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Viewer Comments Answered - Shopify, Ali Express, Business Formation & More

810 views · Published 9 April 2016 · 15:01 · Indexed 26 October 2026

Channel: Rules For Rebels · 2016 · Entertainment

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I received this comment from a viewer the other day with some questions about ecommerce, how to order from Ali Express, how to setup a business structure to sell online, etc. I just wanted to take a minute to address these questions and clear up some confusion.

Below is the question were responding to in this video. Thanks for watching guys and feel free to send me your questions and I may respond to them in a video...

@RulesForRebels Okay, so I have been looking into and watching a lot of videos about using Shopify to set up an eCommerce website in conjunction with Aliexpress, not Alibaba, Aliexpress to find items. It seems to me the way the videos are representing the process of using shopify/aliexpress is; just set up site, find a niche, go to the Aliexpress site, find items in niche, import those item descriptions to your eCommerce website, then sell them on your site for whatever markup you want. Then if they sell, you just buy the item from the Aliexpress site and then ship the item directly from Aliexpress to the customer? This to me sounds way too easy, too good to be true, and there has to be some catch somewhere that I am missing. Also, mind you, Aliexpress is the retail side of alibaba, and it just seems strange to me that the process is being portrayed like we can just basically clone the item information and put it on our site and sell it......Now if all that is actually a legit business strategy, there still has to be some sort of business set up, Correct? Like you can't just set up the site and start selling can you? Any tax ID number need to be gotten and what ever else? So basically, 1) is the way to use Shopify/Aliexpress, how I put it above, a legitimate and legal business strategy? and 2) If it is a legitimate and legal strategy, what legal papers or actions need to be taken care of before we should start selling items on our site? or 3) You don't need any papers or items to get it started, just make the site and start selling.

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