researching and sourcing products

There are a lot of sources for FBA inventory and I do not pretend to know all of them by any means. I do know what has worked for me. I started my business very small - going to yard sales in my area every Saturday. The inventory is obviously very limited but the margins can be vary large sometimes and it is fun. I once paid 25 cents for an item that I sold for $125. I have done some sourcing from liquidation.com and that has worked OK, once it was outstanding. The so-called wholesalers that I find online do not work as they often sell items for more then Amazon sells them for. How can they call themselves wholesalers?

I often find items on ebay and resell them on Amazon, often for a good margin. That takes some time as I search on ebay for specific items.

I make a lot of use of camelcamlecamel.com to check price and sales history. I have also been able to obtain some very good deals through personal connects (a local producer of a food item and a local contractor's overstock).

I hope these points help you some.

What you are doing is a form of arbitrage. The best method of buying cheap and current name brand name items and selling via Amazon is looking out for door buster bargains that are meant to lure people into stores. You often see them at places like Best Buy (always around the holidays) where they will offer a thumb drive that normally sells for $40 for $8. People run around to every Best Buy in their area and buy every one they can get their hands on. Then, they wait a month and list them for $35, which looks like a deal compared to the normal $40 price.

Other than that, you would be best private labeling products and importing them. Walter Hay (a.k.a. ImportExport) can help you with that. If you want to look into something like dropshipping where you don't have to fork out any money for products, our course helps you with that.

Importing inventory and selling on Amazon is a tried and tested method to build a continuing profitable business. The first step is market research. Don't worry about sourcing until you know that the product you want to source is going to be saleable and profitable.

Once you know that, I can be of help to you as I have to hundreds before you.

If you don't want to outlay the money on inventory, I suggest you look at what @dave_hermansen offers. Even his free course will give you an excellent introduction into dropshipping.

Before making any move, I suggest you have a look at my AMA thread Ask Me Anything About Product Sourcing And Importing For Profit. ― Veteran Importer Here. where I provide a lot of information on product sourcing and importing, including comments on Alibaba.

You will also find there my comments in relation to the myth that you have to place huge orders to buy direct from real manufacturers in China.

Walter Hay
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I have done all of this and then some I had 200 pallets of revs epsom salt 2 pounds each 110,000 pieces paid .02 cents each sold. had a middle man moving them that was FBA seller. I paid 3400 board delivered to my warehouse made 50k 4 years later. storing 50 pallets over 2 years was not cheap but we did other stuff all in all it wasnt bad but i wont do it again. the garage sale method is a favorite but i deal in Aircraft and large 40 ton items also. again you cant do it from your living room. secrets to building a business the only one i can tell you is have 740 credit score or more. Finances available at a whim, know what your doing because if you go all in you may loose your shirt.
drop shipping is what i want it will suplement my income... I began doing research 40 days ago, what a cluster f .... doing it from home on the hopes of being well to do is a pipe dream. I refuse to do with Alibaba I had a good deal lined up last october on 1000 of the scooters that blow up now. total cost per scooter imported with duties was 98.00 each. you spend 10k you make 25k simple math, something told me not to i am happy i didnt..
as far as real drop ship companies i fell in love with WyNIT awesome company pick & pack multi ordering dropping fees they do it... BUT you need a D&B Dunn & Bradstreet done on your company proving income. you need personal quarentee also... they have a thing on here for 299 skeptical... what am i getting a lesson in i have to put up 50 k attorney trust 100k personal guarentee Federal Ein Nationwide Taxes filed quaterly... theres alot of ends and edges to this game.. in the end Internal revenue is the one who scares me..

Liquidity wynit
liquidation work but your going to get in a bidding war with a guy who wants to sell every items for a 25 percent gain or more..

i know i am all over the place because there is no yellow brick road. in life when i sell i start low, if it sits i bump my price 500 percent if i am going to hold it i may as well make it worth the time it spent here. the thought your wondering does it sell YES in less time then the epsom salt took