You Get What YOU Pay For ! - ALWAYS. No exceptions to the rule.
I may actually buy a cheap product from time to time, but I do it
for very specific reasons, understanding that it IS a piece of junk.
I'll buy one of those $39 VCRs, but I won't use it in the family
entertainment center. I'll buy it for the kids' playroom, because I
KNOW that someday, one of the kids is going to stuff a peanut butter
sandwich into the video slot (again!). When it happens, all I've
lost is a piece of junk that wasn't worth much anyway.
I'll spend $8 on a cheap set of kitchen flatware, but it doesn't go
into the drawer in the kitchen. I'll throw it in with our camping
gear, because I KNOW that most of it will eventually be dug out of
the sand by archaeologists, centuries after we've lost a couple of
pieces every trip.
So, there ARE reasons to purposely ignore value and buy cheap.
However, you'll NEVER catch me putting my grandson in a cheap car
seat.
Heaven help me if I ever try to pass a Cubic Zirconium off as
a Diamond to my wife. And I will NEVER buy a cheap piece of junk
where the future of my business is concerned.
We're all here to make money. That includes us, and it includes YOU!
If it didn't, you wouldn't be here, trying to decide on a legitimate
way to open a Home-based Internet Business.
Many people, like us, and like you, are willing to work very hard to
make our dreams come true. We at Worldwide Brands,Inc
literally work
seven days a week, day and night to produce genuinely valuable
Product Sourcing and Research tools that will help you greatly in
your pursuit of success. We really do.
YOU are here because you are
prepared to take that leap of faith in yourself, and take your
future in your own hands. To make something out of nothing, for
yourself, and perhaps your family.
Isn't it sad that there are those who would rather cheat us both,
instead of putting forth the effort that it takes to do an honest
day's work?
Like any other avenue of the Internet, they are here as well, in the
Product Sourcing arena. Those who prey on your lack of knowledge
about a new field that you are attempting to get started in
.
Some of the following paragraphs are warnings against some common
hazards that we've seen on the Internet, related to Product Sourcing
for your Home-based Internet Business.
Some of these paragraphs are simply warnings against Internet
Business offers and practices that are legal, but will NEVER earn
you any money; they will earn money only for those who sell you the
programs we talk about below.
TV "Infomercials"
These
people are probably the biggest offenders out there
.
The late night
"Home Internet Business in a Box" TV Infomercial.
They show you "Amazing Systems" that will make you
"Thousands of Dollars a Week", with little effort on your
part.They offer you "Easy, Step-by-Step Instructions".
They want to sell you "Interactive CD ROMS that Teach
You E-Commerce in No Time". They offer to reveal "Amazing
Secrets of the Pros" that will make you rich. They promise
"Instant Web Sites"
and "Access to Thousands of
Products That You Can Sell right Now!"
They show you beautiful
people lounging around pools, swimming in crystal-clear Caribbean
waters, and sitting under palm trees while their
"Businesses" magically make them all the money it takes to
afford those things.
C'mon, folks! You and I both know better!
It's extremely tempting to buy into the fantasy that there
are "Secret Formulas", "Hidden Methods of the
Pros", and "Businesses in a Box" that will make us
rich with very little effort.
C'mon, folks! You and I both know better!
It's extremely tempting to buy into the fantasy that there
are "Secret Formulas", "Hidden Methods of the
Pros", and "Businesses in a Box" that will make us
rich with very little effort.
It's NOT TRUE. It never has been true. No place, no time,
not ever. In our minds, we all know this. However, in our
hearts,we long for it to be so. That's what these people
prey on...our hearts and our dreams.
We at Worldwide Brands,Inc
know these people. We've been in this
business a long time.
We're very good at it, and very we're highly
regarded on the Internet.
These
different infomercial people have approached us over the
years, wanting us to endorse them and let them include our
Information and our Directory Products in their half-hour trips to
Fantasyland.
We've had multiple conference calls with the owners of
these companies. We've had conference calls with the people who
handle their advertising, and produce their infomercials.
We have
turned them down, every time.
We will not allow our name and our reputation to be ruined by
being associated with these people.
Don't let your chance at a real
business be ruined by them.
We know these people, and their Infomercials. We actually do stay up
late at night and watch every new one that comes out.
We have never
seen one that will do what it claims for you.
They are selling a
white-washed fantasy that has little to do with the real business
world, and they know it.
They start out by telling you that their "Amazing System"
costs only a small amount of money. Then, when they have you hooked,
they tell you that you need to spend hundreds more on an
"Upgrade".
Then they tell you that you need to spend
hundreds more on "Advertising and Email Campaigns".Then they tell you that you need to invest thousands in their
"Coaching Classes" if you want to be successful.
We have
heard from a tremendous number of people who have lost thousands of
dollars to these people. Don't let them fool you!
"Drop Shippers" of "More than
3,000 products!"
There are
literally THOUSANDS of companies out there who are acting as
MIDDLEMEN for ONE real drop shipping company.
All of those thousands
of so-called drop shippers lead back to the same supplier.
I'm talking about a big supplier of imported off-brand merchandise
that does drop ship directly from their warehouse.
They sell some
nice products; I actually worked with them a few years ago.
You
won't find any well-known brand names there.
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Their line consists of
about 3,500 widely varying products, mostly decorative figurines,
home accents and giftware. Again, you won't recognize any of the
brand names...it's all imported merchandise, probably mostly from
China and the Pacific Rim.
We'll call this company "XYZ
Wholesalers", for the purpose of this discussion. That's not
their real name, of course.
You can sign up with "XYZ Wholesalers" directly and sell
their merchandise on your web site,for a hefty account maintenance
fee.
I did that a few years ago, as I said. However, I no longer
work with them. I found the products difficult to sell,for one very
good reason. As I said above, they have signed up
THOUSANDS of
people, who are all trying to sell this exact same merchandise
That kind of competition, plus the fact that there are
so many more people (millions of people!) already trying to sell
giftware in general on the 'Net, made it impossible for me to make
any real money.
Now, here's the problem: along comes Joe Reseller. He signs up with
"XYZ Wholesalers" as a retailer, and has the right to sell
their products on the Internet.
Then he advertises himself as the
WHOLESALER. He tells you that he IS a company like "XYZ
Wholesalers", and tells you to sign up with his web site. He'll
drop ship all those products to your customers and make you rich.
What he's really doing is sitting in his bedroom in front of his
computer, re-sending your orders to the REAL "XYZ
Wholesalers"and making a profit from you that you should not
have to pay.
List of Wholesale Companies who drop ship
for $3.00!
Ever see an
ad like that on an auction site? So have we. We buy them. OK,
we
KNOW we're getting ripped off, but we just have to see them.
A few
days after paying for them, we get two Xeroxed pages in the mail
containing the most worthless information we've ever seen. Or, we
get an Email that's supposed to be a drop shipping list. (An EMAIL!)
Or we get a $15 CD chock full of the same garbage the guy who
charged us $3 was peddling.
If I thought I could make money on the
Internet selling wooden birdhouses made in somebody's garage, I'd go
into business with my neighbor.
These lists sell for anywhere from $2.50 to $30. Why do you think
they're so cheap?
Because nobody had to put any EFFORT into them!
It's easy to hit a search engine, type the word
"wholesale", throw the first 20 responses on a piece of
paper, and sell it for a few bucks.
Will it help you earn money? NO!
Yes,
we bought them too. ALL of them. They call themselves "Ultimate",
"Connection", "Global", "Millennium",
"Central", "Wholsalers.xxx," and
"Incredible" lists and sites of supposed Wholesale
Suppliers who Drop Ship and/or sell in Bulk.
Again, we knew we were
being ripped off. I've seen these things floating around for
YEARS, and have tried to use them before. But just for the sake of
doing our research before telling you what they are really like, we
bought them.
These printed lists and "directories" of Drop
Shippers/Wholesale Suppliers have been circulating the same, tired
old listings around and around among themselves for years. If you
think you can make money selling customized return mailing labels,
or novelties like fake vomit and dribble glasses, or used books from
some dingy old warehouse, then by all means, give it a try.
They all claim to contain "hundreds", or
"thousands" of companies who will drop ship for you. Some
of them contain hundreds of listings, but that's easy.
Once again,
just go to a search engine, type in "wholesale" and copy
the first 500 responses you get.Then slap them in a rag print
magazine and call it a "Directory". Same result.
One of the oldest and most well known of these (don't ask which one;
you know you've seen the ads!) contains hundreds of company
listings.
Our Research Manager actually spent a month trying to
contact ALL of them.
Only 18 of them responded, and only 3 of them
(THREE out of 202!) were real Wholesale Suppliers who were willing
to Drop Ship.
The 18 companies who did respond didn't know they were
even listed in this "directory".
NONE of these
other so-called "directories" do anything remotely like
what we do.
We're constantly amazed that they get away with it.
Complete Site and Product Sales Opportunities!
Have you ever come across a "Drop Shipping Opportunity"
like this?
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They'll
create a storefront for you
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They'll
provide you with THOUSANDS of products that they'll drop ship
for your store!
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They'll
provide you with Merchant Services so you can accept credit
cards without having to open a bank account!
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All for
a ONE TIME PRICE of just $50! (Or $149, or $300, etc.)
Wow,
doesn't that just seem too good to be true?
That's because it IS
too good to be true. Oh, sure, they'll do what they say. It's a
legal business. But tell me this...just how much money do you think
you'll make?
Think about it for a minute.
THEY establish accounts with
wholesalers. THEY mark those wholesale prices WAY up.
Then they get
YOU to put in all the time and effort to SELL those products to
people, at a VERY slim profit margin for YOU.
Congratulations!
You've just become a commissioned salesman for
someone else's business!
Um, not
quite what you had in mind, was it? For
a Mere $149, and $50 a month...
Run across
one of these yet?
A company who claims to be a "drop ship
distributor", but has a "setup" or
"membership" fee?
Let me say this very clearly:
A Real Wholesale Supplier that Drop Ships does not charge a
Fee to do business with you!
ANY Drop Ship Wholesale Supplier that wants you to BUY YOUR STORE'S
PRODUCTS FROM THEM, and wants you to pay a setup or membership fee,
should be AVOIDED at ALL COST!
Almost without exception, these
companies have raised their so-called "wholesale" product
prices so high that you will never be able to compete on the
Internet. Your prices will have to be so much higher than anyone
else's that you will never make any real money. And guess what? You don't get to SEE these companies'
"wholesale" product prices until AFTER they have your
money!
See how that works? There will be a NO REFUND policy.
Bet on
that.
Wolves
in Wholesale Supplier's Clothing There are a
LOT of places out there who would have you believe that they are
Wholesale Suppliers who Drop Ship for Home-based Internet Businesses
like yours. We spend a great deal of time sorting these fake
profiteers OUT of our list of OneSource candidates.
Many of
these people are very clever. Their sites look legitimate and they
present themselves well. All they really are is just another
middleman that is sponging off of your hard work.You DON'T need them!
Free
Wholesale Supplier Information Sites
This is an
easy one.
Once again...you get what you pay for. No exceptions.
We've checked out these sites. Over and over again, we see them
listing companies that we've turned down for inclusion
in OneSource
. Middlemen, companies that charge large
"membership" fees and then give you over-inflated price
lists in return, companies that require minimum orders in the
THOUSANDS of dollars.
The producers of these sites are simply hoping
to get people to click on them so that they can claim high numbers
of visitors, and sell advertising space. I've never seen anything
useful on one of these irresponsible excuses for an informational
site.
Well,
that's it for now.
This isn't
"sour grapes", folks. It's real. I don't say all
this just to put you off everyone else's products so that you'll
purchase ours.
I freely admit that I, personally, have been
victimized by many of these tricks over the years.
All we can say about ourselves is that we work VERY hard to publish
only OneSource
that will do an excellent
job for you.
Want to
add your "Two Cents"?
Have you
come across a Scammer that's found a newer, lower and dirtier way to
cheat you out of your money?
We'd like to hear about it.
We may post
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