Become a Stockless Retailer
You want to open a retail store on the Internet. You have to have products
to sell, right? Let's also imagine that you like to suffer. Mental anguish
is your favorite pastime. You aspire to financial ruin. In that case, you
will want to stock products for your Internet retail store.
To stock products for your store, you will have to rent warehouse space, or
at least clean out your garage. You will have to have to pay for a shipping
account with UPS or FedEx, unless you want to saddle up and trot down to the
post office every day. Worst of all, you will have to pay for those products
up front.
Yes, that's right. Money. Probably lots of it. For example, if you want to
sell Mattel Toys, you can contact Mattel and they will be happy to set you
up as a retailer. I know.I talked to them a while back. We had a nice
conversation about setting up an account, placing orders, and all the other
wonderful things businesspersons discuss with each other when beginning a
relationship.
Toward the end of our conversation, this nice woman said to me, in an
offhand manner, "By the way, your minimum first order must be at least
40,000." That's 40,000 pounds folks.
I nearly choked on my coffee. Needless to say, I do not stock Mattel
products. Or anyone else's, for that matter.
Stocking products costs money, that's the bottom line. No matter what you
sell, if you carry stock, you pay first, and then hope you sell later. If
you don't sell the products you stock, there are going to be some very happy
people at your next garage sale, and your bank will be sending you an
amazing amount of undesirable mail.
There's a much better way.
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