Wholesaler Help

tillymint

I do a bit of selling on Ebay but I'm considering making more of a business of it. Quite fancy either selling cosmetic / perfume "sample sizes" or something like the cheaper "Designer" handbags (Kipling etc). Can anyone point me in the right direction of wholesalers etc that I can use. Don't want to have to outlay too much cash at first. Seen loads of people selling perfumes / skincare (clinique) type samples in lots and wondered if anyone knows where I can buy some stocks?
Hope someone can help
Thanks

cammo12

I doubt anyone on here will tell you where they source their goods.

You have to do your own research and hard work - instead of asking others to tell you what to do.

No one is going to want to give their details away to a potential (lazy) competitor!

neilwoods

Exactly, no one will give away there sources, even if hundreds or thousands of other ebayers use the same wholesale.

Plenty of sites out there listing wholesalers, granted you may have to pay but that depends on how serious you are.

One source is a magazine called e-trader from WHSmith, lists a lot of wholesalers

ormus

if you live in lancashire, then the cheetham hill area in manchester is full of wholesalers.
spend a day scouting there with loads of dosh.
some take as little as a 50 quid minimum spend.
makes me laugh cause me wife can spend treble that at asda!

appleblossom

sign up to https://www.wholesalepages.co.uk - you can do it for 3.99 a month and cancel anytime, this will give you a fair few wholesalers to start with -

OP asked to be pointed in the right direction, s/he didn't ask for the names and numbers of wholesalers, I think it was a fair questions as when I was looking for wholesalers I didn't know where to start looking and just needed someone to show me where to start.

tillymint

Thanks to the people who have posted helpful message. I wasn't being lazy, just wanted a general push in the right direction.

cammo12

Yes - but if you sign up to places like https://www.wholesalepages.co.uk all you will find is crap!

You have to do some research....

Many of the best wholesalers aren't even online. I get my goods from places that don't even advertise to be wholesalers. I made my own deal.

You have to be inventive!

appleblossom

cammo12 - it depends what you are looking for - not all of wholesalepages.co.uk is crap - it starts you looking in the right direction and also gives some food for thought on what sort of things to be looking at marketing - I know of several ppl doing very from obviously selling crap!

daymo

Trry looking for "the Trader" mag in wh smiths full of decent info. Or you could try The wholesale forums which have a list of wholesalers aswell as contacts....good luck

crompton

run in to boots and nick a load of the samples lol, buy some disguises (mustache, glasses, beard, hat etc)