I would love to have an ebay store so I could have some income coming in. I sell stuff on there but just my odds and ends around my house. I have a tax ID # and I know the ebay stores buy wholesale. I would like to start buying Victorias Secrets stuff wholesale mainly MODA INTERNATIONAL items. I need to know some places that I could buy them? Im really confised with the whole ebay store thing so if anyone has one out there could you please please help me get started with some info? I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks!
2007-03-01 06:49:56 · 6 answers · asked by Susy_Q 3 in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
The big difference between an eBay "store" and a regular online auction is the time and the cost of the listings. Store owners get the advantage of lower insertion prices (making it cheaper for them to list a lot of stuff at lower eBay fees) and longer running auctions. There is also some preferential search treatment (e.g. if you search for a Motorola RAZR phone a list of stores will come up that offer the phone).
eBay stores charge a monthly fee for this ability which is designed to keep the lower volume sellers out. It's a tradeoff that you need to examine your sales with.
Having an eBay store doesn't offer you any distinct advantages into finding any merchandise to sell. There's not an insider's list of distribution channels that you get once you open.
Finding merchandise (IMO) is always the trickiest part. There are a lot of people that will try to sell you distributor/wholesaler lists or "secret" vendor lists where you can buy overstock at pennies on the dollar.
99.99999% of them are not worth the paper they're printed on.
You've named two high ticket brand items that you're looking to sell. They are also two retailers that protect their brand identity and distribution channel very very well. You don't find a lot (if any) of those name items in the discount channels (like Marshall's/TJ Maxx) and they're hard to crack into (especially starting out new).
My advice is to set your sites on some smaller niche lines that you can pick up at your local discounters to see if you can turn a profit.
If you're a savy shopper, with a never-say-die attitude you can find deals, but don't think this is get rich quick with no effort avenue because it's not.
Good luck!
2007-03-01 08:03:37 · answer #1 · answered by TheBigSquareHead 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
These guys having stores get there products really cheap using secret wholesale sources , which i discovered was Salehoo , http://salehoo.deals-guide.com , its a wholesale list with so many niche products to sell on ebay , plus they have a great guide on how to start on ebay and build a reputation in days
2007-03-02 23:07:03 · answer #2 · answered by Kristina A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok listen i have sold on ebay and made money and now i got sick and tired of them charing me too much for the listings so i found my sources for my products and made my own site after i had made some money and there is some useful infromation on how to get started all you need is products for low prices and thats what i offer and where to get them check it out add my to msn and ill let you know the details.
2007-03-03 05:52:17 · answer #3 · answered by makaveli the don prince 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you have to find out what kind of stuff are most on demand and try to contact whole sale people to get them for as cheap as possible, then start selling them one by one but lower than the retail price. and always remember, greed is not good. when you figure out what the things that mostly on demand please tell me.
2007-03-01 07:58:03 · answer #4 · answered by theman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i seen a comercial whare they have a cd with a list of thousands of whulsalers
2007-03-02 01:39:18 · answer #5 · answered by larrydoyle52 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they buy things cheap and then sell it online for just a lil bit more
the profit is theirs that's how they make their money duh
2007-03-01 07:32:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋