/lounge/ - Lounge

>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.