The wholesale business has become a very active business while being a person who sells wholesale products you also need a delivery method. A good delivery method is the drop shipper who takes on the responsibility of delivery for you and maintains a large amount of stock for your business. We have mentioned many of the online wholesalers previously now I would like to mention one that we are all familiar.

Sam’s Club a division of the Wal-Mart foundation provides for the business member the capability of having an online business.

The business member has many opportunities with Sam’s Club to set up and maintain an online storefront. Sam’s Club has the following opportunities:

- A five page website
- Industry templates to get you started
- Everything you need to get your business online and it is all complimentary!
- Domain Name
- Complete Business E-mail
- Maps and driving directions for your customer
- Weather reports right on the site
- Image Gallery
- The website is self edit
- Customer database Capability
- Event Calendar
- Polls and surveys
- Shopping Cart
- Tax and shipping Calculator
- Inventory Management

Sam’s Club provides the best example of the uniting of wholesale and drop ship method to have your online business. Sam’s Club makes it fast, easy, and affordable.

Oriental Trading Company, which began many years ago, started with the catalog order system. OTC provided many different novelty items that you could buy for resale and have shipped by a drop shipper. A pioneer in the wholesale and drop ship business OTC has lasted a long time and offers products at great prices. They also offer you the ability to be an affiliate and earn money by having your own website.

The combining of wholesale products with drop shipping has helped increase the retail business very much. The idea of having someone holding millions of products just for you and that you do not have to pay for him or her but can sell him or her and make a profit have been a boom.

The best method to combining the two procedures is by use of a directory. We all need a road map at times to find our way. It is very helpful to have a good directory so that you will know whom to use and how. The wholesalers catalog is very helpful in providing you with the names of wholesalers, manufacturers, and drop shippers. The Wholesalers catalog provides onetime special deals, closeouts, liquidations, below wholesale prices, including pallet loads and even truck loads from around the internet. You can buy in quantity or buy one product at the time. This is great for those who sell on eBay. Just browse through the categories or use search to see for yourself the endless possibilities. The Wholesale Catalog Company has spent many hours and had their representative’s travel everywhere to put together this catalog just for you. The Wholesalers catalog constantly adds so that you are up to date on products and drop shippers.

The Aid & Trade Drop Shippers is the answer to all your drop-shipping needs. The reality about the growing number of individuals who plan to make trading online is that 90% fail. Success stories are far and few in between. This is not due to lack of hard work or a good business plan but many balk under the adverse and challenging realities of the competitive world. We believe the reason for this failure is lack of information. These business failed because they could not manage to locate genuine and legitimate wholesale and drop shipping companies or drop shippers supplying the kind of niche goods that actually generate not only high number of sales but extremely high profits.

Aid and Trade provides a directory of legitimate drop shippers. They are about dedication, hard work, research and providing legitimate drop shippers that you can depend on. A drop shipper is the key to your turnkey business. You need to be able to depend on someone in the know in order to be able to survive even in the small business of on line virtual store. There are millions of products and thousands of drop shippers available but in reality, you only need one good drop shipper that is reliable.

One of the biggest problems that every start up company has to face is the warehousing and storing products. Normally, it entails renting a small storage place, which adds to the budget. Storing is not the only issue, developing product inventories, maintaining stock availability etc. The drop shipper helps you to get rid of all these issues so that you can concentrate on marketing and sales.

The drop shipper does the research for products provide you with a list and a catalogues of available items at trade prices. You can utilize this information and sell any of the product anyway you wish.

The drop shipper fills your order and helps with the tracking to make sure the customer is satisfied. The drop shipper does the packing of the product and the delivery you no longer have to package items or go to the post office. The drop shipper holds the product for you so that is a saved expense. The drop shipper does many of the jobs that would take up your time and your budget. At this point, you are able to spend more time doing marketing and sales to expand your business.

Even though the drop shipper provides all these tasks for you saving you in everyway, he is invisible to all your customers for only your name and address is on the product. That is one of the nice things about using a drop shipper it helps you to maintain a good standard in business, which is vital in keeping the business.

Drop shipping works very easy as first you open an Internet Store, with a shopping cart and the ability to accept credit cards. Then you find a distributor who is willing to drop ship the product you want to sell. You will establish an account as a retailer with the distributor you choose. Then you will receive images and descriptions of the products you want to sell from the distributor, and post them on your internet Store. Customer surfs into your store loves your items and possibly buys $100 worth of your goods, you then take it from their credit card along with the shipping rate. At that point, you email the order to the distributor who in turns sends the product directly to your customer then he charges you the wholesale price of the product plus his shipping charge. Your customer is happy and tells a friend and then you get more orders. The drop shipper is happy and fills all the orders you can send his way.

If you want to acquire products to drop ship or wholesale, where do you look? There are all kinds of wholesale and drop ship list for sale on eBay. There’s likely to be lots of decent companies right?

Not true, according to Chris Malta, the Product Sourcing Editor for eBay Radio:

When you see all these “Incredible” lists and books and packages of wholesaler suppliers and drop shippers for sale on eBay and the rest of the Internet, for anywhere from $5 to $50 or more, what you’re seeing 99% junk.

There are thousands of scammers, snake oil salesmen and con artists on the Internet who are just lying around waiting to AMBUSH you when you begin looking for REAL wholesale suppliers to do business with. Believe it or not, there is a whole niche industry built up on the Net around this kind of scamming! The folks who run these scams have all the moral fiber of a box of hair, and the only reason they even recognize the word ‘Scruples’ is from the TV ad for the party game.

You may have even fallen prey to one of these con artists, selling you their “insider” wholesale/drop ship list of suppliers. Me too. I’ve purchased so many lists that I can’t even recollect how many. I don’t know why, but I tend to find the “good” in people, and I was “sold” by these marketing schemes time and time again, even after being scammed by the latest one. Finally, after so many disappointments, I had HAD ENOUGH. I decided to get to the bottom of this appeal we all have with wholesale/drop ship companies, and find out if there really were any LEGITMATE drop shippers for purchasing “hot” consumer goods at great prices.

I literally contacted the administrator of every wholesale drop shipping website I could find. Posing as an investor, I managed to persuade the owners that I was seriously interested in purchasing their entire website and business. That way, once the cartoonish money bags flashed in their minds, they would grant me free access to their member’s areas to examine what I would be “buying”. Well, I was appalled with 99% of what I found. Many of the owners actually bragged about how many people purchased their useless subscriptions. I repeatedly found:

• outdated lists
• non-working links
• links leading to other sites that asked for more money
• no help section
• no real email support
• no refunds

I quickly realized that these so-called wholesale/drop ship lists were totally pointless. And the owners knew it, yet they were laughing all the way to the ATM machine! Needless to say, I didn’t respond when they asked if I was still interested in purchasing their websites. Surprisingly, while sitting through all of the scam artist’s websites, I was able to locate a group of individuals that actually ran legitimate programs.

The owners were common folk like you and me that found a way to earn extra money working from home on their computers. Their membership areas were impressive, with an impressive amount of quality information on how to make $100-$200 per day on your computer doing very little work. I even chatted with a few of their customers in several online forums, and they confirmed that they were earning extra money using the information that the websites had provided them with. It was like I found a few diamonds in the rough. But don’t take my word for it, you can drop by the over two dozen sites I found. See what you think.

They do charge a minimal fee for access to their program, which is to be expected for any legitimate enterprise that actually has people on staff who are dedicated to helping you get earning online. What a warm group of people! Anyway, if you do decide you are interested in any of the two dozen companies, I advise you to join post-haste, as the owners have informed me that they are getting so many new members by word of mouth referrals that they will be blocking off membership completely by month’s end. (By the way, you didn’t get this news from me!) They don’t have a large enough staff to welcome many more people, and they are driven to providing excellent service to each person. Well, my quest to find legitimate Drop ship companies has come to an end. I have to mention I was thoroughly disappointed with most of what I found, and I strongly urge you not to take any chances doing business with any companies other than the twenty four I will share with you.

Whatever you do, I hope for you and everyone you love a healthy and prosperous year.

Take care and I wish you all the best.