Looking for a good wholesalers list.

Looking for a good wholesalers list. Not one of those list you buy, but the REAL DEAL. No real wholesaler will charge you for finding what they have to sell...that's just stupid. The reason I'm pointing this out, is obvious.

Thanks for any help in advance. I'll be saving my list and will be happy to post it for those interested.

 

Depends where your located.

In the UK theres a site called...

www.wholesalepages.co.uk

Where you do have to pay to get on the site, well you used to, and its kind of like a search engine of wholesalers.

Hope this helps!

 

Hey! thanks for the reply. I'll add them.

Btw I'm in the U.S., thanks again for any help in advance.

 

http://www.wholesalecentral.com
haven't looked through it much,but i did sign up with one wholesaler on there.

 

Thanks for the links. I was also looking for suppliers.

 

Same here, does anyone have an Australian wholesaler list?

 

thanks for the list

 

Is it possible to use wholesale for sell product on eBay ?

like as www.wholesalecentral.com

 

yes you can, or at least a ton of people do

PS: You will find it very hard to get people to give you details on wholesalers that they use.

 

i will work with this website but i don't know , it is confindent ?!

 

I have to agree that Wholesale Central (www.wholesalecentral.com) is a great resource, but I would also suggest checking out their sister site, Closeout Central: www.closeoutcentral.com. It's a great place to find deals. You can also try a wholesale directory, but try to stick with reputable ones (there are lots of link farms out there and sites that just simply don't bother reviewing and checking the quality of the sites they list). Wholesale U (www.wholesaleu.com) seems to be a decent one.

I'll tell you that I've found a bunch of great wholesale companies through WC and CC. The best so far is Wholesale Jewelry and Accessories (www.wholesalejewelry.net). They sell costume jewelry, fashion jewelry, and lots of other stuff, but they have a great deal on designer sunglasses right now (Authentic Liz Claiborne and Isaac Mizrahi sunglasses that retail for up to $60 for as low as $2 each! I can't tell you how glad I am I found this deal, I've already made a bundle of cash on side reselling them through eBay). Another one I like is www.semi-precious.net for semi-precious stone jewelry. There were a few that I used to get Gucci stuff from really cheap, but they started importing fakes from China and Eastern Europe, so I don't deal with them anymore. Which underscores how important it is to be wary of who you choose for a supplier. The nice thing about the first site I mentioned is that they are very trust worthy and I can call up and speak to a real person without any hold time. I know my orders will go through quickly and I know I can return anything if I'm not completely satisfied. Otherwise, I'd could be out thousands of dollars.

I don't mind sharing the wholesalers I use, because I'm not really trying to compete with anyone. There were another 2 really great companies that I used to buy from all the time, and if I can remember their names and URL's (or find their numbers) I'll post them here, too.

 

rukn2002: Please do share what you've found Thanks in advance. I am currently coming up with a suppliers list too, but my staff are not so successful.

 

Interesting thread.

Unhappily, not very much links, yet. Let's wait.

I think the most difficult is not to arrive the links but to know people that you can believe.

 

The links I provided are a great starting point. For jewelry and fashion accessories, I would start with Wholesale Jewelry and Accessories. For anything else I would head on over to Wholesale Central first and compare.

Do some research on a company you haven't done business with yet. Go to the website. Google it. Look it up on Alexa. How long has it been online? Look it up at the Better Business Bureau. Remember that many websites are operated as separate companies but are owned and operated by established wholesale parent companies. See if you can find this information out. Look THEM up on the BBB. Good rating? Any negatives?

Go back to the site. Read the privacy policy, returns policy, the "about" section. Get a feel for WHO these people are. Email them and ask questions, see how quick they respond. Go to the contact section. Is there an address??? How about a PHONE NUMBER? My rule of thumb: if they don't give me their phone number, I'm not giving them my credit card number. You shouldn't have to ask or dig for it, either. That's a sign that they really don't want you to call them. It should be right on their contact page, encouraging you to pick up the phone and dial should you need help. Go ahead and call them. Do you get a real person, or must you go through a machine first? I always give points to a company who I can call and have the phone answered promptly by a living, breathing human being without pressing my phone keypad. How long do you have to wait before speaking to a sales rep? When you get one, do they introduce themselves with a name or ID number so you can take note of them, hold them to quotes, and contact them again should you need to? Can you get their direct line so you can call them without a middle man? Do you get your own sales rep or will you be dealing with different people every time you call? Ask them questions. Are they helpful? Friendly? Ask for something you KNOW they don't carry. See how they respond. Do they offer to go out of their way for you? Do they at least give you some helpful advice on where you might want to try looking? Are they willing to direct you to their competition if need be? These are all signs you have that rare, golden find: A REALLY GOOD SUPPLIER. Don't miss the signs. Keep names and numbers, build a relationship and become friendly with the people there. This will be your secret weapon, that you have a supplier working for you. A good business relationship is reciprocal, a partnership where you and your supplier need each other and know it and so you help each other out when and where you can. You have to find suppliers who you can think of as teammates in building your business. If they are smart, they don't just want your money, they want you to SUCCEED. In fact, they'll know that they NEED you to succeed, because they understand that if you don't make money, THEY won't make money either. Selling a few hundred dozen of an item in one sale is useless is that sale is not going to result in followup sales. This is the rule for you as a retailer, because you want to develop relationships and get return customers. You might lose money on a sale or two by giving honest advice or cutting a special deal, because you know that you've just made a loyal customer out of a skeptical consumer. The same should apply to suppliers when dealing with retailers. If you get a supplier that is trying to push junk off on you or acts like they are doing you some huge favor just by dealing with you because you're not going to buy huge quantities, then forget them and move on. Business is business.

If the website is owned by a parent company, try calling the parent company and going through them instead or mention the company when you call the website's number. Tell them you'd like to buy through the parent company instead. This will often get you significantly better prices, although you might have slightly different terms of sale (such as higher minimum purchases and different shipping options). It's worth checking out, though.

Whatever you do... DON'T pay a single dollar for one of those "pre-screened" wholesale lists or books. These people are just looking for your money. They are no better than that guy with all the question marks on him who sells the book about all the free money you could be getting from the government! You're paying for information that is freely available and is HARDLY going to be as helpful as you think it is. We all want a magic solution. A list of quality wholesalers!? Why, I can buy the list, find some magical suppliers and, BAM!, I'll make millions. No. You won't. It's not going to happen like that. Not even close. It's like playing the lotto and picturing yourself winning the jackpot. You'll make money by being smart, developing good business skills and knowledge, growing your business through hard work and persistence, and by taking advantage of the vast and powerful information resources available to you online and offline and slowly but surely building up a small list of wholesale suppliers that you can trust and who can help you with your business needs as they evolve. The magic is inside you, not packaged up in some online marketing scheme. Capitalism is tough and the free market is brutal. It's the indomitable human spirit alone that can navigate the risks, make the right connections and choices, and succeed where others have failed. Keep the LONG VIEW in sight at all times. You might need to tend to short term imperatives, sure, but never at the expense of your long term interests. Quick fixes and anyone who promises you that you can make money quick and easy, are just generally traps.

Good luck!

 

A word to the wise when dealing with wholesalers from overseas - make absolute SURE you're getting what you're paying for and if you're selling the merchandise, make doubly sure. You don't want to get hit with a charge of selling counterfeit goods, that'd really hurt your plans for wealth and world domination...

I've found that there are a ring of fake hair straighteners going around on some wholesale sites. BEWARE

 

Hijynx is right. As I noted previously, be on the look out for fakes. Always make sure you have a legal recourse if you get scammed. Use credit cards, rather than checks or debits, because they are often better protected against fraud. You can call up your creditor and tell them you were sold merchandise that wasn't what it was advertised to be and they will remove the charge for you and might even then launch an investigation of their own on your behalf. It pays to have someone on your side.

This is even worse with brand name items. For example, the site I mentioned before (Wholesale Jewelry and Accessories) sells brand name, designer sunglasses from Isaac Mizrahi and Liz Claiborne (among others) for as little as $2 per pair: . In such a "too good to be true" scenario you don't want to pass up on a potential bargain, but you also want to play it safe. Walking the middle ground for me is following all of the rules I laid out before on safe web practices, with a few tweaks and additions.

First, there is ALWAYS risk in business. You should know that and accept that or you shouldn't be in business in the first place. The trick is MANAGING risk in an intelligent way, better than your competitors. It's nuanced and there are only rules of thumb here. Sometimes what sounds too good to be true is true and what sounds legitimate is really a well crafted scheme. With the sunglasses, I knew the company, trusted the site, and yet I STILL called up and made sure to ask LOTS of questions. These sunglasses were guaranteed authentic or my money back by the wholesaler, and they came with ALL the original stickers and tags, even the bar codes and original price stickers denoting an MSRP of up to $60. I got them and it was just like they said. Sweet. I got a great deal. So I ran and placed another order and bought as many as I could afford to buy.

So, think of trust and suspicion as a slider, with a points scale. Negative points come from warning signs and push the slider towards a higher risk, positive points come from good signs of legitimacy and security and push the slider to toward lower risk and higher confidence. If you've never done business with the company before, automatic negative 50 points, I call this the "precautionary principle". If the company is located overseas, another 25 negative points. If the company is in China or Eastern Europe, add an extra 25 negative points ON TOP of that. If the site looks shady, another 25 negative points. Insecure checkout = automatic VETO, forget ALL ABOUT POINTS in this case and just leave. No phone number = 25 negative points. No email, 35 negative points. If the only email is a FORM without an actual ADDRESS, 25 negative points. Poor information on products, 10 negative points. Inability for customer service to answer your questions and sooth your concerns, 40 negative points. Negative reviews online can be anywhere from negative 10 to 50 points depending on how many negative reviews and how negative they are. Negative 50 points for having a bad rating with the Better Business Bureau. You basically want to weigh all the bad signs and reservations you have collectively, and you can customize the amount of weight based on your own concerns, experiences, and preferences.

Now, do the same thing with the opposite: good signs and things that are indicators that the items are real deal name brand. Try to find people who HAVE done business with them. This is where reviews, research online, and Alexa and Google searches come in handy. If you know someone who has done business with them and they can vouch for their legitimacy, plus 45 positive points. Give the site positive 5 points for every year they've been online (use Alexa). Give them 25 points for having a good Google rank. If the items come with original tags and bar codes, plus 50 positive points. If the site offers a money back guarantee, give them positive 5 points for each year they've been online (again, because the longer they've been around the more likely they are to stand behind their products and be there down the road and the more than guarantee means). If the site has ALL relevant contact information (phone, email, etc) easy to find on a "contact" page and you contact them and know you can get a hold of them, plus 50 positive points. If you get good customer service and answers to your questions, plus 25 positive points. If you can get them to guarantee the items' authenticity, take all the positive points you have so far and add 25%.

Now compare the results. You should have a clear picture of the risk signs and the positive signs and have a fairly good idea of the level of risk. Now you can confidently make a decision. Remember to keep in mind how much money you stand to make versus how much you stand to lose.

I'm making these numbers up off the top of my head, and I don't really expect anyone to do business algorithmically. But, I am trying to give you an idea of what factors to look for and how one weighs these factors in a relative fashion. This is an example of FUZZY LOGIC, not hard and fast rules.

One last note: always make sure you ask the company whether the name brand items were DEFECTIVE in any way! Many times, name brand items sold cheaply are available to you at the highly reduced price for a reason. It's like shopping at TJ Max, sometimes there's a reason things are on clearance. You don't want to buy a hundred dozen of some name brand items only to find out that they were all rejects due to some manufacturing glitch. The only way to protect yourself here? ASK! Then, ASK AGAIN (ask the same basic question only re-frame it in a different way). Then, inspect your merchandise and make sure it is what it was claimed to be. Be skeptical, but not closed minded. Be cautious, but not paranoid. Once you've established a degree of trust, VERIFY.

Happy wholesaling!

 

Your supplier is not come from the supplier list. To use the wholesell website for buying is not a good method. They only think you are one of his customer and not the business partner. So if there is case happen, they may not be help. You need a supplier to help you for the pricing, marketing news too. Many of the wholesale website is not really low as I know.

I do the ebay business for few year now and I know many wholesale channel in China / Hong Kong for electronic gadget, laser prointer, flashlight too. But now I am no working account now and hope anybody can help me to do the business too. Please let me know if anyone have any idea too. Please PM me or reply.

Thanks

 

hay thank you for valuable information.

 

It depends where you are located and what you are after.
Dont go looking for branded goods from china- you will get stung more than likely.
There is dedicated wholesale forums, and google will help you with most.
One site I use for chinese suppliers is alibaba.