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by: dhs08
New SaleHoo Member
6 posts
Is this site for real? Cause I don't see the discounts.
Posted 1 Jan 07 11:37 pm.
I have spent the last few days of my Christmas vacation (from my 9 to 5). Searching for reliable wholesale sites. Finally I choose salehoo and paid my fee, only to feel like the few 'secret sites' they offer seem to be middle man sites. I have spent about 6 hours pouring over everything offered here and have done some comaprisions on e bay. From what I see e bay is cheaper, which means no profit. They are even selling it cheaper then I, as a member could purchase items for directly from the wholesaler. So as some of you have pointed out...buy from e bay... then what? sell back to who? Who in their right mind would buy what you offer when someone else sells it much cheaper???
I have invested a lot of time into this and I am NOT ready to give up yet! Is anyone really making a profit out there? And are you willing to share your secrets? Really all I see here is a couple of sites offered...and not very good prices...like I said, compared to e bay. HELP! :? -
by: dlas395iq1
New SaleHoo Member
1 posts
Re: Is this site for real? Cause I don't see the discounts.
Posted 3 Jan 07 1:55 am.
I agree.....I just signed up for this and already thinking refund. I spent most of this morning and afternoon looking but I have yet to find a 'DEAL'
Like I said I just got the package and I will try and further my education here, but either there is a Deal or No Deal. -
by: brad-sickness
SaleHoo Junior Member
47 posts
Re: Is this site for real? Cause I don't see the discounts.
Posted 3 Jan 07 2:19 pm.
Even if you can't find any sites to buy your merch from, the staff here seem pretty top-notch in helping you whenever you have questions. -
by: salehoo_group
SaleHoo Staff
2085 posts
Re: Is this site for real? Cause I don't see the discounts.
Posted 3 Jan 07 9:18 pm.
I have spent the last few days of my Christmas vacation (from my 9 to 5). Searching for reliable wholesale sites. Finally I choose salehoo and paid my fee, only to feel like the few 'secret sites' they offer seem to be middle man sites. I have spent about 6 hours pouring over everything offered here and have done some comaprisions on e bay. From what I see e bay is cheaper, which means no profit. They are even selling it cheaper then I, as a member could purchase items for directly from the wholesaler. So as some of you have pointed out...buy from e bay... then what? sell back to who? Who in their right mind would buy what you offer when someone else sells it much cheaper???
What products are you looking for? Any interests, hobbies so we can get an idea of what you are looking for please?
I have invested a lot of time into this and I am NOT ready to give up yet! Is anyone really making a profit out there? And are you willing to share your secrets? Really all I see here is a couple of sites offered...and not very good prices...like I said, compared to e bay. HELP! :?
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by: salehoo_group
SaleHoo Staff
2085 posts
Re: Is this site for real? Cause I don't see the discounts.
Posted 3 Jan 07 9:19 pm.
I agree.....I just signed up for this and already thinking refund. I spent most of this morning and afternoon looking but I have yet to find a 'DEAL'
Please let us know what you are looking for and we can help you out :)
Like I said I just got the package and I will try and further my education here, but either there is a Deal or No Deal.Check out the a latest blog post on the SaleHoo Blog. Add a comment
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by: dhs08
New SaleHoo Member
6 posts
Re: Is this site for real? Cause I don't see the discounts.
Posted 4 Jan 07 1:07 am.
Thanks for the replies...I was feeling all alone in a big sea.
As for what I have been looking for...well, basically I was looking through the wholesale sites and checking out what they had to offer. Trying to stay away from the electronic boom. Looked at accessories instead, also as seen on tv items, landscape lights etc. Then I went to e bay to check the competetion and their selling prices to see what the profit margin was. To my utter surprise, every single item that I reviewed was 50 to 75% less on e bay compared to the wholesale prices. So to answer your question. What am I looking for? Anything of intrest with a profit margin worth my time, money and energy. I have yet to find a supplier who can compete with e bay prices.
I have continued the search on my own, seperate from this site. Basically all this site has benefited me for is this message board and to hear others struggling just like me. I know that my challenges are not unusual, but I plan to succeed this time. So thanks for asking. -
by: jimmy_huber
SaleHoo Master Member
2919 posts
Re: Is this site for real? Cause I don't see the discounts.
Posted 4 Jan 07 5:46 am.
Then I went to e bay to check the competetion and their selling prices to see what the profit margin was. To my utter surprise, every single item that I reviewed was 50 to 75% less on e bay compared to the wholesale prices. So to answer your question. What am I looking for? Anything of intrest with a profit margin worth my time, money and energy. I have yet to find a supplier who can compete with e bay prices.
To answer your question, Your searching the wrong area. Wholesale is good if your purchasing from a wholesaler to sell in a retail environment. But you intend to sell on ebay, Ebay is a wholesale marketplace. Everything normally sells wholesale or below wholesale based on supply and demand. Most of those sellers you saw selling those as seen on tv items and the other items you searched for most likely bought them as surplus and for probably 10-30 of wholesale value. That means if the items retail value was $100 and the wholesale value was $85 they probably paid $20-30 Bucks for the item. Then sold the item on ebay for $45-50 bucks.
As seen on tv products are useless junk to most retailers after a few weeks. They then get sold to a surplus company wich sells them. I know because I have sold 200 as seen on tv sauna belts.
I purchased them from a surplus supplier link hidden
They deal with alot of general surplus. Just stay away from sunglasses because they are designer inspired and they label them as the actual designer
They were a good profit item as I only paid 3 bucks for each one and sold them for 14.99-17.99 each profiting generally 10-14 bucks a pop. And selling 4-10 a day.
Right now buying surplus and liquidation products are a great deal and will boom 75% due to all the after christmas returns. This will be good money for anyone that jumps on the bandwagon.
link hidden is my baby. I love this site as it has made me over $8,000 in 2006 and that was just hardly trying. I expect to make twice as much for 2007.
I sell dvd movies on ebay for small profits on one account. I buy lots of kids clothing on link hidden and sell them on ebay and in yard sales in the summer.
Imagine paying $500 bucks for 300 items in designer kids clothes that are brand new. Do your own advertising and quadruple that investment in a yard sale over the weekend selling each item for 5-10 bucks a piece. My wife did this once while I was at the real job and made $1,800 in 2 days. We did this type of sale 3 times last year making over $4,200 altogether and I think we paid $1,200 or so for product. We plan to do this several times this year. Ebay isnt the only source of our funds.
And remember if you need any help feel free to ask us and other members. There are many new members wanting to learn how to make a buck. But there are several more that have already done so and are willing to share some but not all of thier secrets.
Best advise I can give you is to never give up. Dont quit your seach for the best deal.
We are currently doing reviews on suppliers in our list and reviewing them to better give ratings about these suppliers for our members. This list is beyond huge over 10,000 wholesale companies,and were going as fast as we can. This is a very big project and will take quite some time. I will be online for the next several hours contacting these companies and will be giving solid reviews. I will also be doing price to price comparisons on these suppliers with ebay's average selling prices.
Good luck and if you have any further questions or suggestions dont hesitate to post.Wholesale Directory by SaleHoo
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by: mana2006
SaleHoo Master Member
379 posts
Re: Is this site for real? Cause I don't see the discounts.
Posted 4 Jan 07 7:24 am.
I also will let you in on my little secret. I also use liquidation.com for some of my goods. They have a certain store near here that I like buying from. They have the contract to sell there goods. I just pick them up on my trailer and drop them off at our warehouse. Great prices and no shipping costs. Well the price of gas and time. Thats about it. Lots of liquidators out there. Find one near you to help reduce costs. Residential delivery with lift gate can get expensive. Also you can often go to the liquadtion sites and view and buy. Than they will ship. Just fly, rent a car, and buy. Great for buying truck loads. We mainly sell to mom and pop shops in our metroplex. Most goods are sold before we ever buy them. Just some small advice from little old me.