Date: 27 Jul 2008 Comments: 0

So you’ve decided that you want to get started with a home based business, probably the easiest way to get started doing that is selling stuff online. Most likely you’ll probably look to eBay as your first option to throw a few items up, and start making some quick cash. This can be a great way of getting started, but eventually you’re probably going to run out of stuff to sell that you find around the house.

To have a regular home based business you have to find a regular source of products that are profitable.

So then what?

Well if your like most you probably head over to your favorite search engine and start looking for a wholesale supplier and or drop shipper.

This is the right thing to do.

But.

You have to be careful. Many companies masquerade as wholesale suppliers and are nothing more than middlemen. They effectively buy from sources that you could buying from yourself, and then resell the items at a cost that is high and that leaves you very little room for profit.

It’s common and it happens a lot.

I just recently wrote an article about this called:

Stop Dropshipping Companies From Delivering You a Big Scam

Click on that link to read the article.

It explains some basics on how you can locate suppliers on your own and some standard methods that many in the retail business use to acquire wholesale products.

Hope you enjoy it.

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