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I would not just rush out & buy any old stuff from a wholesaler before I tested the water a little.

Have you decided on which items you intend to sell?

Check ebay & website searches to see what price these items are getting.

Have you decided on what way you are actually going to sell them?

Are you sure your wholesaler is the best value for money?  A quick hour internet research can give you lots of options.

As for the unsold stock - it would be a matter of putting it onto ebay, at a minimal profit to get shot of it.  If you have done your homework well enough, there should not be too much anyway.

Good luck

Mark

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surely selling unsold stock on ebay is'nt the only way of getting rid of it? what about people on markets or shops with lots of stuff, far more than what id be ordering, what do they do?

this really is bugging me now,

anyone?

thanks

mark

If you are worried about storage then I would go for smaller items, these will be cheaper to P&P if you sell them on ebay. If you sign up to a few wholesaler sites and have a look through the stuff, see what the same or similar (that has to be a good sign if no one else is selling the exact same things) products go for and see what kind of mark up there is, take off the cost of ebay fees etc and see if it is a worthwhiel amount of money.

For storage, you will probably have to buy at least 50 of an item to get it cheap enough to make a worthwhile profit on ebay so this isn't a huge amount of left over stock. If you are serious about ebay selling and the items will make you money then you could always get one of these storage containers, people use them to store funriture and businesses use them for temporary stock, they are spinging up everywhere and are quite cheap and secure.

I don't think it is a real worry, if you have enough room fo rthe stock in the first place surley you would have enough room for a few left overs? And these you could always sell cheap and brak even on them, or even make a loss on the last few so long as enough of them made a profit on ebay auctions.

Have a look at the link in my sig, you might find somehting useful there!
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Anything I have stock at the moment is only computer components/accessories, which I use during repairs/builds, etc, so I am not likely to have this problem for a while.

The most of the advice I have seen is not to overbuy, and ensure you have found a market for your items before you buy any quantities.  Try a sample order of a couple of different items to gauge which sells best.  Most wholesalers will allow you to make a small sample order up, spread over a few products - if you ask them.

Once you have sold the majority of your items, the others can be kept and relisted another time, or listed at minor markups to shift it.

There aren't really any other options - no wholesaler is going to accept the unsold stuff back.

Good luck

Mark

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