Retail account request

You do not contact them with a letter or Email. Nothing is easier to ignore than a letter or Email. Pick up the phone and talk to them!

All you want to do at the very beginning is establish a relationship, make them feel confident that you know what you are doing and that they will not be wasting their time setting an account up for you.

You need to break the ice and ask how you get a wholesale dealer account first. All you want is their wholesale price list at the beginning, along with what their shipping and warranty/guarantee policies are.

After they have agreed to a wholesale relationship, you then ask if they will dropship, telling them that you have no problem buying bulk in the future but you never buy bulk until you can determine the best selling products and the rate that they sell. Believe me, once you have a dropship arrangement, they'll never ask you sometime down the road about when you are going to start buying bulk. Be clear with them that you will be paying for orders immediately when they are ordered and that you do not need Net-30 terms like they give to their bulk dealers.

You sell physically or online?