on pricing, quality and availability of products, even hard-to-find distressed properties.

Customer service staff are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to help members find best deals. If you sign up to service, you can use email, fax and home delivery of regularly updated catalogs.

More than five million homes were sold in US last year - a lot of properties. If you were looking to buy last year, how many of those properties might have suited? Chances are there were quite a few. With Bargain.com, you probably would have found them.

Sometimes we forget how much technology has helped take more and more of drudge out of life. But no matter how technology changes, we’re all psychologically programmed to sniff out a bargain. The great thing about sites such as Bargain.com is that they can do a lot of our sniffing for us.

6) You email order to drop ship distributor with customer's name and address.

7) Then drop shipper despatches product to your customer from warehouse with YOUR business name on package.

8) The drop shipper charges you wholesale price plus shipping. Remember you have already passed shipping charge on to your customer, so shipping costs you nothing.

So that's how drop shipping works. You don't have to buy products in bulk and store them, hoping to sell. You don't have to pay to have it shipped to you, and then pay again to ship it to your customer. All you had to do was send an email to your drop shipper.

(C) John Lynch

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