"Wolves in Wholesale Suppliers 'Clothing'"
The Internet is loaded with fake “Wholesale Suppliers”. Everyone who has a couple of wooden birdhouses or glass figurines to sell wants you to think they are a real, live Wholesale Supplier.
And, every Scam Artist who feels like making a quick buck is selling lists of these fakes.
Don't throw your money away on cheap lists and sites
full of middlemen, resellers and closeout liquidators that charge you overblown
prices, membership fees and minimums. The creators of those lists and sites
are irresponsible people who couldn't care less what happens to you. They
pad their lists with the names of hundreds, or even thousands of companies
that are USELESS to you, and they KNOW IT! You'll waste valuable time and
money finding out that the information you bought is virtually worthless.
I'm constantly amazed at people who still think that cheaper is better.
Every once in a while, someone will write us and ask "Why should I pay more
for YOUR Directory, when I can buy one of those others for 15.00, or 6.00,
or even 3.00?"
The answer is simple. It's a fundamental truth, and we all know the answer
already.
You get what you pay for.
ALWAYS. No exceptions to the rule. No "but look, this one
is different!" This truth IS carved in stone.
I may actually buy a cheap product from time to time, but I do it for very
specific reasons, understanding that it IS a piece of junk.
I'll buy one of those $39 VCRs, but I won't use it in the family entertainment
center. I'll buy it for the kids' playroom, because I KNOW that someday,
one of the kids is going to stuff a peanut butter sandwich into the video
slot (again!). When it happens, all I've lost is a piece of junk that wasn't
worth much anyway.
I'll spend $8 on a cheap set of kitchen flatware, but it doesn't go into
the drawer in the kitchen. I'll throw it in with our camping gear, because
I KNOW that most of it will eventually be dug out of the sand by archaeologists,
centuries after we've lost a couple of pieces every trip.
So, there ARE reasons to purposely ignore value and buy cheap.
However, you'll NEVER catch me putting my grandson in a cheap car seat.
Heaven help me if I ever try to pass a Cubic Zirconium off as a Diamond
to my wife. And I will NEVER buy a cheap piece of junk where the future
of my business is concerned.
We're all here to make money. That includes us, and it includes YOU! If
it didn't, you wouldn't be here, trying to decide on a legitimate way to
open a Home-based Internet Business.
Many people, like us, and like you, are willing to work very hard to make
our dreams come true. We at Worldwide Brands literally work seven days a
week, day and night, to produce genuinely valuable Product Sourcing and
Research tools that will help you greatly in your pursuit of success. We
really do. YOU are here because you are prepared to take that leap of faith
in yourself, and take your future in your own hands. To make something out
of nothing, for yourself, and perhaps your family.
Isn't it sad that there are those who would rather cheat us both, instead
of putting forth the effort that it takes to do an honest day's work?
Like any other avenue of the Internet, they are here as well, in the Product
Sourcing arena. Those who prey on your lack of knowledge about a new field
that you are attempting to get started in.
Some of the following paragraphs are warnings against some common hazards
that we've seen on the Internet, related to Product Sourcing for your Home-based
Internet Business.
Some of these paragraphs are simply warnings against Internet Business offers
and practices that are legal, but will NEVER earn you any money; they will
earn money only for those who sell you the programs we talk about below.
TV "Infomercials"
These people are probably the biggest offenders out there. The late night
"Home Internet Business in a Box" TV Infomercial.
They show you "Amazing Systems" that will make you "Thousands of Dollars
a Week", with little effort on your part. They offer you "Easy, Step-by-Step
Instructions". They want to sell you "Interactive CD ROMS that Teach You
ECommerce in No Time". They offer to reveal "Amazing Secrets of the Pros"
that will make you rich. They promise "Instant Web Sites"" and "Access to
Thousands of Products That You Can Sell right Now!" They show you beautiful
people lounging around pools, swimming in crystal-clear Caribbean waters,
and sitting under palm trees while their "Businesses" magically make them
all the money it takes to afford those things.
C'mon, folks! You and I both know better!
It's extremely tempting to buy into the fantasy that there
are "Secret Formulas", "Hidden Methods of the Pros", and "Businesses in
a Box" that will make us rich with very little effort.
It's NOT TRUE. It never has been true. No place,
no time, not ever. In our minds, we all know this. However,
in our hearts, we long for it to be so. That's what these people
prey on...our hearts and our dreams.
We at Worldwide Brands know these people. We've been in this business
a long time. We're very good at it, and very we're highly regarded on the
Internet.
These different infomercial people have approached us over the
years, wanting us to endorse them and let them include our Information
and our Directory Products in their half-hour trips to Fantasyland. We've
had multiple conference calls with the owners of these companies. We've
had conference calls with the people who handle their advertising, and produce
their infomercials. We have turned them down, every time.
We will not allow our name and our reputation to be ruined by being
associated with these people. Don't let your chance at a real business be
ruined by them.
We know these people, and their Infomercials. We actually do stay up late
at night and watch every new one that comes out. We have never seen
one that will do what it claims for you. They are selling a white-washed
fantasy that has little to do with the real business world, and they
know it.
They start out by telling you that their "Amazing System" costs only a small
amount of money. Then, when they have you hooked, they tell you that you
need to spend hundreds more on an "Upgrade". Then they tell you that you
need to spend hundreds more on "Advertising and Email Campaigns".
Then they tell you that you need to invest thousands in their "Coaching
Classes" if you want to be successful. We have heard from a tremendous number
of people who have lost thousands of dollars to these people.
Don't let them fool you!
"Drop Shippers" of "More than 3,000 products!"
There are literally THOUSANDS of companies out there who are acting as
MIDDLEMEN for ONE real drop shipping company. All of those thousands of
so-called drop shippers lead back to the same supplier.
I'm talking about a big supplier of imported off-brand merchandise that
does drop ship directly from their warehouse. They sell some nice products;
I actually worked with them a few years ago. You won't find any well-known
brand names there. Their line consists of about 3,500 widely varying products,
mostly decorative figurines, home accents and giftware. Again, you won't
recognize any of the brand names...it's all imported merchandise, probably
mostly from China and the Pacific Rim. We'll call this company "XYZ Wholesalers",
for the purpose of this discussion. That's not their real name, of course.
You can sign up with "XYZ Wholesalers" directly and sell their merchandise
on your web site, for a hefty account maintenance fee. I did that a few
years ago, as I said. However, I no longer work with them. I found the products
difficult to sell, for one very good reason. As I said above, they have
signed up THOUSANDS of people, who are all trying to sell this exact same
merchandise on the Internet. That kind of competition, plus the fact that
there are so many more people (millions of people!) already trying to sell
giftware in general on the 'Net, made it impossible for me to make any real
money.
Now, here's the problem: along comes Joe Reseller. He signs up with "XYZ
Wholesalers" as a retailer, and has the right to sell their products on
the Internet. Then he advertises himself as the WHOLESALER. He tells you
that he IS a company like "XYZ Wholesalers", and tells you to sign up with
his web site. He'll drop ship all those products to your customers and make
you rich. What he's really doing is sitting in his bedroom in front of his
computer, re-sending your orders to the REAL "XYZ Wholesalers", and making
a profit from you that you should not have to pay.
List of Wholesale Companies who drop ship for $3.00!
Ever see an ad like that on an auction site? So have we. We buy them.
OK, we KNOW we're getting ripped off, but we just have to see them. A few
days after paying for them, we get two Xeroxed pages in the mail containing
the most worthless information we've ever seen. Or, we get an Email that's
supposed to be a drop shipping list. (An EMAIL!) Or we get a $15 CD chock
full of the same garbage the guy who charged us $3 was peddling. If I thought
I could make money on the Internet selling wooden birdhouses made in somebody's
garage, I'd go into business with my neighbor.
These lists sell for anywhere from $2.50 to $30. Why do you think they're
so cheap? Because nobody had to put any EFFORT into them! It's easy to hit
a search engine, type the word "wholesale", throw the first 20 responses
on a piece of paper, and sell it for a few bucks.
Will it help you earn money? NO!
98% of all the Drop Ship/Wholesale Supplier Lists and Directories
on the Internet!
(We're the OTHER 2%) :o)
Yes, we bought them too. ALL of them. They call themselves "Ultimate",
"Connection", "Global", "Millennium",
"Central", "Wholsalers.xxx," and "Incredible"
lists and sites of supposed Wholesale Suppliers who Drop Ship and/or sell
in Bulk.
Again, we knew we were being ripped off. I've seen these things floating
around for YEARS, and have tried to use them before. But just for the sake
of doing our research before telling you what they are really like, we bought
them.
These printed lists and "directories" of Drop Shippers/Wholesale Suppliers
have been circulating the same, tired old listings around and around among
themselves for years. If you think you can make money selling customized
return mailing labels, or novelties like fake vomit and dribble glasses,
or used books from some dingy old warehouse, then by all means, give it
a try.
They all claim to contain "hundreds", or "thousands" of companies who will
drop ship for you. Some of them contain hundreds of listings, but that's
easy. Once again, just go to a search engine, type in "wholesale" and copy
the first 500 responses you get. Then slap them in a rag print magazine
and call it a "Directory". Same result.
One of the oldest and most well known of these (don't ask which one; you
know you've seen the ads!) contains hundreds of company listings.
Our Research Manager actually spent a month trying to contact ALL of them.
Only 18 of them responded, and only 3 of them (THREE out of 202!) were real
Wholesale Suppliers who were willing to Drop Ship. The 18 companies who
did respond didn't know they were even listed in this "directory".
When we research OUR Directories, we contact EACH AND EVERY COMPANY WE LIST.
Then we ASK THEIR PERMISSION to list them. We verify that they are a REAL
Wholesaler Supplier who is willing to work with Home-based Businesses, and
will either Drop Ship, or sell through Light Bulk Wholesaling. Then we place
them in the proper Directory (our Drop Ship Source Directory, or our Light
Bulk Wholesale Directory), listing their products, their brand names, their
email addresses, phone numbers, physical address, contact person, credit
information, ordering procedure, etc., etc., etc. NONE of these other so-called
"directories" do anything remotely like what we do. We're constantly amazed
that they get away with it.
Lists and "directories" such as this sell for anywhere from $7 to about
$59. They're almost all in print form, although a couple are online. We've
even seen a couple of new ones surface in the past few months. Amazingly
enough, they're circulating much of the same worthless information that
the OLD ones are! Must have taken a lot of research, don't you think? :o)
Super Drop Ship Information CD!
You've probably seen these on auction sites as well as web sites. Tell you what, we'll make this one short and sweet. Read the warning above this one, dump all THAT junk on a CD, and sell it for six bucks. Same thing.
Complete Site and Product Sales Opportunities!
Have you ever come across a "Drop Shipping Opportunity" like this: (?)
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They'll create a storefront for you
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They'll provide you with THOUSANDS of products that they'll drop ship for your store!
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They'll provide you with Merchant Services so you can accept credit cards without having to open a bank account!
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All for a ONE TIME PRICE of just $50! (Or $149, or $300, etc.)
Wow, doesn't that just seem too good to be true?? That's because it IS
too good to be true. Oh, sure, they'll do what they say. It's a legal business.
But tell me this...just how much money do you think you'll make?
Think about it for a minute. THEY establish accounts with wholesalers. THEY
mark those wholesale prices WAY up. Then they get YOU to put in all the
time and effort to SELL those products to people, at a VERY slim profit
margin for YOU.
Congratulations! You've just become a commissioned salesman for someone
else's business!
Um, not quite what you had in mind, was it?
For a Mere $149, and $50 a month...
Run across one of these yet? A company who claims to be a "drop ship
distributor", but has a "setup" or "membership" fee?
Let me say this very clearly:
A Real Wholesale Supplier that Drop Ships does not charge
a Fee to do business with you!
ANY Drop Ship Wholesale Supplier that wants you to BUY YOUR STORE'S PRODUCTS
FROM THEM, and wants you to pay a setup or membership fee, should be AVOIDED
at ALL COST! Almost without exception, these companies have raised their
so-called "wholesale" product prices so high that you will never be able
to compete on the Internet. Your prices will have to be so much higher than
anyone else's that you will never make any real money.
And guess what? You don't get to SEE these companies' "wholesale" product
prices until AFTER they have your money! See how that works? There will
be a NO REFUND policy. Bet on that.
Wolves in Wholesale Supplier's Clothing
There are a LOT of places out there who would have you believe that they are Wholesale Suppliers who Drop Ship for Home-based Internet Businesses like yours. We spend a great deal of time sorting these fake profiteers OUT of our list of Directory candidates. Here's how they operate:
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They put up a site that contains all kinds of unrelated product lines, and tell you they'll drop ship for your internet business.
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They may charge a small account setup fee.
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You sign up with them, thinking that they are an actual distributor, and you place their products for sale on your site.
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Your customer orders a product from you, and you send the order to this fake "drop shipper".
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The fake "drop shipper" in turn places the order with the REAL distributor, and has it sent to your customer.
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You end up paying a lot more than you have to for the product, because the fake "drop shipper" is marking up the price to YOU.
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You lose profits that should be yours.
Many of these people are very clever. Their sites look legitimate and
they present themselves well. All they really are is just another middleman
that is sponging off of your hard work. You DON'T need them.
Free Wholesale Supplier Information Sites
This is an easy one. Once again...you get what you pay for. No exceptions.
We've checked out these sites. Over and over again, we see them listing
companies that we've turned down for inclusion in our own Directory. Middlemen,
companies that charge large "membership" fees and then give you over-inflated
price lists in return, companies that require minimum orders in the THOUSANDS
of dollars. The producers of these sites are simply hoping to get people
to click on them so that they can claim high numbers of visitors, and sell
advertising space. I've never seen anything useful on one of these irresponsible
excuses for an informational site.
Well, that's it for now. This isn't "sour grapes", folks.
It's real. I don't say all this just to put you off everyone else's products
so that you'll purchase ours. I freely admit that I, personally, have been
victimized by many of these tricks over the years.
All we can say about ourselves is that we work VERY hard to publish only
Honest Product Sourcing Information that will do an excellent job for you.
Want to add your "Two Cents"?
Have you come across a Scammer that's found a newer, lower and dirtier way to cheat you out of your money? We'd like to hear about it. We may post your information on this page, in order to prevent them from doing the same thing to others!
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Chris Malta
Worldwide Brands, Inc.
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