>be me>starting my dream business in niche industry despite economic uncertainty and frankly near certainty of failure>set up multiple accounts with various wholesalers and distributors for [products]>come to find that a statistically significant por

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Clown Economy Anonymous 04/05/26 (Sun) 06:19:58 No.110034

>be me
>starting my dream business in niche industry despite economic uncertainty and frankly near certainty of failure
>set up multiple accounts with various wholesalers and distributors for [products]
>come to find that a statistically significant portion of the time it would be cheaper-and sometimes much cheaper-to purchase [products] from Ebay, Amazon and another major industry retail storefront I'll refrain from disclosing
>have to become comfortable with the idea that I'm simply selling shit marked up from publicly accessible websites like 3/4ths of the time

I will be earning this markup through my service experience and other means tbh and I have zero ethical qualms about it but it still feels retarded. I went out of my way to get all this tax stuff taken care of and opening limes of communication with various companies, I should have access to sources better than the general public and it just seems that apart from certain larger display items you just don't, at least in this particular market.

A perfect example of these various idiosyncrasies is this specific item that was $80 at a wholesale website, $90 on ebay and $40 on Amazon.

Anonymous 04/05/26 (Sun) 07:37:44 No.110035

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>>110034
>opening limes of communication
Heh

Anonymous 04/05/26 (Sun) 08:28:53 No.110036

i'll be only buying from you when you have kind of forgotten to update the prices of "your" inventory and therefore end up selling a big box of item for 30% less

Anonymous 04/05/26 (Sun) 13:01:50 No.110043

I don't know what the hell you're selling, but an identical item on Amazon can be 5X or even 10X cheaper on Aliexpress.

Anonymous 04/05/26 (Sun) 14:00:44 No.110044

>>110043
just say your poor

Anonymous 04/05/26 (Sun) 18:58:19 No.110051

>>110035
heh

Anonymous 04/05/26 (Sun) 19:16:09 No.110053

>>110043
...but none of those things have a brand name associated with them! How am I supposed to sell something without a brand name attached!? The consumers will revolt!

Anonymous 04/08/26 (Wed) 07:41:54 No.110109

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Anonymous 04/08/26 (Wed) 07:42:37 No.110110

>>110043
You get what you pay for, brokie.

Anonymous 04/14/26 (Tue) 04:24:38 No.110245

Every "distributor" website I've encountered for this specific type of product is a fucked up web 1.0 illegible boomer mess that uses borderline esoteric terminology with no plain english guide for wtf they're talking about specifically, item and assortment descriptions are inconsistent and product photos are often too low resolution and jpg artifact-riddled to be useful or absent entirely. Also hidden charges like large freight surcharges if some of the products you ordered aren't at your "default" warehouse (!?). I'm tired, Boss

Anonymous 04/14/26 (Tue) 07:53:16 No.110248

>>110109
POOB'd