ncl7_2000 wrote:I just joined Salehoo recently and I'm disappointed with how "wholesalers" have retail websites that compete with those they are selling to. I had an online business before. I bought all my inventory wholesale. Some of my suppliers, I later found out, were also selling retail. I was really upset after paying the minimum order prices in merchandise. Merchandise, by the way that I could not get rid of and it's still sitting in a spare room in my house. AND I still owe money for that inventory. I can't even get rid of it on Ebay.
That is why I decided to try drop shipping this time. I was lured by the flood of emails and ads about drop shipping and what a great business model it is yada, yada, yada.
Now I read these posts and the story is different. I know the differences between wholesale and drop shipping. I know, for the manufacturer it may be a hassle to package one item vs selling a dozen. But I really expected to find some manufacturers here that really do dropshipping and don't undercut their customers with their retail website.
Seriously thinking about forgetting this whole venture and trying something else.
ncl7_2000 wrote:I just joined Salehoo recently and I'm disappointed with how "wholesalers" have retail websites that compete with those they are selling to. I had an online business before. I bought all my inventory wholesale. Some of my suppliers, I later found out, were also selling retail. I was really upset after paying the minimum order prices in merchandise. Merchandise, by the way that I could not get rid of and it's still sitting in a spare room in my house. AND I still owe money for that inventory. I can't even get rid of it on Ebay.
That is why I decided to try drop shipping this time. I was lured by the flood of emails and ads about drop shipping and what a great business model it is yada, yada, yada.
Now I read these posts and the story is different. I know the differences between wholesale and drop shipping. I know, for the manufacturer it may be a hassle to package one item vs selling a dozen. But I really expected to find some manufacturers here that really do dropshipping and don't undercut their customers with their retail website.
Seriously thinking about forgetting this whole venture and trying something else.
ncl7_2000 wrote:I just joined Salehoo recently and I'm disappointed with how "wholesalers" have retail websites that compete with those they are selling to. I had an online business before. I bought all my inventory wholesale. Some of my suppliers, I later found out, were also selling retail. I was really upset after paying the minimum order prices in merchandise. Merchandise, by the way that I could not get rid of and it's still sitting in a spare room in my house. AND I still owe money for that inventory. I can't even get rid of it on Ebay.
That is why I decided to try drop shipping this time. I was lured by the flood of emails and ads about drop shipping and what a great business model it is yada, yada, yada.
Now I read these posts and the story is different. I know the differences between wholesale and drop shipping. I know, for the manufacturer it may be a hassle to package one item vs selling a dozen. But I really expected to find some manufacturers here that really do dropshipping and don't undercut their customers with their retail website.
Seriously thinking about forgetting this whole venture and trying something else.
ncl7_2000 wrote:I’ve been looking for suppliers of the product I’m interested in. I found one that had some of those products. However, their products had brand names of other manufacturers. So I picked one brand and did an independent search and found their website.
They had some products that to buy them you needed to go to their retailers, which they listed.
Guess who was listed as one of their retailers? That’s right, the supplier I saw here that I was considering as a source for my product. So the “wholesaler” here is not really a wholesaler but a middleman.
I can’t get the best price if they are buying from the manufacturer, then turning around and reselling to me.
ncl7_2000 wrote:I just joined Salehoo recently and I'm disappointed with how "wholesalers" have retail websites that compete with those they are selling to. I had an online business before. I bought all my inventory wholesale. Some of my suppliers, I later found out, were also selling retail. I was really upset after paying the minimum order prices in merchandise. Merchandise, by the way that I could not get rid of and it's still sitting in a spare room in my house. AND I still owe money for that inventory. I can't even get rid of it on Ebay.
That is why I decided to try drop shipping this time. I was lured by the flood of emails and ads about drop shipping and what a great business model it is yada, yada, yada.
Now I read these posts and the story is different. I know the differences between wholesale and drop shipping. I know, for the manufacturer it may be a hassle to package one item vs selling a dozen. But I really expected to find some manufacturers here that really do dropshipping and don't undercut their customers with their retail website.
Seriously thinking about forgetting this whole venture and trying something else.