Your dropshipping business generates two hundred thousand dirhams in monthly revenue through your Shopify store when Dubai Economic Department investigators arrive demanding to see your trade license, VAT registration certificates, and proof that you have been paying corporate taxes on profits you assumed were somehow exempt because products never physically touched UAE soil. The investigators … Read more
Your customer in Frankfurt wants to return a defective product you sold for two hundred dirhams, but the return shipping alone costs one hundred eighty dirhams, UAE customs charges fifty dirhams in handling fees, and your inspection reveals the product actually works fine but the customer simply changed their mind. You have now lost four … Read more
Your quarterly shipping expenses reach sixty-eight thousand dirhams when they should cost thirty-nine thousand because you never questioned why your freight forwarder charges volumetric weight on compact electronics, you ship individual orders instead of consolidating weekly batches, and you selected express courier service for non-urgent deliveries simply because that option appeared first in your shipping … Read more
Your first shipment of kitchen gadgets from Dubai to Amazon’s California warehouse costs forty-two dollars per cubic meter when you expected eighteen dollars because you chose air freight during Ramadan peak season without understanding how Middle Eastern holidays compress cargo capacity. Meanwhile, another seller ships identical product volumes from the same Dubai warehouse for twenty-three … Read more