Drop shipping means he's not a real dealer or anything, matter of fact he's probablly never laid hands on one, other than to take it from the incoming mail to the outgoing mail to ship it out of country and then tell you this a new thing, they just stopped drop shipping out of the US. He stocks nothing and cares not about what happens after you get it as long as you get it. Redcat has never drop shipped out side the US. Drop Ship means that you pay for it and he orders it from redcat and uses your address as the ship to address. It's kind of a boggus deal and not fair to actual dealers that stock product and have over head. He has no over head no warehouse no bills no nothing and he drives the prices into the ground and *****s out products on Ebay or where ever. Hope that helps define the preverbial drop shipper. The only good thing about the drop shipping is if an ACTUAL dealer is short on a part and they have a customer that has to have it now and can't wait for a restock order an ACTUAL dealer can have it shipped immediatly to that customer. Personally I try to discourage customers from takeing a product on drop ship the end cost is higher, because the shipping from Redcat is kind of high for one or two small parts.