How not to find wholesale suppliers

Why are good drop shipping wholesalers, or any wholesalers for that matter, hard to locate? The reason is simple: bona fide tier one wholesale suppliers are often busy places that don’t have to advertise. They don’t need to be contacted by just anyone with an internet connection. Many of them do have websites, but they’re usually not highly optimized to rank on hot keywords, so any wholesale drop shipper you find online without too much effort is most likely a middleman. Small accounts can be more trouble to them than they are worth, so the established wholesalers might only want to deal with bigger fish. Think about it. if you were a wholesaler, which call would you rather take:

A) “Hi, this is Sharon Turner. I just opened my home-based business and I’d like to sell your cute toys to make money online!” -or-

B) “Hi, Joe. This is Mike Patterson again from Sears. We like your product and we’ve budgeted $200,000 for our order. How soon can you ship it?”

If you discover that a supposed drop ship wholesaler is paying for sponsored links in search engines, this should be a major red flag to you. It is probably a middleman. Another warning sign is a place that wants to charge a monthly fee for you to do business with them. Buy low and sell high is great in theory, but making it work is always the trick-just as with the stock market. Finding good drop shipping wholesalers in your niche is vital when you have a small starting budget. There is no point to setting up to sell anything if you have no prospect for earning a profit.

Reliable and trustworthy wholesale dropship companies do exist and can be used successfully. You’ll have to hunt around and also do your market research to see how competitive your pricing will be. While some hot areas-certain electronics niches come to mind-may be difficult to compete in, there are many others where you can work profitably. The manufacturer of a product should be happy to refer you to their distributors, which is a good way to check whether or not a business that represents themselves as a distributor is actually another reseller.

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