Wholesale Suppliers How To Find Them
In my last post I recommended two honest and reliable wholesale directories for you to try, after receiving quite a few emails from people who could not afford to join a directory, I will now add a couple ways to find ex catalogue wholesale suppliers by doing research. But before I do I should point out that if your not in the position to pay for a directory, you should really be thinking about using drop ship companies before even considering wholesale suppliers.
The reason being with a trade supplier you will have to buy in bulk, and this will usually cost in the hundreds, but with a reliable drop shipper you only pay for the item once you have managed to sale it yourself at your preferred markup, therefore you collect payment from your customer and then pay the drop shipper who then ships the product to your customer.
First and foremost you MUST buy directly from a legitimate ex catalogue wholesale supplier or trade supplier, there are scammers out there who will act as the middle man and fool you into believing they are the actual supplier, this means you will never buy your items at the true wholesale value and your competitors will always beat you on price. To avoid this happening do your research on your chosen supplier.
Another thing to bear in mind is some of these scammers masquerading as suppliers will charge you a monthly fee, real wholesale suppliers will never do this.
One of the best ways I have found to find out if a supplier is genuine is to join a wholesale forum, just type that exact phrase into google and it will bring up a list of forums for you, join which ever one you like and start posting threads about the supplier you have found, and you should receive allot of replies confirming if they are genuine or not.
You can also find some very good information on suppliers in these forums, if you after a particular product just post a new thread asking people if they know any reliable companies dealing in this item, you will be surprised at the amount of information you get back, I personaly use www.thewholesaleforums.co.uk
Another way to find ex catalogue wholesale suppliers is to type B2B companies into google and start going through each company until you find what your looking for, this method can yield some great leads but it does involve allot of research.
You can also type in Trade Magazines into your search engine, this will also bring up a list of B2B business’s.
Apart from joining a wholesale directory there is no real quick way to find suppliers, you must do the research to find the real wholesale suppliers your after, and once you have found a supplier you then have to do your research on them to make sure they are genuine, skip this and your business will fail.
