lgn1 - 3:25 pm on Jun 7, 2007 (gmt 0)

The defintion of drop shipping can be tricky.

At one end of the scale, we have affiliate sites or cookie cutter template shopping sites, which are run as a coffee table operation.

At the other end of the scale, you have sites that are multiple employee businesses, with all the staff and overhead, with the exception of the shipping deparment.

In many cases, you can't tell that the later is really a drop shipper from the website, unless you know the industry and that they are carrying a single product line (sometimes in the 1000's) from a single manufactuer or distributer.

In some industries, drop shipping is the norm, because the customer gets the product sooner from the distributer, and which usually had a well stocked inventory.

Does DMOZ treat all Dropshippers as a reason for exclusion, or does content become the overiding factor.

PLEASE NO DMOZ BASHING - Just the facts and your knowledge and experince please.