I think most of us know what you're saying planes. I was just having the same conversation with bevsey, and I am of the opinion that we are going to be faced with more and more brokers entering the market.
They all seem to see it as an easy in, list some products that you have sourced yourself and make a fortune. The stupid thing is that they will usually find a market.
There is always some idiot ready to give their cash away for an over priced product, simply because they are too lazy to do the research.
I would love to know just how many genuine wholesalers there are listed here, and I mean genuine. Not the ones listed as wholesaler/dropshipper.
I cringe when I see a question asking for any good dropshippers/wholesalers?
If you can afford to buy wholesale you would need to be insane to dropship products, and if you can only afford to dropship products you shouldn't be asking for a wholesaler.
The two are not even closely related, and service two completely different markets.
They are going to be making some changes here soon, and cleaning up that directory would be a nice place to start.
It's a free world, and if someone wants to promote their brokerage then I have no issues with that, so long as they are a legit business. However, list them as they are, not as wholesalers.
Same as Chinese fakes, they supply a market that is looking for those products, but list them in their own directory so new members don't make the stupid mistake of thinking that the branded products are genuine, and the company must be fine because they are simply listed here.
Make the directory listings clear to make what is currently a mismatch of information into a clear and understandable directory.