Drop Shipping and Where to Buy at Wholesale Price

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Drop Shipping and Where to Find Wholesalers

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For sellers - How to do Drop Shipping

For consumers - Where to find Wholesalers to buy products at Wholesale price.

What is Drop Shipping? 

Drop shipping is a product delivery method in which the seller accepts payment for a product from the customer, seller then pays the manufacturer and the manufacturer deliver the product directly to the customer. In a drop shipping, the seller acts as a middleman between the customer and the manufacturer. His profit is the difference between the wholesale (which he pay the manufacturer) and retail price (which he collects from the customer) of the items sold.

The advantage of drop shipping is that the seller don't need to take stocks and store the goods. Drop shipping model is best suited for internet store front or selling on auction sites such as Ebay.

Where to Buy Products at Wholesale Price 

There are many wholesalers who are willing to sell their goods directly to customers even at small quantities. The difficult and tricky part is where to find the addresses and contacts of these wholesalers.

Searching the internet for those wholesalers may be a viable solution but can also be a risky one. Scammers are known to set up bogus wholesaler site as a lure to get credit card information. Even if you find a real wholesaler, it is also difficult to know if a wholesaler site is trustworthly or if they sell inferior goods.

A safer solution is to access membership to wholesalers directory such as DropShippingWholesalers which provides members with a list of tested wholesalers and dropshippers.

Books on Drop Shipping and Wholesalers 

The Ebay Entrepreneur Kit; Everything You Need to Become an Ebay Entrepreneur Is Finally Here!

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Drop Shipping For Sellers: A Complete Guide To Making Money On eBay Without The Risk

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Start Your Own Wholesale Distribution Business (Startup)

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Make Your Dollars Stretch by Buying Wholesale: A Directory of Wholesale Distributors for Bargain Shoppers, Businesses, Stay-at-Home Moms, and Everyone Else!

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How to Buy Jewelry Wholesale

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Feedback on Drop Shipping 

ohm

I agree which company each one need the fee for member to access their product.

Posted September 04, 2008

yojspew

This is a great lens! I think Drop Shipping is a great way of doing business. Just make sure that the Drop Shipping companies are reliable and can be trusted.

Posted February 18, 2008

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