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Dropshipping margin leaks don't cluster at the point of sale. They accumulate afterward, in the gap between order confirmation and customer satisfaction, where returns, chargebacks, and support tickets quietly eat into the 10-15% net margins most stores operate on.
Every major dropshipping automation tool syncs inventory on a delay. DSers polls AliExpress suppliers roughly every 4–6 hours on free tiers. Spocket advertises "real-time" updates but actually pushes data in 15- to 60-minute intervals depending on SKU volume and plan level.
Shopify's Admin API enforces a rate limit of 40 requests per second on standard plans. For a store running 200 SKUs across two suppliers with a sync tool polling every 15 minutes, that ceiling rarely matters.