Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Sellers and Wholesale lists EXPOSED !!!
Hello - and welcome to my guide.As a seller of wholesale lists andafter reading many listings, and some guides, I felt prompted to writethis guide to help you the buyer expose untrustworthy sellers and howto determine a good wholesale list from a poor one.EXPOSING SELLERS : One of the hardest things to do is to determine if the seller is honestor a fraud. I think you will agree that if a seller is willing to lieto you in a forum such as a guide like this one, then there is a goodchance they will also lie to you in there listings. So then there is agood chance the product they are selling is not as good as theywish you to believe it is.So how do you know if a seller is honest? Welllets start by exposing a seller right here in this guide. I ask you totake a quick look at the following 2 guides, written by differentsellers at different times :Guide 1 andGuide 2. Notice how the 2 guides are almost the same. Yet one starts by sayingwelcome to my first guide. Truth is, this seller is a copier and isunable to create there own work. A dishonest person and therefore aseller you cannot trust.( I will expect a change to his guide very soon after reading this)Other ways to check a seller : Apartfrom spending many hours scanning guides, a buyer can check a sellersfeedback. Feedback is the number shown next to the sellers name. Byclicking on the sellers username or the number next to the name you canread the feedback they have received from buyers. It also show you a %rating. The higher the feedback number and the higher the % the betterthe seller and usually product also.Use feedback to check product quality : Read the feedback the seller has received carefully. If you take a look atmy feedbackyou will see many comments as to fast delivery and communication, butthis does not tell you how good or bad my product is. Keep reading andlook for comments about the actual product, this will give you a goodindication as to the quality of the item you are abaout to purchase.Another good indicator : Look for the Powersellers Logo . This is a very good way to tell a sellers honesty and product. Powersellers are viewed by ebay as trusted sellers.WHOLESALE LISTS - GOOD OR BAD?As you have no doubt noticed, there a many wholesale lists sellingon ebay everyday. It has become very competetive and each seller willtell you there products is the best and why, leaving you to choose.Lets start by looking at listings and cutting down the numbers : Ifyou are in Australia and want to deal with Australian wholesalers, thenbuy only from Australian sellers. About 80% of wholesale list sellersare from the USA, so this cuts your choices down conciderably.Now lets look at the listings themselves and what they offer. Firstly,you will see our exposed friend above sells about 10 differentwholesale lists each with about 20 - 30 contacts in each list. Heclaims them to be hand picked and the best. Each list starts at $0.99and can sell for as high as $10 or more. I find this amazing and atotal waste of buyers money. The truth here once again is, this sellermost likely purchased one of my wholesale lists and refurbished it intomany smaller lists. My single lists contain 100's of contacts andcontain every single contact in one list that this seller sells inabout 10 single list. And I know this as a fact as I purchase everwholesale list that is seller has.Many sellers will advise you that you will receive regular updates onthe list. Well this might be true, but im yet to receive a update anddont expect I will as the amount of work involved in doing this ishuge. Unless the wholesale list is stored and view on-line and not sentas a download via email, I dont see a seller sending regular updates ofa list - BUT I MIGHT BE WRONG!In Australia, to purchase from a Australian wholesaler, you must have aABN# and Business name. A true Australian wholesaler also onlyadvertises retail or near retail prices on there sites. To obtainWholesale prices you need to be a member. To be a member you requireyour ABN# and Business name. Contacting a Wholesalers by email withoutbeing registered is a waste of time, they will never answer you. Sowith this in mind, what good is a wholesale list unless you have allthe available tools at hand to help you understand exactly what to doand how to do it. Supplying a buyer a wholesale list on its own is likegiving someone a telephone book and no telephone. One is uselesswithout the other.So when selecting a wholesale list, be sure you get the full product you need, not just the telephone book.Look for rash statements in a listing :Anyone who knows anything about Wholesalers and companies will knowthat a Wholesaler knows exactly how many products they carry in stockand are very quick to let there new members know this information. Sowhen you see comments on listings that make statements similar to "Some sellers claim there lists have 1.5 million products available -did they actually count them - I doubt it!" A statement like thisis a Number 1 give away that the seller has never dealt with awholesaler, so has no idea. Look for statements like these and you canleave these seller alone also.Australian dropshippers : Asmany will tell you, there are not many dropshippers in Australia -- ALOAD OF RUBBISH and again a certain give away a seller has never dealtwith wholesalers. In my time I found many many wholesalers in Australiawill actually dropship if asked by the member. They may not advertisethe fact, but they are happy to do so.A TIP TO BUY CHEAPFor those of you who do wish to buy the $0.99 wholesale lists here is a tip.As these lists are all available daily and usually more than once aday, never bid more than the opening bid of $0.99. There is no need,you can always buy the next one or buy tomorrow. There is plentyavailable so be patient. Better to lose $0.99 if the item is not whatyou wanted than to lose $10 or more.I hope you have been able to get some help from this guide.I will be creating a full and in depth guide soon to cover all buyers needs.In the mean time, if this guide help just one person, it has done its job.
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