eBay Mistakes and Other Things Not to Do

Which eBay wholesalers should I go through?

If you’ve heard of a wholesaler on eBay Radio or ads in Entrepreneur magazine and from a Google sponsored link, chances are everybody else has too. If everybody else is using it then you’re not going to find anything good, or worse, you may pay too much for your merchandise since the price is driven up by speculators. There are certainly good deals to be had if you know where to look and that place isn’t eBay and it most definitely isn’t Worldwide Brands.

Most of the sites that will be advertised to you are outlets for junk and excess inventory that merchants couldn’t sell in the first place. I call this method “Dump and rip” because they’ll dump their garbage on wholesale sites (to which you have to pay for access) and are looking to rip you off. Don’t look for things to sell on a wholesale site because you might get suckered into something you (A) have no idea what it is or (B) think because it’s loosely related to electronics, it may sell for a bit. Chinese wholesalers are notorious for this. After you search your soul and your home and decided what you are going to sell, take a good look at mom and pop operations around your town. Strike up a conversation with the owners (or managers, depending on the size) and probe them for answers for their wholesalers. You’ll be surprised how much they open up.

“But aren’t wholesalers bad?”

Not at all…if you know what you looking for. Once you find your niche, find out where you can get wholesale.

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