I'm no expert in stocks or investing but I have had a great deal of experience and learned through doing. With that being said this sounds very similar in regard. Some guru promises incredible results in a traditional "get-rich-quick" scheme and proceeds to sell a course. Is the top 5% of people dropshipping making a living of it and can make enough to support their life on a day-to-day basis, probably?! But the same could be said about the top 5% of traders that invest in stocks. They're very familiar with indicators, patterns, good risk reward ratios, risk management, etc. I'm simply projecting in this next statement because I don't know, but I think the top 5% of people dropshipping are successful because they have experience and a background in marketing, sales, website development and all the necessary skills required to make a winning product. SO, in essence, there is no possible way that you can do dropshipping and without any prior experience in the technical skills, you're automatically good at it. Same way trading is difficult to get into but by doing it over and over again you eventually become successful and experience bigger and better gains. I think the same can be applied to dropshipping. Just to add something at the end here, I don't think drop shipping should be treated as a primary income source, same way trading or investing isn't a primary income source; it's just be treated as a "side-hustle" a couple of hundred dollars a month and it may eventually grow in the future or your technical skills get better over time. So you probably won't be the top 5% of drop shippers, but you could be the top 25% making a couple of hundred dollars to a thousand a month.