r/dropship
Dropshipping
Founded April 2012 · Public — anyone can post
Welcome! This community is a place for entrepreneurs to discuss the dropshipping business model. It's a place to share resources, solve problems, exchange ideas, and have meaningful discussions about the challenges we all face.
Members
359,740
360K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.7%
+2.6K members · ≈32d
Published rules
11
6 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 9 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/dropship
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 38% | 19 |
| Discussion | 18% | 29 |
| Lessons / story | 16% | 57 |
| Show & tell | 14% | 15 |
| How-to | 11% | 30 |
| Tool comparison | 4% | 33 |
Based on 56 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 11
- Top 10% score
- 64
- Text posts
- 96%
- Got no replies
- 0%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 12:00 UTC, Tue 14:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned. Promotion goes in Weekly Q&A & Store Critique Thread (Saturday). Minimum 0 karma. Account must be 0 days old.
- No Self-Promotion or Spam: Do not promote your website, blog, YouTube channel, Discord server, software, agency, service, social media account, or project without moderator approval.
- No Selling Products, Services, Courses, Mentorships, or Partnerships: r/Dropship is not a marketplace. Do not: Sell products or stores Offer e-commerce services Promote agencies or freelancers Sell or share courses Offer mentorships or coaching Seek or offer business partnerships Any listed may result in an immediate permanent ban.
- No Guru Content or Unrealistic Claims: Sharing wins, revenue milestones, and business results is welcome when accompanied by meaningful context and insights. Posts that exist primarily to generate hype, attract DMs, or promote a product, service, mentorship, or course may be removed.
- No Fake Reviews or Hidden Promotions: Recommendations should be genuine. Using alternate accounts, employees, affiliates, friends, or customers to promote a business, product, app, or service is prohibited and may result in a permanent ban.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Direct and realistic advice, often countering common misconceptions.
- — Specific tool or service recommendations with brief explanations.
- — First-hand experience or personal anecdotes to support claims.
- — Offers to provide further free resources (e.g., YouTube channels, blueprints).
- — Emphasizes the need for capital, skill, and time.
- — Disclosure of affiliation (e.g., 'I run a 3PL').
What r/dropship's rules say about promotion
6 of 11 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
🚫 No Self-Promotion or Spam
rule 2 of 11
Do not promote your website, blog, YouTube channel, Discord server, software, agency, service, social media account, or project without moderator approval. This includes: Promotional posts or comments Referral links Affiliate links SEO-driven content Repeated advertising Violations may result in removal or a permanent ban if second offense.
Removal reason shown to posters: Self Promotion/Spam
💬 No Private Message Solicitation
rule 3 of 11
Do not ask users to DM you, offer consultations through DMs, or attempt to move discussions off the subreddit. Examples: "DM me for details" "Inbox me" "Message me and I'll show you" Keep discussions public so everyone can learn from them.
Removal reason shown to posters: Requested to PM
💼 No Selling Products, Services, Courses, Mentorships, or Partnerships
rule 4 of 11
r/Dropship is not a marketplace. Do not: Sell products or stores Offer e-commerce services Promote agencies or freelancers Sell or share courses Offer mentorships or coaching Seek or offer business partnerships Any listed may result in an immediate permanent ban.
Removal reason shown to posters: Promoting product, service, course, mentorship, etc
📈 No Guru Content or Unrealistic Claims
rule 5 of 11
Sharing wins, revenue milestones, and business results is welcome when accompanied by meaningful context and insights. Posts that exist primarily to generate hype, attract DMs, or promote a product, service, mentorship, or course may be removed.
Removal reason shown to posters: Unrealistic Claim/Spam
🎭 No Fake Reviews or Hidden Promotions
rule 6 of 11
Recommendations should be genuine. Using alternate accounts, employees, affiliates, friends, or customers to promote a business, product, app, or service is prohibited and may result in a permanent ban.
Removal reason shown to posters: Fake Review/Hidden Promotion/Astroturfing
✍️ Put Effort Into Your Posts
rule 7 of 11
Low-effort posts may be removed. Avoid vague titles and questions such as: "Help" "Need Sales" "Review My Store" "What Should I Sell?" Provide details, explain what you've tried, and ask a specific question.
Removal reason shown to posters: Low Effort Post
The other 5
- 💵 /r/dropship Wiki! Discord!
- ⚠️ No Reposts, Unauthorized AMAs, or Filter Evasion
- 🔎 Search Before Posting
- 📌 Use the Weekly Q&A & Store Critique Thread
- 🤝 NO LEECHING
Read from r/dropship’s published rules on Sep 8. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/dropship — frequently asked
How many members does r/dropship have?
r/dropship has 359,740 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 10. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/dropship growing?
Over the last ≈32 days r/dropship changed by +0.7% — a gain of 2.6K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/dropship?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/dropship yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/dropship created?
r/dropship was founded in April 2012 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/dropship?
r/dropship publishes 11 rules and 6 of them address promotion. The first, “🚫 No Self-Promotion or Spam”, says: Do not promote your website, blog, YouTube channel, Discord server, software, agency, service, social media account, or project without moderator approval. This includes: Promotional posts or comments Referral links… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/dropship for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/dropship into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/dropship's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/dropship's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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