Yeah I'm not a huge fan of the ali express dropshipping model. I fee l like we're living in an age of instant gratification. You don't go rent a movie you click one button and have it streamed. You don't order something and wait a week, it's there in two days with prime. Even something like when your phone or computer takes a half second to load think about how annoyed you get, it's almost kind of funny.

That said I don't see many buyers being willing to wait 2 weeks at the earliest, more than likely probably 17-30 days for an item to arrive.

I've been kind of critical of dropshipping for this very reason. I don't have an issue with dropshipping as a whole like you said having a relationship with your supplier, having faster shipping times, having tracking that can actually be checked, etc. I think that is a sustainable business model but ali express where you have no relationship with your supplier, etc.

I feel like the above model has become the idea of what dropshipping is and in reality a good dropshipping business imho is something entirely different.