Is it a viable idea to do big ticket dropship? Will people purchase diamonds from your jewelry dropship outlet? I am not familiar with jewelry market to the extent I wish, but we know of a few successful big names running online stores – Diamond.com, for example. So a quick look into online jewelry scene.

Demand is slightly declining over years though regional interest for jewelry is strong in the USA, very strong. We should keep in mind that I did not research a transactional keyword, but a general one. It means that people over time might start buying more jewelry, but do less informational searches

There are some rising searches, of course, like:

1.	pandora jewelry	+600%
2.	pandora	+600%
3.	qvc	+160%
4.	jewelry television	+150%
5.	premier jewelry	+130%
6.	jewelry tv	+110%
7.	sell jewelry	+70%
8.	tiffany jewelry	+60%
9.	tiffany	+60%
10.	jewelry exchange	+50%

Another quick check shows us most popular searched keywords in the industry and shows competition ratio:

Keywords (Showing 1-50 of 9,990)	Count	Estimated	KEI
jewelry	10818	87148	0
sterling silver jewelry	5493	44251	0.03
swarovski crystal jewelry	3224	25972	4.82
discount jewelry	2997	24143	0.33
wholesale jewelry	2831	22806	0.03
wholesale fashion jewelry	2800	22556	4.42
austrian crystal jewelry	2769	22307	13.6
silver jewelry	2605	20986	0.01
crystal jewelry pittsburgh	2579	20776
sabika crystal jewelry erie	2484	20011
crystal jewelry	2435	19616	0.82
austrian crystal jewelry pittsburgh	2349	18923
bridesmaid jewelry	2327	18746	1.07
austrian crystal jewelry erie	2299	18520
sabika crystal jewelry	2248	18110
sabika crystal jewelry pittsburgh	2214	17836
sabika austrian crystal jewelry erie	2162	17417
pearl jewelry	2141	17248	0.03
sabika jewelry pittsburgh	2136	17207
sabika austrian crystal jewelry	2097	16893
rhinestone jewelry	2085	16797	0.12
unique jewelry	2076	16724	0.17
custom gemstone beaded jewelry	2058	16579
bridal jewelry	2017	16249	0.23
crystal jewelry erie	1996	16080
pittsburgh steelers jewelry	1955	15749
diamond jewelry	1893	15250	0.27

Tons of searches and lots of competition…

Suppliers: it is a sort of surprise to me, but there are SO many dropship merchants offering to dropship jewelry. Is it god or bad news? Hard to say – it could mean that there is tough competition in the industry.

Now back to the question – will people buy high ticket dropship items from your store? I do not talk about some silver or semi precious stones products – I talk about items that cost hundreds and thousands.

We update our dropship business case study category for a few years now, we do it regularly. And we have a separate category – jewelry dropship, but when you check it you will be disappointed with two business cases that do not inspire (at least, me personally) to enter jewelry market as a dropshipper affiliate.

When I put buyer’s shoes I am very doubtful that I would purchase a high ticket item or product from some unknown store. I will also definitely give a call to talk to a real person and make sure that I deal with a legitimate and professional company. I might be wrong, but I believe that most buyers will call before buying jewelry online – it makes jewelry (as well as other high item products) a poor seller for dropship affiliates.

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