Dropshipping is something I haven't tried before but I'm considering given it a go as it takes away a lot of the work, hassle and risk of buying the stock up front. It's a bit of a minefield, but if you can find yourself a good dropshipper then you can run a business with less effort than it takes to do the same with your own stock.

As long as your dropshipper is reliable and has a reasonable returns policy then the only problems I can see are, as you've already mentioned, your lack of knowledge of each product if someone asks you about it, and website content duplication issues due to the fact that possibly hundreds of other sites are using the same XML feed to populate there sites and therefore have exactly the same text on their sites as you do on yours. The first issue will be overcome in time with experience and you can either edit the product descriptions by hand or run a script on them to change certain words/phrases to something more unique to try to overcome the second issue.

I'd be very interested in hearing from anyone with experience in dropshipping, especially those who have used product feeds to populate their sites.

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Lawrence