“Best wholesale website?”, this is a most asked question. Importers or dropshippers are looking for the best wholesale sites. A good wholesale partners can help your business and a bad one could destroy it.

Why we consider a wholesale online store as a “best” one? 1. The site should be trustworthy and legal. 2. It should has various kinds of quality products. 3. The price is reasonable for wholesale.

Actually ,there is not so-called the best website ,but there are some some trustworthy ones.

Buying All Products

Ebay.com – The world’s biggest auction platform. You could find wholesale suppliers here. People should be careful about the low price scam. Amazon.com – Another biggest online platform. The price is a little higher than ebay. But the product quality is better than ebay.

Buying Electronic and Cool Gadgets

BuyOnMe.com – BuyOnMe is a trustworthy site, selling cool gadgets at cheap price with free shipping service. The products are including cell phone & accessories, electronic gadgets, iphone & ipad accessories and other hard-to-find gadgets.It has live chat functions for importers and customers. And the replying speed of email and live chat is quickly. Sometimes my ordered product is out of stock, the guys of buyonme will refund me quickly (usually in 48 hours after placing an order). And then they will send me an email to inform it. Dealextreme – Dealextreme is one of the biggest china-based retail website. Sometimes the retail price is even lower than most wholesale sites. I have a lot of friends in Canada go to purchase on this site. The delivery speed is a little longer, usually taking a month or even more. But considering the products coming from China and the cheap price, that’s not a problem. Lightinthebox – Wedding clothing for brides is the major category in this site. The wedding stuff is at dirt cheap price. Most packages are shipped by express mail service. One of my friend purchased an item. It took 7 days to get it. That’s very fast for a china online store.

Buying Expensive Electronics

Tigerdirect – Some people used to purchase home electronics from the site, such as laptops and cameras. Yes, the price is higher than ebay but the delivery time is the advantage. We could notice some customers complaint about the slow reaction of the CS team on ResellerRatings. Anyway, my shopping experience is pleasent. Newegg.com – A famous website for buying computers, laptops, GPS, MP3 or Cell Phones.

Buying china products

alibaba.com – You could find dirt cheap prices on alibaba. Alibaba give different level certifications to different wholesale seller, such as “gold member” or “trust member”. But even trust members have been caught scamming the buyers. It seems that some scammers could buy “gold” or “trust” certifications. Anyway most sellers are doing their business honestly. madeinchina.com – madeinchina is a china-based wholesale platform. It is smaller than alibaba. The categories are similar to alibaba. It provides another option for foreign importers.

Being a importer or wholesaler is not easy. You must doing a good mount of research. Besides that, you has to find a reliable wholesale supplier. Some wholesale business beginers worry about the wholesale price. They don’t know how to bargain with the wholesale suppliers. In my opinion, quality and long-term cooperation is much more important than price. When I was doing wholesale business a few years ago, I sold made-in-china products. You know it is very difficult to control the quality and the delivery when buying from china warehouse. So I choose 2 websites as my major suppliers, buyonme.com and alibaba.com. I go to buyonme.com when the quantity is small. The website’s price is very competitive from small purchase. And buyonme will automatically refund when the product is out of stock quickly. When I ordered more than 100 or 1000 pieces, I go to alibaba.com to find the suppliers. Of course I have met online scam dealing with some dishonest suppliers in alibaba, but most are honest and trustworthy.

EBay is popular to almost everybody. It caters to different types of individuals-hobbyists, traders, computer programmer, accountant, design engineers, ”buy and sell” investors, and others. In eBay, you will find millions of items of varying kinds that are listed, bought, and sold everyday. Anything-from Barbie or Bratz dolls, computer software, antique furniture, vehicles of old or new models, and others-can be sold as long as it is not illegal or illegally acquired (in case the item is purchased from another individual) and does not violate eBay’s Prohibited and Restricted Items policy.

Through eBay, almost every goal is possible to achieve. Majority of the items sold on eBay are from private merchants who end up selling such items to other private users. When you try to search this auction site, you will also notice that most of the auctions or deals are for single items. Although majority of items sold are from private sellers to private buyers, the existence of growing ”business to business” market on eBay is present. One of which is the wholesale business, where wholesalers are using eBay to sell merchandises in bulk or in large quantities to resellers. Wholesalers also understand that though there are individuals searching for different items for their own consumption, there are also individuals who are also looking for different items for resale purposes.

Thus, if you are an eBay seller, specialty shop owner, flea market vendor, or even a wholesaler, you will be able to find good wholesale deals on items that you need using eBay. The online auction site provides a sub-category for wholesale, thus you will easily find listed merchandises for sale on eBay. For instance, if you are a eBay wholesaler of toys, all you need to do is to visit the toys category and click the sub-category ”wholesale”. From there, you will be able to see the wholesale deals for a specific kind of item or merchandise.

Probably you are wondering why there are individuals who does not simply purchase at wholesale yet they will resell on individual lots. Part of the reason is that many eBay sellers do not have the capability of storing large quantities of items or money to purchase large lots. However, if you have the capability of storing large quantities of items and some additional money to spend, you should think about purchasing wholesale lots on eBay and then selling it on individual lots later on.